Bee fit with Bob

Map reading 101

To find out where you are going, you must know where you are now. To know where you are now, you better be sure where you have been. Sometimes, this requires a little help mapping out your plan.

On June 12, 2006, I used what I learned about map reading to go on the trip of a lifetime and I am still on the road.

Let me tell you where I had been for 75 years. My memories go back to being a teenager in the 1940s. I was fat. On my paper route, there was a great bakery and I would get a half dozen donuts to tide me over. Liberty Restaurant was “the hangout” back then.  I would down six hot dogs and three Dr Peppers in one sitting. Are you getting the picture? I ate too much. High School and college were a blast and my dream of becoming a great motivational speaker was right on schedule. I had a great career. My life was good, but my health was slipping and my blood pressure was off the charts. My weight was up and down like a yoyo and I was always running out of energy. That’s where I was on June 12, 2006.

I clearly remember a time in 2004 when I was up to my knees in three feet of water in the beautiful Gulf of Mexico. Do you talk out loud to yourself? I do. “Bob if you keep on drinking and eating like you are right now, where will you be in five years?” I did not even hesitate with the reply “I will be dead.”

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