Physical vibrancy fanatic

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Six hours sleep days are few and far between. Last night was one of them.

A vision must have the power to be worth defending at all costs.

dad

Obviously, there are situational considerations, but you can’t recognize them until it happens.

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Money in the bank

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Please don’t worry about what other people think of you. Why? Most people are a mess. What they think about you pales against what you think about yourself.

Regret sucks. Bank on this.

dad

Note: There’s always a chance some people will not find their regret painful. Not sure how that is possible. But as the saying goes, “nothing is impossible”.

Additionally, there are levels of regret.

An example of a lower-level regret…

One Summer, let’s say, you didn’t save enough money to purchase next year’s seven-night cruise that you had dreamt about for several years. You made enough to save, but you overspent on a few other things that you didn’t need to and shouldn’t have, based on your goal.

An example of a high-level regret…

In your 20’s and 30’s you didn’t consistently invest small, manageable amounts of money in high growth, blue-chip stock. Decades later, you regret not knowing and experiencing the magic of compound interest. And now you will not live long enough to experience the magic of doubling.

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2023 Track and Field Season

USATF Grand Prix schedule
There are some extraordinary matchups this year. Almost like USATF is making Track and Field the “new”spectator sport.

What if your health was a profession? Would you up your game?

dad

Looking forward to watching tomorrow’s two-hour first Grand Prix installment. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who holds the world record in the 400 IH is going to run the open 400. There’s more (and no one cares but me…and i’m cool with that), but you are spared from the details.

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Great news is lovely

child on his dad's shoulders at a track meet
Masters Track & Field Florida State Champion in M45-50 400m.
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May 1977, Pennsylvania High School District 3 Championships, 4 x 440 relay. Jim Bortner passing baton to anchor leg Jeff Noel.

You cannot have an unhealthy life from healthy habits.

dad

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Walk to Disney World

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Wanted a turning around place. Magic Kingdom sounded perfect.
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Enjoying a Mickey Mouse soft pretzel in the shade.
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More or less half-way at 6+ miles…on my way home now.
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11.5 miles before noon. Perfect. Pool water almost 90 degrees at noon.

Be intentional about where you live as you near 30 years old.

dad

In your late teens and early 20’s, day-dream about where you’d be willing to live. Had always wanted to spend a summer living at the beach…hence, Wildwood, New Jersey, 1980 with a bunch of guys from my West Chester State College dorm.

Later that Fall (’80), lived in Moscow, Idaho at the University of Idaho on the National Student Exchange program.

Spent the next Summer (’81) living in New Brunswick, New Jersey and commuting to (via bicycle, daily 30-miles round-trip), and worked in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

Then January 1982 moved to Orlando, Florida to work at Walt Disney World until August.

Fall 1982, bicycled across United States and landed in Pullman, Washington to live with mom, who was a Residence Hall Director (at the time) at Washington State University.

Permanently moved to Orlando, Florida in 1984. Been here ever since.

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