I’ve always hated exercise. Even the words exercise and working out repulse me.
I’m not exactly sure why. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that while I excelled academically when I was in school, I didn’t excel in physical education nor on the playground nearly so much. Those words have always carried very [...]

Day 31? Perceptive readers are asking, “Don’t you mean Day 33?”
No. It’s actually Day 31. The truth is that I fell off the wagon back on what would have been Day 24 and Day 25.
On Sunday, August 12th, I taught Sunday School at church, so I decided to polish my lesson that morning instead of [...]

I now have a rather impressive string of 23 paper clips hanging next to my office door. It serves as a constant reminder of how far I’ve come–for 23 days days in a row I have walked for at least 45 minutes. Actually, I’ve walked for nearly an hour just about every day and many [...]

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 9 days since I’ve updated you on my walking habit and tracking it with a paper clip chain. I haven’t taken my walk for today, but it is a high-priority task for this evening after it cools down a little. I didn’t get to walk in the cool [...]

Since I haven’t posted in three days, you probably thought that I really had fallen off the wagon. Nothing could be further from the truth. The past few days have been quite busy and I had more important things to do than to blog about about my progress. I don’t feel like I need to [...]

Well, it’s late in the evening on Day 5 and I hadn’t posted about my walking habit, so you probably thought that I had fallen off the wagon. It has been quite the opposite actually. Over the last two days I’ve walked much more, on purpose, than I ever expected. It seems that once you [...]

I was able to add another paper clip to the chain this morning. It felt good too!
This morning was probably more of a challenge than most mornings will be, but I think that when you’re building a habit, it’s good to be challenged early and for the challenges to be a big ones. If you [...]

When my alarm went off this morning at 6:30, I did not want to get up. I just wanted to continue to laying there. I turned off the alarm and made a commitment to myself to get up at 6:45. For 15 minutes I wrestled with the thought of whether I was going to get [...]

Yesterday, I started building a paper clip chain to track my progress on my goal of walking for at least 45-minutes each day for 40 days in a row. That single paper clip looked very lonely hanging next to my home office door. I’m happy to announce that it now has a friend, and I [...]

I’ve known for a long time that need to exercise more and eat healthier. I’ll do real good for a few days, a few weeks, or sometimes even a few months, but I always seem to return to my old habits. I’ve blogged before about how much I hate to exercise, even though it is [...]