The Time Touch Dilemma

THE TIME TOUCH DILEMMA

As both individuals and as a culture, we have tremendous blind spots when it comes to understanding our behavior and what is REALLY at the bottom of the critical decisions that we make on a daily basis. One of these blind spots has to do with TIME. Our perception of time has radically changed in the past five years. Do you know anyone who has the luxury of free time, or who isn’t stressed, busy, or overloaded with sorting and managing information at the escalating pace of life that accompanies the “frantic future”? If so they are the exception to the rule in our current “time starved” society.

The implications for our changing pace of life are important. From the perspective of lifestyle BALANCE, we give up “touch” when we are immersed in a culture that worships time. Touch refers to how we are “connected” with ourselves and others, let’s call it our ME / WE connection. Research indicates that people pressed for time filter incoming information differently, and a preoccupation with the “time crunch” interferes with our deeper, more empathic forms of human communication. For example, do you take the time to pay attention to that homeless person begging on the street corner or do you look away, speed up your pace, and deny this particular element of reality? In research studies designed to investigate this very issue, time deprivation plays a major role in how people pay attention and filter their incoming information. Here’s the question, if the pace of society continues to escalate as it has in the past, how is this TIME-TOUCH DILEMMA going to effect the way we communicate with our family, friends, work and business relationships? How will it effect the way we structure time for physical fitness and wellness? And how will the “frantic future” continue to erode empathy and intimacy?

Why Family Fitness Today Is Much More Than Physical

Family fitness today is no longer just physical fitness. Although it’s well known that mind and body are not separate, recent physiological and neurological laboratory test data has revealed that exercise creates the building blocks for learning, guarding against stress, higher thinking skills, increased attention span, longevity, and resistance to depression and anxiety. Today parents must recognize that “fitness” in the larger sense of the world MUST come first to raise a healthy and successful child. One of the most powerful ways that children learn is through the process of imitation. They repeat the behaviors and incorporate the values that they see from others. Parents can make a positive, lasting impression by being a good role-model and expanding the notion of what “fitness” means in today’s changing world.  As neuroscience research about the brain and fitness unfolds, we must expand our ideas about what it really means to be “fit”.  The first priority of parents today must be to develop a positive fitness attitude for children and to understand the powerful range of effects for exercise in their children’s lives.

What Is The Fit Path Formula

This blog has been designed to expand the concept of fitness.

Most of us have had the experience of setting new goals and objectives about becoming fit, only to fall into the same unconscious “traps” that prevent us from following through.  These traps are slippery, because we all have our own “blind spots”, and a “blind spot” by its very definition means that we just haven’t got a clue about the deeper things that prevent us from doing what we say that we want to do.

The Fit Path Formula is intended to accomplish two objectives:

First, to expand the definition of Fitness to include a much larger perspective.

Second, to get “underneath” what we say we want, to expose some of the barriers that we all need to overcome on our journey to real fitness.