What I’m prioritizing this year.
I used to be HUGE on New Year Resolutions - like the biggest. Since I was 12, there are diary entries with lists, loads of lists...soooooo many lists...of all the things I would be, do, and have in the following 12 months.
PROBLEM IS, MANY OF THE THINGS WERE ALWAYS WHAT I THOUGHT I “SHOULD” DO TO BE ENOUGH.
You will never do enough to be enough if you don’t believe you’re enough as you are, right now.
After recovering from bulimia (and ultimately perfectionism), I stopped the incessant and inefficient list-making for a more suitable process - intuition.
I started trusting myself.
Now, instead of having a list of all the things I “should” want and “should” be and “should” have, priorities start to manifest.
In 2020 I went hard.
Sure, Robin Sharma created the 5 AM Club, but before becoming a parent, I’d been up at 5 AM every single day.
Since moving to Australia, I started to prioritize the flow work I was doing, taking, on occasion, meetings, and interviews by 6 AM to accommodate my PST and EST time zone clients.
After a few months of occasionally sacrificing my morning routine for work, I started to feel myself falling out of the flow and into the hustle and grind.
I knew I should prioritize sleep.
I knew I should prioritize my morning routine EVERY morning.
But I’d still allow the occasional 6 AM or 6:30 AM meeting.
I felt my energy starting to wane.
I felt my drive starting to exhaust itself.
...Then I found out I was pregnant.
MY BABIES ALWAYS HAVE A WAY OF MAKING ME REMEMBER WHO I AM.
With Declan, it was a complete 180 course correct. With this one, it’s more of doing the degrees of perfecting.
Not expecting to be perfect, no, no.
Assessing the “degrees of perfection” means looking at those incremental shifts now that compound into massive gains down the road.
One of those was sleep.
The other was my morning routine.
I remember the day I told my team - “No more!”
I set the boundary hard and firm at 7 AM was the absolute earliest I would take an appointment, and I took two days a week off my schedule for meetings.
I decided to prioritize my health. Period.
I cut out the glass of wine or two at night habit I’d picked up over the summer - pregnancy obviously helped spur on that change.
I started sleeping more - minimum of 7 hours. Period.
I started napping more too -thirty minutes to 1.5 hours in the middle of the day, just because building a human takes a lot of energy.
And I listened deeply to what my body needed, for my baby, for myself.
AS A LEADER, YOUR BODY IS YOUR GREATEST AND TYPICALLY MOST UNDERUTILIZED ASSET.
Your body is constantly sending you signals about what’s going on in your subconscious mind.
Might be a good idea to pay attention.
What does she need right now?
How does she feel right now?
It’s easy to go about your day, get stuck in the to-do list in your head, and completely disassociate from the feelings in your body - all the signs, signals, and flashing warning signs that she is constantly giving to you.
Perhaps it's because as a society we have prided our brains (our IQ) over our feelings (our EQ).
Perhaps it’s because you had developmental trauma growing up and programmed yourself to escape your body.
Or perhaps it’s because you just never learned the skillset of accessing your body as a tool.
WHATEVER THE REASON IS, TAPPING BACK INTO YOUR BODY IS ESSENTIAL
If I’ve learned anything from watching my dad suffer in the hospital, breathing through a machine because his body is too weak to breathe on its own it’s that...
You can only go as far in this life as your body will take you.
Start listening to your body NOW.
Strat having a regular, constant conversation with your body.
As I say in my upcoming book, you are in your relationship with your body for the rest of your life.
Divorcing yourself from your body is literal death.
Make friends with her.
Listen to what she needs.
She’ll guide you into making some of the best decisions in your life, in your relationships, and, yes, in your business too…
...When you just start hearing her out.
This year, I’m prioritizing my body, my health, and my wellbeing.
I don’t have any resolutions to lose X amount of pounds. Nor do I relegate me to giving up anything in its entirety - that sort of restrictive thinking leads me into constrictive feelings, which I neither like nor serve my highest and best.
Instead, I just have a set of priorities, in which I am unavailable to negotiate or compromise.
Sleep.
Movement.
Breath.
Feeling.
And, most importantly, strengthening the relationship with my body to understand how to feel to heal, how to surrender and set goals, how to cultivate and deepen that trust and certainty I’ve spent the past 15 years of my life building.
I share about this and more in my friend Ali Greenman’s “Get Fit, Feel Fabulous” Summit. She has brought together 20+ top experts and influencers for this complimentary training series on achieving maintainable weight loss, increased energy, and total confidence.
This free online event is specifically for women who want to get out of the physical and mental loop of yo-yo diets and plateaus, feel drained all the time, and finally figure out how to put all the pieces together.
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Remember, your reign is now.
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