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And in that I have always been a work in progress.
The building lay entirely within intention.
What are you willing to do – emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually – to make this how you live. Akin to making your bed in the morning. In my view, it is not at all about what you do. Moreso, it is entirely about who you become.
A little about me.
Challenged by bulk my entire life. Rigorous activity took command of it when circumstances were amenable to it. Or shall I say, I made room to allow those circumstances to appear.
Running and cycling were two of my favorites, and still are. But just not physically possible any longer. Thank you football ! I like doing the circuit training I created for PF. Trying to work that into days again is the obstacle. During Covid, I flipped a tractor tire up and down a football field for several months. Yard work is good for the core. Shoveling snow too. I love doing physical work.
Taken steps, literally, to raise the fitness level here. First, began walking with a weighted vest. Already need something heavier. The distance is increasing – already in the three to four mile range – so I will now focus on quickening the pace. In time, I think I could walk to PF, hit the circuit and walk home. That would be ideal.
Eating is being addressed as well.
Really into Cheerios, bananas and 1% milk in the morning. Some yogurt, even plain 0% is yummy to me. Lots of veggies – digging tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and peppers raw – with or without yogurt dip.
My snack driving from client to client? Hard boiled eggs. Salad burritos are good too. Never really a soda guy, cut way down on toast, steak once a quarter, mostly chicken, pork and fish. Pasta the way my bestie makes it is to die for. Maybe a burger on the grill once in a while. Tacos with black beans in the meat. Cut back on the tortilla chips.
All is in place to make progress, with the exception of increasing the portion size of the exercise while finding the correct level for portion size when I am hungry. That is happening.
But it is all a building process.
As I suggested, it is not at all about what you do.
Moreso, it is entirely about who you become
And in that I have always been a work in progress.
Get a hole lot more out of life.
List your top 5 favorite fruits.
Lifesavers.
Cherry, lemon, lime, orange, pineapple.
A part of living.
At all.
Now there is a concept.
Brought forth for consideration in a world where “influencer” is a respected vocation and some guy who goes by “AI” finds the time to write papers, proposals, presentaions, books, answer phones, provide customer service and appear in media shorts or commericals. Sheesh. He must get less sleep than Elon. But I seriously digress…..If this is me writing this….I wonder…
How about the men, women and children that handled the agricultural needs and maintenance here and all over the globe way back when, and in some cases, up to now ?
Or those of varied backgrounds that literally linked nations via rail, or helped to provide a path for vessels to access one body of water into another?
The teens and young adults from all countries that took a bullet in the trenches, on a battlefield, in a jungle, on the ocean, or in the air?
The women that built those modes of death and warfare while keeping families in tact away from the conflict, here, there and everywhere?
How about those labeled, rounded up for their beliefs and essentially converted and reduced to perishable goods across the planet?
Families working diligently and tirelessly to remain intact, so that theirs may learn and live to do the same?
Those gifted with diverse abilities that despite their challenges are well suited to show the rest of us what is important in life?
More of these that are underrated will come to mind I am sure. And these examples don’t even touch the centuries and millenia prior.
The thing I have witnessed about being underrated is that though bearing that mantle it literally means that you have nothing to lose.
Without expectation, there are no foreseeable means to accrue anything of what is deemed as “value”. Least of all, what may be termed as a “future”.
Their being underrated as such, but accomplishing what they did, pretty much cost them everything, but made things happen for us. Eventually.
Despite that, we bask in ourselves, though our gratitude is vastly underrated, if even present.
At all.
That is just one of them.
Now that I think about it, I don’t think it was one thing.
When all was said and done, I had the opportunity to try many different things when I was growing up. My parents supported many different endeavors for me and my brothers. So perhaps my obsession was just doing all sorts of things.
Like painting and building model airplanes. Hanging them from the ceiling in my bedroom. Squadrons of B-17’s, B-24’s, Mustangs, Corsairs, Spitfires, Hurricanes. Tanks and armored carriers on the shelves.
Estes rockets too!
Walking home for lunch from grade school at The Lane for a sandwich, chips and a glass of milk and watching Bozo the Clown on WGN.
Riding bikes all over. Even taking a bag of clubs to the local par three and spending five bucks to play golf for the day.
Fishing trips to Iron Mountain, Michigan, Bangs Lake, Spring Lake or on Lake Michigan for the Mighty Ohoc with Dr. Cerchio.
Listening to records at “11” in the living room, laying on the floor next to the console, reading the liner notes.
Block parties.
Playing army.
Whiffel ball, stealing bases, or football in any one of the front yards on the block.
Street hockey.
Learning to cut the grass.
Shoveling the driveway, then making snow forts and igloos.
I grew up with an opportunity to try and do all sorts of things back in the day.
Leading to my decades old obsession now.
That is just one of them.
