Do you want to…
- Lose weight?
- Get fitter?
- Save money?
- Feel good?
- Meet more people?
- Feel what life was like in a previous time?
- Be more aware of the seasons?
- Set a great example to your children?
In that case, all you need to do is leave the car at home and get on your bike or walk instead. You don’t need to join a gym – you’ll probably drive there anyway. You don’t need to buy lots of home exercise equipment that will be gathering dust by next Christmas. You just need to walk; or cycle. That’s it. Just try to avoid the new car offers out there and go green.
Once you start doing this more often, you’ll be amazed at the difference in yourself – in your mind, your body and your soul.
These days, we all live crazily busy lives and you may think you don’t have the time to walk or cycle everywhere. But life is passing you by. The truth is you don’t really have the time not to do this. As the late John Lennon once said: “Life is what happens while you’re busy planning other things.”
And once you really get going, you’ll quickly realise how walking, say, 5 miles is really no big thing; it’s what our bodies were designed to do – and what our ancestors have done through hundreds of thousands of years of human development – all up until the last 50 years or so only!
Admittedly, we can’t walk everywhere – and these days, it may well be essential to own a car. So if you have to, at least make sure it’s environmentally friendly like one of the many hybrids now on the road.
They aren’t all crazily expensive. The Honda Insight, for example, has been around a long time now and second hand models aren’t too dear.
But whenever you can do so – walk or cycle, for all sorts of good reasons for your inner self, outer self and the environment.