Today marks 21 days since I started using FitLine products from PM-International. I began with the basic set, then added products from the Action Pack a few days later. Exactly 9 days after starting FitLine, I quit smoking, so today I have been smoke-free for 12 days. I have more energy, I sleep and recover better, I drink much less coffee and I move more. At the same time, I do not want to credit FitLine for every change I have noticed over these three weeks.
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I write about FitLine, health and energy, working online and building a partner business with PM-International. I share my own experience in network marketing: how I started, what a partner actually does and what the work looks like in practice. I also write about family, personal decisions, growth and life in Norway.
After many years together with my wife, I have learned that a family is not strengthened by beautiful words or occasional big gestures. What matters much more is what happens again and again: whether people can rely on you, whether you notice when the other person is struggling, whether you keep your word and whether you take responsibility for your share of family life. For me, strong family relationships are built from things like these.
When I was a child, my mother was simply my mother and my father was simply my father. I never thought about how much they worked, what they were afraid of, what they worried about or how often they put their own plans aside because of their children. I started understanding many of these things only after I became a father myself.
At school, university or simply growing up around the same people, communication rarely had to be planned. You kept seeing the same faces, and a casual acquaintance could gradually turn into friendship. Adult life works differently. Old friends live in different cities and countries, new people do not appear automatically, and messages on a phone can easily create the feeling that we are still connected even when we hardly ever have a real conversation.
Forty hours a week sounds like a normal work schedule. But when you multiply those hours by years, the number starts to look very different. I am not against work, and I am not looking for a way to do nothing. I simply think more often now about another question: how much of my life am I ready to exchange for income, and do I want to be living in the same rhythm ten years from now?
Over a few years, I gradually got used to things that I was no longer really happy with. My back bothered me more often, after a longer walk I wanted to sit down, I did not always wake up feeling rested, and I could drink five or six cups of coffee during the day. Each of these things was easy to explain on its own. But when I looked at my condition as a whole, I understood something simple: I wanted to feel better.
One thing is feeling tired after a hard day. Another is waking up tired and slowly getting used to it. For a long time I explained my lack of energy with age, stress, moving abroad and simply having too much going on. Then I started using FitLine, and for the first time in a long while I noticed a clear difference in how I felt.