Happy Friday and welcome to episode 117: The Power of NOW – inspired by one of our very own Power House Group Members, Jacki Fischer!
At the start of 2021, I officially started a membership for a virtual place to hang out, build community and support one another in our health endeavors! All of our members picked a word that we put on a bracelet as a constant reminder of what we are fighting for in this new year. One of our members, Jacki Fischer (also spotlighted in my book Direction Not Perfection), picked the word NOW. (Whether it was a household need, work to-do or health goal… she wanted to push away procrastination and do it NOW).
Let me back up for a minute and tell you where my thoughts started! I’m always watching and observing… what seems to come easy for some and so difficult for others.. what are the constant barriers that seem to pop up knocking us off our habit train and derailing any success we have managed to stash away.
Do you ever feel that way? Do you ever feel like every time you get some momentum going, something inevitably pops up and starts to steal or strip away the flow… the flow of the workouts or meal prep or TIME, where did my time go? Sometimes it’s as easy as a shift of season like a school year to a summer and other times it looks like a death in the family or caretaking needs or an injury or health concerns …or or or and the list goes on.
I want to take this episode and be very clear that this is a hard, harsh reality that we will forever deal with CHANGE and will happen to everyone (well, some more often than others… but change happens and this produces new barriers and reasons to have to adapt). With this change comes the great importance of never having the expectation that it is supposed to finally be easy at some point… that one day, there will be a magic door that opens and life gets easy… that life will offer you hours for workouts, the time will become available to just play in the kitchen… peruse a grocery store… travel the country… the real of the real is that if it is important to us, we have to build it in NOW.
Going back to the point that there is no magical day that brings on the “easy” button, I wanted to provide a few examples that might resonate with you when you think about different seasons of life and how we thought it should get easier when…
- The college student that feels bogged down with studying and stress and feels that workouts and healthier eating will easier once they live on their own, have control over their own kitchen and life
- The right-out-of-school professional that is burning the candle at both ends and thinks they will reign in their drinking or eating once they settle down with their family and have different reasons or motivations to cook healthier or work on habits
- The parents of a new born who can barely complete their normal daily tasks through the exhaustion they are under, let alone work on their own health.. .it will be easier when kids get older
- Parents with school age kids participating in multiple sports and by the time school and sports run around is completed for the day everyone is falling into bed only to start it over the next day… it will be easier when kids graduate
- Here is the part that really throws people… the thought that they c
