I successfully managed to get up considerably earlier than my usual "five minutes before work starts" this morning, and went over to the Common to have a walk. I'm going to start trying to do this every day, because I am majorly unfit after the last year — not that I was particularly fit in the first place, but I've been feeling uncomfortably unfit of late.
I could, of course, get up early and go to the gym — but right now, to be honest, I feel like I want a bit more of a gentle start to get back into the rhythm of things. The gym can come later — plus going for a walk is free and gets you out in the fresh air, which can be quite nice first thing in the morning.
I made a deliberate choice for said walk to involve no technology whatsoever, too. I didn't have headphones on listening to music, I wasn't tracking my distance done with RunKeeper, I kept my phone in my bag on silent so I didn't even think about it. I wanted to just enjoy the relative peace of the morning on the Common — and it was a very pleasant experience. I hesitate to call it "relaxing" because I was exerting myself a little with the walking, but it was certainly nice.
As I've said numerous times before on here, a lot of the challenge in making positive changes for yourself is in establishing new habits and finding ways to avoid your own "resistance" to change. By positioning these walks as something pleasant to do first thing in the morning — which I'd only be wasting sleeping otherwise — I hope I can establish them as a helpful and somewhat healthy part of my daily routine. But I guess time will tell in that respect!
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