Taking Care of My Physical Self Has Does Wonders for My Mind

I've struggled in the past to keep busy. To keep my mind ticking over.

There's a few different reasons to this, which I'm sure I'll share when the time is right.

For now, I'd rather talk about the steps I've made lately toward becoming a happier person.

It started with a simple goal. To be excited for something every week. Remember when you were a young kid, and there was something exciting every day. It could have been something as simple as dad coming home from work. When you're an older child and teenager, friends suddenly take the focus of your life, and things like playing sports with them or just hanging means is always the thing to look forward to.

When you start to work yourself, ambition takes over. How high can I climb the corporate ladder, how quickly can I learn a trade and make as much money as possible. Then other priorities in life emerges, and work doesn't become your number one priority.

Don't get me wrong, I love my family-driven life. But in my comfortable, stable life, especially now the kids are older, I've lost something to look forward to.

Call it a New Years Resolution if you want, I've made an effort in the last 5 months to turn around my physical shape.

It's been great. I've lost 12kg and have felt my best in more than 10 years.

On top of looking forward to my regular 5 days a week at gym, I've been visiting the newly opened Xtra Clubs within the Bondi Junction Mall. Properly recovering from my workouts is awesome, and emerging out of those ice baths give me an incredible rush of dopamine. At first I was gritting my teeth in those ice baths, now I'm grinning cheek-to-cheek, a bit like the fella Xtra are showing here on their website.

Monthly as well, I'm starting to go on long walks around the city, with the goal of building up my fitness to start half, then full marathons. That's just one long term goal, the other is to get back into a social sport.

Appreciate you read this far. If you were like me and fell into a rut of doing the same thing everyday, with nothing to look forward to, try moving your body. Like I say, it does wonders for you mind too.