Once in a while this realization hits me:
I can't control everything.
- I can't control the weather
- I can't control the economy
- I can't control the politicians or pundits or demand that everyone see things my way
- I can't control the behavior of those around me
- I can't convince everyone to get out and exercise
- I can't make everyone - or anyone - hire me to train them
- I can't be 25 years old again
- I can't hide and just hope that fear disappears
- I can't control my world by worrying about everything that could go wrong
- I can't insulate myself or the people I love from grief and loss
- I can't go through life without disappointing someone, sometime - maybe lots of people, lots of times
- I can't make Rush tour again
What can I do? I can get into my body.
I can:
- Breathe deeply
- Go for a run in these newly-cool mornings - and look around instead of at the ground in front of me
- Turn off the TV and talk radio
- Read a fitness article
- Learn a new move
- Take my dog for a bike ride (I ride, he runs, people wave)
- Prepare, let go and have fun at the San Antonio Rock & Roll Half
- Meditate for 6 minutes
- Read this post on Mess by Kristin Armstrong
- Concentrate on not using my hip flexors during ab exercises
- Up my intensity during a Jazzercise class
- Smile and send silent appreciation to all those women at Jazzercise, and tell the instructor I love her class
- Accept that everything - including my body - changes
- Start the day with yoga
- Feel my triceps working during pushdowns
- Give my son my full attention when he talks to me
- Live and enjoy a fit life, even when no one's watching
- Eat a nectarine instead of a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream
- Walk, do a set of jumping lunges and ten pushups
- Replace moments of self-doubt with reminders that I am strong
- Take a small, positive, energizing action - like 3 minutes of Level 6 Shiva Nata
- Get in 30 minutes of cardio every day for a week
- Remember that consistency counts
- Treat life's uncertainty as an adventure
- Write this post, even though I haven't written for months and worry that people will hate what I write anyway, if they bother to read it at all
That's all I can do. That's enough.
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