When the bad times come, we can choose to practice healthy habits.
Healthy habits serve as a saftey net when we fall hard emotionally, mentally, spiritually, physically.
Lose someone close to you? We can choose to go on a long hike to heal.
Weak and frail? We can choose to go to the gym everyday to get stronger.
Healthy habits give us something to focus on that is good, not only for us, but for those around us too.
Hard choices, easy life my friends.
Easy to be hard, hard to be easy
It’s easy to binge drink after losing a loved one, or stay inactive when you are feeling unhealthy. Yet overtime, these habits will result in a hard life of heartbreak and poor health.
It’s hard to get yourself up to take a hike when you’re feeling such heartbreak, or go to the gym everyday when you can barely lift yourself off the couch. Yet overtime, these habits will result in an easy life of love and good health.
Crewed the first ever Wildwood 100: a 100 mile run from the Philadelphia Art Museum steps to the Wildwood Beachball Sign. This was such a dope experience. I shared an insta post with some details & pics from the adventure & our friend Russo put together a documentary about it that’s dope af. If a 100-miler interests you, lmk!!! Wildwood 100 Nov 2024!!! JD has super valuable blogs and checklists on his website to help you get started with training, check them out here. Interested in other distances? We can get you there, just hit us up ♡
I’m currently reading Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins and loving it so far. Has anyone given this a read? Any golden nuggets that changed your life for the better?
Find any value in today’s post? Send this to a friend or family member so they can benefit too 🙂 Do your part to spread the love ♡
“Philosophy isn’t a parlor trick or made for show. It’s not concerned with words, but with facts. It’s not employed for some pleasure before the day is spent, or to relieve the uneasiness of our leisure. It shapes and builds up the soul, it gives order to life, guides action, shows what should and shouldn’t be done – it sits at the rudder steering our course as we vacillate in uncertainties. Without it, no one can live without fear or free from care. Countless things happen every hour that require advice, and such advice is to be sought out in philosophy.” -Seneca
Philosophy is a practice of studying and thinking that translates into a practice of living.
Philosophy guides our thoughts and actions in daily life.
To know philosophy principles is one thing, to live them and believe in them is another.
When we learn new principles, it’s not for fun or something to show off, it’s a tool that will help us live life in a better, healthier way.
Let’s share these tools only when we’ve implemented them ourselves. Do we believe in them enough to share them with others?
What you teach and share with others is important. Down to the details. Is this, and more importantly are you, really going to help them? Or are you just showing off what you’ve “learned” – aka info dumping?
CC’s Healthy Handbook is my way of helping others by sharing tools that I’ve tried myself and found value in.
Any ideas on how you can share your own life lessons, gold nuggets, memories, stories, things you love with those around you?
“I’ll tell you how people can prove their words to be their own – by putting into practice what they’ve been preaching.” -Seneca
Another goal checked off of the Impossible List! Today (7/1/23) marks 68 days in a row of walking / running a daily 5k.
What really inspired my to take up the 5k a day for 31 days challenge was to honor my Poppop who I love and miss beyond words.
Doing something everyday in honor of those who cannot. That thought motivates me and keeps me stepping everyday.
Accepting what is (the pain, the love, all of it) & powering through doing the best I can now.
5k at Wissahickon Valley5k with Champ
Never did I think a daily loop around the block would turn into doing a daily mile for over 500 days (and counting), and a daily 5k for 31 days (and counting).
I simply say yes, lace up, and get after my goal day after day, and it’s adding up! One step at a time. One day at a time.
Through this experience, I’ve learned more about…
consistency: doing something small everyday no matter what’s going on in life; to be consistent is to carve out time daily to get it done, or to do it daily
integrity: making a promise and following through no matter how I’m feeling; to have integrity is doing what I said I’d do – doing my absolute best to follow through on whatever I said yes to
Neighborhood 5k5k at the Philly Zoo
I often sit and ponder about what life is trying to show me and how these lessons can apply to my life situation; how can I use this lesson to move the needle just 1%?
Some life lessons since starting 5k a day:
Work on myself more intentionally (goal, strategy, tactics)
Make my heart happy: exercise, good diet, water, sleep, deep breaths
What’s next? For now, I’m keeping the daily 5k streak going and holding focus on the Impossible List.
My 2023 Misogi is to run 26.2 miles (doubled from last year), so that’s a big goal I’m working toward right now!
Stay tuned as I continue to train for a 12 hour race coming up early October 2023 🙂
Long run at the track5k with JD and Mum
To @joediandrea, thank you for inspiring me to chase my dreams and for loving and supporting me the whole way.
To @cam00913, thank you for being so loving and supportive, for trying new things, and for talking to me about your dad, my Poppop.
Check out my ~runs~ highlight on my personal insta for recent runs
5k at Wissahickon Valley5k at Wissahickon Valley
If this blog inspires you, I encourage you to commit to your own fitness challenge.
Maybe it’s a daily loop around the block, daily mile, daily 5k, daily dimes (10 push-ups, 10 pull-ups, and 10 squats) – whatever your creative mind can come up with, the main goal is to do something every single day no matter what. THAT is where the real gains happen.
Fulfilling a small promise to yourself every day helps build the self-reliance, confidence, and discipline required to see goals through to the end.
Set a goal and get after it DAILY. Getting 1% healthier everyday. Love you all. Thanks for reading and for all of the love and support. Keep on stepping lil savages ♡
Update! I ended up clipping out 150+ days of 5k a day. Took me up to the Hainesport 12hr race on October 7th, 2023.
If you’re training for your own race and/or want to work on your mental health, I found so much value in 5k a day – give it a try 🙂
