What Clicks With You?

It started when I was young. The pacing, the racing, the hop, skip and jumping, the bouncing up and sliding down the stairs, around the house, in and out of furniture, closets and cubbies, back and forth, one minute in your face the next gone. No wonder mom threw me out of the house often. She knew I needed to get my wiggles out. Although in hindsight, she probably did it more for her own sanity than mine, but in the process I unintentionally gained mine back as well.

I am a person who definitely feels best when I am doing and moving. Can you relate? I am not necessarily hyper, but I can jump into hyer mode easily. You should see me on chocolate. One bite and I am at full throttle, blasting off to tackle tasks at super sonic speeds and spouting flowery prose faster than the chipmunks on high fi. Not pretty. But I digress. Given my penchant for being a bit overly active, working out has never been a challenge for me. I don’t require much psyching up to get the heart pumping and sweat dripping. Mom knew that. A wise women is she. Although, I am not sure she could have forseen that the day she kicked me out of the house and told me to run a couple laps around the block was the day I never stopped running. Running clicked with me then and because so it continues to be my activity of choice now.

The moral of the story: you don’t have to be hyper or love running to be active but you do need to find something that clicks with you; an activity that you regularly look forward to and enjoy doing. Running is that for me. What clicks with you? Find it and stick with it. It will be your best bet for maintaining an active, healthy lifestyle for life.

Start looking!

Maria