What you're doing, right now, at this very moment, is killing you. More than cars or the Internet or even that little mobile device we keep talking about, the technology you're using the most almost every day is this, your tush. Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day, which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours. Sitting is so incredibly prevalent, we don't even question how much we're doing it, and because everyone else is doing it, it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay. In that way, sitting has become the smoking of our generation.
Ajo c'ka po beni, pikerisht tani, ne kete moment, është duke ju vrarë. Me shumë se sa makinat ose interneti ose ai aparat i vogel levizes per te cilin vec flasim, tekonologjia qe perdorim me shpesh cdo dite eshte kjo, fundshpina juaj. Ne ditet e sotme, njerezit qendrojne te ulur 9.3 ore ne dite, me teper nga sa fleme, qe eshte rreth 7.7 ore. Te ulurit eshte kaq dominues, sa qe ne as nuk e veme re se per sa kohe qendrojme ne kete pozicion, dhe duke qene se gjithkush tjeter ben te njejten gje, as qe na kalon neper mendje se mund te mos jete dicka e mire. Thene ndryshe, te ulurit eshe kthyer ne duhanpirjen e gjenerates tone.
Of course there's health consequences to this, scary ones, besides the waist. Things like breast cancer and colon cancer are directly tied to our lack of physical [activity], Ten percent in fact, on both of those. Six percent for heart disease, seven percent for type 2 diabetes, which is what my father died of. Now, any of those stats should convince each of us to get off our duff more, but if you're anything like me, it won't.
Kjo padyshueshmerisht shoqerohet me pasoja ne shendetin tone, pasoja te frikshme, qe nuk ndalojne vec ne dhjamosjen e belit. Gjera te tipit, kancer i gjoksit dhe kolones jane direkt te lidhura me mungesen e aktivitetit fizik, dhjete perqind per te dyja keto semundje. Gjashte perqind per semundje te zemres, shtate perqind per diabet, tipi 2, semundje qe i shkaktoi vdekjen babait tim. Tani, cdonjera prej ketyre statistikave duhet te na binde te cohemi nga karriket pak me shpesh, por nese me ngjasoni sado pak, ju nuk do ta beni.
What did get me moving was a social interaction. Someone invited me to a meeting, but couldn't manage to fit me in to a regular sort of conference room meeting, and said, "I have to walk my dogs tomorrow. Could you come then?" It seemed kind of odd to do, and actually, that first meeting, I remember thinking, "I have to be the one to ask the next question," because I knew I was going to huff and puff during this conversation. And yet, I've taken that idea and made it my own. So instead of going to coffee meetings or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings, I ask people to go on a walking meeting, to the tune of 20 to 30 miles a week. It's changed my life.
Ajo cka me beri qe te leviz ishte bashkeveprimi social. Dikush me ftoi ne nje takim, por nuk mundi te me fuste brenda ne dhomen e nje konference, dhe me tha, "Do ti bej nje shetitje qenit neser. A do vish neser?" Mu duk mjaft e cuditshme, dhe faktikisht, gjate atij takimi te pare mendova, "pyetjen e rradhes duhet ta bej une," sepse e kisha nje parandjenje qe do shfryja e do fryja pergjate te gjithe bisedes. Megjithate, une e mora ate ide dhe e bera timen. Ne vend qe te shkoj neper kafene per takime ose ne salla konferencash me drite fluoreshente, i kerkoj njerezit qe te dalim ne "takime shetitese", qe barazohen me 20 deri 30 minuta ecje. Me ka ndryshuar jeten.
But before that, what actually happened was, I used to think about it as, you could take care of your health, or you could take care of obligations, and one always came at the cost of the other. So now, several hundred of these walking meetings later, I've learned a few things.
Por, perpara kesaj, ajo cka ndodhi realisht ishte, se une fillova te mendoj qe egzistonin dy mundesi, e para, mund te kujdesesh per shendetin, ose e dyta, te kujdeseshe per detyrimet, dhe njera gjithnje do vuante pasojat e tjetres. Tashme, pas disa qindra "takime shetitese", kam arritur te mesoj disa gjera.
First, there's this amazing thing about actually getting out of the box that leads to out-of-the-box thinking. Whether it's nature or the exercise itself, it certainly works.
E para, ndodh dicka e mrekullueshme kur cohesh dhe del jashte kutise (zyres) qe te con drejt te menduarit jashte kutise. Nuk e di me saktesi ne eshte afrimi me natyren a aktiviteti fizik faktore te ketij ndryshimi, por qe padyshueshmerisht funksionon.
And second, and probably the more reflective one, is just about how much each of us can hold problems in opposition when they're really not that way. And if we're going to solve problems and look at the world really differently, whether it's in governance or business or environmental issues, job creation, maybe we can think about how to reframe those problems as having both things be true. Because it was when that happened with this walk-and-talk idea that things became doable and sustainable and viable.
Dhe e dyta, dhe ndoshta me reflektuesja, eshte se sa secili prej nesh mund ti mbaje problemet ne opozite kur ato ne te vertete nuk jane ashtu. Dhe nese ne na kerkohet te zgjidhim probleme dhe ta shohim boten ndryshe, qofte kjo ne qeverisje a biznes, probleme ambjentaliste a krijimin e vendeve te reja te punes, ndoshta mund te mendojme se si ti rikornizojme keto probleme duke i konsideruar te dyja mundesite si te mireqena. Sepse, eshte pikerisht kur ndodh dicka e tille gjate atyre "takimeve shetitese" qe gjerat papritur kthehen ne te mundshme, te qendrueshme dhe te zonjat per te funksionuar me sukses.
So I started this talk talking about the tush, so I'll end with the bottom line, which is, walk and talk. Walk the talk. You'll be surprised at how fresh air drives fresh thinking, and in the way that you do, you'll bring into your life an entirely new set of ideas.
E nisa kete fjale duke folur per fundshpinen, dhe dua ta mbyll duke folur per me kryesoren, ec dhe bisedo. Ece biseden. Do te cuditeni se si ajri i paster frymezon mendim te paster, dhe ne kete menyre, do te sillni ne jeten tuaj nje grup ideshe plotesisht te reja.
Thank you.
Faleminderit.
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