Finding Time . . . No, MAKING Time

I mentioned in my first post that I probably would end up mentioning the company I work for, just because I spend so much time there and it is a big part of my life.  I didn’t expect it to happen quite so soon, but it has a lot to do with this post, so here we have it.

Part of being successful at losing weight is incorporating activity, or exercise.  This can be a very hard thing to do.  One of the biggest excuses--one I’ve often made myself--is “I just can’t find the time for it.”  Bull.  I can find the time to write this.  I can find the time to talk to my best friend.  I can find the time to piddle around on Facebook.  I can totally find the time to be active.

What we have to start doing is making the time.  And there are opportunities all around, if I just choose to take advantage of them.  I’m especially lucky, because my job provides a huge, easy opportunity, five days a week.  I work for the corporate offices of AMF Bowling Centers, which happens to be attached to one of the bowling centers.  And one of the perks of being an employee is a discount on bowling.  You may not believe this, but bowling really is exercise, especially if you stay in constant motion and don’t stop to sit down between frames.

I get an hour lunch break every day.  How difficult is it to walk from my office to the bowling center . . . get a pair of shoes and a ball . . . and start hurling that ball down the lane at the pins?  Based on how often I do it, outside of when we’re having employee leagues, you’d think it was nearly impossible.  It shouldn’t be, and it isn’t.  Today, it was very easy.  In fact, it took me about 40 minutes total to bowl 3 games, and break a little sweat (aided by being dressed warmly because it’s freezing here in central Virginia today).  

So I MADE time for my exercise, no worrying about trying to find it.

What if I did this one day a week, from now until the end of May?  What kind of difference will this make in my life?  Even if it’s a small difference, won’t it eventually stack up with all the other small differences in my life?

What if everyone MADE time to exercise, the same way we seem to make time for Facebook . . . or watching a random TV program . . . or just sitting and staring at a wall?  What if we replaced 30 minutes of inactivity with 30 minutes of activity, just once a week?  What would happen to us all?

Just some thoughts to ponder, as I also think about the satisfying sound of 10 pins crashing to the wood floor.  (That really needs to happen a lot more than it does.  I’ll admit, my bowling game sucks right now, which is another reason for me to get into the bowling center more often.)

~Asile, Just Another One Trying (to improve her bowling game!)