Is this a form of medicating and distracting ourselves from actually doing the work

Las Vegas excuse
Our life results revolve around hiding behind excuses… or not.

 

We love hearing from and seeing people share inspiring stories of other people.

Facebook is full of stories and quotes from others about someone they know or admire from a distance.

This ought to challenge us because these are often like a drug.

One great quote lasts us just long enough to get to the next.

Is this a form of medicating and distracting ourselves from actually doing the work of being an inspiring story?

We either exercised yesterday or we didn’t.

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The race through life often has no explainable finish line

empty Target shelves
These are the shelves for all the things we truly know about ourselves

 

Yesterday the 50-year old said he is going back to school.

Asked him why? And asked him how much time he spends in introspective thought. He said seconds, meaning almost zero.

We race through life.

If we don’t have time to think, we can guarantee we don’t have time to exercise.

One of the beauties of exercise is it also provides glorious thinking time.

We know this.

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How Much Damage Do Unimportant Distractions Cause?

Wanna be good at anything (say motivation), practice, practice, practice.

How much damage do unimportant distractions cause? Remember practice and energy from the past few days? The reason these are critical is because they help us develop the habits of focus and discipline – the origin of all longterm success.

Insight: Nothing can substitute for practice and energy.

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Only Five More Days Until Christmas, A Challenging Time To Keep Health Goals On Track

This is not a trick, or obscure question

Holidays are a joyous occasion, designed to help busy humans pause and reflect on life’s big, important meanings. Holidays are also unbearably stressful for many midlifers. The food, the drink? Abundant. The exercise and moderation?

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