Why is my Trainer Obsessed with Time?

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Why is my Trainer Obsessed with Time?

Full disclosure, I’m going to be 40 this year.

I’ll be honest, my brain is having a hard time wrapping around that fact. I can’t pinpoint exactly what it is that I’m having a hard time grasping.

And as I reach that “milestone” I feel like it’s more and more important to point out that how we use our time can significantly impact our health. Significantly.

Which is why I’m obsessed with time.

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Finding More Time, Next Steps

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Finding More Time, Next Steps

There’s just not enough time.

Hopefully after my last post about how to find more time in your current schedule you’ve found at least a little more time in your week.

As promised, now that you have a bit more time over the next several posts I’m going to go over the steps I take to not only find even more time (after I’ve used my tool, that is), but prioritize the most important things first so that I can work towards my goals without becoming completely overwhelmed with the process.

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Finally See Progress Using Small Steps

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Finally See Progress Using Small Steps

So tell me… how is that progress coming along? Did you stop and take inventory of where you are to begin like we talked about two weeks ago? Or did you think,

“Yeah Erin, that’s a great idea,” then finish going through your emails and promptly go on with your day?

If that was you, you’re not alone

In fact, the reason I’m writing this to you now is because that’s the exact pattern I slip into if I’m not careful.

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Happy 2023

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Happy 2023

Are you sick of all the gym, meal plan, and weight loss advertisements yet? Are you ready to throw your (too many) resolutions at the window? Are you overwhelmed from the overstimulation of the holidays and the “excitement” of a new year?

 If so, you’re not alone.

To be completely honest, “New Year, New You” is one of my least favorite phrases (it comes right behind “Get your Body Back after pregnancy”).

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Wrapping up the Year, Goodbye 2022

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Wrapping up the Year, Goodbye 2022

Here we are again at the closing of a year. How are you feeling?

Do you feel excited about the year to come? Anxious or stressed about what you didn’t accomplish this year? A bit nervous or hesitant (because let’s be honest, these last couple years haven’t exactly gone as planned)?

Do you feel nothing? (Cue music from A Chorus Line)

First off, I want you to know that whatever you feel is okay. You may be a big “New Year’s Resolutions” person, or you might not. Or, you may be somewhere in between. Wherever you land- as long as it’s right for you, it’s right.

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2022 Word of the Year

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Last June, I bought a bracelet. Since becoming a mom, I honestly hadn’t purchased many things specifically for myself. Sure, I’d purchased nursing bras and a few outfits that fit my postpartum body, but other than the necessities (and to be clear, I do consider equipment to allow me to workout at home a necessity), most of what I purchased for myself was “mom-stuff.”

I’m not sure “mom-stuff” is really a word or phrase that can be looked up in a dictionary or researched on google, but you know what I mean, right?

It’s the stuff you need to make your life a little less insane as a mom. Yes, I need organizing bins to keep my toddler’s toys in check. Rolling cart to create a mobile diaper changing station? Absolutely. Silicone baking cups, popsicle molds, and good cake pans may feel like a kitchen splurge… but they were all purchases that had something to do with the toddler. Hence, “mom-stuff.”

But the bracelet? That was for me.

Last December I chopped 14 inches off my hair. Yes. You read that right. 14 inches. (Yes, I donated it)

On my way to pay for my haircut, something inside me woke up. Something needed to change. While it was probably the massive change in hair length that was the trigger, the knowledge that something was just a bit off had been floating around the back of my head for a while.

But what was it?

After a good amount of soul-searching, praying, and chatting with my people I realized what was a bit off was… me. It wasn’t that something was off. I was off.

As I started to consider my world for 2022, I seriously considered align. But again, there was something about it that didn’t quite convey what I was looking for. That, and I had a strange feeling with posting a word that also made me think of digestive health all over my world for a year.

I considered words like strength, confidence, and worthy. But when it came down to it, I realized all of these words had one thing in common. Which is why my 2022 word of the year is connect.

CONNECT

“to bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established”

This. This is what I want. This is what I need. This is what I crave.

Connection. To connect.

  • I want to connect with friends that I’ve lost touch with because of the double-whammy of new baby and pandemic happening at the same time

  • I want to connect with new friends now that I’m in a new phase of life

  • I want to connect to my inner strength that I’ve been neglecting as I’ve waded through the past almost two years

  • I want to re-connect to my teachings; about dealing with overwhelm, slowing down, relationships, motivation, and more

  • I want to re-connect with my personal happiness commandments

  • I want to re-connect to me as a person and a mom, not just a mom

  • I want to connect. I want connection.

I realize that it’s not going to be easy. I’m will have to be flexible (ha! Thanks 2021) in my approach to some of these things. It’s not January 2020 where we didn’t have to remember new guidelines every time we walked out the door. There may be more zoom or FaceTime instead of in-person get togethers than I’d like, but it’s better than nothing.  Because nothing leads to disconnect. And this year, I’m all about connection.

Here’s to a new year. A year of joy, happiness, love… and connection. Happy 2022.