Three Vital Pieces to Life

Nearing the end of the cruise from last week, I asked in my Facebook Page what topics I should blog about.  A friend from Canada asked me to talk about improvisation in music, exercising, and life.  As a mix.  As in, finding a way to have all three into one!  I have to say, it did take me a while to figure this out; cool part is that almost all of us have a certain mix of these three pieces.  How so?

When it comes to improvisation in music, we all have songs that are recorded into our memory that give us flash backs to chapters in our lives.  I’m pretty sure you remember a song from the happiest moments in your life, and another song for when something really sad occurred as well.  For me, I just mixed jazz, classical, and live salsa music to the newest update in my life- taking vacations and paying others to take them with me in my Mentorship.  (By the way, it will re-open in time- the deadline was yesterday!)

Exercising.  How much easier can life be enjoyed when we exercise?  If you do it right, exercising IS life.  If you do it wrong, all it creates is injury, fatigue, lack of enthusiasm, and a negative feel towards it.  When I think of basketball, I remember my high school years and how all we did was run until we puked, sprint until we puked, and did random circuits that seemed out of the blue (honestly).  I tore my meniscus, and needed knee surgery.  Up until two years ago, I gave exercise a negative feeling.  But now that I think about basketball, it has been replaced by sharing the basketball court on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship with the Fitness Celebrity Tony Horton.  He is hilarious to compete against and has a heart of gold in abiding by rules.  What a MUCH better, positive, and happy vibe to give the word “basketball”!  Same applies to the word exercise.  Do it with a Challenge, share the experience, and have FUN.  If you don’t, you will ALWAYS dislike it.

Life.  Hmmm… I am going to keep it simple on this one.  Life, in my definition, is helping yourself and then helping others.  Firmly, I believe that if we cannot help ourselves- we will lack the core principle to succeed in life: experience.  Without experience, we can’t learn.  If we can’t learn, we can’t help ourselves.  If we can’t help ourselves, it’s almost impossible to help others.

Now to mix the three, I have to go backwards 🙂  Life is about helping yourself out, and then helping others.  Exercising is the single-guaranteed and most important aspect to life when you have the right knowledge, and fun.  When you have fun and start enjoying a healthy life, you begin listening to music that ties with that feeling.  When you tie feelings to music, you create memories.  And when you create memories, you now have a story of success to tell.  When you tell it, you teach others how they can help themselves.  Once they help themselves, they can help others.  And the process repeats.

 

With Your Health & Success In Mind,

Coach Peter Hanz