The Roller Coaster of Life
Whoa …. WOW …. just coming off the “Manta” at Seaworld in Orlando i found myself in awe of just how great a ride that was. Climbing the hill being held upside down in the seat, my weight baring against the restraints as I’m looking at the ground, in great anticipation of that first drop and rapid increase in speed. Twisting, turning, dropping, corkscrewing, inverting and looping through all kinds of curves on one of the smoothest of rides I’ve ever felt was and exhilarating experience. If you’ve never gone, then you need to “do it” at least once. But you know what ….. that was a choice I made to ride the ups and downs of the roller coaster.
But since this Blog is basically about health, wellness and fitness, you just know I have to call you out on the ups and downs of our lives as it relates to the nutrition we eat or the exercise we do. Any given day I can walk around and look at people and see their lack of fitness or their example of a good fitness routine in your life. That goes for food as well. I have great sympathy for those around me, because I KNOW that daily life is a struggle with these things. It really is at times like a roller coaster ride with all of its peaks and valleys. Sometimes we make a good effort to eat right, only to fall off the wagon and get right back into a slump of bad habits. Don’t get me wrong, I include myself in this too. The same thing goes for fitness as well. But here I see a great struggle for most people. With having spoken with hundreds of people now, I can see that of the people I come in to contact with each day, probably only 5-10% of them have some sort of workout routine that they stick too. It’s very sad in a way, when we think about our bodies and how it’s the one thing carrying us through life, yet 90% of people i see, are not doing anything to protect their bodies and strengthen themselves so that they can eat, live, work and play with less fear of injury. WOW …. why do we do this to ourselves? Complacency is one I think, but there are others, …. like stress, fast paced life, laziness, lack of knowledge and so on ….
Finding a healthy balance in eating is one thing and a lot of people can stick with it, but finding a workout program and sticking with it seems to be more of a struggle. They’ll start a routine, and only after a few days give up, but then months later pick it up again, then drop it again riding the roller coaster of fitness decisions.
So here’s a few words of encouragement to you. Find a work out program at home and muster all the mental strength you have and “do it” for 15 days. I’ve noticed that if you can stick with something for that period of time, you’ll generally be on the road to more successes than failures. That’s how I approach doing things in my life and have found great success. Lastly, if one day you skip and don’t workout and you consider that a failure, then in your mind, forget about it. Take the next day, a brand new day as the day you will succeed and move forward instead of letting past failures promote future failures. Each day is a bright new day to succeed in whatever it is you are doing, so wake up with that mindset and you’ll put yourself on the fast track to success.
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