Let’s face it, despite the best laid plans and excellent time management tools, sometimes things just go sideways. Many of us, especially those who are the default parent or caregiver, or business owner or boss, have crises arise to which we have to attend. Our schedules change in an instant with wellness supporting activities often being squeezed out. This is what the wellness influencer “if-you-want-it-bad-enough” nonsense completely misses. Of course we want to make time for good nutrition and movement, but when a kiddo is sick or your business website crashes mid-holiday sale time, things change.

“This time of year I often encourage folks to think more creatively about how you can add movement, but this year feels different. Heavier. More stress. Less time. And as such, I want to encourage your starting point to be a little different.”

Most folks are pretty comfortable applying timelines to their goals, but remember, we’re looking to optimize for your success, so let’s apply Time Bound in 3 key ways!

this one can feel really subjective. In the goal getting process, sometimes subjective isn’t ideal because there is too much space for the “I’ll do it tomorrow’s” as I call it. When steps aren’t well laid out and concrete, life can more easily get in the way.

How do you make sure your goal is action-oriented? This undervalued step is key to getting started and most importantly, staying with it.

“This week, we are dissecting the “M” of the principle, which is to make a goal measurable.

This one seems, and often can be, straight forward. But, sometimes I find it is not given enough thought and used to it’s full potential because it is so straight forward. So let’s look at it a little deeper.”

“September has become very similar to January in the health, wellness and fitness spaces in that many folks are getting back into the swing of their routines after the Summer slowdown.

How about you? Looking to get back into your fitness routine?

If you need a little guidance, consider these questions:”

We often clean up our yards, our gardens, our balconies and swap out our clothes and shoes as the seasons change. Often though, we don’t think about the opportunity to clean up our calendars seasonally. That is, taking a look at your day to day and week to week schedule, habits and to-dos to see what must stay on our calendar and most importantly, what we can get rid of to ensure we are optimizing our time.

Whether it is working out, blogging, baking, or any other activity you do routinely, once you stop doing that activity, not doing it becomes habit, doesn’t it?

Now that you’ve reflected on the questions from last week’s blog….let’s begin to action your new goals!

Health, wellness and fitness wasn’t quite as you wanted this Winter? Let’s Spring Clean your Wellness Routine!

If you are wondering how to get more active, it comes down to how to change your behaviour. Behaviour change is BOTH easy AND hard. Are you maximizing the ‘easy’?

Relapse is a normal and expected part of changing our habits and routines, BUT we’ve built so much shame around falling off track, that we do not even want to consider planning for this natural process.

Fall fitness from a different approach this week.