I agree.
If you want to see what Mike had to say, check out his blog:
http://mboyle1959.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/most-people-are-dead-at-35/
Yours in movement.
Dev Chengkalath
First off, I’d like to wish everyone out there all the best for 2010!
Next I’d like to reflect back to a post I made over a year ago which I still think holds true.
If you’re interested, you can check out my first post about overcoming inertia HERE.
Key to success
Coming back to the present I came across this short but very insightful TED talk that I think will help people not only set goals (hey, isn’t that the basis of New Year’s resolutions?) but GET THEM and achieve the success they seek.
To your success.
Dev Chengkalath
On this frigid Friday morning, many people braved the cold to get a glimpse of the Olympic torch as it made its way through Toronto.
I had the good fortune to have realized that the torch was actually going to pass right by where I live.
I was able to get the following short video clip from my balcony.
Even from that distance, there was something spectacular about the passing of the flame and the magical essence of the human spirit as expressed through sport.
It took me back 21 years ago to when I was a small child in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, watching that same fire burn as it was passed from torch bearer to torch bearer for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
Yours in the Olympic Spirit.
Dev Chengkalath
As you have the power of choice.
Be the change you want to see
I was sent the following clip by my good buddy Shawn D, legal eagle and overall good guy.
Although it may not have anything to do with physical therapy or relieving low back pain, I think we can all learn some important lessons about the choices we make and how we have the power to choose our future.
So please take the next minute and forty-four seconds to check out this pretty cool video.
Dev Chengkalath
Have you ever stopped to think about all the things you’re able to do?
Or do you spend more time thinking about the things you’re not able to do?
Riding up the elevator this morning to my apartment, I was carrying a 25 lb box of nutritional supplements that Fed Ex had safely imported for me from the United States.
There was an older lady who was wheeling her small portable grocery cart who hopped in with me. Seeing me holding the box, she told me that I should rest it against the metal railing to make it easier.
For me, the 25 lbs box wasn’t what I’d consider heavy. I had no problems carrying the parcel for the 6 or so minutes that it took to get from my car in the underground parking to my place 23 stories up.
But what she said got me thinking.
How many times in my life had I tried to make physical tasks easier when I should have relished the challenge of making them harder?
How many times had I taken the escalator or elevator when I should have taken the stairs?
How many times had I circled the parking lot looking for that money spot right by the entrance?
How many times had I taken the easy road when I could have gone off the beaten path?
In my line of work I’ve had the fortune of interacting with some of the strongest people out there. I’m not talking just physically strong, but mentally tough. These are the people who have had the fortitude to face and overcome incredible challenges and hurdles, the people who have had to relearn how to walk, relearn how to feed themselves, relearn life. These are the people that had their movement, among other things, taken from them, through error, accident or misfortune.
The ones who got it back, didn’t take it for granted after.
Funny how it takes losing something so precious before your realize how much it’s worth.
How many times had I taken for granted what I am able to do?
What do you take for granted?
Wishing you and yours a prosperous and movement filled 2009.
Dev Chengkalath