Motivation from Eva

My drill Sergeant, Eva, A.K.A. Sergeant Shurts, wrote the following in her "Notes" section on facebook. Since she already posted this publicly, I have taken the liberty of re-posting on my blog.

Motivation:
People are always asking me what keeps me motivated when it comes to exercise. I usually rattle off something about health or fitting into some awesome pair of jeans but I'm going to take a moment to explain what really gets me up and out the door on those days that I really don't feel up to it. Who knows....maybe it will motivate someone who is just starting a workout program or to those of you who are struggling to stick with it. As many of you know Jordans dad, Jeff, died of ALS (Lou Gehrigs disease) in 2006. He fought the disease to the very end and any of you who knew him knew what an active person he was from snow boarding to any game that included a ball. He deteriorated over a period of a few years and each day brought him closer to the end. He once said to me that he would give anything to just jump up and run across the parking lot we were in and the longing to do just that was burning in his eyes. It made me really stop and think how fortunate i was to be able to do that at any given moment and what a waste it was to let the ability sit unused on a shelf. So .............why do I exercise? Because I can.