COMMITMENT TIME, BUT TO WHAT

Commitment time is like a broken clock being right twice a day.

The difference is one.

Make your promise when you get up, not when you go to bed.

You’ve got enough going on to keep you awake.

Try and go to sleep when you go to bed, not figure out ‘what happened’ or ‘what went wrong’ or ‘I’ve got to change my life right now.’

Sleep, good sleep, is important to one and all, not just baby boomers preaching a new health discovery that reverses aging, restores your skin to it’s best ever, and eases an aching back.

Sound sleeping goals:

Try and relax into a shallow coma without the pills, the booze, or the worry that drives you to pills and booze.

Remember the commitment time you set earlier.

‘I matter. I have time for me. I can do it.’

What is it about the 5am wakeup that’s so sacred to health kooks?

All it means is you’re going to bed at 9pm for a good eight hours.

Why not stay up late and get up late?

Because commitment time rolls along with or without you.

If you make change a goal, you might need to change a few things along the way.

Workout? Yes.

Diet? A bigger yes.

Make a commitment to nutrient-dense calories?

What are we talking about.

 

Promise Made, Promise Kept

Who has made this promise to themselves, silently, with no one around to ask, “What are you thinking?”

The Promise:

I will be a better man, woman, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, cousin, father, mother, husband, wife.

Your pick, but if you’re not married don’t worry about the husband and wife part.

But, if you’re nearing the age where people start wondering why you aren’t married, what’s your answer going to be?

If you are married, what’s your story?

Marriage is funny? Like amusing? Does marriage amuse you?

Let’s keep it to yourself.

There’s too many people in shaky relationships that don’t need more ammo to use against their partner.

Don’t play that crazy card. At least don’t play it too often and don’t point fingers.

We already know the crazy one.

My wife had a friend, a long time friend from before she got married, who liked to say, “You guys are so educational. Every time I see you I’m reminded why I’m not married.”

She said the same thing after we had kids.

We didn’t ban her, but she stopped coming around after a series of boyfriends helped her lose her house, her job, and lean into meth.

 

Commitment Time Bell Rings Louder For Old People

To test yourself, make a commitment today that matters.

Say it quietly, say it as loud as you can, say it in your mind, but say it.

It doesn’t have to be fitness, or health, or anything to do with your appearance.

Make a commitment in tune with your life.

It can be an old, failed, commitment from past times.

Or something completely new.

If you didn’t save the whales, the dolphins, or the spotted owl; if you didn’t save any animals thought to be extinct, but then one shows up, it’s not because of a lack of commitment or focus.

Avoiding commitment time boils down, reduces, to a few key elements, with one standout.

Which one?

Could it be . . . fear?

FEAR?

Old people fear the unknown.

Education helps with the unknown, but more often education steps back in the face of fear, panic, and sheer terror.

Grandma and Grandpa know they aren’t dying today, that their country isn’t a dump because they heard it on Newsmax, but that won’t cut through fear when they hear a fear message over and over and over.

How many boomers fill their prescriptions at the Trump Pharmacy and throw down their Trump pills like they did quaaludes in the 70’s and 80’s to sustain their buzz on the two-drink minimum they paid at the disco door?

It’s a fear that has a segment of the population yearning and keening for a return to their ‘Good Old Days.’

Fight the fear. Stay on top or things and fight the fear. Why?

 

Back In The Day

Back in the day things were different.

History is pretty clear on how different.

We all might march to the beat of a different drummer, but you’ll never know what someone is all about until you walk in their shoes.

You don’t have to walk a mile in their shoes, but go ahead if you’re feeling it.

Hopefully a walk pumps your heart, your good heart, into action.

A good walk for a good heart? That’s a prescription to fill.

Bobby Kennedy was good at walks for these? He must have been, along with reading George Bernard Shaw.

 

“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.”

“The future is not a gift, but an achievement.”

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”

 

Ask why not? I’m asking. This is me asking, “Why not?”

Why not allow women their reproductive rights?

Why not allow equal pay for equal work?

Why not move off of regressive blowhards talking about themselves to people who need help?

Move off book burners, insurrectionists, and amateur despots promising their own definition of freedom.

Turn down the replayed ignorance on your radio, TV, or the part of your brain that says believe any political figure speaking for God because God told them so.

At least find the dial so you won’t have to look when the time comes for you to turn it down.

And that, Dear Reader, is commitment time.