No, by default?
I was the naysayer who always said Nope, I didn’t have time. The one who found the time to procrastinate playing candy-crush instead of doing something that boosted me. I was the one who moaned and whinged about my weight, how I looked or felt. I was the one who was my own block and obstacle. I convinced myself and then validated any of my options to negate action and activity.
A passing client comment about how during lockdown they had started a challenge walking (virtual event) New York State for charity I blurted out - Yeah I will do that. Maybe my subconscious got jiggled to take action and I did - that moment , logged on registered, paid and was set to do a 16-week 1000km walking challenge across New York State (at the time of writing this I am at 41% of the way there). I am not sure what the true driver of said move to this positive behavior was as it could be many things.
Competitive towards husband as he is always active and training and I do admire his just go and do attitude. he will train in-between work calls
Got an Oura Ring (will wrote more about this in Life Blog) and I am a secret star chart collector (as per the procrastination of candy crush and other silly mobile phone games) and this tells me my calories, recovery, sleep, activity and more collecting accolades as you go so I get little stars (actually green lines or red lines) to tell me how good I am!
Eating plan- we had already decided to sort out our eating and have got 6 weeks of food deliveries to push us forward- high protein low carb, twi meals a day, 20:4 fasting. Yep when we do something we go all in!
Just knew it needed doing, my Mel Robbins 54321 moment of activity and now it’s public so If I don’t do it then shame on me. Public flagellation is self induced and is irrelevant as I am a person who definitely does’t actually give a shit what people think- yet this little niggle in me is saying its out there now- you have to do it.
I needed a challenge, a focus , a boost and this is one I love doing walking that I hadn’t found the trigger to do it.
So incredibly guess what I have found literally EVERY DAY at least 90 minutes to walk.- most days I walk longer. You know that time I didn’t have, was there all along- amazing must be a miracle??? We have also created a new evening wind-down 2 mile walk together, as we work to a UK and USA clock our day finishes a lot later so after 8pm or later we take a walk with the pooch and chat the day out.
So I am not the No by default. I am not the procrastinator. I am the doer. Taking action. Making it happen. Finding time (actually using time better). I say yes. I say do it. I say give me start chart anyday!
