{"id":178,"date":"2011-06-07T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondgorgeous\/?p=178"},"modified":"2012-06-09T22:20:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T02:20:36","slug":"start-adding-steps-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2011\/06\/start-adding-steps-easily.html","title":{"rendered":"Start Adding Steps &#8212; Easily!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.<\/em><br \/>\nAnonymous<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called inertia.\u00a0 Things that are at rest don\u2019t want to start moving.\u00a0 It affects all of us, and as we get older, it exerts a stronger and stronger pull.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you get me a cup of coffee while you are up?\u201d we ask.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is the remote?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you hand me that&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so easy to fall into that habit &#8212; to sit and ask people to do our walking for us. That\u2019s why the pedometer method works.\u00a0 It gets us on our feet and moving.<\/p>\n<p>Once we are up and walking we gain momentum, because things in motion want to stay in motion.\u00a0 It\u2019s easier to keep moving when you start stepping.<\/p>\n<p>One way to get lots of steps on your pedometer, or clicker, as I call mine, is to get up and do things for yourself. Add to that and be the one that gets up and fetches things for others.\u00a0 You will collect clicks and have the added benefit of being appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Now my husband Paul frequently looks in his coffee cup and says, \u201cDo you need any steps?\u201d\u00a0 Which means \u201cWould you be the one who gets up and pours the coffee?\u201d\u00a0 And I always receive treasured words of appreciation along with clicks on my pedometer as I cheerfully get up and get the coffee pot.<\/p>\n<p>Here is your challenge for today: Decide that you will get up and move. You won\u2019t ask people to hand you things or do things for you. You will do them for yourself.\u00a0 When your spouse (or, for our junior members, your children) want or need something, you will be the one to get up and get it.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus says that the if you want to be greatest, you should be the servant of all. (Matt. 20:25-26)\u00a0 You may also end up being the thinnest and fittest!<\/p>\n<p>Eating to live and living for Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Susan Jordan Brown<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits. Anonymous It\u2019s called inertia.\u00a0 Things that are at rest don\u2019t want to start moving.\u00a0 It affects all of us, and as we get older, it exerts a stronger and stronger pull. \u201cWould you get me a cup of coffee while you are up?\u201d we ask.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26],"tags":[342,135,11],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise-2","category-helpful-tips","tag-inertia","tag-pedometer","tag-steps"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Start Adding Steps - Easily! - Beyond Gorgeous<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2011\/06\/start-adding-steps-easily.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Start Adding Steps - Easily! - Beyond Gorgeous\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits. 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