First let me tell you about a random event that happened last night. Everyone loves random. Last night, Ruth, a client in our Transformation Team Program ("XTEAM") came to me holding a little green notebook and said she had something to share-did I have a minute? She was just glowing. She is 61, looks not a day over 41, blonde headed, gentle spirit and has been in our program just about 3 months. I've met her once before. She said "I just wanted to show you what I did. Now, I read the XTEAM Manual over the Holidays and it was HARD because it was so LONG (she is still smiling as I mentally kick myself for always being so long-winded) but I did everything in it and I carry it right here in my purse. I read it every morning and every time I feel tempted and all throughout the day. And let me tell you! It works!!" Opening her book I see beautifully written cursive goals, affirmations, records, deadlines, etc.. All the things the manual suggests. Then she shows me her meticulous food log. Then it dawns on me that she has been at every free mindset and nutrition seminar we've given since she started. She's used the manual and her coach and the programming and she is in the best shape of her life. That was the idea behind this XTEAM approach. And I just stop and decide to soak in what is happening. She is so excited because she is following the process of mental training and it works. She is being accountable and it works. She complimented me on the ability to write something like that (the manual) and said…"I have always been healthy but I can honestly say I have never felt better." Here she is and I just wanted to brag on her.
A wow moment for sure. The thing is I didn't write the manual for her. Or you. Or really any of our clients. I wrote it for me. I just asked a dear friend to format a bunch of stuff I had written because I was just compelled to write it. It made sense to use it to help answer questions and support our clients. Same thing with the XTEAM approach or system or whatever you want to call it! I just felt compelled to find a new way.
The bottom line is fitness is so personal and enigmatic at all levels. Think about it. Isn't everyone interested, entertained by or intimidated by it on some level? There are millions upon millions of products, blogs and programs but it remains a bit of a mystery doesn't it? Weird, huh?
The bottom line is fitness is so personal and enigmatic at all levels. Think about it. Isn't everyone interested, entertained by or intimidated by it on some level? There are millions upon millions of products, blogs and programs but it remains a bit of a mystery doesn't it? Weird, huh?
My thought is if its going to touch someone, it has to be Authentic. Ironically that means it can never be for anyone else. Part of fitness for a lot of us is to sort out our minds and write about it. For whatever reason we've been given this task and so thats what we do, out of a reflex almost.
So despite the men and women from all walks of life over the past 7 years that have said, "if you were to do one of those competitions/lose weight/run a marathon/insert accomplishment here, it would really grow your business" - it just doesn't work for me.
Doing this is just like anything else you or me or anyone else does. It just plants itself in your head and it won't let go. It was like that with training. its like that with writing. Im sure people who jump out of airplanes just feel compelled. I have zero desire to do that. That was not planted in me. I definitely don't feel like I need to jump out of an airplane to do something exciting, something the scares me and grows me. I believe there is something you were wired to do. its that thing that won't let you go. I think these things that get lodged in our heart, or stuck in our throats like a bug we swallowed…don't go away until they teach us what we need to know.
Its a great thing that we don't all feel compelled to do the same thing. the stage would be full and so would the airplanes. There would be a shortage of parachutes and sequined swimwear.
So to answer the first question I get - why? Its always been there and the timing was finally right. I wanted it to be right for years and it wasn't. Now it is. Pain in the butt answer I know, but true.
There rest of the questions...
So what are you eating?
Hows your training going?
Are you writing about it? I want to read it!!
Are you doing 2 a days?
Are you doing refeeds?
Are you tired?
Are you hungry?
I will answer in the next blog. I've been trying to write a food prep newsletter for like 100 million years and its on my list so I will include all of that in the newsletter an a follow up blog as soon as I can get it done! I know how it is to want to know.
That's all I got!
Anna
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