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Sometimes you just have to get up and do it\u2026<\/p>\n

Take today for instance. My therapist tells me that exercising for 30-40 minutes at least 3 times a week has the same affect as taking a mild anti-depressant. So I took up the challenge to do at least 10 000 steps a day for the whole of March and so far I am on track.<\/p>\n

Until today. Yesterday my doctor prescribed a new medication for me that was supposed to calm me, elevate my mood and help me to sleep. Sleep has been a major issue for weeks and everything I’ve tried to date has failed. The lack of sleep was probably the main contributing factor in the melt down I experienced a couple of weeks ago. So around 7:45pm last night, I took the prescribed and it pretty much knocked me out. This morning I struggled to wake and only got up at 9:45 feeling groggy and leaden.<\/p>\n

I tried coffee (I prefer tea) and had my favourite breakfast but still felt this fogginess.<\/p>\n

Around 12:30 I decided to just go ahead and do it\u2026go for a walk.<\/p>\n

Did I feel like it? No. I didn’t even know how far I’d get but decided to try anyway. So I set off – there is a park nearby and I headed there. My steps were wooden but I persisted. There is a saying that ‘only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun’ and I am neither of these but neither am I quitter. The path of my chosen walk is beautiful to say the least and if you have to exercise, it may as well be here.<\/p>\n

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My pace is much slower than normal but I plod on. I did not bring my iPod on this walk as I am preferring to walk without these days – that way I can let all or most of my senses experience the outing.<\/p>\n

As I pass a tree, I hear this strange sound coming from it and look up. On this branch are 4 cockatiels. One seems to protesting about being crowded out on his favourite perch – made me smile. I do a couple of figure-8s around the ponds and after an hour am pretty much done so head home. I check my progress and am still nearly 4000 steps short. I am not sure I will be able to complete my quota today but know I have done my best and that is enough for me right now.<\/p>\n

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As I write this, the sun is setting, there is cool breeze blowing and I am sitting out on my deck enjoying both. I don’t count today as a failure because I made the very best effort I could to achieve my goal. In fact I am happy that I did as much as I did when the last thing I felt like doing was going for a walk. But some days are like that and even when you don’t feel like it, you just have to do it anyway\u2026<\/p>\n

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Sometimes you just have to get up and do it\u2026 Take today for instance. My therapist tells me that exercising for 30-40 minutes at least 3 times a week has the same affect as taking a mild anti-depressant. So I…
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