When I want to re-charge my batteries I like to go out to Montauk and work on trying to regain my fading youth by working out all day.
Actually, I am in the midst of a short mini-vacation as I write this.
Unlike others who, when they go on vacation, stay up all night drinking and then sleep until noon, I like to get up at first light and go for a 4-5 mile run on the beach and then go for a swim in the ocean before all the people show up and set up their umbrellas and chairs.
Then I make a nice, healthy egg-white omelette for breakfast and sit and watch the surfers for a while. Then I’ll take a twenty mile bike ride.
I basically play and exercise all day.
If you want to feel young and youthful again - go take a long run down a deserted beach at 6 AM
Don’t look for reasons Not to -
I’m too tired...
It’s too chilly at 6 AM...
I don’t like to run...
My knees hurt...
The bed is soooooo cozy at 6 AM...
I can’t find my favorite running socks...
What if I get tired?...
All = excuses that don’t make you feel young and youthful again
Yea - I won’t deny it - I love my margaritas too, but I obviously can’t run and exercise if I drink too much of them and that’s my priority.
It’s just three months since I had prostate surgery and at sixty...well, "bouncing" back is a little bit slower than it would have been if it had taken place 10 years ago.
Still, I get up every day and work at it
Maybe a little denial, maybe a little head strong but definitely determined.
Because I see numerous seniors in the practice I have the opportunity to talk about getting older with many of them - they frequently say... "don’t get old"...
Are you kidding me?
Hey - Consider the alternative!
Youth slips away almost imperceptibly slowly...until one day you get up and realize it’s gone
You have to work at all of the time - not just on your get away weekends
What are you doing on a regular basis to maintain your youth?
It can’t be wishing and hoping or even "planning..." - It’s got to be a "doing"
It really ought to be something enjoyable so you keep doing it but it doesn’t have to be -
you just need to keep working at it and never stop
You won’t likely catch the carrot but what's important is that you try to.
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