This year I’m going to keep it stupid simple: no 10-point, three-parter resolutions with promises of marathons and how much mileage I’ll run, promises of challenges and how many books I’ll read and promises of living the holy life and … Continue reading
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2011: The Year I Sucked or Wait, Did I?
What a whirlwind of a year it’s been, folks. I started the year motivated… …to post once a day for 2011! To say “no” and “yes” each week to help me toward being physically active… …to read all the books … Continue reading
Like sugar and spice, so good, so nice
Each Monday, I write a Motivation Monday post, which is to help motivate me and you in terms of physical well-being, both diet and exercise. For 2011, I also am including a “no” and a “yes” to help motivate us … Continue reading
Do, or do not…a little less conversation, a little more action
Each Monday (or at least this was the plan back at the beginning of 2010) I write a post for a theme I call Motivation Monday, usually based off a quote from Dr. George Sheehan, especially from the book titled Dr. George Sheehan on Getting Fit & Feeling Great. The book includes three books: How To Feel Great 24 Hours A Day, Running and Being and This Running Life.
Today’s quote comes not from George Sheehan, but from George Lucas and once upon a time was a quote I tried to embody:
Do, or do not. There is no try.
Of course, the quote was spoken by Yoda to his young Jedi student, Luke Skywalker, in my favorite of the Star Wars series, The Empire Strikes Back.
For me, it’s not lifting a sunken Starfighter from the Dagobah swamps. For me, it’s just lifting one foot in front of the other.
Lately, it’s become a necessity for me not to try that, but just to do as we just took our one and only car to the salvage yard last week (more on that later in the week). Until we get another car, which might be as soon as later this week, thanks to the generosity of my parents, I am “forced” to walk to the library where I work. I also am walking everywhere else: to the senior center, where I volunteer, and also the Samaritan House, a single-guest hospice, also where I volunteer. On Tuesday night, I will be walking to a school board meeting that I will be covering for a newspaper for which I’m a correspondent. The meeting is held in a room at the high school, which is about a mile away.
However, I have decided, with rare exceptions, that even after we get another car, I am going to walk to places within town that are a mile or less from our house. That might not seem radical, but considering that I am taking on this challenge just before winter arrives here in northcentral Pennsylvania, it is a bit of one. The thing is, though, I’m tired of trying to get motivated. I just need to quit talking and thinking about getting motivated and just do it.
Posted in Body, Motivation Monday, Running
Tagged do or do not, Empire Strikes Back, motivation, Running, walking, Yoda
