If, like myself, you aren’t much of an exercise fan, it can help to find a way to make things fun. Honestly, I can think of a hundred other things I would rather be doing than exercising most days, but exercise I must. I do a lot of writing in my head while walking so I can create entire storylines. I mentally go to the setting and create the story, and if I like what I’ve created, I write it down after I walk. If I don’t, then I just made my walk more interesting than it would have been without my imagination.
However, there are some days when I don’t feel like using my imagination, and I still need to exercise so I find other ways to make the activity enjoyable. Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of new music and blowing bubbles. Yes, you read that correctly. I’ve been blowing bubbles, and I don’t want any snide comments about my age and the appropriateness of this activity. Where I exercise is private so it isn’t as if I have an audience. Just for fun, I open a bottle of bubbles and create little spheres of short-lived joy while I walk. It makes me laugh, and it helps me relax so I blow the bubbles.
I won’t pretend that I enjoy exercising, but I can find ways to make it more tolerable. Who knows? Maybe one day, I might like it, but until then I’m going to use my imagination, blow bubbles, listen to K-pop, contemporary Christian, and dance music, and do whatever else it takes to get me through my workouts. I’m willing to do something I don’t love, like exercise, to get myself in shape if it means I feel better and can do more. The end goal is to get up and move. [213.6]
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Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20, CSB)
All Things Subject to Change 