Unless you’ve been living under a rock (does anyone actually do this?) you’ll have heard about the “Cost of living crisis”.

“A situation in which the cost of everyday essentials like groceries and bills are rising faster than average household incomes”.

And frankly, after seeing our recent energy bills, I get it.

And I know how tightly many families are squeezed at the best of times.

Not disputing any of that (so no need for replies saying that I am).

But, as there often are, there are other considerations.

And leaving them out only tells part of the story.

It’s undeniable that what our expectation of a minimum standard of living looks like has changed exponentially over the decades.

Most people nowadays would expect to have a car, smart phone and reasonable sized TV and holiday each year.

The ability to go out socialising feels like a given.

The quality and variety of food that we expect to have access to is unrecognisable compared to the not so distant past.

No one now would be ok with doing 12 hour days, six days a week and your job killing you off by the time you’re in your 40s.

And all these things are great.

Ever improving standards is what we should all be striving for.

But it would be interesting to make a comparison between the cost of living like people did 100 years ago versus the cost of living in the same way nowadays.

How much is true change of costs and how much is changes in expectations?

And we could ask the same about similar thoughts related to our health and fitness?

Is “eating healthily expensive”?

Or has our expectation of how we should be able to eat changed?

Or is fair to say “healthy eating is boring”?

When we have the widest variety of food options available at any point in history?

Are we really “too busy to exercise”?

Or has our expectation of how much leisure time we should have changed?

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Sometimes the changes are only part of the conversation.

How they fit in around changes in our expectations, and what that means for us, being the often overlooked bit that is worth assessing.

Much love,

Jon ‘Hi Def’ Hall

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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!

Jon Hall
Jon Hall

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