Tag: wellness

Run, jeff, Run

Hope everyone knows the goal at Lane 8 isn’t to get people running. You know that, right?

The goal is to challenge, motivate, inspire and excite you to do something physical, and do something healthy like proper nutrition, adequate rest, regular checkups.

It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you are doing something active. Hey, it’s obvious that you don’t have to do anything -that’s a great choice isn’t it, do nothing.

Lane 8 is really about having a place to go to get better.  It’s written by me, for me (and my Family).  Daily motivation and focus is mandatory, or I’ll fail.

I know this about myself.  Writing for you everyday probably helps me more than it helps you.

While it’s not expected that you completely understand this, it is humbling to know that it does or will help you.

Nine Questions

Did you go for a walk (or exercise) yesterday?

Did you eat sensibly?

Did you read anything that inspired or motivated you?

Did you think about anything that inspired or motivated you?

Did you take some sort of action, different from your usual?

Did you get adequate rest (way under-rated) yesterday?

Did you consider how you’ll stay committed until you die?

Did you have fun yesterday?

Did you do at least one thing that scared you?

Nine yes answers means you lived in the moment.  Less than that is, well, less than that.

I only got eight.  Adequate rest has been elusive.  Which reminds me, nap time.

Small Deeds

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned”. — Peter Marshall

Whatever your health goals are, nothing really matters except that you get started and never quit.

Sow your health seeds.  Nourish them.  Water them.  Watch them grow.

If all you do is walk away from your residence for three minutes and then return, you’ve walked six minutes. That six minutes, by itself, is nothing really.

But what if you did it four or five days in one week?  What if each week, you added 30 seconds each way – or one minute roundtrip?  In four short weeks, you’d be walking ten minutes per day.

What if you built on this success, slowly, and continued this habit for ten more weeks (now three months total)?  You’d be walking 20 minutes per day, four or five days per week.

What if you walked 20 minutes, 4-5 days per week, for a year?

What if?  What if doesn’t matter if you don’t get started.  “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned”.

Age and Quitting Do This to You

“Age wrinkles the body.  Quitting wrinkles the soul”. — Douglas MacArthur

It’s very difficult, some would even say impossible, to be fit and vibrantly healthy after the days of our youth.

So the big question everyone must ask themselves, “Do I think it’s impossible”?

Got bad news for everyone.  Every day we don’t ask, answer and act, is another day that younger folks are looking at us and saying one of two things:

  1. “What a great example”.
  2. “I hope I don’t turn out like so-and-so”.

It’s Easier When…

It’s easier to exercise and eat sensibly during:

  • Youth – the full pressure of job, Family, mortgages is unknown
  • Mating season – (once we’ve mated, what’s the motivation?)
  • Wake up calls – motivating because of glaring consequences

The reality?  In the big scheme of life, youth lasts say 20 years, then fades quickly.

Humans are born to mate, like all living creatures.  Wake up calls may take a lifetime before they start arriving.

It’s all the other times in our lives that are the real challenge, the real key. Look around people.

Like I suggested a while back, “If aliens found Earth and gave us a pass/fail health grade, what would we get”?