You Don't Have The Time?!?

You work 60 hours a week, you’ve got 2 kids at home, and you only sleep for six hours a night. Can you somehow manage to squeeze in a few hours a week to take care of your health? Wait, I forgot to mention that you’re hypertensive, your “bad” LDL cholesterol outnumbers your “good” HDL levels 3:1, and you have some kind of non-specific, chronic pain between your shoulders giving you headaches that kick in right around 3:00 p.m. Can you consider fitting in a quick workout sometime now?

It kills me (no pun intended) that people can so easily let their personal health slip down the list of priorities, while sometimes taking extra steps to place work and errands at the top of the list.

Quick question: Do you give your teeth a brushing at least once or twice a day (even though 2 two-minute sessions are what the ADA recommends)?

Why? Isn’t it because bad things will happen to them if you don’t? Right, thought so. Even though 25 percent of older adults have no natural teeth. Dentures all the way, baby.

Here’s one of my favorite scenarios, and I wish I could remember where I first heard it. If you saw an ad for a part-time job that paid $800 per week and required working one hour a day for four days a week, would you take it? No brainer, right? Unless you’re stupendously well-off, I don’t think anyone in their right mind would turn down that offer.

Now, if you can find the time for four hours a week to do some extra work in exchange for more money, why oh why can’t you find the time for four hours a week (heck, I’ll even start with three) in exchange for better health, a more vigorous and more fit lifestyle, less aches and pains, better fitting clothes, more fun recreational activities, more flirty look from guys and gals (whichever you prefer) at the mall, so many benefits for putting in so little effort.

Yes, workouts make you sweaty. And yes, some workouts might seem tough to get through. And yes again, your schedule might seem overbearing as it already is. But if you wanted to, if you really, sincerely, deep to your core wanted to, you’d find the time. No, actually, you’d make the time. If it was really important to you. But then again, if it isn’t important to you…