Puppies are born with the instinct to make eye contact with humans. Dogs understand the significance of where we look and where we point to relay a command. Dogs learn by watching us. It’s not only what we say but what we do that garners a response from dogs.
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Just as dogs respond to eye contact our bodies respond to our daily routines. The seasons are changing from summer to autumn and since we’re looking toward the holidays it’s important to remember not to let our Autumn Attitude sway us from our daily fitness calendar.
By that I mean that we may be busy shopping for thanksgiving, planning for gift-giving, and scheduling party routines and quickly forget about the fitness resolutions we made to ourselves some eleven months ago.
We’re tempted to see these upcoming holidays as permission to ease up on the focused eye contact we’re monitoring on our carefully outlined, closely adhered-to, jealously- practiced fitness efforts we’ve been reaching for the better part of a year. It’s a struggle to be sure but right now we’re looking at the top of our most beautiful, wind-swept, scene-of-our-awesome-vision mountain top, the goal is right here… We can see it, we can smell it, we can imagine it. All we need to do is stay true for six and one-half more weeks and it’s ours…
Autumn Attitude with its gold, rust, green, yellow, red and purple spray will sway and blow and intice us to relax our grip on fitness and have us sit beside the beaconing trees since the luscious holidays are full of heavy treats and sweet, syrupy delights that will surely slide tonnage onto our waiting and willing waistline.
We may not want to linger too long under the tree since the color of the autumn foliage may not be the only thing that is soon to change.
