Reflecting

Woke up in  a reflective mood.  I’ve been trapped in facts and figures, training routines, understanding tons of information about Fitness and Training.  I’m in an “educational download” zone.  Where I am a sponge.

I follow various people on twitter, local friends, church leadership and other similar genre peeps.  I follow a few celebrities, and various musicians.  I love to see what people will say about their day, where they are what they are doing and even every once in a while what they want us to know about them.  Twitter allows for that.

I get up and twitter and facebook, always sharing about where I am going, and what I am doing in fitness world.  But I come here to share what I am thinking.

I am thinking I’ve put my creative side, aside for study and thought.  I look across the room at my guitar and it sits there rather quietly.  I need to play it a ton this weekend because I will be singing to kids on tues and my fingers are going to burn painfully.

The creative side to my world is quiet.  I’ve stood in front of tubes of paint for the last few months thinking about painting a scene on a canvas my daughter gave me.  It’s something my Mother would have done.  I paint words here, but notice, I’ve not been here in a while.

Blogging is painting, and creating and letting thoughts out that can be understood or not.  Blogging is my way of often finding myself from the inner rumble of everything.

My mind is on training, building business and finding the language to help another change their life.  I am a sponge, I draw everything I can in, and seek ways to help you go towards your goals.  I am taking alot of my own medicine and counsel and am changing my life too, and reflecting on the impact of my positive choices.  What works what doesn’t.  That’s where my mind is.  My fingers look for the music, but my mind seeks out the understanding of things in the fitness world.

Find the time or Make the time?

I got a call 2 weeks ago, an old friend needed “training help” (Don’t out yourself and tell who you are). I chuckled, I get that a lot now. Friends who need a friend. That would be me, conditionally, but that would be me. I started with my baseline question: “What are you doing now?” My friend was actually doing a lot, “I get up early and ride my indoor bike 30 mins a day. I’ve been going to curves for a long time, now I just started jazzercise.” My friend could tell you my response: While laughing-I said, “I think I might need to HIRE YOU”. I explained she was way ahead of the average person seeking fitness training expertise and or help! (We actually did have to untangle some over achievement) My friend had MADE THE TIME for fitness. SHE PUT IT FIRST THING in her very busy life, Mother-of-many, wife, educator, long days working on her masters (I think). Busy, busy, busy. Yet she gets up at the crack of dawn and rides that bike. So when one of her kids needs to do something unexpected, she is already done! It was made a top priority. #1 Rule: MAKE THE TIME. You won’t find the time-you make time, if you are busy, great, busy people can do even more than the rest of us! You can squeeze somethings around and MAKE IT HAPPEN. Make the time. I had to put it first thing in my day, after a few cups of coffee that is, or it just wasn’t gonna happen. I got up at 4:30 often in the beginning and again I do that to go be with clients who are making the time to be trained. Last year a friend said, “When things settle down I’ll find a way.” I smiled and said, “You know, you should find it now, then you’ll always know how to do that when things settle down too” Not popular. I get that. I get paid to think outside the line and believe, I get paid by people to believe this and help them make it happen. That’s what I do, now. I train others, I get up and meet them before the sun rises, and I help them run, bike, swim, lift, stretch, eat and drink. I run on treadmills and I stand beside them. I swim in the same lanes with and watch from under water. I follow on a bike while fast runners run. I come along side, I encourage, I cheer you on, and I train you. I don’t let go easily. I keep suggesting the basics over and over. I will be there MAKING TIME, even if you don’t show. It’s what I do.

What keeps you moving?

Business is up!

As in peeps are looking me up, and seeking help with their fitness goals.  Just when the statistics are stating that 95% of the population who set new year’s resolutions are now  abandoning them, I find myself more busy.

I like that.  I like helping people. I like working out along side others and helping them move towards their goals.  It keeps me moving. That is the secret, whether I am in the pool swimming laps, or on a treadmill @5:45a, I am usually along side and moving with someone.

I’ve noticed that since I’ve been moving with people, they start showing up and move with me in my spin class.  I’ve got people moving with me out in triathlon training too.

What keeps you moving?  Without a doubt, My PEEPS keep me going.  I’ve sowed in, and now I am reaping a life that is very active, every single day.  I am most grateful for that.

What keeps you moving, FIND IT, and DO IT.

NO JOKE, Get up and get moving, or keeping moving, today….Make it a priority, squeeze it in your life, and nail it, TIL IT’S NAILED DOWN!