My Fruitive Challenge: Day 95 — Motivation Baby!

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In Esselstyn’s book "The Engine 2 Diet," on page 91, there's an inset box titled "Motivation, Baby!" where he writes about completing his first Hawaii Ironman triathlon. He started out great, but by the end, he had fallen far from first place—567th, to be exact. Yet, he crossed that finish line. The lesson here is to never quit, because giving up would make it much easier to quit the next time things aren't going your way. He encourages us to take that same attitude toward our diet: to not surrender to bad habits and temptations and to set up successful patterns for life.

This encourages me because I'm constantly struggling with temptations to cheat on my diet, skip walking and exercise, and put off my reading goals. Last night, for example, I was exhausted. My full schedule had taken up much of my day, and I realized I still had a lot of reading to do and push-ups to complete. From experience, I knew that if I took a moment to sit, rest, spend quality time with my wife and kids, and maybe even take a short power nap in my kids' room while they settled to sleep, that when I got up to brush my teeth, I would have renewed energy to knock out my push-ups in the bathroom and finish my readings before heading to bed. And that's exactly what happened.

I'm trying to do more in the mornings before my kids wake up so that I don't find myself in the same situation, struggling to get things done at the end of the day.

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