Walking saved my life in many ways: physical, spiritual, and even financial. If one has the ability to do so, there are ways of incorporating movement throughout the day. Not everyone lives across the street from a park and has a Muggle job that allows them to walk as much as five miles a day like I do; however, many workplaces have complimentary gyms, large parking lots, and/or sprawling hallways and corridors. There are standing desks, including the type that sits on top of a traditional desktop and rises up, and for remote workers, investing in a walking pad beneath one's standing desk can provide movement when one can't access outdoors or gyms. Lastly, public buildings like museums, galleries, and malls often allow folks to breeze through for exercise without requiring a purchase. Anyway, I'm rambling, but I believe 10000000000% that walking can change one's life.
I’ve started taking longer routes at work for this very reason. Instead of heading straight back to my desk after grabbing a coffee in the building next door, I walk all the way around the building I work in before returning to my desk. It’s made such a difference in my energy level and gives me much needed time to work out random problems in my mind! (I replace the outdoor walks with indoor spaces when the heat is what it has been lately!)
Where I used to work we were clustered in three large matching buildings, close together, and one small, unmatching building, some distance away. I eventually ended up in that 'oddball' building (which was great, the offices were much, much larger) but of course the 'heart' of the place was in the other buildings, so that necessitated a good bit of walking multiple times a day, and those breaks were very good.
I'm not one though who gets ideas while walking (although I know that a great many people do) my ideas seem to most often come to me in the shower.
I know about the space pen from a favorite Seinfeld episode, and I think I’ve seen Rite in the Rain (or something similar) at REI. I never thought about using these in tandem for literal shower thoughts!
I'm lucky in that the weather here near Seattle is almost never extreme. Just a little damp, so perfect for rambling in the outdoors. But you're certainly right that indoor spaces work as well. My wife and her friend at work have a well trodden pathway through the hallways of the building they work in.
The hardest parts for me seem to be carving out the time, and that undoubtedly relates to motivation.
Walking saved my life in many ways: physical, spiritual, and even financial. If one has the ability to do so, there are ways of incorporating movement throughout the day. Not everyone lives across the street from a park and has a Muggle job that allows them to walk as much as five miles a day like I do; however, many workplaces have complimentary gyms, large parking lots, and/or sprawling hallways and corridors. There are standing desks, including the type that sits on top of a traditional desktop and rises up, and for remote workers, investing in a walking pad beneath one's standing desk can provide movement when one can't access outdoors or gyms. Lastly, public buildings like museums, galleries, and malls often allow folks to breeze through for exercise without requiring a purchase. Anyway, I'm rambling, but I believe 10000000000% that walking can change one's life.
I’ve started taking longer routes at work for this very reason. Instead of heading straight back to my desk after grabbing a coffee in the building next door, I walk all the way around the building I work in before returning to my desk. It’s made such a difference in my energy level and gives me much needed time to work out random problems in my mind! (I replace the outdoor walks with indoor spaces when the heat is what it has been lately!)
Absolutely! This is exactly what I'm talkin' about. If we have the means and the availability, it does us so much good to take advantage of them!
Where I used to work we were clustered in three large matching buildings, close together, and one small, unmatching building, some distance away. I eventually ended up in that 'oddball' building (which was great, the offices were much, much larger) but of course the 'heart' of the place was in the other buildings, so that necessitated a good bit of walking multiple times a day, and those breaks were very good.
I'm not one though who gets ideas while walking (although I know that a great many people do) my ideas seem to most often come to me in the shower.
You ought to invest in a set of shower crayons. I know more than one writer who uses these to jot down ideas!
I'll confess to not knowing about shower crayons, but I have a pretty good system. Rite in the Rain note cards and a Space Pen to write on them.
https://www.riteintherain.com/
https://www.spacepen.com/
I know about the space pen from a favorite Seinfeld episode, and I think I’ve seen Rite in the Rain (or something similar) at REI. I never thought about using these in tandem for literal shower thoughts!
I'm lucky in that the weather here near Seattle is almost never extreme. Just a little damp, so perfect for rambling in the outdoors. But you're certainly right that indoor spaces work as well. My wife and her friend at work have a well trodden pathway through the hallways of the building they work in.
The hardest parts for me seem to be carving out the time, and that undoubtedly relates to motivation.