CAUTION: When Life Gets In The Way

Work is insane.

Kids back in school.

So and so is in the hospital.

There’s a pie to make for the holidays.

There’s always going to be  s o m e t h i n g.  

There can be any amount of distractions, obstacles and competing demands that can make it easy (and so understandably!) to put your fitness, health and nutrition goals on the back burner.

We’ve all done it.  Me too.  We tell ourselves “I’ll start doing this when life slows down a bit.”

The problem with that is:

Things never really slow down permanently.

So we delay those self-improvements until life calms down a little.

Sometimes life really does lend us a hand and offer a tiny ideal window to do it all---all the food prep, all the CrossFit classes, all the meditating.

But, it’s important to know that it’s just a small window of time.

When that window closes we can find ourselves stuck again and struggling to make progress.

Here’s how you keep progress moving.

It starts with a paradigm shift.

A paradigm is a pattern of something or a model.  As in, how you do things.

The shift that needs to happen is not thinking of your health habits as an “on” or “off” switch, instead they’re on a dial.

When you’re in that small window of time where food prep, CrossFit and meditating are all clicking along seemingly effortlessly...you can turn that dial way up.  Bust those PRs, eat all the kale, become a monk!

But if life starts feeling a little crunchy, like so and so is in the hospital, I hate kale and a bad case of the flu all happens at once.

All you have to do is turn the dial down a little (or a lot).

If you can’t do the whole workout, go for a quick walk.  If food prep ain’t happenin’, just add a side salad to your fast food meal (instead of fries).

Whatever the goal, know that there’s a range of improvements to make---it’s never “all or nothing”.

The truth is:  The strongest people aren’t doing it all.  They’ve just learned to do something---even on the messiest, busiest, temptation-filled days.

Bottomline:  Something vs. nothing is always a win!

Here’s the takeaway:  What can you do to set the dial to make life feel more manageable this week?

The Best Is Yet To Come!

-Coach Michael