Steps

In his book Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv created the shorthand description "nature-deficit disorder" to highlight the human alienation from nature. The term reminds me of a research paper published in the medical journal Lancet. Seventy-eight 3-year-olds were monitored by small electronic accelerometers clipped to their waistbands for a week. The finding of only twenty minutes of moderate physical activity a day is clearly demonstrating our divorce from the wildness.

Put simply, we are spending more and more time in couch, car seats, and even baby seats.

I happened to be promoting an exercise program The Billion Steps Challenge when I was reading the book of Richard Louv. The target of the program is to align organ transplant recipients and the extended community to stay active and collectively walk one billion steps in ten weeks.

Think about what it feels like to have a billion steps by all participants around the world. Pretty ambitious, right? The key is to remember every step counts. Everyone counts.