It’s funny about the holiday season. It’s the one time of the year when everyone looks back on the recent past – while also looking ahead to what’s right around the bend.

Will you look back in frustration and disappointment? Or will you be pleased with how you’re making the most of your life? It’s easy to take these questions defensively and think, “Hey … I had a hard time.”

But I don’t ask them as an accusation. I ask them to steel your determination and your focus. Are you putting off pursuit of the life you want? Or are you making it happen?

If you didn’t move closer to your dreams in 2022, then get your mind straight for chasing them in 2023. And if you did have a progressive year, then pat yourself on the back – and then stop and think about what worked that you can repeat… or what little changes you can make for even greater advancement.

Whatever you do, PLEASE don’t take this as an opportunity to beat yourself up over mistakes or regrets.

Take strength from your victories and your disappointments. They are all learning opportunities to guide you to where you want to be – this time next year and all throughout your lifetime.

Never failures, always lessons.

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It’s not your family, your job, or your responsibilities.

It’s you.

Specifically, your brain. That’s right.

Your brain feeds you more stories to sow doubt, overwhelm and exhaustion than any other source. It’s like an enemy within whose top priority is keeping you from taking the necessary action to get what you want.

👉🏽 Who tells you that you’re not THIS enough or THAT enough?

👉🏽 Who tells you it’s a waste of time to even try?

👉🏽 Or that you’ll never get anywhere?

Your brain, time and again.

It might seem natural, but it’s really the product of conditioning and programmed fear. Once you realize that the liar was put inside your head, you can begin to shift your focus elsewhere, or at least accept that it is there and not act on it.

Recognize the lies you tell yourself for WHAT THEY REALLY ARE. Do this time and again, whenever your brain starts to repeat them. Stop them in their tracks and replace them with the truth … or at least with something positive, encouraging and helpful.

You can get where you want to go. But not until you learn to tell yourself what you really need to hear.

Does this resonate with you?

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I would never ask anybody to do things I don’t believe in and practice as well. There seems to be a perception that this stuff comes easy to me, and I jump for joy each time with all the work that has to go into it.

Yes and no.

Obviously (to me), I respect the gift of a body given to me and want to be as proactive as possible and always use the best practices and people I know. So I invest in myself and my health by going to a preventive holistic Dr and getting about 3 treatments a year with my teacher, Osteopath, and Orthopedic MD Guy Voyer.

I won’t tell you how much I spend, but it ain’t cheap, but it’s important, so I do.

I take time not just to move around but to use an exercise program that allows me to keep moving because I know all the fun movement activities I love, and just life slowly degrades how balanced and strong my body is.

Do I fly through the exercises with a smile, willingly following a perfect schedule?

Nope. But I understand why and appreciate that I have the tools and make time.

There are times when I am implementing a new protocol or exercise that I need that it feels uncomfortable and needs to make more sense. But I know I wouldn’t need it if it made sense and was comfortable. So I work on finding joy in the journey and appreciating the minor improvements that come over time.

And this practice is sooooo hard for me. My competitiveness and impatience sometimes help, but they hinder more than help and are not my best qualities. I won’t sit here and tell you what you should do or that you should do this like me. Because your not.

One of me is plenty.

But I want to float the idea to you that being grateful, thoughtful, and proactive is a little more challenging at the beginning as it doesn’t feel natural. But, still, it is easier than being reactive and all the pain, uncomfortableness, and lack of empowerment you have that goes along with it if you don’t.

Are you proactive in your life and your health and fitness?

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Being passive and continuing to do the same things without getting the results you desire makes you a victim.

But this is the exact route people continue to take.

We all know that phrase of doing the same thing over and over again is insanity, but it seems to get lost in translation when it comes to our health and fitness program.

People will keep going around in circles doing the same things expecting a different outcome. 🤦🏾

Why settle for a routine of “just” being able to function with intermittent bouts of pain, continuing to be stiff and unable to move your body to the degree you want?

No thanks!

If you desire to live life to its fullest and participate with the beautiful body given to you, you must listen to your body when it keeps telling you, “this is not the way.”

You have to take a microscope, so to speak” and dial in the areas you need to work on AND the areas linked to them.

Your body is complex and completely connected via fascia (connective tissue) with a lot of little areas that need love(training and treatment) too.

If you love your body and the things it allows you to do, then love it back by taking care of it and all those little areas you are ignoring.

Do you agree?

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