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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. Happy New Year. As promised last week, I would talk to you about the New Year. For those of you following me for any amount of time, you'll know that myself, along with many of the women that I meet on a day to day basis, really consider fall the start of the new year.
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The January 1 start of the new year is a little random in terms of climate and clothing change and habit change, exercise change, those kinds of things. When really Fall is when we see some of the biggest changes in our day to day schedule, in what we wear, in the activities that we stop doing and start doing.
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And so this has always been a very inspiring time for to celebrate the New Year, to pause to figure, out, hey, what do I want this next set of months to look like?
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And I encourage you to take a look as well. There's a benefit to this being your New Year as well, because it doesn't have all the hustle and bustle of the holidays. It doesn't have that automatic deadline of January 1st where, many times we start thinking about our resolutions or our habit changes or what we want to do on January 1st, and then by the time we sort them through, really nail them down and implement them, we're already behind in our minds very often.
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So this is also a very good time. It's fall. It's a season rather than a date deadline. You know, when this airs it will be mid September and that's fine. This is a perfectly good time for you to consider what serves you in life and what serves you at work, what serves you in your home, in your relationships, and let fall away everything that doesn't.
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In the next couple of weeks, we're going to go through a number of different ways to let things fall away. A number of ways that hopefully I will help you think about things. And as always, I don't want to tell you what to think, but maybe propose some ideas on how to approach or how to think about starting fresh for your new year and how to let things fall away that aren't serving you.
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The gut reaction many times when I say let things fall away when I worked with clients and just say that's not serving you, let that go. There's a very much clinging to. I have to when I need to. Well, I always have. Well, if I don't, who. And that's normal.
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We cling to what we're comfortable with and what's normal as part of every day of our life, giving yourself an opportunity and maybe a framework, maybe a few questions that you can ask yourself.
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Because here, in the. Own Your Health Community, we're very much about asking better questions and asking serial questions, progressive questions that we go from one thing to the next to get deeper and to really consider an issue.
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And so that's what I'm going to present to you a little bit here today and then over the next couple of weeks. So as you think about what do I want these next few months to look like, maybe it's about time and that you already sort of have that feeling that, oh my gosh, we're gonna blink.
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It's gonna be Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas just like that. So maybe some of your changes, some of your intentionality is going to be around how you spend your time or how you plan your time. For some, this may be planning sooner for these items.
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For other things, it may be just slowing down in each of these weeks and giving you time as you lead up to the end of the calendar year. Fall is also a great time to reignite relationships.
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Everyone can get very busy in the summer, head off in different directions. You may spend time with different groups of people, if your kids are in sports or if you golf, or you may spend time with different folks than you do other times of the year.
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So this may be a time when you want to be intentional about reigniting those relationships that may have fallen by the wayside, or intentional about maintaining relationships with folks that you've spent a lot of time with.
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But the sort of natural events that brought you together no longer exist. And that comes with asking, who do I want in my life? It can also mean regrouping with your partner. You want to deep dive deeply into this work.
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You're here. So that tells me that, your partner may or may not want to. But a heads up to them saying, you know what? I'm thinking about how I want to do things going forward. I'm thinking about my plans. I'm thinking about structuring the next few months.
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Let's even just take it a quarter at a time. And, and I just wanted to let you know that. And you're a big part of that. And if you want to share in this planning, in this new year process, in this intentionality, then I'd love to have you.
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So many of us find this time of year a little bit conflicted. We're sad to see summer go. If you're a parent with Kids at home especially, you're kind of looking forward to get back into a routine.
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It's good. Everybody gets back in school. The days start looking more like each other. It's a little bit less of a free for all. We start losing light. The days get a little bit shorter. More time in the house, perhaps less time out.
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And all of these are changes that we can have conflicting feelings about. We feel the mourning of the loss of daylight, of the loss of the sun, of the loss of the summer, of maybe, maybe even mourning what we thought we would have accomplished or, what we thought we would have done in these past few months.
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I'd like to encourage you to shift that to excitement about what's coming up in the next few months. What can I do with the quiet hours? What can I do with some of those darker hours? What can I be during that time?
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Who can I be during that time? And it's always okay at any time to stop and ask yourself, all right, how do I want this to look? What do I want my life to look like? But it's helpful to have external reminders, little external triggers.
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Otherwise, a tendency is to just go from day to day, trying to keep up, keeping up with the errands, keeping up with the grocery shopping, keeping up with the cooking and the laundry and work and deadlines and travel and all of those things. So I encourage you, rather than just keeping up or sweeping along, to pause to wish yourself a happy new Year, to step into some intentionality about what you want this next few months to look like for you, for your health, for your relationships, and stay with me on this journey, because over the next couple of weeks, we're going to look at separate pieces.
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We're going to separate pieces of life to break this down and make it a little bit more manageable. I realize that one of the hardest questions I ask people is, what do you want? Because we don't even know where to start. What do we want at work? What do we want at home?
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What do we want for a relationship? What do we want for our bodies? What do we want for our health? So we'll break it down little by little and give you some intentional New Year's tasks to help you move forward with a plan, with joy, with excitement, and maybe make this one of your best, healthiest years ever.
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As always, reach out if you have questions, and until next week, let's go out and own it. The information contained in this podcast is provided for educational purposes only. It is not intended as medical advice.
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I am a nurse, but I'm not your nurse. Please see your personal health care provider for any concerns.
