Get Off Your Butt!

                About a year ago, I wrote a post about the challenges of living healthy on the road.  In the past year it has not gotten any easier, but I don’t think it’s gotten any harder, either.  I think the hardest part about living healthy on the road is overcoming my own complacency.  What’s easy to do is easy to not do. 

I’m not going to keel over today if I choose to spend my 30-minute break on Facebook as opposed to getting off my posterior and taking a couple of laps around the parking lot, but 10 years of sitting for those 30 minutes instead of getting some type of exercise will add up to obesity and metabolic syndrome, two conditions we can correct with some effort.

          Who loves you?  I have a hard time believing that there is even one of us who can’t think of at least one person who loves us.  When we neglect our health, we’re sending the message that we don’t care about the people who love us.  I heard Jim Rohn say “I will take care of myself for you and you take care of yourself for me.”

          I challenge you to take a few minutes today and ask yourself… who would be affected if I died today and how?  If I died today, no one would be affected by the loss of my income, but many would be by the mere loss of my presence… my kids, siblings, granddaughter, my friends… people would notice my absence and I’m willing to bet there are a lot of people who would notice your absence as well.

          Please, give this some serious thought and decide if the people you love - who love you, too – are worth getting off your butt for 30 minutes a day.