Hey Team,
As you are moving ahead with your plans to add or maintain fitness and wellness practices to your life, please keep a spirit of celebration about your hard work.
Please consciously choose to congratulate yourself for the things you got done – even if they were smaller than you planned.
Even with careful consideration for how things usually go for us, our plans for our practices get made before our days and we can’t always fit everything in.
Instead of being hard on ourselves about the differences between our plans and our practices, first let’s try celebrating what we DID accomplish.
And when that celebrating is done, we can be kind to ourselves about what didn’t get done and make a new plan that addresses the differences.
If today was just a weird day that probably won’t spill its weirdness into tomorrow, you can keep the same plan and maybe just move your timing around a little.
If you feel like your initial plan was too big, you can pick a smaller version for tomorrow.
If your plan was too complicated, you can simplify it.
If your plan depended on some external factor, you can make adjustments to address that.
Either way, though, keep in mind that the problem was the plan, not you, so there is no need to judge yourself harshly.
We want to make our fitness and wellness plans part of our lives, either for the short term or the long term, and the best way to do that is to celebrate the parts that go right and adjust for the parts that went awry.
For example, one of my goals this month is to write a Go Team! post every day. This post isn’t exactly what I planned because I have a migraine and I need to rest. In the spirit of self-kindness, I am celebrating the post I wrote (Go me!) and making adjustments by planning to include the rest of my original ideas for this post in a different post later. Look at me, taking my own advice!
Anyway!
To help you celebrate, here’s your gold star for your efforts today, no matter what they were.
Your hard work counts!
