To say I want to get “fit” is to open up the possibility of understanding the many variables that influences fitness such as water intake, exercise, nutrition, and amount of sleep. When I say I want to get fit, I think of these things and have read enough to understand that fitness is complex. Understanding this complexity and enacting the behaviors to achieve fitness are two different things.
My seeing style is to start with the big picture. I tend to see possibility and can visualize if this, then what types of actions - an ability that is good for helping clients develop strategies. However, a drawback of this sort of thinking is the transition from vision to implementation. At some point, you have to take action to achieve the objective. Staying in the big picture mode, if I’m not intentional, can translate into feelings of being overwhelmed and a sort of analysis paralysis where I seem stuck on making a decision. Hubster who is a really good project manager taught me years ago to chunk big picture objectives into manageable discrete tasks. In so doing, I can dissect the whole into parts representing actions I need to do to accomplish or attain the goal I see. Super advice because then I can take a chunk and get started which has a side benefit of getting a sense of accomplishment as I manage to get tasks done.
So with this journey, my fitness objective is daily exercise in the gym for 20 minutes or greater. Period. It’s specific, do-able, and a start. Thus, my mantra today: Keep it simple!!