Adventure, Fitness and Writing Your Own Story

Write a Story worth Sharing…

 

Typically, we do all this work in the gym and in the kitchen to allow us to pursue adventure OUTSIDE. Maybe it is for a hunting trip into the mountains, or keeping up with your kids, or my personal favorite…. The beach body. On your deathbed, you likely won’t care about your max-rep thruster, but you WILL be glad you climbed Half Dome at Yosemite, or finished the Rim-to-Rim Challenge at Grand Canyon National Park…. and those thrusters helped you do it.

 

In conversation with a friend this weekend, I mentioned that I solo travelled to Sedona last week, and hiked miles upon miles of trail- and climbed some of the beautiful red rocks. She said, “You must have the most interesting life.” What a compliment.

 

Few of us will ever be the smartest person in our circles.

 

Few of us will ever be the best-looking.

 

Few of us will be the wealthiest.

 

Few of us will make it to the CrossFit Games or into to the NFL…. Heck, few of us will ever meet Patrick Mahomes let alone play against him.

 

But ALL of us can be interesting. And fitness creates that opportunity better than anything else.

 

You don’t need money to run a marathon. You don’t need to be a model to climb Mount Kilimanjaro or a millionaire to sail around the world. But doing ANY of these three would make you more interesting than any millionaire, model or professional athlete. Infinitely so.

 

You won’t count your money on your deathbed. You. You won’t gaze at old selfies or carry the Lombardy Trophy into the bright light. But your story, if you have a good one, will survive. I know I want to write the best story I can…. And it had better be one heck of a story.

 

My goal… and the goal of the staff at Functional Eating is to create interesting experiences for you. To create new chapters, or funny little episodes that will make you dogear this page forever.

 

Having a goal is valuable to the point of necessity. Having a road map to help you achieve it is critical. But finishing with a great story—that’s really the goal of all of it. And health/fitness is the platform to get you there.

 

Ride a bike, run a distance, or take a hike in a National Park: You’re going to need health and fitness.

 

Jill

Chief of Operations