Some takeaways from the event on Saturday ☺️✨️
🖤✨️ Fitness is like a pie chart & it is a segment of our life. It should not take up our whole pie (the pie of life).
However, if we're not careful, it can take over. We want to give attention to the other segments of the pie chart too. Family time, socialising with friends, mundane things like cleaning/errands, work, personal development (that isn't fitness related), professional development , self care, etc. Everyone's pie charts will look different. I know my dog will be on mine 🤭✨️
🖤✨️ As fitness professionals, we might have a bigger segment dedicated to all things "fitnesssss & wellness" because it's intrinsic to our business. Our professional development will often have elements of it, a fair few of us compete in sports & a few of us still work the gym floor. We then need strong boundaries to make time for that self care, the "me time", time for loved ones & the other things in life because we want the pie chart to be balanced & rounded 🥰✨️
🖤✨️ Disordered eating is celebrated within our industry 🙄 I really wish it wasn't! When I was lean but very much in the grips of my disordered eating (recovered, but my relationship with food was still f*cked). I got asked to coach people, although I was just an apprentice. I was told, "I wish I looked like you," "I wish I had your discipline," & I'd often get "how do you stick to it? Don't you get bored of the gym?". I didn't know how to explain that without exercising, I couldn't sleep, my anxiety would be unmanageable & I'd struggle to eat 🤷🏾♀️ Until I had a mentor in the gym & I said it out loud. We both just stared at each other & bless him he offered to support me. At the end of the day it was up to me to do that inner work, to accept it was ok to not be shredded & that fitness doesn't have a "look."
🖤✨️ Mistakes are just part of learning. I have made so many mistakes, I am so clumsy, I make a fool out of myself in public OFTEN and I'm just used to it now. Back when I was younger I was so afraid of failure, I kept myself in this little cocoon afraid to flourish because that's scary and if I fail it will be "the end of the world". I have now "failed" so many times that I have proven to myself, my disordered thoughts and my anxiety that messing up is not the end of the world AT ALL. In fact I learnt something from every attempt, every try, every time I put myself out there personally or professionally. I can safely say that my business wouldn't be developing the way it is now without boldly putting myself out there! Saying yes to opportunities that terrify me!
An example of this is that I auditioned for the TV series/show Gladiators. I did not get cast and was it the end of the world? No. Was it a great experience? Yes! So it was worth it regardless of the outcome? Heck yes! Did I learn from it? Yes! I learnt a lot about myself. In particular just how much I have grown because A few years ago I would have been too scared and in my shell to even consider the audition. It was nerve wrecking and scary but I did it and of that I am so proud!
Now I have experienced it I would be open to more opportunities like that!
