Diana's Blog

So the posts get fewer and farther between; but it's only because I'm putting more into fitness work and a related blog. (Feel free to check it out at http://lovejoyfitness.com/ or http://lovejoyfitness.blogspot.com/.)

While I still don't have a regular rhythm to every day, I feel momentum building. It has been tough, in these economic times, to be on my own trying to start up a business. But with that quality my husband not-always-affectionately describes as "a dog who won't let go of the leg," I persist. I have some new clients, and as a bonus I'm covering the local Training Transition tri group while the main coach is on vacation. This latter part is hardly like "work" - yes, I'm leading workouts, giving tips left and right, watching each individual in the group...but it's such a great group of people that it feels like recreation. :>

One thing I especially like about this work is that it's inherently social. Being slightly shy and susceptible to environmental stress-energy made a bad recipe for working in a cubicle. You're in a cube-farm, yet essentially isolated...and you learn that coming out of your cube or making yourself visible often results in more work being dumped on your head.

I really think social isolation is a big part of our modern dilemma. I believe far fewer people would feel anxious, overly stressed, inadequate, lonely or obsessive if we just got off the treadmill and sat - or danced - around a campfire more often! I'm not talking about Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn; these do not count in my mind as antidotes to isolation. --So how to break the inertia? One little person at a time, I guess. --And by being a bearer of *positive* energy, so that energy benefits others instead of bringing them down.