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I came across a great article today, and I wanted to share my thoughts on it. The article touched on some things that I have been reviewing and studying on within the past 6 months.. It’s a subject that we all seem to not want to talk much about it. The subject is exercising.. Keeping our bodies strong… Well I have probably viewed and read over thousands of articles, talking about over weight, to obesity,to helping ward off disease, to viewing million’s of visualizations on different exercise routines. Millions of workout DVD’s, quick lose weight products, to magazine and TV commercials.. I often wonder just how many people really reach out to this concept.. The concept of healthy bodies.. Why do so many of us, walk around or dodge this concept.. DO you dodge it? Well I will answer my own question here.. I was one that dodged it, until this past summer.. And yes I raised 4 daughter’s.. And thinking back over the year’s when I was raising them, not once that I can remember teaching them about exercise and the importance of it.. Not once did I ever get them involved with some kind of sports activity, with health being the reason behind it.. Yes I did have them involved in a few things, but in all reality, it wasn’t much.. The list I came up with on their activities in 20 years or more ..

* Going to the park to play

* Dance.. (which was only for 2 years for one child, and 1 year for another child..) Great not…

* Church basketball (two daughter’s, 2 years only)

* Small activities around the house.. Playing baseball, running, chasing each other.. Great not…

This is my list.. Not good.. Not good at all…

What am I doing right now.. Right now, this very moment.. Well I am shaking my head, and thinking.. What the heck was I thinking.. What was I doing those 20 years, while I was raising them. I was always looking for the Mother of the Year award.. It never came.. I always thought that I deserved it.. Maybe just one time of glory for all my hard work.. Needed a pat on the back.. Always looking for someone to tell me what a great mother I was… Have you ever felt this way? Did you ever want the same award? Is your list bigger than mine, or is it smaller than mine!!.. Well I am a reasonable kind of woman most of the time, so I can just reply back to myself on this.. You really messed up Julie.. I firmly believe that we do what we do with what we know and have..

I started my family at a very young age.. 16 years old was my age when I was married, the first time.. 16 years old.. Now that all in its self was a wrong thing to do. You see I had just started to live my own life.. We take out of our basket of life learning’s, and share with your children as you are raising them, as you have probably guessed it.. My basket was empty.. I had nothing to teach with, and nothing to give.. But I had a few things up my sleeve, that kept me going.. In which allowed me to be a great mom, Deserving that award still.. I knew how to love them… That was my plan from the very beginning.. I was going to be the best mother ever.. I was going to love them, no matter what kind of trouble they got into, I was going to love them, when they brought home bad grades, I was going to love them when they fell and got hurt.. My solution to everything I did for them was based on Love… On my definition of Love.. Won’t go into that definition..

Now my daughter’s are all grown, and some with family’s of their own. And you guessed it.. I am a lot wiser than what I was at my young age in raising my family.. The way I was raised had absolutely nothing to do with the way I raised them, without exercise in their young lives.. It had everything to do with education, electronic gadgets, working full time, and knowledge and understanding…

This past summer has been a turning point in my life. I am over 50 year’s in age, and health issues have surfaced into my life now. Being under weight my whole life, and now dealing with the changes that come with aging, had begun to take over my life, as well as depression.. All I know is that you do not need to be where I was. It is a simple concept, and yet it is something that millions of people research online daily by the millions..

SO my question’s to you are simple ones, be brave to answer them.. Do you exercise? Do you teach your children to exercise? Do you dodge the question’s because you know you need it, but you do not want to take the time to do it. Do you dodge the question because you don’t have time too tired. Do you dodge the question because like me you knew, yet didn’t know where to begin, or what to do.. Do you keep from teaching this to your children because you do not even do it for yourself. Do you dodge it because you are not willing to give up certain things in your life.. Do you dodge it because you think you still have time to live dangerously and carelessly.. Do you dodge it because you have convinced yourself that you  do not have the money to support such activity.. Do you dodge it because you have no gym equipment. DO you dodge it because it’s not important to you. Do you dodge it because you already think you get enough exercise. Do you dodge it because your to far gone for any help at this stage in your life. Do you dodge it because you are scared, so you run away.

What is your reason why? I can tell you that I came up with this list of reason’s why, because it is a list that was my list.. I have not conquered them all.. But I can honestly say that I am tearing down some wall’s in my life. I now have both eye’s opened, both ear’s are listening, and my mind is thinking.. I didn’t do it all on my own, and it didn’t happen over night. I was and I am very grateful for others who stepped up to the plate and decided to start a new mission. People who want to get America Moving.. People who have the tools and resources to educate others, but they can not do it alone, and neither can I and neither can you. But what I can tell you is that it is important to became a steward ship of learning and helping others.. It is our children. The next generation, and we are killing them.. And it is pretty scary to see the number’s rise every day.. Diabetes, depression,obesity, sadness and loneliness.. No hope in people’s eye’s, and fighting with an entire nation that is suffering from stress, as we all go through this difficult time in all of our lives with the economy as it is.. We all know all of this, please search out your own reason’s why, sit with yourself, and think.. Where is your path taking you. Learn about what just a little bit of exercise can do for your own health, your children, and your parents an friends. I think you will be amazed at what you get back.. I know I was..

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