You don’t have to move streets. I’m not saying move cities. Actually, going through difficult times, you might actually say, “I’m going to leave New York, and I’m going to go live in Tokyo.” And that could be fine. But when I say moving, I’m really talking about the importance of exercise. Get off the couch, even when you don’t feel like getting off the couch, and go for the walk. Go to the yoga class. Go for the run.
Lots of research says when you find a peer group of people who are doing the thing you want to do, it’s the greatest way to sustain the new habit of doing what you want to do. So get to the gym.
Schedule the classes. Maybe it’s boxing. Maybe it’s tai chi. Maybe it’s yoga. But moving will shift your psychology, shift your neurobiology, shift your metabolic rate, release the dopamine that is a motivational neurotransmitter so that even when you’re feeling you are suffering and can’t do world-class, you start to develop the insight and the interior life that gets you moving back in into the world.
