Do it. Do it late.

When you’re good at something, you can do it late. So you need to find a way to do things that you want to do even if you don’t have the time that you’d really like to do them. I hear a lot of people say that they don’t have time for the gym, or dieting. But we all get the same time as everyone else. 

Think of the things we all have to do in a rush sometimes. Take for example, driving to work. Sometimes we’re running late, and have to drive faster to get to work on time. We’re hustling. We’re making up time. We’re doing something we normally would, faster and more efficiently, in order to do something we deem a non-negotiable. 

So what if our health took such a place. Devoting eight hours per day to exercise is preposterous, but what about half an hour?

Returning to driving to work as an example, say it takes half an hour to drive to work but when we’re in a rush we can do it in 20 minutes. Now imagine it takes half an hour to do your work out, but if pushed, we could do it in 20 minutes if we had to. Or ten minutes, or five, if we absolutely had to. Suddenly, on a hectic day, all we have to really find is five minutes, not thirty. The thirty minute sessions are reserved for less rushed days. 

Take another example, a morning shower. Normally we like to take 15 minutes in the shower to get ready as we’d like. Now say, we’ve gotten up late. The choice ahead of you is go to work without a shower, or do it in ten minutes instead. Clearly we’re just going to hurry up in the shower and do it rushed. We’re hustling.

What am I saying? Put your health first. Pressed for time? Then do it late. Condense the session, trim the work. Planning to run 5k but you’ve been pulled into work early? Then just do a 2k.