Tag: mental-health

Older is better?

by Rick Roop

There are obvious signs that things are better when getting older. Classic cars, wine, collectible coins, paintings, documents, and jewelry just to mention a few. The price of these things seem to increase significantly when they are handled with care, and when they are well maintained. Something old can be like new again. Discovered renewed and refined.

66 Chevy Nova

The same statement can be said about people. If we take care of ourselves, change our direction, and our purpose. The possibilities for quality filled life seems to be realistic. Wow😮 quite possible🤔 Opportunity 🤩 This could be your chance to measure imagine and visualize your new artwork and artistic expression like a team of builders remodeling an old house🏡 or a mechanic fixing an old truck 🛻. The inspiration to rebuild is visual powerful and amazing. Perhaps even better than new.

Just because we begin to age does not mean that life is over. Does not mean that we have run the last lap or walked the last mile. In contrast, your age can be a benefit to your well being. The memorial thoughts that you have collected since childhood could be an inspiration to achieve goals for yourself and a witness for others. It’s a opportunity to shine a light for someone else💡your achievements will get noticed 🚨

Restored cuckoo clock

I started losing weight well after my 50s, I discovered cycling and running much later in life. Much further down the road. It truly has been an adventure, and something that I never really dreamed of.

I had no idea that census, marriage, and immigration records would prepare myself for weight loss and fitness.

Old pictures 📷

I have often wondered why I invested so much time into family history research and genealogy, and what leads me into this exploration spirit accompanied by it. I now give credit to the memorial attributes associated with genealogy as my preparation for cycling and running.

It was when I discovered that losing weight cycling and running could be a tool to benefit others, and that it gave me the ability to highlight those who needed to be noticed. That’s when it became powerful and rewarding all at the same time.

You see when we are older there’s a lot of emotional memories built up within ourselves, and that’s where we can gain our strength to accomplish anything that we want to. Especially with a memorial attitude.

I hope that you can do the same with your memorial efforts.

Overcoming Fear 😯 seeing 👀accomplishments

by Rick Roop
Your trophy

Fear can keep us from the things that we enjoy the most. Like a hiking trip to the top of a really high mountain ( Everest)

Mount Everest

Walking 🚶‍♀️ on a elevated trail in the woods. Maybe riding your bicycle up a long hill. Climbing 🧗‍♀️ a steep mountain. All of these activities are scary at first but, can be overcome by your imagination and seeing your weight loss fitness goals via your creative thoughts you 🧑👩holding the trophy 🏆

I started cycling at the age of 54. Started running sometime later. However, I was apprehensive about my age having the strength and courage to do such things offered a big question mark for myself. This experience was different unknown uncharted not familiar.

Senior Strong

There was not the assurance that I could spin the wheels on a road bike in the middle of the road surrounded by cars larger than myself. I did not have the guarantee that I could complete a pre-defined route on my Garmin computer. All I had was the dream that I had of myself holding the trophy and myself at the top.

On top of old smoky
Smokies

Sometimes the imaginary dream’s of yourself standing at the top, and holding the completion trophy is all that you need to to overcome fear. It’s not a special formula or special gadget to get to the top or something giving you the trophy but, it’s the visualization of you crossing the finish line, and you the person that completes the race that makes the work worthwhile.

Only 60

Success starts with a thought seed planted. Once planted you are now responsible for watering, feeding, weeding, and cultivating. Once the growing begins it never stops if you so desire the growing to be. A repetitive overcoming gives us confidence that You can accomplish anything that you want to in the face of obstacles. There’s no stopping your intuition or your imagination once you have planted the garden 🪴

Harvest is coming up after a successful growing season, and now it’s time for you to reap the benefits. No longer will you have to rely on artificial means to lose weight and to experience fitness. It’s your learned experiences in overcoming apprehension and fear 😧 that will enable yourself to compete and hold the coveted trophy 🏆

The echo 👂

by Rick Roop

Sometimes I hear a echo. The echo comes from within or when I am walking along a quiet path, on a old dirt road, maybe in my resting place enjoying some early morning tea. It’s a distant sound possibly produced by someone just behind me? The clicking of a bicycle chain attached to my bike, the rolling of tires that carry me to my destination. Looking up in the sky searching with tilted eyes 👀 I look intensely for the repeating echo of sound.

Listening 👂

The busy sound of the highway muzzle our thoughts and our intent. Sights of red sirens seething and blinking lights flashing can signal us to be alert for the event to come. Announcements spoken through an amplifier sends needed instructions for directions. Life is happening and constantly moving requiring much needed attention. However, life can give birth to anxiety and stress causing us to be diverted from the quiet refreshing sound of the echo.

The echo calls us home like an announcement of supper being ready at the family table. I can remember as a child my mom telling us to come home now because it could be cold if you wait any longer. After a long day of school or playing, kids get hungry for their favorite food. It’s hard to stop or turn away from the evening meal but, there is only one out with bases loaded at the kid’s baseball game. One lap to go to complete a bicycle ride, another layup to be made in practice for the school team

For adults, it’s efforts to make more, and to complete our financial goals. To maintain and enhance our current status in the community with friends and family is a must.

Sometimes life happens and aspirations are needed to venture towards the peak of successful financial fortune. We all need something to work for and we need goals to achieve. However, it’s always beneficial to keep an ear open for the sound of the echo. The echo tells us something and gives much needed direction. Without direction it’s easy to get lost. Just like a blindfold placed over our eyes, distractions of life can cause us to be misguided and alter the true meaning of life.

When it comes to weight loss and fitness listening to the echo can be beneficial. It’s very hard to obtain results without the help from someone or something. The echo is a powerful voice that gives us a reason and purpose to carry on and to experience successful weight loss and fitness!