We’ve been working on Harry’s Rule #2 – DO SERIOUS AEROBIC EXERCISE 4 DAYS A WEEK FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. How is it going? Are you succeeding – or faltering? Deb, Sue, John and I want to know? And we can’t wait until the NEXT BIG WALK – SUNDAY, JUNE 19th at ROCKY RIDGE COUNTY PARK. So, we reserved a room at the United Way of York for Monday evening (May 23rd) at 7:00 P.M. and urge you to come and join us. The United Way is at 800 East King Street, York, PA 17405 – at the intersection of King and Sherman Sts, just one block south of East Market St. (phone: 771-3800).
Two York residents, who are willing to share the story of their own journeys toward becoming “Younger Next Year”, will be there to help motivate us all. Then, we want your ideas about how to get and keep York County motivated like these two are to “move”. Come prepared to tell us WHAT YOU WANT. “Let’s Move, York” is all about people helping people and our ultimate success depends on you being involved in planning the direction of the movement and spreading the word.
This blog is only one tool that we hope might be helpful in conveying Harry’s simple, but sometimes challenging-to-follow, seven rules that will make us all “younger next year”. It is meant to serve as a guide to the book that will hopefully convince everyone in York to get up and get moving. It is a medium to connect us all but it doesn’t fill the bill of connecting like Harry and Chris tell us we need to connect. Harry and Chris are mutually adamant that the most important rule of all is that we exercise our limbic, primitive brain – the one that demands biologically that we are part of a pack. Harry and Chris believe this so much that two of the seven rules deal with it – CARE, CONNECT AND COMMIT (rules # 6 and 7). In Chapter 18, Harry says, “we evolved as social pack animals, like wolves and dolphins. It’s not a choice; our survival depends on being part of a group.” And Chris puts his usual no-nonsense twist on Harry’s scientific explanation in the next chapter, telling us “we have to ‘exercise’ our social, pack-animal gifts as vigorously as we exercise our bodies, if we’re going to lick that pesky tide. That means adding friends, doing more stuff, getting out there and being involved.” So, please come out to the United Way on Monday evening and exercise your PACK instincts and help figure out how to motivate everyone in York to “get moving”. Oh – and BRING A BUDDY!
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