Is it Too Late...?

Worried you didn't start (this challenge) on time?

Miss a day or putting too much pressure on yourself to post daily (guilty 🙋‍♀️😅) even when you dont have the bandwidth for it, this week of all weeks?

In general wondering if it's too late...?

...….to learn a new skill, change your career, get in shape, learn to eat better, show up compassionately for self and others in the days and weeks ahead, fill in the blank?

Listen. It's not. 🙅‍♀️ OK?

Take all the time you need. Start where you are, build at a pace that feels sustainable to you, rest whenever you need to, and just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Even if it means breaking it up into smaller goals or steps, going slower than you'd like, or taking breaks along the way - it's the consistent effort toward your goal that adds up over time.

Yesterday was not a high energy day for me. So I broke my plank challenge down into 3 efforts spaced over the course of my day when I needed breaks from work. It wasn't exciting nor did I feel motivated to do it, and I took looooooong (like hours-long) breaks between sets, but it happened. ✅

Whether it's building physical strength or mental/emotional resilience during challenging circumstances, you have everything you need already. Just remove the unnecessary layer of self-judgment, pressure, and doubt. You'll get there, in your way, in your time. We all will. If there's one thing I've learned in life and in fitness it's this:

If you don't enjoy the journey, you'll never like the person you find at the end of it

So be kind - to others, of course. But don't forget to be kind and patient and gentle with yourself, just like you'd show up for a friend, this week. You never know the challenges others are carrying. 🫂

Oh - and my gratitude practice yesterday was a super simple thing, but one I still think of and celebrate regularly: being able to brace my core enough to open a jar. 🤣 This may sound so small, but it weas something I couldn't do for months, maybe even up to a year or so after my hernia repair in 2020. It was so demoralizing at times to feel like my body wouldn't or couldn't show up for me - but I just kept showing up for her, and here we are 4 years later, opening jars like a ninja and taking names. 🥷

The takeaway? Maybe we just don't have enough runway to have perspective...yet. We often overestimate what we can accomplish in one year and underestimate what we can do in ten years (or so says Bill Gates, love that quote).

So...why not give others, and ourselves, time, compassion, and as much grace as we possibly can muster? It's never too late to show up for yourself or others.

Want more on this topic I wrote a full blog post on the topic of how it's never too late to make a big change - time will keep passing, so really the question isn't "is it too late?" but rather, "who do I want to be at the end of this period of time?" 🤔 If it matters enough to you, then it's never too late. ⏰