“I believed then, and I believe even now, that, no matter what amount of work one has, one should always find some time for exercise, just as one does for one’s meals.”
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Movement is usually the first thing dropped when schedules tighten, treated as a luxury for spare hours that never come. Reframing it as a basic requirement — as non-negotiable as eating — is what keeps a body working through decades of demands. Busyness is rarely the real reason it gets skipped.
When to use it
- A busy nurse walks briskly on every break rather than waiting for a free evening that never arrives.
- A founder blocks a morning run on the calendar and guards it as fiercely as a client meeting.
- A parent turns the daily school pickup into a walk instead of idling in the long car line.