A little over a week ago, I was reminding us that we don’t need constant enthusiasm in order to take action on our life-enhancement plans and almost two weeks ago, I was reminding us that we can just give today’s plans a try even if we feel kind of meh about them in the moment.
Today, I am taking both of those things up a notch and reminding us that we can go ahead with our plans even if the idea of doing them is irritating as all hell.
Sure, if our plans are as irritating as all hell every single time then we may want to consider reshaping them but if we have a day or a week of irritation about the actions required for a goal or plan that is important to us?
That might be a good time to borrow this expression:
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I use this approach on the regular when I know what I need to do and the end result is very important to me but I just do not want to do the thing.
Knowing that I only have to summon the energy for the actions but that I don’t have to pretend that I want to do them, to pretend they are a good idea, or to even pretend that I like them right now is incredibly freeing.
And, just like that meme about talking a stupid walk for our stupid mental health, going ahead with my plan and swearing the whole time usually results in me feeling much better about the whole thing than if I had told myself I was just too cranky today.
Sidenote: I don’t magically cure my ADHD with this approach. My brain is still very much a factor but since I have given myself permission to be cranky about having to proceed, it’s is often a lot easier to get the thing done.
So, Team, today I invite you to consider adding the ‘swearing the whole time’ option to your toolbox of approaches when you need help to persevere towards the life you want. If you don’t swear, feel free to insert the word ‘grumble’ instead.
Swearing the whole time is actually another way to be kind to yourself about the process of change.
You don’t have to pretend that everything is great, you don’t have to be delighted about your workout, your journaling, or your next glass of water, you have the option to be downright cranky about it and it can still get done. It will still move you in the direction you want to go.
And it will move you there without you having to dredge up any extra energy about the whole thing.
It usually works for me and I hope it will be helpful for you, too.
And here’s your gold star for your efforts today, no matter what kind of mood your are in and no matter how big or small your actions are.
Go Team Us!
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Well it sure feels like it’s been a windy week on the whole compassion/ progression/ human rights front, eh?
Along with everyone in my world, I’ve had to do a lot of deep breathing and regrounding this week. And I was reminded of a post I wrote in 2020, when the lockdowns had worn on for a little bit. When you can’t figure out how to balance in the big old windy world, maybe just practice standing still and focusing on one point on your floor. Find your drishti — balancing point — and then you can find more equilibrium and ease to navigate everything else that’s coming at you. There’s always another page to turn.
Have a read through my older post, and enjoy the feline photobomb at the end.
Me doing a little tree among the trees in Costa Rica last Christmas
Today, I’m inviting you to do another type of check-in.
Let’s see how we can make your life expansion and enhancement practices just a teeny bit more fun, more interesting, or more you-friendly.
In short, let’s do a little bit of self-kindness finetuning.
Start by spending a few minutes thinking about your practices, whether they are already underway or under development. You can make some notes, keep the info in your head, or say them aloud to a friend or into a voice memo.
Then, dig a little into what is going well so far.
Here are a few questions I came up with but please feel free to develop your own:
What have you enjoyed about your practices so far? Or what ideas have you enjoyed considering so far?
What do you look forward to?
What feels good about the processes you are following or working towards? Or what feels good about your plans?
Now, consider how you can make your practices easier to start or to complete, how you could add more fun, or what could help you make the practice even more your own.
These changes can be very subtle and don’t have to involve a lot of rigamarole.
Maybe you can make things easier to start by using a practice-specific alarm or by arranging your gear in an obvious place. And it might be easier to complete something if you use specific music or work with a friend or if you have a reward at the end.
Making things more fun might involve gamifying your practices, adding points of interest to a walk or listening to a podcast while training.
As for making your practice more your own, here’s a personal example: When a practice of mine involves repetitions I have three techniques to make the process more Christine-friendly. I either use a timer instead of counting or I use letters instead of numbers or I count down instead of up (because up feels like I might have to do the repetitions forever.) Making these changes doesn’t affect the practice itself but it affects how I feel about it and that makes a big difference.
Then, do a quick review of things that are getting on your nerves.
Ok, so we all understand and acknowledge that change, new practices, and building new habit building can be difficult, tricky, and frustrating. Accepting that those kinds of feelings arise for everyone can play an important role in helping you persevere.
BUT
Just because new practices can cause those feelings doesn’t mean that you can’t examine your processes for ways to reduce your annoyance or frustration.
For me, this kind of finetuning often involves checking to see what conditions I have accidentally put on my practice. For example, I was once finding a yoga challenge really frustrating and resisted getting started each day.
When I stopped at looked at my process, I realized that I had inadvertently connected my yoga practice with a specific space in my house. There wasn’t actually enough room to do many of the sequences in the challenge so I was constantly having to shift myself over or adjust the movements which was annoying and took me out of the lovely mental space that yoga practices can create.
So, while getting started/continuing the practice involved some frustration, I could finetune my approach by practicing in a difference space and, hence, remove a whole set of unnecessary annoyances.
You may have fixable annoyances going on in your practice as well.
Maybe your chosen meditation space is chilly and you need a blanket or maybe there’s a distracting noise that you could cover with white noise – or maybe you could choose a different location.
Perhaps your socks aren’t quite warm enough for your walks so you dread lacing up your boots each day. Perhaps you could wear two pairs of socks or get some warm inserts or wear different footwear. (I once had an opposite kind of problem. The socks I wear at home in the winter are too bulky to be comfortable in my boots. I started keeping less bulky socks in the drawer with my mitts and that made a huge difference.)
Maybe the pen you have been keeping with your paper journal makes a scratchy sound when you write or maybe the ink is blotchy. Trying a different pen might make a world of difference.
Being kind to yourself can involve tangible changes, too.
Most of the time, my advice about self-kindness has to do with how you view yourself or how you think about your efforts, any kind of mental reframing of the situation.
However, being kind to yourself can be very tangible as well.
You can move the table you bump into instead of just being annoyed at yourself for bumping into it.
You can wear gloves when you write so your hands stay warm instead of telling yourself that your chilly hands are no big deal.
You can have two separate water bottles for different areas of your house instead of being frustrated that you keep forgetting to bring your water bottle with you when you go upstairs.
Sure, these small changes may not make a dramatic difference in the effectiveness of your practice but finetuning your self-kindness in both tangible and intangible ways will make it much easier for you to keep moving yourself in the direction you want to go.
So, Team, I hope you will consider how you can finetune your practice and processes and reduce unnecessary frustrations.
And, I’m offering you this gold star in honour of your efforts, no matter what they are.
Go Team Us!
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Since many (most?) people find the processes of goal-setting and habit-building a bit overwhelming, and because there is always so much ‘bigger is better’ pressure when it comes to making changes, I tend to write posts that focus on the fact that is ok to take small steps and inch forward.
And while I have mentioned that we should all work at a scale that makes sense for ourselves, our lives, and our capacity, I thought it was time for a post that specifically states that it is ok to work at a HUGE scale if that’s fun, interesting, and exciting for you.
Sure, picking huge goals will probably increase the challenges that you face but for some people (including me sometimes) that’s an energizing idea not an overwhelming one.
And, for those people, the fact that there’s a bigger risk of failure is part of the fun (and for people energized by that kind of risk, failure tends to be part of the process instead of bringing the process to an abrupt halt.
While I’m on the topic, it’s also ok to mix and match the scale and scope of your goals and plans. If a huge plan feels exciting in one area of your life and intimidating in another there is no reason why you can’t pick a goal or plan that matches your needs in that area.
And, please remember to not compare the scope, scale, and size of your goals and your efforts with someone else. We are all facing our challenges with different abilities, different capacities, and different experiences and what is hard for one person is easy for another.
Please, please, please be kind to yourself about your plans, your goals, and the actions you have the capacity to take towards them.
You are doing the best you can with the resources you have.
So, Team, no matter what size or shape your goals might be, I’m inviting you to work on them at the pace and scale that you need and want to.
And, as always, I am offering this goal star for your efforts to enhance and expand your life on your own terms.
Go Team Us!
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PS – As I was writing this, I had a sudden fear that I had already written about this topic this month but I hadn’t really. Instead, I had written a post about working with the energy you have on a given day but, interestingly (at least to me!) I drew a very similar star for that post as I have today. I guess this type of star belongs with this type of post.
In my posts so far, I have mentioned two fitness/wellness related ideas that I want to develop throughout Planuary and I have had another one pop up over the weekend.
I really thought I was on to something with moving my journaling to the beginning of the day and creating a strategy for voice dictation and copying and pasting but then I had the most jumbled week in which ever single aspect of my schedule went right out the proverbial window.
Perhaps this photo illustrates how someone sabotaged my schedule last week? Image description – a woman is crouching on a desk while papers fly through the air around her
Honestly, if you had written my planned activities on pieces of paper, threw them in the air, and then turned on a fan, the resulting schedule could not have been more erratic than the one that last week generated all on its own.
I’m just glad that I am at a point in my life and in my medicated understanding of my ADHD brain that I didn’t end up blaming myself and going into a brain loop that would have also thrown this week into a jumble.
ANYWAY!
The issue here was that my plan hinged on taking time early in the day to do my journaling and then I didn’t have a single day in which I could follow my usual morning routine.
I did manage to journal on two days but that was only because I ended up with unexpectedly long waits in my car on a couple of occasions.
So, clearly I need a plan for relatively ordinary days and one for days when my morning has a different shape.
And perhaps I need to set a reminder for early afternoon asking if I have been able to journal yet.
I’ll circle back to this again next week.
Pushups?
And this is probably the part where you are wondering about the pushup plan.
That hasn’t happened either – and that’s ok because this is Planuary not Do-All-The-Things-uary (Instant forgiveness for the win!) but I am still moving slowly towards the plan.
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I have looked at a bunch of different pushup plans some of which I could immediately discount because I know what my brain is like. *
Theoretical depiction of my pushup plan greeting me. Image description: a black and white GIF of Frankenstein’s Monster moving his head upwards in greeting with text reading ‘Good Evening’ at the bottom.
And, of course, I had planned to start by picking a yoga practice to do daily and then add the pushup plan in afterwards.
I haven’t picked the yoga practice either but I have refined that plan instead.
I am going to do one of these four practices each day, depending on my time and inclination.
So, there are some steps forward on that Planuary plan, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Planuary Idea #3
I have fallen into a classic Christine/ADHD thinking trap, again.
I want and need to move more (because my body is feeling pretty cranky) but my brain keeps trying to figure out the ‘best’ thing to do instead of just doing something.
It keeps telling me I need to make a big plan before I start AND that I don’t really have the time or information to make that plan so I should start later.
And it also likes to toss in information about my various obligations during the week and how I will need to work around them (gee, do I really, brain? sigh!) and how I need to figure out the perfect time of day to workout so I don’t waste time or get my work plans derailed.
And it also reminds me that I walk the dog every day and that I do TKD twice a week so I am already doing *something* – which is true but doing those things is not addressing the body crankiness so I need another layer of activity, no matter what my brain is saying.
This is why I always say that my Go Team posts are just as much notes to myself as they are to anyone reading them.
I have literally been writing daily posts about how to avoid these kind of brainloops (among other things) and, yet, my subconscious was busy with all of this foolishness.
SO, I am shutting that down. I’m being kind to myself about it but I am still shutting it down.
I’m starting with 5 minutes of extra activity a day right now and I will add to that as I go on.
And, frankly, while 5 minutes is my low bar amount, I will probably often end up doing more because I know my obstacle is getting started, not keeping going.
The Current Plan
Yeah, that seems like a lot of things but they are all kind of small – 5-10 minutes of journaling aloud, 4-18 minutes of yoga, and 5 minutes of additional movement daily.
Even the longest version of that is only 35 minutes a day and it doesn’t even have to happen all at once.
And, of course, this is Planuary so the plans can (and probably will) change.
That’s just part of the process!
*For example, there is no way I will work up to 50 wall pushups before moving to the floor. I would end up spending more time fighting my brain to get started than I would actually doing the practice.
**The fact that I am neither Tall, nor Buff, nor a Dude means that the names of those sites/channels crack me up every time I look at them. I consider that a bonus, really.
Yesterday’s post was all about asking friends for specific support – borrowing their expertise– but today’s post is reminding you of the expertise you already have.
I know that sounds a bit odd – aren’t you already using your expertise in the service of expanding and enhancing your life?
Maybe.
Or maybe not.
You see, I’m not talking about using your knowledge of yoga to seek out/build a yoga flow or using your research to create a meditation plan, those are useful but they are also direct and obvious applications.
I’m talking about borrowing established techniques from another area of your life to apply to your expansion/enhancement/habit-building process.
Those other areas of your life don’t have to have anything to do with the practices you are trying to implement, they just have to use skills that you can transfer to your new practices.
Perhaps recalling how you created your routines for a new work project might provide clues for you to establish a meditation habit.
Maybe considering how you generate a new grocery list might have information for you about how to create a ongoing strength-training routine that alternates different movements.
Perhaps your start-of-day checklist for the office might have applications for a new wellness routine.
Maybe revisiting times when you persevered with challenges in your volunteer work might show you new ways to persevere with the challenges in the exercise class you are taking.
The thing is, no matter how someone might be feeling in a given moment, we all have successes in different parts of our lives and we have all built skills in a variety of areas. Bringing those successes and skills into a new area lets us remember our victories, provides an opportunity to build on them, AND the whole process gives us another chance to celebrate those victories, to remember our hard work and to relive the good feeling of figuring things out.
Thinking in these terms always reminds me of one of the first times I applied the idea of borrowing my own expertise in my own life:
At one point, my writing practice involved daily writing but I struggled with it because it felt like it was going nowhere, like I was wasting my time.
Luckily, though, in a moment when my mind wandered I realized that a) I wasn’t actually trying to finish anything, the goal was to get used to the idea of writing and b) I already knew how to do something like this because I do drills in Taekwon-do all the time. When I do side-kick drills, it’s not about achieving something in particular in that session, it’s about making sure my body is ready for when I need to do a side-kick in a pattern or in the sparring ring.
When I realized that I already had a baseline skill in do this repeated thing so it’s ready when you need it, it was much easier for me to keep writing every day.
And yes, I know that example is the reverse of what I am asking you to do here but I’m sure you can see how it could have worked just as well the other way!
So, Team, today I am inviting you to consider the following questions. They are all getting at the same thing (finding transferable skills) but they come at if from slightly different angles.
What do I already know how to do that could help me build this new practice?
Where have I already found some success and how could I use that knowledge elsewhere?
How is what I am trying to learn or do similar to something I have already learned?
If I can’t make a direct connection, is there some element of something I already know that could be useful in building my new practice?
And here is your gold star for your efforts today whether you are identifying your own existing expertise, trying to figure out what expertise you need, or just trying to put one foot in front of the other, literally or metaphorically – it all counts.
Be kind to yourself out there, pretty please!
Go Team Us!
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She writes, “If it is already so stressful to hit all the societal checkmarks, why should you then add some of your own? The idea might be that a bucket list can give you more focus to achieve the goals you want, but I’m not aware of any evidence that this would be so. Indeed, because you have to achieve the goals before you kick the proverbial bucket, one study, “The bucket list effect” finds that many people put off long-term goals of leisure and play to retirement. They follow a protestant work ethic whereby one delays gratification and then, once retired, they can finally play. What to do when that golden time comes? Oh wait, let’s do what millions of others also have done. It sounds a bit miserable to me. For one thing, I’m a future discounter. At present, I have no idea if I will reach retirement age. I cannot afford to wait to live and do all grind first until I might reach whatever the retirement age would be. Fortunately, I decided against that sort of life in my mid-thirties and tried to always nurture my passions, such as sketching, playing music, reading also for pleasure, recently writing fiction.”
Now that said I don’t mind very specific lists, not things I want to to before I die, but smaller scale ones like “places I’d like to ride my bike while I’m still a strong enough cyclist.”
So for me it’s not the list idea that bugs me. It’s the attachment to mortality that seems misplaced to me. I already think our lifespans are far, far too short. There are far too many people I want to spend time with, books I want to read, movies I want to see, papers I want to write, and places I want to go. It seems absurd to pick a list of them that matter most and say those are things I want to tick off my list before I kick the bucket.
Given how ridiculously short life is, it makes more sense to enjoy and appreciate the opportunities that come my way. There is no shortage of them.
How about you? How do you feel about bucket lists?
This is going to be yet another post where I’m not sure if a challenge I face is a me thing, an ADHD thing, an everybody thing, or some combo of all of that* but I am going to talk about it anyway because it may just be helpful.
When I am planning or trying something new, my brain tends to get tangled in some of the details.
I’m kind of all or nothing with the big picture – either I have a complete and very specific image or I have a blank space – but the details?
Those are where my obstacles tend to arise.
The smallest detail can hold up a plan for weeks because I won’t realize what the obstacle is.
That challenge of that detail can just throw a cloth over the whole project like the way my Nan would put a towel over her Budgie’s cage. I occasionally hear a squawk from the project but mostly it’s just kind of weirdly shaped presence in a corner of my mind that just feels too complex to deal with.
To counter this, I have learned to borrow expertise from trusted friends and family.
As I am figuring out how to approach something new, I might ask someone who is good at that kind of thing (or just good at letting me process verbally) to listen to my plan and add in necessary steps/ideas as we go along.**
Or, if it is a time when I am aware of the obstacle but still can’t get past it, I might ask a friend to tell me how they would handle that specific thing.
Or, if it is feasible, I might ask them to do the thing for me.
So, if you are trying to track your exercise but you just can’t seem to do it, you could ask a friend who is good with apps or spreadsheets to help you figure out a solution. Or you could get them to listen to your plan and help you spot the obstacles.
Or perhaps you have realized that your obstacle is that you like to track your exercise on paper but you don’t always exercise in the same place and you forget to write things down.
Things like that can be HUGE obstacles for me until I tell someone else about them and then I either suddenly see a solution as I talk or my orderly friend will have something for me to try.
And if neither of these things seem like the solution, perhaps your friend can create a spreadsheet, download and set up an app, or can develop a system for you to put exercise info in your phone to record in a notebook later.
Yes, it is possible for us to muddle along on our own for these things but it generally makes things harder and more annoying.
Why not be kinder to yourself?
Why not make life feel a bit easier?
Ask your admin-oriented friend for advice or help with spreadsheets.
Ask your friend with an established fitness routine for help fitting your routine into the rhythm of your day.
Ask your writer friend about how to get over the stress of the blank page and write in your new journal. ***
Ask a person who doesn’t mind making phone calls to make that call that is preventing you from taking that next step. (Or a friend can draft an email for you if that’s what you need.)
You don’t have to know how to do everything that you need done.
It’s ok to reach out for help, even with tiny things that feel like they *shouldn’t* (ugh, hate that word!) be obstacles.
If something is in your way, it is in your way, and I’ll bet your friend would be only too happy to help you remove it.
I mean, who doesn’t like bringing their expertise to help solve a problem?
And I know you will be able to return the favour another time.
So, Team, today I invite you to consider any obstacles you are facing in developing, implementing, or proceeding with your practice and borrow some expertise to help you overcome it.
It’s a great way to practice self-kindness while helping yourself more in the direction you want to go.
Here is your gold star for your efforts today, no matter how big or small they are and no matter how much or how little help you get with the details.
Go Team Us!
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*For example, it may be an everybody thing that has a broader or deeper impact on people with ADHD.
**Note, I am not asking them to critique my plan nor am I asking for feedback, that’s a different dynamic which can be tricky for me and requires a different type of energy.
***Personally, I always start new notebooks by ‘ruining’ them with a black line on the front page. Anything I do after that is gonna be better than that line.
We at Fit is a Feminist Issue devote a lot of copy to documenting discrimination and lack of parity between men’s and women’s sports. Sadly, we’re never at a loss for topics, as the inequities abound. They range from lack of funding for girls’ sports to barriers to participation to inadequate training and facilities in college, Olympic and pro women’s sports.
And then there’s the issue of inequitable compensation. It took years and a lot of work by a lot of people to reach an equal pay agreement for the US women’s and men’s soccer teams in 2022. You can read more about the agreement and history behind it here and here.
But it’s not just pay at issue; it’s prize money, too. And the disparities persist not just for the pros, but also for competitors at all levels. Okay, you might be thinking: offering bigger cash prizes to men’s fields in say, amateur sports might just be a function of greater participation, so larger pools of money are available.
No. Uh-uh. Not so. In fact, not. Nope.
What Unsplash gave me when I searched “nope”.What Unsplash gave me in response to my “NO”search. I like this better, frankly.
Way back when in 2019, I reported here on the inexplicable decision by a local Spanish squash organization to gift the winner of the women’s tournament with a vibrator, and the second and third-place finishers with their choice of hair removal kit or electric foot file. Of course, once news got out, the local, regional and national Spanish squash organizations expressed their shock and dismay, attempting to foist blame upon anyone but themselves.
Then, in 2023, at a big Mother’s Day 7K race in Madrid, the winner received a food processor, and all the participants got 0% fat food products. I wrote about this event here. The promoters again were unwilling to acknowledge any responsibility.
“We understand that seen from a biased perspective, it can generate some controversy and we apologize if this has been the case and if any woman may have felt offended, but it is a product that we believe does not have a sexist character and that it is ideal for any athlete who wants to improve their nutritional habits.”
The organizers promised to “take measures” to avoid similar incidents in the future. I’m not sure what “taking measures” means here. In my view, they could just look to see what sorts of prizes men’s running races offer, and provide those. There you go– measures taken.
I wish… Fast forward to last week. Location: Germany. The event: ski jumping competition. There were prizes in the men’s and women’s divisions for those winning qualifying rounds, and then prizes for the winners of the divisions. Men who won qualifying rounds received 3200 Euros.
And then there were the women’s qualifying rounds. Olympic ski jumper Selina Freitag won her round, and received (drum roll please): a bag containing shampoo, shower gel–duschgel!– and four (count ’em!) hand towels.
Freitag confirming that yes, the duschgel and towels were in her gift bag.
Once again, the sports authorities in charge ducked and dodged.
They said the gift also included a voucher for a weekend of wellness treatments and “was certainly well intentioned, but it is understandable that it may have generated frustration and given a bad impression if seen as formal compensation for the victory. This was not the case.”
Oh, well that makes it all better. Seriously, how about “man, that was a bone-headed move on our part. Hans here is writing her a check for 3200 Euros right now. We are sorry.” Yeah, that didn’t happen. CNN reports more details about their non-apology responses.
Her Sport, an advocacy group for gender equality in sports, responded to the often-cited rationalization among promoters that women’s sports don’t generate enough revenue to merit equal prize money (or equal pay, or equal anything):
“We often hear the argument that it comes down to revenue generation, but … revenue doesn’t grow in a vacuum,” the group added. “It starts with investment & commitment to bridging the gap.”
Yes to this. And also, the revenue gap argument simply doesn’t hold across the board anymore. Women’s sports are popular and are generating lots of revenue. The time for equal pay is a long time ago, but now will do. And we can buy our own duschgel, thank you.
I had a super time on Friday chatting about the blog with the blog’s co-founder Tracy, and the newest member of the blog team, Alison.
It reminded me of how long we’ve been doing this (since 2012!) and how much the community has grown. We’re a team of eight regular bloggers, but more than twenty of us have written on either a weekly or monthly (or more!) basis for the blog. We think of that group as the blog team since many of the former regulars continue to write and post on an “as the mood strikes” or “as the need arises” basis. If you count all the people who have ever written a guest post for us, it’s more than 150.
Some other significant numbers? More than 20,000 people subscribe to the blog, 21,838 to be precise.
Hard to believe there was a time when we thought it was just a blog for Tracy and me and that maybe, just maybe, our close friends and family would read it.
So today I was struck by another significant number. We’ve published 7000 posts.
I’m not sure if you’d asked me I could have guessed how many posts we’d published, but 7000 seems like a very big number. WordPress tells me that more than 3000 were under my name, but it’s not like I’ve written more than 3000 posts as I often upload posts for guests.
Number 7000, by the way, was by Christine on getting to the heart of things.
