Changed

I sat in a seminar ten years ago and listened to a man, in his seventies, lecturing a bunch of men about change. He said, “When you’re done changing, you’re done.” That sentence has always stuck with me. It sums up our need for continual growth quite nicely.

I’ve been blessed to experience much change in the last year of my life. I located a picture from a vacation in 2012 and one from 2013. Sixty pounds later, I felt the need to share them here. This was not accomplished by following any doctor’s advice. It was not done by eating a diet that complied with the USDA, AHA or any other organization’s recommendations. It came about by sensible eating, some exercise, and self-discipline.

Thank God for giving me the vision to make this change. I couldn’t have managed it without the support of my family, especially my loving wife. I must thank Market Street United supermarkets as well. Their excellent offerings for healthy foods make eating right easy and affordable. Giant bicycles certainly deserves mention here as well. Quality equipment is just as important when exercising as it is when editing video, driving, or any other thing we do.

More importantly, never be afraid of change. Instead, be afraid of not changing. Be afraid of being done.

This article was first published on November 18, 2013 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.