Amazing What Can Happen

Impossible Is Nothing
Impossible Is Nothing

Here’s a quote, lifted from my Facebook updates:

“You go girl. I am doing the same thing with my bosses wife. We go at lunch time almost everyday. It is amazing what a walk a day can do for you.”

It’s amazing what walking can do, if you do it.

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Quite Showing Off She Said

Jesus Was A Showoff?
Jesus Was A Showoff?

And I thought, “Showing off? I’m not showing off!”

Remember what Gandhi said, “You must become the change you wish to see in the world.”

It’s a fairly common stereotype, or paradigm, to think that 51 year olds are not even close to being in great physical condition.

Mostly it’s true. And it’s true because not many 51 year olds are in great physical condition, which only fuels the ridiculous paradigm.

We need role models, but not role models who can talk about it. We need role models who can lead the way  – by doing it. And the only way we can know they can do it, is if they do.

I guess Barak Obama is a show off for being the first black president, or Jesus for dying on the cross, or Mother Teresa, Oprah, Steve Jobs…

The Clock Is Ticking

The Answers Seem to Be Behind The Fence
The Answers Seem to Be Behind The Fence

Getting in shape, whatever that means, is something most people know to be a reasonable and desirable goal.

But doing it is next to impossible for many people.

Do you know why?

Do you know the secret to overcoming what most can not, will not, and do not overcome?

Crazy thing is, both those questions have been answered here at Lane 8, at least a dozen times in the past 14 months.