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Hello and welcome to the Own Your Health podcast, I'm Cyndi Lynne and I can't wait to help you step into your health power here. We are practically mid year. I thought it would be a really good time for your personal mid year health review.
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So I'm not going to review your specific health criteria with you, but I'm going to encourage you to review your health goals. You remember those, I hope, the ones we set towards the end of last year, the beginning of this year. Really it's an ongoing process of goal setting.
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But let's take this opportunity at the close to half year mark to check in and see how you're doing with your health goals. Now, I am not by any means giving you permission to beat yourself up or get discouraged if you haven't accomplished all of the goals you've set out or if you've even got lost along the way and didn't start on them.
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This is a whole new opportunity and that's what we're here for. It's about your health. It's not about a contest, it's not about keeping score. So let's take this opportunity and look at a few scenarios, some of which may sound familiar to you. First of all, is the scenario where your goal has become such part of your life. Changes that you're going to make in the way you were going to eat or exercising or when you were getting up or when you're going to bed, any of those kinds of things, maybe they've become such a part of your life anymore you don't even think about them as goals.
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They're just integrated into your life. And if that's the case, congratulations. And you can take this opportunity to set brand new goals that will take you to your next level of health. Now, if you made some progress on your goals and then you kind of got stuck or you hit a plateau or maybe life got in the way a little bit.
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Here's a great time to check back in, plug back in and get back on that train. You've seen some success. Think back to how good it felt. Go back to your journal.
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If you wrote about how good it felt to have these new practices incorporated into your life and congratulate yourself on getting started. Now, the third scenario we're going to spend the most time on, because that's where people get the most frustrated and want to give up.
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And that is if you set a goal and then life really got in the way and maybe your goal didn't even get off ground. Don't be hard on yourself. Give yourself some grace.
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And we're going to ask a couple of questions as to why this potentially would happen. First of all, did life actually get in the way? Did you have, a goal around walking every day and then sprained your ankle?
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And that goal, that plan was pretty much out the window for that period of time. Did you have an unexpected or even expected job change so that things external to your personal health goals took a lot more attention, demanded a lot more of your time and your focus?
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Maybe you had to, or, got to move into a new home, maybe you had to step in and be caretaker for your parents or a family member or a child. All of these things happen.
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And when we're, when we're first working on a goal, when something is new, it takes a lot of deliberate investment of time and energy. It takes time and energy to make a change. And that's where, when external forces that are more powerful, like a sprained ankle, moving and packing and unpacking your house, or the stress and excitement of a new job, takes all that energy, emotional and physical, that you have.
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And so it's not necessarily also a good time to make a change in your health practices, for example. So if that's the case, and that's what happened at the beginning of the year when you set your goals, let's go back, take a look at those goals.
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Are they still relevant? You know, if, if your job was extremely stressful and it was causing you problems with your health, and now you have a new job, getting a new, less stressful job is no longer a goal for you, you've met it.
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That actually puts you back in scenario number one. But look and see if these are still goals. That makes sense for you. And that takes us all the way to the final why that so many times we don't even really get started on our goals.
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There are the goals, like I said, where life just gets in the way and we never really get them launched, but they're things that we really wanted to do and goals that are very important to us. And if that's the case, get right back on that train and off you go. But this final why, this final category is what really catches a lot of people up, and that is that the goal really didn't fit.
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It really wasn't right in the first place. It may have been something that you felt like you should have done, and we've talked about shoulding all over yourself. It's not a good idea. It never turns out well. So give yourself some grace and look at what you've written down, hopefully, in terms of your goals, and say, okay, is this something that I thought I should do?
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Is this something that the people around me were doing and it kind of sounded good, but it doesn't really fit my life? It's not really calling to me. It's something that I want to accomplish or achieve or initiate. And if that's the case, you want to get rid of that goal and replace it with something that actually fits. Something that makes sense for you in your life where you are now, because you are a different person than you were, say, six months ago when you set these goals.
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And health goals need to be very, very personal. And the reason that you want to do them needs to be very, very personal as well. Your "why". And your "why", your "why', we've talked about this before.
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You have to continually ask yourself why you want this goal at least five or six times to get the deep, deep reason. So if you want to lose weight, and that's one of the big ones that people do, they, make a goal, they want to lose weight.
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So I'll say why? Well, it's evident. Everybody want, you know, anyone who's overweight wants to lose weight. But why? What's your reason, why? Well, I want to wear nice clothes. Okay. Why? Well, I want to fit in better at the office.
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I want to look more professional. I want my husband to find me attractive. Those are the kind of things that can really start to drive behavior changes. But you have to continually ask why? And your why may seem like a ridiculous, superficial reason to someone else.
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But if that's the one that really hits in your heart, you know, if you want to lose weight because you want to get healthy, okay, why? Why do you want to get healthy? Well, everybody wants to get healthy. But why do you want to get healthy? Maybe you don't want to take any of those prescription meds anymore.
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Maybe you don't want to go to the doctor every four months. Maybe you don't want to feel like a sick, person. Those are the really personal reasons that are going to motivate you, that are going to care you through when you choose these goals.
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So if you tie these goals into these very personal reasons rather than just, yeah, it would be nice to be healthier. It's always nice to be healthier. I mean, that's what I teach, owning your health. But what level of health do you want to own? It's a legitimate question, and it's one that you can think about when you're crafting your health goals.
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Now, I typically tell you at this point, if you need any help, let me know. I can do a quick consult with you absolutely free of charge. But what I'd really like you to check out is the special that I have in the show notes below.
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And it is three online sessions with me at your convenience. You book them on my calendar as you as you want to, and we work on getting started on that first goal together.
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So if you have a goal in mind, there's obstacles that get in your way. It's something you've tried to do over and over again, and you just can't get over that hump. Let me help you. I've helped loads of women find that path, take that first big step, and then they're off and going on their own.
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So check out the link below. I'm, happy to do a quick consult free of charge or three sessions for $97. And you won't be sorry. So until next week, let's go out and own it.
