Top 25 Lessons: #11
Sharing the Top 25 Things I learned from taking back my health: I learned to be comfortable with the discomfort I felt from breaking barriers (going farther, going faster, going out when I didn’t feel…
Sharing the Top 25 Things I learned from taking back my health: I learned to be comfortable with the discomfort I felt from breaking barriers (going farther, going faster, going out when I didn’t feel…
Sharing the Top 25 Things I learned from taking back my health: explore adamancy. How often had I declared that “I don’t go outside once it gets cold” or “I don’t go outside if it’s…
I learned from taking back my health: #9: I learned to overcome psychological barriers: if my goal was to run one mile, I started feeling tired at three-fourths of a mile. If I wanted to…
Momentum is everything. Every day I drew a star on a calendar for something good I did or something bad I avoided. Seeing the stars add up was the wind in my sails. The BAD…
Sharing the Top 25 Things I learned from taking back my health: #7: I can do anything for 15 minutes (working on a hard project), or longer (giving up cheese and candy for Lent, a…
Sharing the Top 25 Things I learned from taking back my health. #6: I can always “just hang on”: fighting the the temptation to gobble down a Krispy Kreme, finishing a jog when I feel…
Sharing the Top 25 things I learned from taking back my health: #5. I was still as determined at 60 to walk as I was at 2. The desire to forge ahead never leaves us.
Sharing the Top 25 things I learned from taking back my health: #4. I have a reservoir of untapped energy. If I felt I couldn’t take one more step while running but saw neighbors sitting…
Sharing the Top 25 things I learned from taking back my health. #3: Practice enlightened self care. My body at 67 is the same one I had at 3 months. I began to treat it…
It is never, ever too late to DO SOMETHING to feel better. Maybe it’s drinking more water, passing up a Krispy Kreme (or eating only half of it), learning to make bread like my dad,…