Live your life on purpose.

Right now at work we are doing this program called 'live your life on purpose', and I wanted to talk about how much this has inspired me.



I don't know about you guys, but I used to constantly think that if I was going to lose weight that one day it would just magically happen. In reality if we want to do something (lose weight, quit smoking, get more active) it has to be us that makes that decision. No one else, on this earth, is going to live our lives for us. We have to purposely decide that we are going to take measures to do something.



So in order for me to take my own advise I started to move more. I am learning to quit making excuses, and just do it. For the first time in a long time I worked out in my living room. For 2 minutes I walked and for one minute I ran. I did this for 30 minutes, and believe me it was hard. It was also kind of funny because when it was time to run I would start praying, out loud, almost pleading, that the clock would hurry and change to the next minute. I thought to my self this would make a hilarious YouTube video, but for some reason I am just not ready for to put that on YouTube yet. When I finished running I felt so proud of my self, the since of accomplishment was amazing, to the point that I talked about it for the rest of that day. Now I have since done that 2 other times and it is getting easier, I don't quite scream as loudly for the next minute to come anymore. Also Carly and I go walking together just about every night, and on Mondays before class we go walking with some members of our group in weight watchers at the target close to our meeting. When I first started moving and exercising more it was really hard. There were moments that I just wanted to give up and go take a nap. Taking the stairs at work seemed to me as if climbing Mount Everest. Weight watchers has helped me to live my life on purpose, and in doing so I have improved in all aspects of my life, spiritual, physical, and mental.

So I encourage you all to 'live your life on purpose'. As you do so you will be surprised at how much you grow, and the things you learn.