One Day or Day One?
“One day, or day one: you decide.”
What are you putting off for “one day”?
One day I’ll feel less overwhelmed and then I’ll be able to hang out with my friends more.
One day I’ll be less busy at work and then I’ll take my kids on a vacation.
One day I’ll be able to focus on my health and feel energetic again.
How can today be Day One?
Maybe if you’re too overwhelmed to plan a happy hour with your friends, you just send them a text and tell them you miss them and start the connection there.
Maybe if you’re busy at work, you leave on time anyway, and maybe you don’t jump on a plane for a vacation, but you order pizza and have a picnic on the floor with your kids.
Maybe you can’t fully focus on your health, but can you take one little step to feeling more energetic? Maybe a 5 minute walk around the office?
Baby steps on day one are the surest way to get to that “one day” goal.
Start small, start now. 💗
HOT OFF THE PRESS
“Sustained effort over time beats raw talent.”
“Sustained effort over time beats raw talent.”
In her bestselling book, Grit, Angela Duckworth talks about the famed West Point military academy. Thousands apply. Only 1,200 get in. These are the best of the best. Stellar GPAs. Athletic captains. Leadership awards. Congressional recommendations. The overachievers of overachievers.
During the first summer of training, one in five quits.
Not because they weren’t smart.
Not because they weren’t talented.
Not because they weren’t physically capable.
They quit because they lacked grit.
Many of us have lived that lack of grit.
Backing down from boundaries because it felt uncomfortable.
Abandoning new habits when it doesn’t go perfectly the first week.
Assuming something wasn’t for you because it didn’t come naturally.
But there’s good news: Grit can be built. Sustained effort over time beats raw talent. You can do it.
Check out episode 230 here: https://tinyurl.com/OWWPod.
“True, happy change has to come from a place of self-acceptance.”
Unfortunately, many overwhelmed working women believe the only way to improve their health is by pushing harder and being stricter with themselves.
We were taught:
Push harder.
Be stricter.
Be more disciplined.
And when life inevitably interrupts the “perfect plan,” it feels like failure, and then the sabotage cycle kicks in again.
My guest this week, personal trainer and nutritionist Elizabeth Dall, wants us to know: change doesn’t start with punishment and restriction. It starts with acceptance.
If you’re tired of feeling like you should be able to get your health together—but somehow keep falling back into the same frustrating cycle—this episode will show you a more compassionate way forward.
Listen to episode 231 here: https://tinyurl.com/OWWPod!
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