First of all, Merry Christmas everybody! Hopefully you all have a great holiday to spend with your families. For me, it also marks Day 1000 of my new consecutive exercise streak. It started March 31, 2019. One week after my health issues ended my last streak at 4,196 days. It started off really slow, but the habit had already been started. In the last roughly 15 years, I have missed 7 days total, and they all happened to be in a row.
This truly is how success is described. It truly is a journey, not a final destination, or a final race result, or a final completion of one particular goal. It is ongoing. A continuous journey. Many things along the way help each of us continue this journey. It should never be thought of as something you will do on your own. Take all the help you can get.
Sarah has been by my side every single day of this journey. I would never have been able to keep going with all of this without help, and motivation from her as well. Forever partners!
Of course, everybody in our run group, WARC, helped immensely as well. This will always be a very special picture to me. They were all cheering for me while I was in the hospital, and this day would have been #4200 for me. Of course, my weakness is peanut M & M’s. There are never enough of them!
5 months ago I became a Grandpa! To think I may not have been able to even see him! Everything is now in the past. I am only looking forward!
I had to keep telling myself this many times. You have to keep telling yourself to never give up! Never! Even though there may be many times when you want to give up, you have to show how tough you really are, and keep going.
Exactly! We all have to work physically at the activities, but the mental part is the really hard part. If you can convince your mind to do this, you will!
Yes, there are times when you feel exhausted when you get done. You start wondering how you can do it again the next day. But once it becomes a habit, you have more endurance, and mind power, to accomplish things.
I am truly happy that I was able to start a new streak. I am running again, and did not know if this was going to be in my future or not. So I am especially thankful around the holidays. And as far as how long this new streak will take me, I have no idea. The only thing I have left to stay is:
Bring it on! I am ready to take life on. I am ready to conquer other obstacles that go on. It has been a tough 2 years putting up with COVID, and it makes me wonder how much more I can take of this. But this is how it is. Put your head down, face the challenges in your life, and take them on with everything you have! Have a Merry Christmas, and an upcoming New Year! May the New Year be your beginning of something better for you! Keep moving everybody!
Dr. Dan
Consecutive Exercise Day of New Streak: #1000!
