Disney Employee Engagement Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Did you exercise yesterday?
Did you eat mostly healthy food?
Do you plan on doing it again today?
Excellent.
If you answered no to the questions, today’s another day.
If not you, who? If not today, when?
Are you getting this? Or is it getting old?
If it’s getting old, so are you.
Let’s shake it up a little bit today. You good with that? Good. Let’s go back to this past summer.
Here’s the scene. Early August, 2009. Sunny, clear, 70 degrees.
Finland.
Master’s Track & Field 2009 World Championships. Men’s 400 meters, 70-74 year old age group.
Enter a German man.
Click here to see the secret this “old man” reveals about getting and staying healthy.
PS. If you are too busy to follow this and invest two more minutes, please go look in the mirror and say something like, “I really do want to get healthy and stay healthy, but I just really don’t want to work very hard at it.”
Will you change the way you think about diet and exercise?
Or will you give up, like you always do?
Hey, you’re an adult. You get this. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know.
Don’t do it.
Don’t cave.
Don’t give up.
You can do it.
Be smarter. Think differently. Act differently. Don’t do it all in one month.
You have the rest of your life, but only if you get started and never quit.
One day at a time.
Start small and simple. Think long-term. Dust off your indomitable will. Never quit.
When you die, then you can relax. You good with that?
Are you ready to fight for your life?
Then, and only then, will you start to see the changes you’ve always dreamed of.
May I introduce your opponent?
It’s you. You are the challenge. You are the problem. You are the opportunity.
It’s time to kick your own butt. Seriously, it is.
If not you, who? if not now, when?
Ps. I’m dead serious about this.
Most people have had so little experience in the wilderness, that making a campfire is foreign to them. And making a campfire is more involved than it seems.
As a Boy Scout and then again in Outward Bound, we were taught to prepare the wood as if we only had only one match left. If you didn’t prepare properly, and the one match you had went out…
Just throw it in the microwave. Or, order delivery. Or maybe, stop by on the way home for take-out.
Well, it’s like that for our health too.
It may not seem so, but most really don’t have much experience being successful in building healthy habits.
Hey, I’m not making this up. Look around. There’s your validation.
It’s epidemic. And we have the opportunity to resolve to be part of the minority – the healthy minority.
And if we can get enough of the minority to change, we can start a movement to become the healthy majority.
Who doesn’t want that for their children, their nieces and nephews?