Tip 96: Keep your cell phone at a place where
you can hear it ringing.
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Do not carry your mobile phone around but leave it a place where
you can hear it ringing. In this way you make sure that you at
least get up and walk towards it. This might sound sill but I
really mean it. You need a reason to keep yourself going.
Life today has become so easy that we have every thing at our
fingertips. All we have to do is push a button here and push a
button there. The only things that get any exercise at all are
our fingers. Years ago Charles Darwin put forward a theory of
use and disuse.
According to this theory, a certain part of the body that is
put to constant use develops a lot and a certain part of the body
that has no use at all becomes smaller and smaller and gradually
ceases to exist.
Certain examples that he quoted were the long neck of the giraffe,
which appeared to become longer and longer when the giraffe stretched
higher and higher to reach the leaves at the treetops. He quoted
the example of the absence of a tail in human beings to illustrate
the example of the theory of disuse.
Now if Darwin’s theory were to prove true, as the years
go by man is likely to end up with just a huge head, a few fingers
and maybe some other parts of the body that are also put to use.
That is why I made it a point to say that you have to drive your
self to move about. A cell phone may be convenient, but the same
thing can turn out to simplify life just a little too bit. There
are other arguments against the use of cell phones but that is
beside our topic.
What I would suggest is that at home or in your office, leave
the cell phone lying about so that you can hear it ring, but can’t
just reach into your pocket and answer it. See to it that you
have to actually stand up and walk a few steps before you can
pick it up.
