A son visits his depressed, sedentary mother at a retirement home and starts her with one tiny movement: a single finger. A week later she's walking. By week two, at 85, she's riding a stationary bike. Small, consistent movements can unlock major changes.
I come into her retirement home, I go, hey Mom! And she would be depressed for years at a time, and she was getting overweight, lethargic, was sleeping most of the time. I'm sitting there, you know, saying, how you doing? How you been? And she doesn't even want to answer me. I've got to get her off of this sedentary conditioning and behavior. So I said, hey Mom, uh, take your hands and move them like this. She goes, no. Just take your left finger one time, just do this, boom, like that. Angry, she does one time. Put your hands over your head. No, she wouldn't do any more. Day one. After the first week, I had her standing up and sitting in her chair. In the second week, we were walking one time back and forth in the hallway. By the time I left, she was downstairs on the bike at 85 years young. And it all started with one finger. Wow.
