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On a scale of one to 10 (10 is high, one is low), how do you rate the health and wellness example you set for those younger folks following in your footsteps?
Depending on your age, younger people could be in their 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, even 50’s.
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Wake up.
Find the will power to do what needs to be done.
This will continue until we die.
We can not be perfect at this, but we can be excellent.
Ever have a friend who asks you for your advice?
I mean, over and over again? Gets old doesn’t it?
What they should do, health-wise, is so painfully obvious.
They know it. You know it. Even a young child knows it.
To know is to do. To know and not do, is to not yet know. To my friend from yesterday, who’ll probably never read this, and to anyone else in denial – figure it out.
You should know, in case you don’t, I respond to every single comment and email you send. Yesterday’s Lane 8 post had a comment from occasional Guest Blogger, Skip.
Here’s the reply I just wrote, it feels post-worthy:
What if, instead of your outward appearance, you thought of your “comeback” in terms of showing your daughters that getting older doesn’t mean we have to compromise an active, healthy lifestyle?
That getting older isn’t a jail sentence to ill-health.
Do you want your daughters and your grandchildren to be unhealthy when they get older?
What will motivate them to “break the cycle” and be the change, if you can’t, or won’t, do it?
Ever struggle with your motivation to exercise or with making smart food choices?
(If you said no, you’re lying)
Yesterday while at Gold’s Gym Orlando, I asked one of the staff, “What is it that makes some people commit to exercise for a lifetime and others quit after a few weeks?”
What do you think? How would you answer it?
I suggested that we can not do it for ourselves, we must do it for someone else. If we fail, we only let ourselves down. But if we do it for someone else and we fail, we let them down.
The other person challenged my rational (which is exciting), and in the speed of the day, neither one of us, in this casual conversation, really had a desire to debate this further at that moment.
Yet on the drive home, what I had been trying to say was revealed. We need to be a role model for great health habits. This is the secret that eludes people.
You must be someone’s role model, for life. This means you can not fail. There is no greater motivation.
If this is flying over your head, you’re at huge risk to miss this simple, but compelling health secret.