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.My wife and I just returned from a few days at the beach in Bethany Beach, Delaware, where some very beautiful and hospitable friends invited us to enjoy a few days with them at their oceanfront home. Yes — the beach in January — with temperatures in the low teens and the “wind chill” a few degrees in the minus column. That’s in Fahrenheit for those elsewhere in our world. Yesterday, we watched a few hundred commited people strip down to swim trunks and bikinis, proceed to charge into the Atlantic Ocean, and jump around for a couple of minutes before running back out of the freezing Atlantic, putting their clothes back on, milling around a bit, and then going home to warm up. There were even a few Seniors in the group. That takes a real commitment to actually doing something you said you would do, no matter how far outside your comfort zone it takes you.

I’ve written about how you need to make Commitments to yourself ( versus Resolutions), and about holding yourself accountable to sticking with them for the coming year. So, I’m making some commitments to you for the coming year and I expect to be held accountable for them.

I’ll be expanding The Come Alive Project to provide a wider platform to broadcast the message of Health, Fitness and Personal Energy for Active Seniors. I’ll be emphasizing that You are Your Own Fountain of Youth, that you will activate the flow of life from that fountain through Movement, Mindset and Motivation, and that you are personally responsible for your own health and fitness. I want to put more energy into people’s lives — my own included. I will be refining the message and upgrading the platform to get the message out and I will be asking some outside experts to contribute to the content.

I am in the process of upgrading my YouTube channel. I’m asking you, the reader, to help me improve the message through email questions that I can answer in a series of videos (including useful exercises) to be posted on YouTube and in this blog. Feel free to email questions or comments at any time. 

I will be upgrading this website (www.thecomealiveproject.com) to provide more useful and practical content.

I’ll be scheduling some half-day and one-day seminars (I used to be in the seminar business) that will provide motivation and methods. I will be doing more speaking and writing. I hope to actually monetize the project to some degree through the seminars and workshops.

This won’t happen all at once. I will spread it out over the entire first quarter. I am asking your help for practical ideas and feedback. Please email your thoughts to bob@thecomealiveproject.com.

I will continue the practice of not incorporating comments at the end of the blog articles. There are simply too many “trolls” out there who tend to ruin a good thing for everyone. I have plug-ins that are supposed to eliminate spam from the comments, but they don’t. However I encourage email comments to bob@thecomealiveproject.com. I appreciate them and I will continue to answer them.

Happy New Year to all and thank you for reading.

2018 is approaching fast — only a week away. This is a good time to be making your COMMITMENTS in the area of Health, Fitness and Personal Energy. Notice I used the word COMMITMENT rather than RESOLUTION. There’s a huge difference and in case you have forgotten what it is, you can go here for a reminder.

Remember too, the effects of plateaus and homeostasis and how they affect your Commitments to Health, Fitness and Personal Energy. They are two of the biggest obstacles that cause many of us to simply “short circuit” our deepest intentions. Understand that they happen and work through them.

Have a Happy New Year! May you find yourself fully in the Flow of Life from that Fountain of Youth that is within you!

Thank you for reading.

What will life be like if we live another 20 years.  What must we do to adapt to the changes coming. We must learn to “BE LIKE WATER”.

As I was drifting  into sleep the other night, I started thinking about clarity of purpose, identity and how they are affected by exponential change. I am 77 years old. Let’s assume I will live to 97 years old. What will life be like at the end of those 20 years? I jumped up and wrote some notes; some are incorporated below.

Our world will change greatly during that time. Some suggest that the World will undergo some major environmental, social and political changes during that period, many of which will go against existing values and attitudes. Some suggest that our lives will become far more institutionally managed and our personal lives will be subject to more institutional regulation. Others say we will have more individual freedom and less regulation. How does one adapt to either? By “BEING LIKE WATER”. Sounds simple. So, what does it all involve?

Technology will advance exponentially. We will probably reach a couple of technology plateaus, but it will still continue forward. Driverless cars. Pilotless airplanes. Space travel. Telepathic communication (”Beam me up, Scotty”). Lots of Star Trek and Star Wars style changes. What other changes will we get to see during our lifetime? Look at what has happened in the last 20 years. Major communications changes. Major social changes, some good, some arguably not so good. Some really pushing the envelope. Greater World Community and cooperation is probable. It’s all brand new to a 20 year old, but disruptive to a 77 year old, or even a 50 year old.

Trying to project the future is nearly impossible. Being ready to adapt to the future is critical. How to adapt? Learn. Pay attention to trends – social and business. Be prepared to shift your thinking quickly. Don’t get boxed into one thing. Be open to new things. Be healthy and physically fit. Learn and adapt to new technology. I think we can adapt just fine. We may not like all of it but we’ll learn to live with all the changes; they are taking us into the future.

HAVE FUN WITH LIFE. COME ALIVE, FEEL ALIVE, BE ALIVE! Don’t let the world take you down. Get into the FLOW OF LIFE and let it carry you.  IT COULD BE ONE HELL OF A RIDE! As BRUCE LEE said: “BE LIKE WATER!” Learn to adjust to the ebb and flow of life. Flow into the nooks and crannies of life. Water flows. Water adapts to the environment it is in. Water can destroy a town, or lie dormant as a stagnant pond. Bruce Lee said:

“Water is the softest substance in the world, yet it can penetrate the hardest. Water is so fine that it is impossible to grasp a handful of it; strike it, yet it does not suffer hurt; stab it, and it is not wounded; sever it, yet it is not divided. It has no shape of its own, but molds itself to the receptacle that contains it.”         Bruce Lee, Artist of Life, p.50

While this article is from notes that I wrote to myself about thoughts that came to me when I was half asleep, I would guess that most of us have projected ourselves into the future and wondered how well we would adapt.

Whatever the world will look like in 20 years, we must be physically, mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually prepared for it. We will be if we just: BE LIKE WATER.

Thank you for reading.