Fast food, slow people

My entertainment for the day came this morning when I saw a woman walking two dogs, being circled "float like a butterfly" Muhammad Ali style (ironically enough, the breed of dog was a Boxer) by a neighbor's little psycho pup. The two other dogs were on leashes and the poor woman walking them was trying to get away, but the boxer was bouncing around like a sugar loaded 3 year old on a trampoline, and his owner was hobbling up the street behind him like she was chasing down an ice cream truck. Newsflash hunny, that boxer will still be jumping around when you're passed out face first on the sidewalk.

This got me to thinking, there are people out there who are in such terrible shape that they can't even do something as simple as to control their own pets or follow after them if they start running away...and we all know from the obesity rates that this is MORE common than not.

Back in the days of the Titanic, it was honorable to be heavier, it meant you had more food, which meant you had more money, blah blah. Now, it's typically the less productive people who are panting and sweating all over themselves when the elevator breaks. There are endless reasons to stay in shape, or at least maintain a healthy level of being.

First of all, umm...HEALTH? Call me crazy, but there MUST be a point where you realize you can't walk up a flight of stairs without sounding like a car that won't start when (if) you reach the top. Not to mention if you're thinner your clothes fit better, so you LOOK better, which means you FEEL better, which means you have more confidence, which means you perform better - in all areas of life.

Nothing is sharper than a lean dude in a well-tailored suit or a really in-shape girl in her pencil skirt and heels heading to the office...and these are of course the people who hit the gym before or after work, and also the same people who (studies show) are happier and more productive in general. Hmm, I wonder why?

SUCCESS LEAVES CLUES, I love how people sulk over not being like this person, or that person, or not making enough money, being in better shape, etc...yet, there is every single resource out there available to make it happen. Gym memberships are cheap, hell, even workout at home. EAT LESS, do whatever it takes, and chances are if you do everything that the productive, happy people do...you'll be productive and happy too!