Maybe It Is About the Story

Have you ever had the experience of wanting something really badly?

Whether it was wanting to look a certain way or wanting to visit a certain place, maybe taking a dream trip or achieving a certain position. One of my clients told me the other day about this “top 3 in the country golf courses” he had been invited to play at. Then he said, playing there would not be as much fun as the story he could tell about the fact that he had played there.

This is life. We all work towards a certain thing, only to find out that what we put into the process of getting there, what we learned along the way, and the time before or after the experience is really where our adrenalin got stirred, where we made changes, where we experienced LIFE, PROGRESS and CHANGE.

BEGIN AGAIN.

That’s what we do. We work towards something. We most often accomplish it. We learn from the journey, not necessarily the event. And then we BEGIN AGAIN. On the human path of growth, of learning, of LIVING.

I challenge you to SAY YES to BEGIN AGAIN.

In this case, it is to a training program to take your health and fitness to the next level.

It has been too long turning our wheels going nowhere. Let’s face it, most of 2020 has been a holding pattern. “When things are back to normal…” is the statement I hear more than anything. Well, guess what, life is not waiting. It is passing us by. Either get on board and use this time to STEP UP and to STEP INTO YOURSELF or keep on waiting.

As we conceptualized this training program, I kept coming across images of my mom crossing a finish line, earning a medal, running or riding or walking with another number on a bib in another state or country - competing. That is the HIGHLIGHT REEL. As I looked at pictures over the days in between all the events, it was of her sweating in a strength class, huffing and puffing on her bike, showing up at 5am for swimming lessons and practice, or on her mat with our Pilates people, sitting with books like “The Untethered Soul”, her highlighter in hand, or having coffee with anyone of us, or simply with her thoughts, across the street.

Whatever our outcome in this training program, Do it for the TRAINING, Do it for the EXPERIENCE, Do it for the STORY. Don’t be afraid to fail. If we learn anything, we have an opportunity to remind ourselves what it is like to NOT LIVE IN FEAR. Imperfection is where we learn and how we grow.

In fact, our FIRST WEEK of training gives us permission to be all over the place. That is, to become aware of when we are working at 70% of our max heart rate and when we find ourselves working at 90% of our max heart rate and everything in between. And more importantly, we have the first week of training to NOTICE how the different zones feel.

During this first week of Begin Again Training, do yourself a favor and try to get a good read of your resting heart rate. Ideally, while laying in bed, before stirring, put your first two fingers gently to your carotid (on your neck) artery and count for one minute. Recording this will give us a good gauge of our current fitness. And while, this is a short training period, we may get good results or at least begin our journey towards seeing a decreased resting heart rate as a result of increased fitness and decreased over-training/exhaustion effects.

I can’t wait to see where our stories take us.

I will be right here on this journey with you.