before long, I was at the edge of the stage
Rock concerts and personal wellness are similar. Who knew? When you believe in yourself and try things you normally don’t try – because you’ve been conditioned that it’s inappropriate or too difficult – you get amazingly different results than if you do the same old thing you’ve always done.
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this reminds me of my office
Rock stars, their band and crew get to use these steps. These are the same steps a professional speaker (me) uses. What does this have to do with diet and exercise?
Work life balance insists means we need to exercise and feed our spiritual muscles. I mean, how can we not?
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Iowa and farming are synonymous
At 5:20am, our car will take us to the Iowa airport to return home to Disney World. Bottom line, four straight days of “active rest” twice as much time as I would have liked. But I must accept the cards I’m dealt. If I let adversity drive my attitude, desire and will, I’d never win. Ditto with you.
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a day of rest can be to your body....a gourmet feast
Yesterday the health care CEO asked if I had my morning run. I replied, “No, today is an active rest day”.
Active rest. The deliberate, and planned, act of doing nothing – so as to be able to do more, and do it better.
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can we stay active for a lifetime?
On our first trip together, a new colleague once said, “You’ll talk to anyone”. And on yesterday’s flight to Minneapolis I was having a conversation about parenting and exercise with a man one year older than me. My son is 11. His boys are 33, 31, 28.
His best parenting tip was to keep kids busy. Then we talked about exercise. He’s run the Disney marathon in under four hours. I told him I can’t stop exercising. Ever. The day I quit is the healthiest I’ll ever be for the rest of my life. He grinned.
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Road warriors find little time to exercise
Yesterday at the bank waiting to close a home equity loan, the bank representative and I were catching up (our sons are 11). She said, “I see you running all the time on 535. You can tell you really love to run”.
Pausing, and considering whether I should say it or not, I finally did, “Maggie, here’s the thing, there are many days where I don’t feel like it at all. Really!”
Does the most common excuse for exercise begin with, “I can’t find the motivation”, or, “I can’t find the time”?
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A year from now you’ll wish you had started today…
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PS. A very special and grateful thank you to Lorie Sheffer for sharing this with me yesterday.
Missouri 2012...we ain't gonna dine like royalty every night
Everyday it’s the same…deciding to make good food choices, getting regular exercise and adequate rest. But the real basic is even before all that. The key is finding enough ways to stay motivated to last a lifetime.
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BODY: lane 8 is the second blog in the series
Happy Saturday. Taking a minute to visit redundancy-land. I write five daily, different blogs because life has five big choices – my recipe for work life balance.
So after reading this blog (our body), the two words below are your fast pass to read about our spiritual responsibility.
Simply click the bolded word below to go to the…
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Run, walk, row, spin, ski, dance, it doesn't matter.
Traveling the past three days, including two intentional “rest days” means that I’m really looking forward to this morning’s run. Betcha you’re looking forward to exercising today too. Right?
Full disclosure: I sometimes have to force myself to exercise because I’m too tired, to demotivated, too busy, etc.
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America's unheralded work life balance expert. Servant, Husband, Dad, Boomer, speaker, author, runner. Work is only work of you'd rather be doing something else. Allergic to most pollens and mediocrity. Can't wait for the alarm clock to go off every morning.
