I was talking to a friend recently who had just moved from inner city Sydney to the Gold Coast of Queensland.
He is quite a regimented, routine kind of guy. He gets up early (5am), meditates, goes for a walk, grabs a coffee, gets to work early, works hard all day, goes to the gym, goes home, has dinner, watches a bit TV or reads, then bed early (8:30-9pm).
But in Queensland – particularly the Gold Coast, he found that he wasn’t wandering the early morning streets alone. It was like peak hour on the beachside footpaths.
He was finding that life starts earlier in his new hometown. He had to look really hard to find after-work CrossFit classes, but he could easily find the 4:30 am classes.
He was going to have to shake his routine up a little.
He wasn’t going to have his morning solitude, no matter how early he got up, and he might have to hit the gym before work instead of after work.
But everyone was into this fit and healthy lifestyle that is his driving force, and he was loving it.
His new address was supporting this lifestyle that he had chosen. He didn’t realise it was something that was missing from his life, but inner city Sydney was more supportive of night life than morning life.
This wasn’t something that worked into his thought process when he was offered a job in a new city. He didn’t think that location would impact his lifestyle and wellbeing. It was the icing on the cake, though.
And it got me thinking… how aware are we of how our home location is supporting (or not supporting) our lifestyle and wellbeing?
