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Your Property Is Our Priority. not be considered an endorsement of any goods or services. 6 A P R I L 2018 I Call 403-263-3044 for advertising opportunities W E S T H I L L S I APRIL 2018 7 IMPORTANT NUMBERS TAKE ON WELLNESS ALL EMERGENCY CALLS 911 Doing Sport Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre 403-253-5250 AHS Addictions Hotline 1-866-332-2322 and Exercise ATCO Gas – 24 Hour Emergency 403-245-7222 Calgary HEALTH LINK 24/7 811 Better Calgary Police – Non Emergency 403-266-1234 Part Seven Strathcona Park • Christie Park Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter 403-234-7233 By Joe Mills [email protected] Signal Hill Child Abuse Hotline 1-800-387-5437 Kids Help Line 1-800-668-6868 Child Safe Canada 403-202-5900 Distress/Crisis Line 403-266-4357 In my last article I described how one feature of real- before I move on to more practical advice, for that ad- ELECTED OFFICIALS everyday-and-ordinary-life is that “curve balls” happen vice to make sense it’s hugely important that we under- ENMAX – Power Trouble 403-514-6100 all the time, and as a result, sadly, it doesn’t matter how stand how our exercise perspectives could change. Councillor Jeff Davidson Poison Centre - Alberta 1-800-332-1414 hard we try, plans get broken too often. Since then, I came across a well-known personal trainer in the U.S. on And so rather than ramping up the “accountability” Ward 6 Office HOSPITALS / URGENT CARE pressures and seeing our “selves” as the problem when 403-519-6046 • [email protected] social media similarly stating that “life’s curve balls (he Executive Assistant: Alberta Children’s Hospital 403-955-7211 used the same words!) happen all the time.” Intrigued I our curve balls de-rail us, a far more effective and [email protected] read on, but unfortunately his solution just didn’t seem healthier option is to see the exercise knowledge and Constituency Concerns: Foothills Hospital 403-944-1110 to make sense. “Accountability” was the answer he practice itself as a problem: and one that can therefore [email protected] | 403-268-1035 be changed. Development Permit Information: Peter Lougheed Centre 403-943-4555 claimed and in training with him, he would make you [email protected] | 403-268-1380 Rockyview General Hospital 403-943-3000 more accountable, thereby preventing you from allow- This doesn’t mean that exercise knowledge and practice ing the curve balls to disrupt your plans. Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre 403-955-6200 is always a problem, only that at various times it can be. Now the reason I bring this experience up is because I And if it’s going to make us feel bad and guilty—such as, South Calgary Urgent Care Health Centre 403-943-9300 “the only bad workout is the one you didn’t do”—then MLA Mike Ellis want to show you how this “accountability” is not only South Health Campus 403-956-1111 not your only answer but can actually be damaging too. that is a serious problem because if you’re anything like Calgary-West me, feeling bad makes me less likely to do something I Unit 234, 333 Aspen Glen Landing SW OTHER Sure, the more driven and determined one is, the more Calgary, AB Canada T3H 0N6 likely one is to succeed. But it doesn’t matter how ac- find hard, not more likely. Phone: (403) 216-5439 Calgary Humane Society 403-205-4455 countable, driven or determined you are if the examples And so, while inspirational stories of astonishing levels Fax: (403) 216-5441 of curve balls I suggested last month occur: cars not Email: [email protected] Calgary Parking Authority 403-537-7000 of determination, drive and sacrifice are always nice to starting, Wi-Fi dropping, the weather, children’s accidents: SeniorConnect 403-266-6200 hear, let’s be realistic. If sticking to our exercise plans re- little Billy’s nose gushing with blood because he banged quires such huge levels of determination and account- Calgary Kerby Elder Abuse Line 403-705-3250 into the kitchen counter. ability then it probably isn’t something we should be Alberta One-Call Corporation 1-800-242-3447 But if “accountability” is our only solution to sticking to doing anyway, as we’re not likely to ever enjoy it. MP Ron Liepert our exercise and health plans and any of these curve Calgary Signal Hill City of Calgary 311 So, let’s remove these mental chains and Everest-climb- ball events happens, we’ve got problems. For not only ing pressures we put ourselves under. As I hinted at in #2216, 8561 8A Avenue SW Social Service Info & Referral 211 Calgary, Alberta T3H 0V5 have we missed a work out that we need to make up, the last article, let’s re-think what exercise knowledge Phone: 403-292-6666 • Community Mediation Calgary Society 403-269-2707 but we also feel incredibly guilty that we missed the should be and what exercise practice can be.