Me, My Guru - to quit or not to!

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Regarding healthy habits like exercise, yogasan, walking etc :

Here there is no reason to quit! Before wanting to quit ask yourself why you started it in the first place! You’ll get an answer that’ll be enough to ‘keep you going’.

Maybe you are not able to exercise or do yogasan daily – fine. Then instead of telling yourself that you are going for walk daily, you’ll walk ½ an hour atleast 4 times a week. Keep to this regime for 3-4 months without fail. No excuses here. ‘It rained Guruji, so couldn’t go’, had relatives visiting, so couldn’t exercise’, etc are to be deleted from your excuse list and mind. If it rains, walk for ½ an hour inside your house.

Watch TV standing. In office, when talking or explaining to someone, stand. Stand more than you sit. Take lift from 1^st or better second floor and get down atleast one floor and then take lift to go down. And please don’t say later, ‘Guruji wanted to do so, but I live in I floor so couldn’t use that option. And we can’t shift now as it is our own house.....’. for first floor or second, just climb the stairs.”

We laughed here, her sense of humour was odd but so close to reality....we had heard some give such excuses too...and now she was even more cautious when giving instructions..

“if you take auto or cab, when coming back to house, get down few blocks before and walk. You save money and lose fat. Not bad ha!

Don’t quit because it is boring or to treat your laziness.

Being healthy is not an option.

It is your duty towards the society.

Falling sick is a SIN.

You owe your productive years and hours to the society. When you fall sick, you owe that much more to the society.

So apart from exercising etc maintain healthy life-style like ‘early to bed and early to rise’. Even successful people and that too being in show-biz people like Akshay kumar and John Abraham go to bed by 9 pm and wake up at 4.30am and exercise without fail. Take these qualities of such people as role models to get  up early.

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