Setbacks are success in disguise
Detour every action into the right direction
This photo was taken in lockdown, a word itself we change to LoDown, as in a time to dance, where we spent most afternoons at this beach near our home, drawing in the sand, building sandcastles, doing workouts, evening bbqs and playing. It was definitely a LoDown not a Lockdown after we reframed it.
Introduction
“You’re the storyteller of your own experiences”. Hohum, how many times have I heard that? But if social media has taught me anything it’s that the way you write your authentic stories each post is how your audience feels - but most importantly of all, how you feel about yourself.
This is the follow on blog from our month of no training (link - where do the adults play), where we promised to share our fit testing against standard tests - 2.4km, chinups, pushups, sit and reach, plank - as well as more mobility focused for each body part.
Testing in this way is something fitbynature employs each change of season, to celebrate client milestones at the end of a season as well as to benchmark the next. Because if you’re not assessing, you’re guessing! Also from a coaching perspective, these tests are also how we plan for our next phase of training!
But my own personal results for this testing season were put on hold because of an incident involving a couple of dropped M&Ms by a scooterer as I made my way happily through my chosen line around the skate bowl. And a sore wrist, and soul, eventuated….
To say I was disappointed was an understatement. Or was I?
Reframing your goals
How we label our experiences can completely change how we perceive them.
And so I told myself. What new direction was I headed, or had I changed direction at all? Was this a sign to redo this ‘testing phase’, or maybe being autumn, I was just meant to ‘let it go’ (blog link).
And so I decided on a new phase. Yup, untested. A new chance to level up from pre-Christmas, pre-summer, and to go into winter healthier than those sunnier, energetic and happy-full months.
Next up then, how would I assess this? Based on previous tests of course. But I also like to add in new margins, not necessarily tested (so you can always uplevel them haha) to push myself out of my comfort zone, out of the fitness industry’s idea of milestone, to a more important idea, my own! My 6yo son would devise the fit test - yup, how could I take this mum’s bod through a 7yos idea of health and fitness.
Frankly, I’m excited. I’m keen to see how my old benchmarks fare, and to see what creative fitness he’s going to come up with. But most importantly, I think it’s taught me that how you reframe your experiences will dictate how you feel about them!
I have failed so many times but you mightn’t know it cos I’m always reframing my story as it unfolds to success.
To do today
We’re so good at down spiraling our thoughts, try up-climbing them:
List three “failures” in your life
Now reframe them. How do they relate to where you are today where you feel good?
Can you see courage, determination, choice (good and bad), purpose, unwavering youness?
Now write about one of your stories of success and soak it up
