Health and Wellness: Do Something
/ Autumn McKenzie Jackson
I finished my 100 Days of Burpees. What an accomplishment! I loved having a focused fitness goal. After the 100 days, I planned on doing some sort of burpee maintenance. It did not happen. The last couple week of burpees was exhausting. I did nearly 1500 burpees in the last two weeks- so I decided to take a break. Before I knew it I had taken a 30 day hiatus in the name of recovery.
Monday I had an awesome morning and decided that it was the day that I would start running. I am learning to enjoy running. It is high on my list of overall workouts. No more stalling. I took action!
Resting on past achievements will only get us so far. Health and Wellness requires conscious daily decisions regarding intake and exercise. Without this, goals and gains slip away and it is easy to lose sight of them.
There are levels to everything. I can live a religious life that is sterile and devoid of divine power and muscle through life exhausted and overwhelmed or I can recognize the fullness of what Christ Jesus died to give me.
It has taken me years to express the sentiment found in this post. God has been working on my heart. There was a lot of shame and blame mixed in with my raw emotions that I needed to process.
The possibilities are endless. She is learning to hear from God. She knows that He has a plan and a purpose for her life. She has persevered through many things and her story of overcoming with help others.
Tory Palecek is my best friend from college. I met Tory the first day of volleyball preseason freshman year at Colgate University. We were both incoming freshmen. She immediately made an impression on me.
I am learning to thrive in increasingly complex situations.