Get Moving: A Tool In The Toolbox

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Speaker 2 (42s): Welcome to another brevis talk. As we talk or have been talking about the tools in the toolbox, the one that we want to speak to today is the idea of activity, or to say it in our vernacular or common vernacular. Get, Moving, don't care what you do. Just move. Now, I realize again that when you're not motivated, when you're depressed, that's not so easy. But again, you can't be totally passive and have a victory over depression, and so Get Moving, you don't have to aspire to run a marathon.

You don't have to be an iron man. You don't have to do any of that, but just move, walk, play team sports. Those hold people accountable. If you have a group that gets together commonly for tennis or pickleball or something like that, a team sport will keep you accountable, if you will, is some crazy ideas here, probably to you, but it'll pay some dividends.

Park further away from store entrances when you go into a store rather than getting up front, just park further out and you'll get some steps in there. As a matter of fact, a fitness app or a watch to help you count your steps. That can be a challenge and you can set goals there and be a self challenge, but all of that is going to pay dividends in fighting the battle of depression. Move again. We, we spoke about beauty and getting outside.

Go outside and walk bask in the sun. If you, if you're a brave soul, get into weightlifting, stretching. There's so, so many things, but whatever you do, you're not going to do anything wrong here. You just need to Get Moving. I would suggest for some, it doesn't work for everyone to get a pet. I know a gentleman who has health problems and he has a dog that keeps him accountable. He walks that dog every day, and even when he doesn't want to go, the dog is eager to go outside and to walk, and so the dog holds him accountable, and pets can be very, very therapeutic in helping individuals.

As you fight depression. I realize that not everyone has this set up to have a pet wherever it is that they live, and then some people are just not oriented toward pets, but it'll, it'll pay dividends. But the key idea here, and I'm being briefed today, is to Get, Moving to make yourself get out of the chair, make yourself turn the television off or whatever you're doing, and move, walk to the mailbox if you have a long drive rather than driving to it.

There's nothing that you can do that is wrong in this area, but move. It will pay dividends. We'll talk later. God bless

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