Summit

Location: The top of Maplewood Place, Kitchener

Description: Looking into the sun, Maplewood Place curves down a hill in the middle with houses on either side.

Story: You have to be willing to climb to reach the summit, and the only way to climb is by taking a step and then another. Can you take a step today? Probably. How about tomorrow? Definitely.

Let's try something right now. Take both your arms and raise them above your head, then touch them together. With that little move, you burnt some calories. No, not a lot, but some. The little things amount to   more when they're done repeatedly.

Here's another one: 7 x 8 = ? No matter how you answer that question (short of getting a calculator), you've engaged your mind by either remembering the answer, counting on your fingers, or drawing a diagram.

Want something harder? If you haven't already, you can try counting to 1000, but for a real challenge you should try doing it in another language, or writing out the words nicely, or typing them, or singing them, or something else that I haven't even listed. These aren't big things, but they are progress.

Get started on something, and after that you can speed up. There's probably something you wanted to do but it seemed too big. Do a little of it and see how hard it really is. Practice something you know but have been putting off. You can spare five minutes; nibble away.