Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Lose To Win

Extra Weight - I want to loose 25 pounds!

If we make food choices from a place of love and awareness we will nurture ourselves with the foods our body really needs.  Our bodies are like living temples, and deserve all the love and care we can give them. Amazingly flexible and strong, they allow us to experience the world. If we notice that we are not feeling our best, that we have put on extra weight, or that our favorite clothes do nott fit, we can make the choice to be good to ourselves in a new way today.

There are times we become conscious of a deeper hunger that will not be satisfied physically. We can make a new, healthier choice for ourselves in any moment, regardless of the hour, day, week or month. And when we make the choice lovingly, we work from a creative place of improving our lives and nurturing the best within us, so there is no need to punish ourselves. From this place, we can be gently honest with ourselves about the reasons we want to eat certain foods. We can reach out to doctors to help us determine if our bodies are out of balance at a level that requires something other than basic nutrients. We can also reach out to our friends for support and to share the journey of health, which is just another part of our adventure on the physical plane.

When we treat ourselves and our bodies as we would a trusted and loyal companion, we keep our energy free from negative thoughts that would complicate our journey. Our bodies are not our enemies, and we are not fighting a battle. Instead, we are investing our love and attention into the care and support of a beautiful creation - ourselves.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

We don't have to be the best; we just have to do our best

I run and I do many things poorly.  I have run over 50 races yet I am slow.  I practice law and I am not the best.  Today, I cannot practice law because of serious mistakes that I made when I was so sick with my alcoholism.  I was very ill and quite insane.  Today I am sober, my sanity has returned.  I am better than I have ever been in my life...still, I am not the best.  But today, I do my best. "Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it." - Cardinal Newman.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

The Best Beginning to any Adventure is when we discover our brokenness.

He knows not is own strength that hath not met adveristy - Ben Jonson, English dramatist.  I thought when I suffered complete and utter defeat in every area of my life, that my life would never be good again.  In fact, the good just got started! 


Friday, August 20, 2010

Life is a Daring Adventure...

Circumstances - People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don't believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for cirucmstances they want and make them. - George Bernard Shaw.  I run, I swim and I cycle to take part in the adventure of life - sometinmes I like it and that is good.  Sometimes I don't like it and that is even better!!


Sunday, August 15, 2010

A New Day and A New Week


"We can do anything for just one day. So, just for today, let us be unafraid, unafraid of life,unafraid of death, which is the shadow of life; unafraid to be happy, unafraid to enjoy the beautiful, to believe the best.
 
Just for today let us live one day only, forgetting yesterday and tomorrow, and not trying to solve the whole problem of life at one.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Adventures in Mracles

The spiritual part of my life is like trying to describe the wet part of the wave...it is all a miracle.  I believe what Einstein said - "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Chicago Marathon 2010 - Run toward your Roar!!!


Experience is the thing that enables me ot recognize a mistake when I make it again...Today I live to make up for the mistakes I have made...Forgive me and help me to easily forgive...

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Run for Gua Africa - Run toward Your Roar!! Be Unfraid



"We can do anything for just one day.  So, just for today, let us be unafraid, unafraid of life,unafraid of death, which is the shadow of life; unafraid to be happy, unafraid to enjoy the beautiful, to believe the best.

Just for today let us live one day only, forgetting yesterday and tomorrow, and not trying to solve the whole problem of life at one.



Sunday, August 1, 2010

Run for Gua Africa


August begins the month of brotherly and sisterly love and the month when my Run for Gua Africa begins in earnest. I have been preparing for almost a year for the Chicago Marathon and the Run for Gua Africa. We lose to win. Never Give Up. Never Give In. These are the motto's of Emmanuel Jal and my mantra at this race.