What a strange world we woke up to back in March. Who could’ve predicted this Covid-19 thing becoming such a big deal that it would shut down the entire world.
I first heard about Covid-19 back in November 2019 and remember thinking ‘Man, if that thing gets out it could cause something pretty bad.’ I had no idea just where we would be in a few short months.
I’m sure the blame game will start soon, though personally I don’t think we have seen the absolute worst of this virus yet. Personally I don’t think it matters how, where or why it all started. But I don’t much care for the blame game. I care for the future and about how we come out of this better for the experience.
As a society, community and a world we became complacent. We took things for granted. We expected that the world will be as we left it the night before and got on with doing our daily thing. Covid-19 has shown me just how irrelevant a lot of things we considered to be important are.
For two months our lives have been greatly effected by complacency. Even when we knew how bad things were people still just went about things like nothing bad was going on. People were falling victim to this illness in their thousands and world authorities were trying to tell us that everything is fine.
Everything wasn’t fine. The UK at one point decided that it would be fine to just go about normal life and that it would be fine to get infected so that we became immune to that. USA thought it would be an idea to inject disinfectant to kill off the disease. Both notions were utterly ridiculous. Fortunately the UK back tracked their stance, but the damage was done. As for the US, well, sadly we are seeing the very dire effect that no action can have.
China shut down, we didn’t learn. Italy shut down, we still didn’t learn. Then Spain happened. I personally had never become so invested in news reports. I generally just ignored the world events up until that point. But this was big. Really big. And everyday it got worse.
I feel fortunate to live in New Zealand. Even though we had a very small amount of cases in comparison to the rest of the world it was clear that we were entering a dangerous curve at which point our Government decided to be proactive and we became one of the first countries to shut down before it became an epidemic. And it worked. We have no new cases and by in large things are under control. Of course our borders are shut and when they get reopened will be a new challenge.
But all of that is something I can’t control. I work in the fitness industry and I have been shut down for nearly 3 months. I haven’t earned a cent in that time. But I have been OK with that. I had something tucked away for a rainy day, I didn’t expect that rainy day to last for 3 months but what can you do?!
What I have learnt through all this is just how fragile life really is. A virus transferred from one animal to another and with in a few short months the entire world was in lock down. That is a very fragile state to live in.
Now more than ever our health and fitness is our greatest asset. Not the big over priced houses, not the flash cars, not business, not money. Our health is our greatest asset and should be our absolute Number 1 priority in life.
Our focus must change, we need to take care off ourselves however that may look for each person. What works for me would be torture for someone else. Running for me is torture whilst others love it. Whatever it is for you, it must be a priority. And not because we should all have amazing bodies and so on. But we need to protect ourselves against all manner of viruses out there. Covid-19 is thankfully a rare thing but it has been so devastating with death rates so insanely high.
Now, not for a moment am I suggesting that the fit and healthy will overcome any illness, it won’t. But it won’t hurt either. Whatever it is for you, find a way to improve your health and fitness, improve yourself and challenge yourself through health and fitness.
But now is the time to treat our health as the asset it should have always been. If that means joining a gym, or finding an online coach to help you work towards bettering yourself through fitness then it it should be something that you do. Honestly, now is the time, you are the most important person to you, if you take care of you then you will be in a position to help those you love.
Rob McQueen is a lifestyle coach for Inspired Lifestyle who guides you through the weight loss process with guided trainings, nutrition understanding, and keeping you on track to maintain your results. He teaches from his experiences, he has lived it and experienced what he coaches. Visit us today on Facebook or contact us today to see how we can help you.