Fitness and fines (and fleeting)
I have a bad habit of forgetting to update my blog. Thus this post has two stories. Then again, maybe the change will do me some good. After all, I can’t seem to maintain a consistent pace, so why not attempt something new in 2012? Although, what are the odds that I attempt the new system for a few months and then fall back off the wagon.
Which is why I decided to look into why we find it so hard to maintain new habits.
I’m probably going to pay for having even introduced this idea… in added neurotic thinking.
Speaking of paying, how bout dem proposed parking fines at rush hour?
When I first heard the idea, I thought to myself… why not make the tickets a thousand dollars?
Make the cost so ridiculously high that people have to obey the laws and not slow everyone down because they want to grab a coffee at a Starbucks on Yonge Street while thousands of innocent drivers sit idly chewing their nails and pulling their hair out and swearing out the window and honking their horns, all the while their phone is beeping with annoying texts and the radio is crackling and it’s hot as hell out and the air conditioning is broken and… whoops… sorry got a little carried away.
How bout just listening to what I learned about our relationship to parking fines.
I need to clear my head now. Yoga time.
(I don’t do yoga, but have always wanted to say that in order to sound enlightened.)
Year’s to you!
I’m not a new year’s resolution guy. Mostly because my thinking is too fluid to hold myself to one new task in an unwavering manner.
My new year is actually in September. End of summer. Work is back in full swing. And it’s my birthday. Even then, I still don’t make resolutions.
The one resolution I WILL hold myself to year in and year out, is to do a better job of telling your stories.
Here are some of my 2011 faves.
Feeling spent
There are few disconnects as big as Christmas, in my humble opinion. We are told it’s a time for people to gather and celebrate each other… as long as you buy everyone something.
But for the majority of people, money is tight, and the pressure to spend can be overwhelming.
Commuter hell-th
I’m glad I’m not this guy. I’ve been that guy (minus the Yankees cap, handlebar stache and protruding gut… but humour me will ya,) and it isn’t fun.
The last thing you want to do when you return from a hellish commute is make dinner or hit the gym. But this is exactly why commuting is a massive health risk.
I spoke with a guy who has studied those health risks and outlined his findings on Metro Morning.
Here’s a link to his research paper.
And here are some of your responses and a follow-up interview about time management.
Now I’m going to put on my Blue Jays cap and make sure I sit upright on the subway.
About
My name is Jason Osler. I am a Toronto-based journalist with a zeal for telling humourous stories of the “every person.” My specialty is identifying and exploring social trends that reside in the subconscious.
The majority of my work airs on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning – Toronto’s #1 morning show. My theme music is “People Everyday” by Arrested Development.
This blog is a forum to divulge, discuss and dissect the moments and minutiae that shape our day to day lives.
In addition, I enjoy a good spring roll… but despise cilantro.
Yours truly,
JOpublic
