Blog #621: Focus on the FEET

Sometimes…

Readers ask tough questions.
Here are five emails from last week.

Excerpts from theirs.
Excerpts from mine.

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Email #1 (excerpt):

“Setting goals every Monday is intimidating. I know me and I can’t keep that up. Any other ideas you have to offer?”

My response (excerpt):

If MONDAY goals are too much…

Focus on ONE goal.

ONLY ten minutes a day.

Still too much?

How about FIVE minutes?

Three days a week?

We succeed in walking ONE mile when we walk 5,280 feet.

Focus on walking the FEET.

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Email #2 (excerpt):

“I’ve read your blog for over a year and am familiar with your goals. I feel I’m wasting my life compared to you. Do you have goals I can relate to?”

My response (excerpt):

How about these three?

1. Live kind.

2. Live doing.

3. Live moving.

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Email #3 (excerpt):

“Why do you feel you have to set goals? Why can’t you just enjoy life?”

My response (excerpt):

If YOU love your life — what you do, what you think, what you feel, what your future looks like — then you are wayyyyy ahead of me.

I set goals to love my life.

MORE.

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Email #4 (excerpt):

“I’ve never traveled out of the country, but I want to this year. Do you have a favorite country you can recommend?”

My response (excerpt):

I don’t want to cast my shadow on your experience.

Whichever YOU decide will be a great adventure.

But I can say this…

My NEXT is always my favorite.

That way…

I’m not looking back.

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Email #5 (excerpt):

“How do you find the energy to walk across a country? I’m younger than you but too exhausted to walk to the mailbox.”

My response (excerpt):

I grow old faster when I sit on the couch longer.

😊

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To YOU?

Thank you for reading.

I hope I added to your day.

See you next week.

S.