Our health should take a back seat to nothing

Chevron Gas Station sign about juggling life's priorities
Chevron Gas Station sign reminds us life can be very busy

 

Our health should take a back seat to nothing.

Health is wealth. – Anna Felegy (my wife’s Grammy, RIP 1989)

Repetition is the mother of all learning.

Our health should take a back seat to nothing.

Mind and body done, next, a short, pithy post about our emotional spirit, click here.

 

We must constantly resist the temptation to give up what we want most

Giraffe at Disney's Animal Kingdom Safari
There are a million reasons not to exercise

 

We must constantly resist the temptation to give up what we want most, for what we want right now.

If you regularly exercise, and I don’t mean some bull crap casual “exercise”, well done.

If you haven’t regularly exercised in so long you can’t remember, may I ask a sincere, and direct question?

Why the hell not?

Sorry, someone close to me committed suicide two days ago, and the things I normally worry about – like asking pointed, but extraordinarily important questions – are things today that don’t seem too worrisome in the big picture.

Mind and body done, next, a short, pithy post about our emotional spirit, click here.

 

If someone asked us this question, would we be happy with our answer?

Children watch their parents and subconsciously learn values
This was 2009, now our Son is almost as tall as me

 

If someone asked us these questions, would we be happy with our answers? Do we exercise regularly? How long has it been like that?

You know, I don’t ask these types of questions to stimulate our guilt, but rather to stimulate our conviction.

The photo was taken moments before driving to the airport. After a decade of slow and steady exercise, I astonishingly represented the USA at the Masters Track & Field World Championships in Finland.

And now in 2013, 14 years after reCommitting to health, I’m still running.

Mind and body done, next, a short, pithy post about our emotional spirit, click here.