Its been a long battle getting this area of my life back on the track it used to be on. As most of you read from other blogs I got side tracked there for a couple of years and let a lot slip away. These past 6 months have been a real up and down battle in discipline for both exercise and eating.
My eating habits are improving in a huge way over the last couple of months. Now over the last 2 weeks I've been really disciplined. After hearing Mark and Jenn Paul speak a month ago about this subject it reminded me how important this area is! My weight is finally going in the right direction as well :)
Running is still off and on for me. Would love to be consistent once again. I still have that fear when I'm out there I'm going to somehow find another hole to step in or a loose stone that i'll roll my ankle on. But the good news I am out there doing it. Now the gym is amazing right now. My workouts are back the way it used to be a few short years ago. Seeing a lot of changes in my body. I'm back to having a solid figure and I'm loving it!
A lot of people are asking me what events I'm training for and my answer is nothing. I'm just enjoying this for now. I am looking at VA half marathon though and probably the Crim. Also I'm doing the Holland century bike ride in 3 weeks, which reminds me I should probably get the dust off my bike! I keep thinking about a few different events but right now God has me working in other areas and racing will have to take a backseat to His current plans for me :)
However I would love to encourage you to take this part of your life more serious. We seem to come up with waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to many excuses as to why we can't. If you need workout time, take your scheduled TV time and put workouts in that time slot instead :) You won't regret it. When your body is operating and fuctioning properly because you have fed it well and worked out other areas in your life will greatly improve.
Get in shape and God bless :)
Friday, June 24, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Be on a continuous growth journey
I had a great conversation with my sister over the weekend. We were absolutely blown away once again by another Team seminar. Learning about LIFE and the 8F's has made a great change in my life and others around me.
Our conversation led to us talking about people we keep coming into contace with who don't seem to know there is a purpose for them. Or there are the ones who already think they know it all because they have a degree. They stopped learning when they got the degree but somehow in a rapidly changing society they still know it all :)
I strongly believe one of the biggest problems in our culture today is that we are not learning. Society seems to have us on a system to program us into believing their way is the only way or if you listen to us everything will just work out fine. Not sure how it is we fall for this kind of thing but it's a bit scary.
I think one of the most important things we can do to improve our country is to actually read more than we do. To many of us come home from work and turn on the boob tube, yes thats what I called it because it tends to numb our brains. Just look at all the so called reality tv, as my sister said how is that reality?
What would happen if we took all the money and time we spent on cable and TV programs and applied it to books on leadership, economics, history, finances and most important the Bible. You would see the real change in your country you so desire to see. But it comes down to us making the commitment to actually follow through on this and then educate others to do the same.
Now I'm not saying don't enjoy life, after all I love sports and watching sports. My world just doesn't revolve around the home team making the playoffs, now if they do thats always great, but what if our main focus in life was to actually be on a continuous growth journey. I pray that when my life ends they find me with a book and that those around me can say that I improved who I was everyday.
Our conversation led to us talking about people we keep coming into contace with who don't seem to know there is a purpose for them. Or there are the ones who already think they know it all because they have a degree. They stopped learning when they got the degree but somehow in a rapidly changing society they still know it all :)
I strongly believe one of the biggest problems in our culture today is that we are not learning. Society seems to have us on a system to program us into believing their way is the only way or if you listen to us everything will just work out fine. Not sure how it is we fall for this kind of thing but it's a bit scary.
I think one of the most important things we can do to improve our country is to actually read more than we do. To many of us come home from work and turn on the boob tube, yes thats what I called it because it tends to numb our brains. Just look at all the so called reality tv, as my sister said how is that reality?
What would happen if we took all the money and time we spent on cable and TV programs and applied it to books on leadership, economics, history, finances and most important the Bible. You would see the real change in your country you so desire to see. But it comes down to us making the commitment to actually follow through on this and then educate others to do the same.
Now I'm not saying don't enjoy life, after all I love sports and watching sports. My world just doesn't revolve around the home team making the playoffs, now if they do thats always great, but what if our main focus in life was to actually be on a continuous growth journey. I pray that when my life ends they find me with a book and that those around me can say that I improved who I was everyday.
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