I walked into a café in Bath recently and the conversation between myself and the waitress went along the lines of:

• Waitress: “What can I get you?”
• Me: ”Caesar Salad please”
• Waitress: “Are you Irish??”
• Me: “Yeah”
• Waitress: “Oh my God. I love the Irish accent so much.”

It was a small café with a lot of regulars and for the time I was there, almost everyone who came in was told that there was an Irish man with an amazing accent in the corner.

My face while sitting and eating was a mix of embarrassed to be honest a bit smug. When I left I was thinking we probably don’t really get the fact that we might have a great accent, because we are surrounded by Irish accents all day (this even happens to people from Donegal!).

It’s like that question about fish. Do they know they are wet when they are in water all the time?

Yesterday I was listening to a podcast analysing businesses. The lads on it started talking about a Pharmaceutical company that specialises in Diabetes and Obesity products. Their profits are getting higher and higher. Despite it being a business podcast the presenters were saying the companies numbers the big thing the lads said about this companies results was:

“People start eating well, seriously”.

Despite all of the information out there, and the facilities available to people looking to improve their health, it’s like people have become like fish in the water. So used to feeling kinda out of sorts that they don’t even realise how their joints are aching, they are gradually getting more overweight or their energy is s**t.

Often until a shark in the form of obesity/heart disease/diabetes etc comes to try and eat them.

At the weekend I had a call with a coach/mentor of mine – one who lets me away with nothing. A term that she used a lot was “taking radical responsibility – for everything”.

Are there situations cropping up for yourself where if you applied radical responsibility you could improve your health?

Like making your own lunch and taking it to work with you, if there’s no where healthy for you to eat during the day?

If you’re unsure around what you need to be doing, can you get a fitness mentor to help guide you in the right direction.

If you’re time poor, maybe you could spend less time on the quick dopamine hit inducing circle jerk that social media is or less time watching tv and more time moving throughout your day?

How about deciding to go for a quick walk on your lunch break every day?

There are so many places that you can start and build from, it really is a case of making a decision, taking the responsibility and building from there.

Do posts like these make much difference? I don’t know.

I definitely know that the people who take responsibility and the necessary action will have their faces change from embarrassed to smug very quickly when they get out of the water and realise how good they can actually feel…