Mantra’s can be very helpful. We all need to be reminded to stay focused (in the midst of endless temptation), and count our blessings (when it often seems like there are none).
How?
Mantras are very effective. Say it with me:
“I feel happy, I feel healthy, I feel alive!”
It’s quite common for business travelers (and anyone, doing anything, for that matter) to feel the drain that comes with the territory.
Waking up this morning, the final day of a four-day trip, found myself repeating this mantra over and over. It worked.
You know it and I know it. Don’t we? It’s no secret.
The hardest thing to do when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle, is to continue our motivation for an entire lifetime.
So, here’s our number one excuse: Life is insanely busy and difficult.
Use this “blinding flash of the obvious” to your advantage. This is extraordinarily powerful. But only if you are willing to admit it and use it to overcome what most never do.
One of the best ways to overcome excuses is to find an “excuse” to get involved. And your “excuse” may change throughout your lifetime. Changing is not failure. Quitting is failure.
Track and Field is what’s doing it for me. Track and Field is the number one participatory sport in the United States public school systems. Monkeys were made to climb. Fish to swim. Birds to fly. Humans to walk and run.
Today through March 6, in Kamloops, British Columbia, the world’s best Master’s Track and Field Athletes will gather to represent their Countries in the “Senior” Olympics.
It was a goal to be there this year. Injuries have prevented that from happening. But indomitable will has kept me running and hoping for the USATF Master’s Track and Field National Championships this summer.
It’s 5AM, November 17, 2009 here in Orlando, Florida. I write five blogs every single day. Adidas has a tag line, “Impossible is Nothing“!
Nike has one too, “I’ve Got Soul“. It’s even a You Tube video. It’s what I’m I’m craving right now – a little soul.
That video, even though it’s only 63 seconds, never fails to inspire me. How many days, and how many ways, do you inspire yourself before you ever walk out your front door?
Seriously, how many? Hey, you don’t owe me an answer. You’ll never owe me anything. But I challenge you to challenge yourself and ask, “What do I owe myself?“
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small people who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s not an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary… Impossible is nothing.”–Adidas
“If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough”. – jeff noel
Good luck today with your health goals. Set ’em high. Carpe diem.
