If you watch the news, listen to the radio or read newspapers, I’m sure you’ll have heard about the “cost of living crisis”.
Rising prices in areas such as energy, fuel and retail causing a squeezing of the budget (or worse) for many.
Interestingly, Google Ngram viewer shows the term isn’t a new as I, at least, had thought it was.
Use of “cost of living crisis” in print media sky rocketed around 100 years ago to similar frequency as now.
Then increased again in the 50s, 70s, 90s. and the last 10 years.
Every 20 years interestingly.
It had actually peaked in 2018 and started to drop again in 2019 (the last year records were completed for).
But that’s by the by.
I get it.
My bills have gone up too.
It’s not easy.
Adjustments have to be made to make budgets balance.
It’s a concern.
But, do you know what’s a bigger concern for me?
The cost of not living.
On a near daily basis I speak to people who aren’t happy with their lives.
Their energy levels.
Their mood and mental health.
What their physical endurance allows them to do.
The life it enables them to live.
Whilst it’s hard to find any real concrete stats on this, even the most conservative estimates I can find suggest a good few million people in this country not happy with their lives.
The higher estimates being much more.
And the costs of “not living” are huge.
Directly to us.
And the knock on effect to those around us.
I’ve said many times that “weight loss” is kind of “what we have to put above the door to get people in”.
Because that’s normally where we’re “at” with describing things.
But what we do is help people change their lives.
When I hear someone has lost 20lbs (or more), that’s great.
It really is.
But hearing the stories about how that (and the other changes they’ve made since starting with us) have changed their lives (and the lives of those around them) is what drives us to keep doing what we do.
That’s what we do.
If you’re already a member, and that’s not quite happening, then talk to us.
Let’s work together and get things going in the right direction.
If you’ve not already tried us and like the idea of life changing results, rather than just renting access to some equipment, then you can get more info via www.myrise.co.uk/apply 🙂
Much love,
Jon ‘Interesting fact I’ve just found – nearly all of the increase in the cost of fuel, when compared to average incomes, came between 2002 and 2012. Other than the last few months it has, on average, been proportionally similar for the last decade’ Hall
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