I’m having a strange relationship with my fitness efforts. They’re a bit off base right now, but I think this is okay. I think it relates to my newly minted belief that I must have a more whole-person approach to what I’m doing and trying to accomplish. As always, I’m working on something, and I think it has some merit to spell it out here. This is more “theory related to fitness and life efforts” talk. Skip it if you want to hear about race results or fat free recipes.
Begin With the End in Mind
This should strike everyone as a no-brainer, but if one doesn’t determine what matters most to them, it makes the goals we set for ourselves fairly useless. To that end, I’m rethinking the guiding principles by which I wish to choose my goals. Again, I’m trying to integrate everything into an easy-to-follow view of the world. It helps to focus on what matters most to me.
Personal Health: This includes physical and mental health. I believe one must take care of one’s self FIRST before seeing to the needs of others. Having but one vessel to accomplish things outside of myself — my body — I must maintain a level of health to keep other promises in my life. Here’s where I throw my physical fitness goals, as well as mental and spiritual health goals. For the last one, I’m trying to do my own rendition of meditation. I’ll keep you posted.
Family First: My wife and child (+kid on the way) are my first priority, and then my extended family. It’s important that I always remember to integrate them into as much of my life as possible, while keeping a special space for myself for maintaining my individual identity. I use this principle to remind me that sometimes the here and now isn’t as important as the family-mindset big picture.
Learn/Teach: I believe this is probably my strongest personal vocation, and where the strength of my “voice” centers. To that end, I work towards this daily. I try to experience things, to capture them, to learn them, understand them, and then to model and teach them. Through this, I try to bring understanding to others, because I feel that people like to feel educated about things that matter to their daily existence.
Create: It’s important to create new things, to be excited about projects that use other parts of my brain. I’ve neglected this a lot lately, or rather, I’ve channeled my talents into other avenues. I’m going to rebuild some of this within myself.
Laugh My Ass Off: It’s pretty important to keep humor in my life. I use this principle to include everything about life that’s fun and funny. This matters a lot, too.
Anyhow, I’m still going to write about self improvement and fitness and nutrition and the like. This is just something that’s swirling around me at the same time.
Thoughts?
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