Go Team 2025: Give It A Try

Hey Team,

So, today’s encouragement “Give It A Try” can apply in two ways for those of us undertaking or exploring our options for enhancing/expanding our lives this January.

Give It A Try can be about not overthinking our plans and just following fitness and wellness practices that interest us so we can see where they lead. This might look like taking a few trial dance classes or following some strength training videos on YouTube or practicing a little yoga before bed or doing a short meditation first thing in the morning. In these cases, you are trying first and doing your thinking later – reflecting on your experiences and deciding whether to do continue.

This approach would mean that you aren’t spending a lot of time choosing specific goals or scheduling specific tasks. Instead, you are exploring and developing and you go.

If you find this idea appealing, why not give Give It A Try a try?

The other way “Give It A Try” might apply to building fitness habits has nothing to do with exploring different ideas and everything to do with getting yourself started on a particular day.

So, imagine that you have selected a habit and made a plan and you are going along just fine until the day when your brain looks at the planned activity and says, “Meh.”

Sure, sometimes that means you need to revisit and revamp your plans but most likely you just feel meh about it right now and your brain is going to start focusing on your feelings at the moment rather than your overall plan.

This is when you can enact the second application of “Give It A Try” and give the action/activity a try even though you feel meh about it. After all you don’t have to *want* to do something to get it done.*

By invoking the spirit of “Give It A Try”, you can try it and see if you can manage the activity despite the meh.

And with “Give It A Try”, you aren’t committing to doing the whole plan, just to trying it. If, once you give it a few minutes, you find that the meh is too strong, you can always stop and do something else. I suspect, though, that most of the time you will just keep going because getting started is often the biggest hurdle in a meh situation.

So, Team, today I invite you to consider if either type of “Give It A Try” might come in handy for you AND how you will be as kind to yourself as you possibly can in the process of trying.

And, as always, here are today’s gold stars for your efforts, whether you are giving something new a try, trying to stay consistent with your plans, or whether your victories today feel so small that you are wondering if they even count (They do! I said so!)

Go Team Us!

*My ADHD brain loves to argue with me on this point but yet I manage to make supper, brush my teeth, and walk the dog most of the time no matter how I happen to feel about those activities in a given moment.