Disney Employee Engagement Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Okay. Short and sweet.
Today’s lesson is yesterday’s lesson.
Old news?
Are you kidding me?
You better read yesterday’s post over and over until you can’t see straight.
Maybe then you’ll start your change – the change you want desperately to make.
The change you deserve. You owe it to yourself.
See you yesterday….
Will you change the way you think about diet and exercise?
Or will you give up, like you always do?
Hey, you’re an adult. You get this. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know.
Don’t do it.
Don’t cave.
Don’t give up.
You can do it.
Be smarter. Think differently. Act differently. Don’t do it all in one month.
You have the rest of your life, but only if you get started and never quit.
One day at a time.
Start small and simple. Think long-term. Dust off your indomitable will. Never quit.
When you die, then you can relax. You good with that?
If you promise not to call me names, I’ll tell you my true confession. Promise?
Since August 2009, I’ve gained nearly ten pounds.
New readers may not know that after ten years of focused effort to bring my health metrics in line, I had the honor of representing the United States in the 2009 Master’s Track and Field World Championships, in Finland.
So now that the big goal – the motivational carrot – is no longer in front of me, I’ve digressed.
This happens to everyone.
The gift from all of this? It has increased (if that’s even possible) my conviction that an impossible goal is the only one that will work.
Have you ever thought about that? I mean the impossible goal part?
Then perhaps we can journey and endeavor together, to make 2010 a great and healthy year. Who’s in?
We hear it all the time don’t we?
“I’m just so busy, I don’t have time to exercise”.
Happens all the time doesn’t it. In fact, we’ve all been guilty of saying something like this. Which begs the next question.
When your health falters, then will you have time?
Ever know you know something important about yourself, but you either can’t quite put your finger on it, or, you simply don’t want to admit it?
Yeah, me too. So, with New Year’s Eve one day away, and the opportunity to resolve, finally, to do something great, here goes:
I hate being “unhealthy”.
And I hate it so much that I’m willing to do all the common sense things that healthy people do.
Common sense, but not common practice.
Not any more. Not this year. Ya with me? Is this your year?
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?