The road of life bring many challenges, and many changes. You learn to adapt, and go with it, or you suffer longer from the consequences. For all of you out there who do exercise, you have undoubtedly suffered some injury or setback of some kind, at some time in your life. The timing is never good. Nobody ever wants to be hurt, or be held back from doing the things they enjoy. But, welcome to life. Recovering from injury, or health issues, really puts things in perspective. We are human, and we have weaknesses. It can be frustrating, depressing, maddening…going through every emotion you can experience. By the time all is said and done, hopefully you have grown, learned something, and appreciate truly how precious things are in life that we often times take for granted.
Sometimes, you have to just take a deep breath, after all the anger comes out, take another deep breath, and then figure out how to go after it again. It can be easy to feel defeated. But if you let it, you will feel even more defeated later. Some things come up that we truly have no control over. We have to listen to our bodies, because it is telling us something. It may not be what you want to hear, but ultimately you may not have any choice.
Relax, take a deep breath, get you mind back on track, and then you can start getting your body back on track. I guess I have to listen to what I tell my patients all of the time: “Now you know why we call you patients!” You have to be patient with the process. You have to be patient that in the long run things will get back to a “comfortable normal” for you again. There will be ups and downs, but overall, we hopefully keep making progress forward.
I have Sarah by my side! I need her to help motivate me. I need her to help keep me on track. I need her…just because I need her!
Each day can bring new challenges for all of us…good and bad! Our attitude is what separates the people who succeed from those who fail. We choose how to deal with it. We choose what decisions to make. We choose…I choose, what my attitude is going to be like going forward. Things are going to be changing again soon. I need to hang with it, and be “patient”.
I am going to follow Sarah. It has always worked for me in the past. Be flexible. Be patient. Be trusting. I am going to do my best to keep moving…forward. Just like you should! Keep moving everybody!
Dr. Dan
Consecutive Exercise Day of new streak: 84
