Your mind is lying to you...
What your mind tells you before the walk is almost never true. Stop waiting to feel ready and start doing it. It's the evidence you need to keep moving.
Can I be honest with you for a second?
I have days where I genuinely love moving my body and eating healthy.
And then I have days where I want to protest the entire concept of physical activity, couch-rot, and scroll until my thumbs give out.
Sometimes both of those days happen within 24 hours of each other. Which is exactly what happened to me this weekend.
On Sunday, my mom-meter was in full dysregulation mode. In mom-terms, I had had enough. My girls were pushing every button. They were adding things to my grocery cart, bickering in the aisles, and everyone wanted everything.
The second we got home, I put on my running shoes, threw on my weighted vest, and hit the streets. I didn’t care that it was 85 and humid. I needed it. I wanted to sweat it out. And honestly, it felt incredible.
Then Monday hit.
That desire for a walk I had on Sunday seemed to vanish in thin air… or hot air in this case.
I sat in my car, slowly talking myself out of the walk I had just loved 24 hours earlier. The voice in my head had a full list ready:
“It’s too hot” (even though I literally just did this in the heat and loved it)
“You don’t have time”
“One walk isn’t going to change anything.”
“Supper isn’t going to cook itself.”
“Scroll, just for a minute...” (honestly, the most dangerous one of all)
Here’s what I’ve learned after years of standing in my own way.
Your mind is a liar.
Not always. But when it comes to showing up for yourself, it will make up a very convincing case for why today is not the day. And if you let it, it will win every single time.
I spent years carrying weight (literal and metaphorical) I thought I’d healed from, bringing what I thought I’d put behind me into my everyday. I was allowing the old story to run the show. And I realized at some point, the only thing keeping me stuck wasn’t my body, my schedule, or my circumstances….
It was the voice I was allowing to win.
On my Monday walk, halfway out, sweating, legs hurting, and thinking about being anywhere but here, I caught myself. I caught that voice that was making me believe what I had sat in my car trying to convince myself out of.
And so, I made a deal with myself. I challenged myself, for the next six light poles, I’m only speaking good. I’m only focusing on what feels strong, what feels capable, and who I’m becoming.
And it worked.
That doesn’t mean it was easy, but over the course of those ten minutes, I reframed the walk enough that by the time I got through the messy middle, I was on the other side of the hard and excited about accomplishing what I set out to do.
I had the momentum of being almost done.
It’s a great reminder that what you focus on is the experience you get.
Let’s have some real talk.
Which is why I come to you with some real talk.
I know what’s keeping you from joining The Summer Walking Club:
You don’t think you have time (even though the busier you are, the better this is for you).
You're planning to start when things calm down.
You tried something similar, and it didn’t work. What makes you think it will work this time?
You think you need something hard, a whole life overhaul.
You’re just not a ‘workout person.’
Honestly, you could counter-argue every one of these. And I’d recommend you should. Because these thoughts are exactly what keep you from the best things in life.
I’m not asking you to sit down in a dentist's chair to pull some teeth.
I’m asking you to get up, move your body, soak in some sun, get some fresh air, and do it all with people who will cheer you on like it’s their full-time job.
That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
This summer, I want you to build evidence in your own life that things can change through simple, small shifts.
I want you to build evidence that your body is for you. That you are someone who shows up, not perfectly, not every single day without fail, but consistently enough that by the end of the summer, you don’t recognize the excuses anymore. They just got quieter.
It’s not hard. Or at least it doesn’t have to be. But it will be if you keep focusing on what you can’t do or don’t want rather than moving toward what you do.
The Summer Walking Club is waiting for you.
Step tracking kicks off June 1st, but your pre-lesson and first challenge are live right now. Try it free for a week. Show up, look around, and watch what shifts when you start taking the steps.
It’s time for you to do this for you. Stop letting your mind win.
You’ve got this!
Let me know what the voice is saying that is stopping you.
