Friday, April 27, 2012

#7 - Because you want to move forward, not backward

Photo By Nicholas_T 

"When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened."

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Twenty years from now, if you stay on your fitness plan, where will you be?  If you keep working out, don't give up, don't let a stumble take you out of the game, and you keep going, where will you end up? 

You want to move forward in life.  You want to feel better, look better, do better.  Sometimes I wish I could write things on the inside of my eyelids.  So that when my head is hung low, and my eyes are closed in defeat, I could read to myself  "You are one of those who Make It Happen."  Even if you fall down today, you will not be defeated by weakness if you keep building your strength.  Even if you can't catch your breath today, you will not be defeated by exhaustion if you keep building your endurance. 

The image you see in the mirror will change whether you keep working hard or whether you give up entirely.  What kind of change do you want to see? Every day that we make healthy choices, we're deciding what we want to see in the future.  The same goes for every unhealthy choice we make.  When our bodies start to break down from lack of use, when our nerves are damaged from sitting all day long, when we eat the most convenient and nutritionally lacking foods, we are choosing what we want to see in the future. 

We want to move forward, not backward.  We want strong and healthy bodies that we will joyfully live into old age with. 

Crys

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