sometimes there are things that trump exercise, but rarely

Rats, broke a promise yesterday, and here’s why…

Thanks to Patty Hebert for letting me know that Mid Life Celebration’s five main blogs were running slower than dial-up.

Remember.How. Slow. Dial. Up. Was?

The 30 minute run was sacrificed for a 30-minute call to GoDaddy. So lucky to encounter Abby, a young and rising GoDaddy star.

In less than two hours, before arriving at the airport even, everything (90 domains) was migrated from shared hosting to web hosting.

Back to Usain Bolt fast.

Life’s first two big choices covered for today, now the third big choice gets it’s shot here.

Could coming in last could be our greatest accomplishment?

If it was the finals of the world championships, yes!

Setting common goals and achieving them will most assuredly leave us with the aftertaste of regret.

Failing at a ridiculously high goal will fill us with the peace of wasting nothing.

Life’s first two big choices covered for today, now the third big choice gets it’s shot here.

Baby Boomers don’t have to think of aging as a sentence to poor health

How would you answer this (potentially) trick question?

Would you rather be the slowest of the fastest or the fastest of the slowest?

Try re-reading it if the obvious answer doesn’t jump out.

How we answer is where we set the bar in life, in general.

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Life’s first two big choices covered for today, now the third big choice gets it’s shot here.

First one to arrive, last one to leave = long days

Being decently organized (but far from perfect) can help us anticipate challenging days in which exercise will become much more difficult to do.

Exercised through the weekend and Monday morning knowing today and yesterday would be long work days living in a hotel.

The benefit? No guilt.

And even joy in not exercising.

We’ve covered mental and physical, now scoot over to emotional (spiritual), click go.

Balance for an entire lifetime?

If we ever doubted this, let’s work tirelessly to not to. We know that picking up one end of a stick also picks up the other end.

When we neglect one area of our life, the others are negatively impacted as well.

Carrying a weak or heavy spirit, impacts our sense of self-love and diminishes our personal sense of responsibility to exercise regularly, get adequate rest, and make sensible food choices.

We know this.

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We’ve covered mental and physical, now over to emotional (spiritual), click go.

Secure an early morning personal victory

Our first victory is over self, and three places to get it every day:

1. In the morning before the devil knows we’re awake and makes us busy
2. Eating a decent breakfast, even a PB&J (and milk) in the car on our way to work
3. In the evening, crawling in bed with enough time to get eight hours of sleep

We’ve covered mental and physical, now scoot over to emotional (spiritual), click go.

Thanks to Midlife Celebration Guest blogger Lorie Sheffer for the feed.

Health Officials Urging Americans To Do Something, Anything For 30 Minutes A Day

We’ve covered mental and physical, now scoot over to emotional (spiritual), click go.

Chicago winter lake front skyline

It’s astonishing how remarkable others think making time to exercise while traveling, and in adverse conditions, is.

Even more astonishing is why anyone would consider it remarkable.

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Gotta figure out how to make it work. Non-negotiable.

A day in the life of a professional speaker…

Awaken in a hotel room I’ll never see again, totally aware it’s below freezing outside.

Bathroom. Pray. Make some coffee. Check emails. Read. Protein bar.

Practice presentation.

Write.

Practice presentation.

Dress for outdoor run.

Run.

We’ve covered mental and physical, now scoot over to emotional (spiritual), click go.

Fall down seven, get up eight

Watching aging adults who no longer walk easily, or without assistance, the mystery is this, when they could walk and didn’t, didn’t they foresee the atrophy?

The genius of communication is the ability to be both totally honest and totally kind at the same time. ~ John Powell

So now, knowing this, what do we do? I wrestle constantly with this question.

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We’ve covered mental and physical, now scoot over to emotional (spiritual), click go.