take the stairs

OK, so now I’ve been taking the stairs for nine months. It never gets easier, in fact I think sometimes it gets harder and harder. But I keep doing it and it has to be better for my health. The thing I wish is that the custodian was better about keeping the stairwell clean. It’s amazing how many people just dump trash on the stairs and the railings get really feeling gross. Handy wipe, please!

I have been very good about taking the stairs, but every now and then I head for the elevator out of habit or if I’m walking/talking with someone who takes the elevator. I told many of my coworkers that I wanted to take the stairs now and yesterday when I was coming back from lunch with a friend, we started to head for the elevator which was our routine after having lunch together and she said, “No, we’re taking the stairs now remember” and she headed toward the stairwell. It made me feel good that she remembered my goal and wanted to support it. Yeah!

I have been so good about taking the stairs at work now. The really funny thing is that I have gotten several of my coworkers to convert from the elevator to stairs now as well. One told me she was following me into work and saw me head for the stairs when she was about to take the elevator, then felt guilty and followed me up the stairwell. I even run into people in the building that I haven’t seen for a while in the stairswell and have caught up with them socially. I’m hoping this will become an epidemic, ha, ha, ha.