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Creating a 10-Year Plan

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I’ve always thought a person should give themselves 10 years in which to achieve a goal. If you study and practice numerology you will follow along in a 9-Year cycle. Either way this entails giving yourself what I coined decades ago a lifeline not an impossible restrictive deadline to accomplish an outcome.

My take as an optimist is to take the long view. In terms of expecting that when you turn 60 or 65 the best is yet to be. Why give up in one year or worse 2 months when you don’t get what you wanted?

Expect that you can have a better life. Having something to look forward to can keep a person going. What if we could envision that 10 years from now our life will be extraordinary beyond how it is today?

As I’m fond of saying in Italian: “Creo nell’impossibile”–I believe in the impossible. I’ve always thought that what others said was impossible was indeed possible.

Far healthier to give ourselves the gift of a lifetime to carry out our goals. Break into one-year each sub-goal to bring us to the end goal.

This is about all I want to write about serious topics.

Coming up: a recipe for pistachio Affogato–a cool treat for spring and summer and really any time of the year.

Wait Lifting

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I learned everything about health fitness and nutrition by checking books out of the library, talking to a health coach, and trainers at a gym.

Decades ago, I was appalled to see on the cover of a women’s magazine the come-on: Drop One Dress Size by Tuesday.

Why is this kind of advice given to women and not men? Why aren’t men scared to weigh 200 pounds?

Either way if a person is not willing to invest 4 years to get healthy when they have the rest of their life to live, they’re setting themselves up with unrealistic expectations for how quick they should see results.

It’s possible that most of us will live to be 65–retirement age if we’re lucky. Why the fixation on quick results if you’re 30 or 42 or 50? Far better to give ourselves 4 years to see lasting change not the typical 2 months then quitting with a yo-yo outcome.

The waiting is the hardest part. Only nothing worth having comes without effort. The goal is not to set the bar high for our health. We simply must set the bar. Reaching higher takes time.

In the coming blog entry I’m going to write in more detail about what I originally wrote about in 2007 when I was the Health Guide at a website: My idea of formulating a 10-Year Plan for achieving a goal.