No Limits.
Hello my kittens. I am truly sorry for being that MIA blogger this weekend--- needless to say, it was VERY busy at the FitBloggin conference. Kudos to Roni for a wonderful experience, and I encourage all of you to try and make it next year. We had some non-stop activity from the time I arrived on Thursday, until leaving early this morning. I am a wee-bit tired, but still, very happy from the experience.
Let me tell you one of the HIGHLIGHTS of the weekend was getting to, drumroll please, meet CATHE!! OMG!! Hello- take a peek to the right of my blog at how many tags refer to a Cathe workout. I have been a massive fan of this woman and her amazing workouts for YEARS AND YEARS!! When I saw that she'd be there I was like OMG in a big way. Then when I went into the expo room and saw her, I just about started foaming at the mouth. Funny thing is, I don't get all goo-goo-ga-ga over celebrities if I meet them. I simply couldn't stop gushing to Cathe when I met her #1) because of her awesomeness and #2) because now I can help the world know about her greatness and kick butt workouts!! Without giving anything away, let's just say, you'll be seeing a whole lot more of this Super Bada** Chick in the world of KO:
I'm also going to tell you all that she is even more adorable in person than on video, if that's possible.
Ahhhh.
So--- the weekend was busy and I sat in on some great sessions before speaking on a panel with Andrea Metcalf, (@andreametcalf), Liz Neporent (@lizzyfit), and Karla Walsh (@karla522). That was a whole ton of fun, I must say.
Now that I am home and getting ready for a new week of busy-ness, I found myself today doing a little bit of my old behavior- bad thought patterns. I started mentally bashing myself because I didn't get my workouts in -- while I was at a dang FITNESS conference hello! And I started freaking out at how I put myself BACK THREE STEPS by "wasting" three days. Then, thank heavens, I realized what I was doing. I stopped. I had that inner conversation with myself to realize that every day is part of the process.....and we will "fall down" but it's the getting back up that matters. If we fall down and stay down, that's the failure.
The only way to fail is to quit.
I'm realizing HOW IMPORTANT it is for me to make these changes in my life every day....because as I have more and more "A-HA!" moments and SEE things with objective clarity, I realize how destructive some of my thought patterns and attitudes were. I've told you kids before, that if you would have asked me 5 years ago if I'd be reading the type of "Self-Help" or "analyze your life" books that I'm reading now, I would have laughed and said no way....but so many of these books, coupled with some HUGE moments of clarity earlier this year-- have helped me make some BIG changes in my attitude. I'm becoming less stressed. Anxiety is not part of my daily diet. I'm LIVING my life again instead of putting everything off until the day I am perfect. I am truly beginning to ENJOY my fitness journey again, after "The Bracket Years" where I went crazy trying to 'fix' my body overnight.
I am repeating this mantra daily, because it is so true. I've talked about how, in the past, I've made mountains out of molehills and it has gotten in my way. I wouldn't do a workout because I thought "OMG no way I have time for a 90 minute workout PLUS a shower PLUS doing my hair PLUS getting dressed and being on time....", or I'd mentally beat myself up because I either missed a workout or had dinner late with a client and had a martini or dessert that wasn't planned and thus I'D FAILED AND RUINED EVERYTHING and thus I WOULD NEVER REACH MY GOAL.
This is not true. But that WAS my truth, my reality for a long time.
I'm learning to TRUST MYSELF again. I'm learning to have FAITH IN MYSELF again. I'm finally TRULY believing that I can do it, instead of turning to everyone for some new fast solution to fix me and make me perfect. I'm figuring out WHY I have some messed up feelings...and as I'm getting to the core of that, it's helping me make REAL CHANGES instead of focusing on practices based on PUNISHMENT and DENIAL. That's no way to live.
Amen. That's what I'm doing this year. The past is just that- OVER AND DONE. My life is now, and so is yours. And, there are NO LIMITS to what I can accomplish.
QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK FROM DOING WHAT YOU REALLY WANT? And how are you gonna change that?
Cathe Friedrich, Nike
Reader Comments (5)
the conference flew, felt too short, and yet Im ready to be back home and KICK ASS this week.
“I'm learning to TRUST MYSELF again. I'm learning to have FAITH IN MYSELF again. I'm finally TRULY believing that I can do it [...] My life is now [...] And, there are NO LIMITS to what I can accomplish.”
Yes, Kelly, you can do it. I have no doubt about it!
Martin, do you know when I wrote this I thought, "I wonder what Martin will have to say about this!" For real! And thank you!! thank you so much! '
Carla!! you and me both!! WOOT!
I didn't work out the entire 3 days that I was at Fitbloggin' either! Ahhh, no worries...back on track today, right? I just finished a pretty killer 4 mile run, actually. :)
What's holding me back from doing what I really want...hmmm. Well, I'd definitely have to say a fear of failure and money. I hate to admit it, but it's true. I'm at a point in my life right now where I can really make some major changes when it comes to my career...I've just got to really settle down and figure out where I'm going to go with it. HOPEFULLY, however, things could be looking up!
P.S. - I thought about you the entire time I sipped on the rest of my Starbucks latte yesterday morning. ;)
Courtney!!!! You have very similar fears to me....and I'm sure to many! And yes- things ARE looking up! WOOT!! XOXO