TomBe consistent – your body craves it – get through the first 3 or 4 hard days of initiation, and you’ll look forward to it thereafter. There is no reason your workouts cannot be play. Ideas are plentiful, assistance is available, information is abundant, facilities are on every corner. DO NOT HAVE MORE EXCUSES THAN DISCIPLINE!
TomBy building a daily system first thing in the morning, you will be inspired to add other consistent regimes to your life, in regard to what you eat and how often; when you work out and how often; paying bills, shopping, and everything from making your bed, to hanging your clothes, to spending time with your family. Consistency is the key to success. Avoid distracting yourself with the things that are not on your list. Make consistency your priority and watch how wonderfully often you accomplish things that used to always seem to be on the back burner, but never done.
TomThere’s good reason to criticize or condemn “deadbeat dads” or “absent fathers.” They’ve left a hole in humanity that bleeds both great and terrible humans as a result. An abusive…
TomWhat “FOREVER” means to me
There was a roller blade trail I used to skate on every lunch hour. I was closing in on 40 years old, had my third son, and looked forward to a trip to Scottsdale, Arizona in a few months. I was in the best shape of my life in a life filled with great shape. I had goals, time, determination, perseverance and will. The trail had a few hills, some good straight-aways, smooth pavement and challenging curves.
I had just passed a walking man for the third time. He was probably in his late 60’s. Finally, he was able to catch me before I’d passed, with the question, “What are you training for? “ He had a smirk on his face, as if he expected some “triathlon” response, like he discovered me, or spied some elite, secret drill since my intensity was so joyfully evident. But I looked back without losing stride and said with a smirk of my own, “Life!”
TomDo you know anyone who complains of wrists or elbows or shoulders or back or knees or hips or feet, and seem to go on this endless circular ride of ailments while letting you know where they are every step of the way? They’re like a child on a merry go round, waving each time they pass by, only not quite so happy. You know them when you see them at work, the ones you don’t dare ask, “How are you doing?”
“Oh, my elbow, I fell on it the other day because my knee gave out, that’s how I got this big gash on my head… Other than that, I’m doing OK! … I started exercising. I got this ab thingy, it works great… but now my back is killing me…”
The sad part is, we all know someone like that. Walking two extra parking spaces isn’t really “incorporating an exercise program.” “A burger (hold the mayo), medium fries (instead of supersize) and “a Diet Coke” isn’t really cutting calories. It’s playing a fools game with food choices, and everyone always sees the fool for what he is, except the fool himself.
TomImagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening it deletes whatever part of the…