Get Recreation

Let's “Get Recreation” back into our lives.

I’m starting this blog as a personal promoter for me and my readers to Get Recreation back into our lives.  I feel impressed to stop living my life vicariously through the media and start to enjoy the environment that surrounds me.  Let me articulate what is driving this movement in me and see if I can cultivate that same sense of urgency in you, so we can all start living a more fulfilling life.  If I can implant a craving to more useful activities with our time, I will feel like I am making a small difference in the world. 

Now I assume I am not the only person out there who finds themselves spending their evenings thumbing through their DVR to find their favorite shows.  I am unquestionably guilty of this behavior. I personally love shows about survival, expeditions, journeys and adventure.  Some of these shows include: Man vs. Wild, Survivor Man and Dual Survival.  While mesmerized at the astonishing places they go and the exciting things they do, I can’t help but say to myself, “I wish I could do that.”  I am envois of these guys because they have the opportunity of a life time to see the world like nobody else. 

While I sit on the couch and waste my time watching other people fulfill their dreams, I wonder what it would take for me to make my dreams come true.  So far I have been hiding behind the excuses of limited time and money.  Well, the excuses need to stop and I need to start personally enjoying the things that I relish other people do.  I need get off my couch and Get Recreation in my life.  I’ve realized the reason I don’t have time to do what I want to do is because I am wasting time in my living room.  I once learned that time is a resource that we all have the same amount of, some of us just don’t know how effectively allocate our time.  I am going to make the personal commitment to make better use of my time and do what I have always wanted to do.  As for the excuse of not having money, I can’t hide behind it any longer either.   I am simply going to start with enjoying the beautiful area around me doing activities that don’t cost a lot of money.

Creating this blog is going to force me to document a show that I will star in.  I realize that I am not going to take a week off this month and go hike the Tetons or float down the Colorado River.  I am going to start with something realistic and local, and I hope you will do the same too.  Remember time and money are no longer an excuse, but they are still a factor we need to consider.  Let’s start by getting on a pair of hiking shoes, jumping on a bike, floating down a local river, or camping in the canyon a few miles from home.  Let’s just start by doing something. 

In order to be accountability to myself and others I would hope that my readers expect me to post new stories about how I regularly Get Recreation back into my life.  Some of these stories won’t be as captivating as a 30 minute episode of your favorite show, but I hope that these posts get us to cross paths as we all get off our couch.