However varied the email you all send me may be, there is one question that shows up in some incarnation or another with amazing consistency, and it's this: "I have absolutely no time to exercise -- what should I do?"

Last week I gave you the kind of "spiritual pep-talk" side of the No Time To Exercise question. Today I'm going to give you a more practical take on the matter.

First, let me reiterate the takeaway point from last week's column: The universe can almost always be counted on to present obstacles -- actually, I prefer to call them challenges -- not just to finding time to exercise but to a host of things you want to do but can never seem to find the time for. I don't need to tell you that. And I don't mean to diminish those obstacles. (I can almost hear you saying, "I know where you're going with this, Jonny, but you don't understand ... in my case, there really isn't any time.")

I know, I know. And I know I asked you to make a big leap of faith last week in suggesting that the act of commitment could actually precede a practical plan. But it can.

So here you are, with a schedule that is packed with a job, husband, kids and soccer practice, you have a long commute home, and you don't have a gym in your neighborhood ... and I'm asking you to commit to exercising.

There's just no time, you say.

Okay, first question. If your doctor suddenly told you that you had a serious illness and the only way you could beat it was to sit quietly and meditate for 20 minutes a day ... what would you do?