Awareness
March 10, 2022
What’s up Gymmers,
So, I just had a really cool conversation with my wife Misty about what it takes to really make change in your life and it comes down to ONE WORD… AWARENESS.
I’ll get to what that means, but first you need context.
Misty has recently found HER love for exercise.
She has started working out at a place that does a cool workout of 20 minutes spinning (indoor cycling), 20 minutes strength training, and 20 minutes of Yoga.
She’s crushing it and I’m so proud of her.
In fact, last weekend she completed 100 miles of cycling over a month.
Now you may be thinking, “How can Misty not just ‘naturally’ love exercise? Isn’t that included in the ‘Coach T’ marriage vows?”
Well, in fact, my bride is one of the HARDEST people for me to motivate.
Misty, who is as sweet as sweet can be, can also be a STUBBORN woman.
During a “passionate conversation” she and I were having about how she NEEDED (in Coach T’s opinion) to start exercising to reduce pain, lose her 3rd child weight, and feel healthy and energized again…
She actually said to me, “I’ll do this when I’m ready, your Coach T stuff is actually DE-motivating me!”
Say whaaaaat gurl?
As a PROFESSIONAL husband (after years of practice), I realized I needed to back off, trust her when she said she wanted to pursue fitness, and encourage her while she found her way.
Over the past couple months, she’s been on fire.
This morning as we chatted, I asked her what her key to success has been and she said:
“I became super AWARE of my mindset and how I was viewing exercise. Instead of exercise and living more healthy being something I SHOULD DO or HAVE TO DO, moving every day became a WANT TO.
I only focused on JUST GETTING THERE because I knew if I went, I would get it done, and if I did that OVER AND OVER, the results would come.”
My wife is so awesome, and she JUST MAY have picked up on some Coach T knowledge anyway since the one encouragement I repeatedly give to my Gymmers is JUST PRESS PLAY (show up).
LOL, really her success has been all her.
I share this story with you in honor of MS AWARENESS month.
Typically ‘Awareness’ means that big corporations and MS support communities spread the word about the experience of THE MS LIFE in order to raise money for research or to let the outside world how to support someone with MS.
However, because you are an MS GYMMER, we do things different.
I encourage you to think like Misty.
I encourage you to become very AWARE of your mindset and conversations you have with yourself.
Do you believe you can heal?
Do you feel you deserve to heal?
Do you want to heal?
Do you have a reason to heal?
Do you view exercise as a HAVE TO because you’re told to?
Do you approach exercise because you WANT TO so you can get better?
As your coach, I work tirelessly to speak words of hope to you and produce content that makes sense to you so hopefully, one will stick with you, make you feel better, and spark your pursuit of healing.
However, as I learned from Misty, you won’t take that first step toward healing UNTIL YOU’RE READY.
And that readiness starts with becoming aware of your Mindset and then directing it and focusing it on how you want to design your life instead of letting it be dictated to you by your symptoms.
When that crisis of belief transforms from “I don’t know if this is possible” to “I AM POSSIBLE,” wonderful things start to happen.
Just look at what Jul had to say a couple days ago:
Pretty cool huh?
I love My MS Gym athletes.
I hope the thousands of victories I have shared over the past 4 + years have peaked your interest and have resulted in your asking the question, “How do I get started?”
With small, repeatable, very doable movement drills like today’s Movement Minute:
Click here for your Movement Minute
RISE | MOVE | HEAL
Trevor