Disney Employee Engagement Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Tweet (photo, bottom) announcing a BFO – blinding flash of the obvious. Heat and humidity suck the life out of running.
Hate running? The time of day may be the reason.
That, and all the other bull crap reasons we tell ourselves.
But seriously, hot and sweaty is very different from cool and sweaty.
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Running to Disney’s Magic Kingdom and back again yesterday feels like a guilty pleasure. It’s easy to forget that it took seven years and a miracle to find and purchase an empty lot close by in 1990.
It was insanely gutsy to pack and ship everything we owned (48 boxes but no furniture) and drive from Washington State to Orlando in 1984. Gutsy because we believed we could carve out a lifetime at Disney.
Crazy to leave Disney in 2014, at only 55, after 30 incredible years as a Disney Leader.
But it was just another invisible monumental milestone in a series of steps on the path to a life without regret.
We all have a private, inspiring backstory.
Tell it to yourself like a broken record.
Your little victories, like a morning jog, become so much sweeter.
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Remember how as kids how we would run versus walk, even across a classroom?
What do you look forward to on a daily basis?
Many think runners absolutely love to run. Yes, and…
Yes, and they do not feel like this everyday, nor are they exempt from all the time pressures everyone faces.
Finding our purpose for staying healthy is the foundational (intentional) strategy. The actual activity we choose is the tactic.
Tactics change if and when necessary. Strategy is timeless.
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In exercise and in business, it’s easy to blame someone else.
The utility company foreman was not on his A-game. Safety first, right? He blamed the runner for not avoiding the sidewalk.
A simple sign on the sidewalk would have easily done the trick. Standard signage they should always carry. Right?
Later in the day, while driving past, the foreman had placed the sign.
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(photo: How did one stray cat become so lucky to have a middle school classroom to call home?)
Baby Boomers must manage their own luck.
Hope you get to the point where you hate running. Because when you do, you’ll know you love it.
If this sounds confusing it’s because it sort of is. Until you understand that it’s not.
What starts out as a groove, say running, eventually becomes a rut. No one likes ruts. And you have to love something in order to climb out of the rut and thrive again.
Like all worthwhile things in life, lifetime motivation to not quit (running in this example) is key.
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