Daily choices. Toned body. Sharper mind.
Day One: A Puppy’s Unexpected Lesson in Outweighing Anxiety
It’s day one. Life has been hectic—work projects, personal projects, travel schedules where you almost lose track of where your family members maybe in at a given week. Everybody in the house is busy, busy, busy! Calendars have to be jigged and rejigged to fit everything in. Somehow, in the middle of all that, I agreed to bring a dog into the mix. And yes… anxiety was already creeping in.
Is the cuteness really worth it? Can I handle this on top of everything else? Will the house survive? Will I survive? Somehow, the day passed in the blink of an eye. And yet, here we are. And surprisingly, it’s been… positive.
For those of us who haven’t spent much time with dogs, the reality can hit hard. Puppies demand attention, patience, and a recalibration of daily life. And for anyone who lives life at full speed, “done, done, done,” adopting a puppy introduces a whole new dimension of thought.
How Moving 20,000 Steps a Day Changes Your Body and Thoughts
It may seem radical to target this number. 20,000 steps roughly equals 15 km in distance. Prevailing headliners in many articles and health recommendations steer us towards 10,000 steps a day. It is not that 10,000 is insufficient – for many people, this is a fantastic start and everyone must work up gradually from 5,000 to 10,000, and beyond depending on fitness level.
If you’re already swimming or spinning intensely every other day or close to it, then your workout choices might be sorted. For the vast majority of office-bound professionals (software developers, lawyers, project managers, accountants, consultants, executives, and all those others typing like there’s no tomorrow), your days are spent sitting before your screens, sitting in board meetings, sitting in an airplane, sitting in the car, sitting on the train, sitting at client dinners, and finally sitting at your doctor’s office.
When you aim for and execute 20,000 consistently, many things change in your life because they simply have to.