I don’t know about you, but I’m off to kind of a rough start. I’ve had just a “tad” bit of trouble getting into the swing of the year after almost 3 weeks off in December and January. You might have noticed. Or maybe not, because you’re in a similar position.
Sometimes getting started is the hardest work of all.
Do you know what I mean? Doing the work is the fun part – getting started is the challenge. I’m a great one for planning out and creating a big vision broken down into smaller, actionable steps. But then I have to stop and go get the kids from school or start dinner, or clean up after the dog.
And once I’m stopped, it’s often difficult to get back into the swing of work again. So, as a practical matter, I’ve decided to use my early morning hours as a kind of “bonus” time for the next year month, and see how it works out. I’ll let you know!
I’m behind on my podcasts and obviously on my blog posts as well…to be honest, I’ve been a bit distracted as I’m beginning a new nutrition plan. (Notice how I didn’t say “diet”.) After doing all my work on goals and plans for 2015, the one thing staring me in the face was that big-old-fat goal of losing weight!
I know for some of you, you have NO IDEA what I’m talking about. You never saw a cookie you couldn’t resist. But many of you will be tracking along with me here. Right?
For some reason, this weight albatross has been hanging around for far too long and I’ve decided to get some help cutting it off…No, not a surgeon! 🙂 But I’m working with both a physical coach and a mental coach to get me realigned with where I really want to be.
Last Friday when I walked up the steps to my first appointment with the health coach, my heart was beating a tattoo, my hands were shaking and I had that familiar tight feeling in my chest. (No, not from taking the stairs either!)
As we got into the meeting and she began taking my measurements, she just chuckled. “You don’t like this much, do you Christy?” I grinned ruefully as she added, “It’s written all over your face.”
All I could think about was what if this doesn’t work. What if I fail again? And what on earth makes me think I can be successful this time when I’ve failed so many, many times before? And how embarrassing this whole thing is anyway.
But right in the middle of our conversation I realized this is nothing but that ravaging beast FEAR rearing it’s nasty head once again. Fear of failure. Fear of not being enough. Fear of…well, you fill in the blank.
Because this time my fear was wrapped around the ridiculous obstacle of weight loss. But what is yours wrapped around? And how can you be brave and fearless in overcoming it today?
My personal prescription for bravery today includes writing this blog post. Being honest with you about what’s going on with me feels quite scary and dare I say it…vulnerable?
Because, after all, I’m a speaker and trainer on communication skills – not lifestyle blogging or health and wellness, right?
But one thing I know for sure, is that for me, it’s darn near impossible to keep limping along in failure in this one area, while expecting to be able to give you my A-Game in my professional endeavors. Because after 15 years of this gig – I know you can spot a phony a million miles away.
So I won’t be a phony. I’ll be authentic with all my foibles. I’ll lay them out on the table, and then after that’s finished, we’ll get to talk about personality styles, and getting along with difficult people, and how to create fantastic customer relationships, and all the other topics I love to help you with.
I have all kinds of exciting things ahead for us this year. This month I’ll finally release my 31 Positive Communication Skills for Women Devotional. Next up I’ve got an awesome free webinar I’ll be offering on the topic of Getting Along With Difficult People. We’ll follow that up in late February with my first ever online bootcamp — Powerful Communication Skills for Women. More on all of this later…it’s so exciting!
In the meantime, I’d like to re-vamp my blog schedule a bit. This is what you can expect.
- Monday: Communication Skills — Strategies you can use
- Wednesday: Encouraging Words for Working Moms Podcast
- Friday: Personality Styles — Bring out the best and dealing with the worst
- Weekend: Update on my
weight lossgetting fit, healthy and strong journey along with periodic updates on what I’m doing and the books I’m reading. I really enjoy those posts from some of my favorite bloggers, so I thought since I’m such a reading freak, I’d share my reading adventures with you.
Well, if you’ve read this far…thank you! I love you too! Be sure you’re subscribed to my site to get all the updates, new stuff and freebies I’ll be bringing out this year.
Question: I’d love to know what your challenges are this year. Are you already off to the races or are you still circling the bay trying to get up the nerve to get started? What are you working on this year? What’s holding you back? I’d love to hear from you! Just leave your comments below – on the blog or FB – either are great!