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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.
Hang in there if you are struggling. Odds are, you are.
I know I sure am. Ran once last week. Once! How is that possible?
So here we are, another week. Yesterday, I swore there would be time for a run. After delivering four keynote speeches yesterday, each to a different audience, exhaustion took on a whole new meaning. No run.
Today is another day…. for all of us. Good luck. Do not give up!
Have I not been pretty good at keeping the topics here at Lane 8 about Health, Motivation and Impossible Goals?
It feels like it, and therefore, I’m taking editorial license to post about something that has to do with all three, but perhaps in a way you’re not expecting.
I’ve had the link for some time and have not found the right time to share it. One of the privileges that a serious blogger gets is to say something particularly personal.
There are many incurable diseases. And all of us have been impacted directly and indirectly, by them.
Crohn’s disease has no cure.
Yet.
It is an Impossible Goal to help raise enough money, to give away, to those who can find the cure.
As a parent, it’s ultimately going to become a full-time job.
For now, this humble and thankful parent, just wanted to open the door a little bit wider.
If you want, click here to read, “When to talk about Crohn’s Disease.”
What the? Keep my goals very small? Didn’t you say to dream big?
Didn’t you say, “If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.”
Exactly.
And maybe the challenge for many people, including you, is that your definition of impossible is inaccurate.
When I started running 11 years ago, my impossible goal wasn’t to run in the Master’s Track & Field World Championships.
It also wasn’t to run one mailbox a day for a week, and then two mailboxes a day the second week and so on.
It was to get started and never stop.
One day at a time. Get started and never quit. Never quit, one day at a time – this is what I mean by very small goals.
Do you see the difference?
A Lane 8 Christmas wish to all of you.
May Santa bring you one or all of the following:
Long lists are good sometimes. Hoping you get it all this year. You deserve it.
And, oh yeah, one more thing from Santa, hope he brings you an indomitable will.
For daily wellness tips from Everyday Health, click here. Once on the Calendar page, if you click on any date, a short, daily wellness tip will pop up for you.
Meanwhile, here are my favorite daily wellness tips:
There are others, but these are the critical success factors that work for me. My way is not the only way. And this list is intended to share the common sense building blocks for a wide variety of approaches.
The best way, is the way that works for you. And, generally speaking, the best way for you is the one that you never abandon. Good luck and here’s to your health!