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With the start of a new year last month we all talked a lot about making changes.  A simple one that we discussed was to make small adjustments to our habits as a way of keeping the brain fresh and avoiding things like Alzheimer’s Disease.

I’m in favor of that so since the start of the year I started mixing up how I walk to work in the morning.  I have 2 choices of routes from my house to the subway in Cambridge and only 1 route on the subway, but when I get off the green line at Arlington Station my options for diversity in paths to the office unfold before me.  If I take into account different sides of the street  and 2 routes through buildings (which are handy on days like last week’s gales) I see about 21 routes from the subway to the office.  I don’t make any decisions about my route and let the traffic signals lead my way.  I follow walk signs or empty streets until I can’t keep going straight then turn at the signal.  Yes it’s a little bit OCD, but it works.

Now I’ve started to worry about this rule being too strict and that rather than it being a tool helping me to stay fresh it actually has become an impediment to that end.  Clearly I think too much.  But I can’t wait until Spring when the weather is better and the Public Garden and Boston Common beckon with even more options for routes to and from work and staying fresh.

What are you doing to mix it up? Let me know in the comments.

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