by Ralph
on June 15, 2011
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Keeping your life on course.
Lifestyle Design is all about looking forward and making progress toward a goal or vision. As I look back over my life, I see so many times when I lost my way. At the time, I didn’t have a guiding vision and made decisions based upon whatever seemed important at the time. Mostly those were small decisions that didn’t seem important one way or another at the time. And the judgment I used to make those decisions was haphazard. It wasn’t grounded in a long term plan because I didn’t have a long term plan. I was steering my life on a whim. [continue reading…]
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by Ralph
on June 13, 2011
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Aging is relentless.
My Lifestyle Design Plan has a fitness dimension. As I reported earlier this year, the deterioration of my physical strength and agility caught me by surprise. Suddenly I couldn’t do things that were easy before, like getting up out of a chair. I had accepted getting old. I just wasn’t prepared for the realities. I wanted an active lifestyle and a walker and one of those push up chairs didn’t fit.
This was a ‘Come to Jesus’ moment for me. I had deluded myself that just making up my mind to live like a 40 year old into my 70’s and beyond would make it happen. I was learning that aging is real and it’s momentum is powerful. Thinking happy thoughts wasn’t going to keep me strong and active. I had to be aggressive.
It is easy to deny the signs of aging
It is amazing how easy denial can be. The only sign of aging I am forced to face each day is my face. But I’ve learned to cope. I really don’t look at the wrinkled face in the mirror each morning. I am not forced to see the other signs of deterioration and so I can remain blissfully oblivious to what is obvious to others. My wife tells me that I walk with a stoop. Of course I can’t see how I look and after a few attempts to walk straight I just pass off the comment. I don’t feel any different so I conclude that it can’t be so bad. When I observe ‘old people’ I often feel superior because of their stooped posture and clumsy movements, but ignore my own. [continue reading…]
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