Fitness Update and Strategies for Sanity on a Pineapple

It is hard to leave the day behind don't you think?  Especially in this COVID-19 world where we are at home working and trying to find sane routines without the natural travel that usually occurs between each phase of our daily lives, acting as kind of the period to end of each sentence that makes up the paragraph of our day.  The jokes about the commute from one room to the other to "work" are kind of funny not funny these days.

I have worked from anywhere and home for the better part of 15 years so I have learned ALOT of lessons serving me right now.  For example, a meal hits totally different if you haven't mentally left whatever you were doing prior and still have things to do after it!  Even the best meal with a glass of your favorite wine drowns in all of that.

I love a workout for a period at the end of a workday.  Today landed me on the end of this pineapple to recover.  And my personal strong preference is to work and be done early afternoon.  I have no plans for a career that keeps me tied up all night.  I have had deep talks with alot of fellow soloprenuers who feel exactly this same way.  In fact the entire reason made the gut-wrenching decision to sell my brick and mortar business in favor of an online business was because of the lack of control over my time and my personal preferences - even tho I LOVED THE WORK!

So while Im not deadlifting 200 pounds anymore, I can now not just do more than 10 squats without a back spasm for 3 days, I can do 200!  No weight, but still.  I can move, and mentally, that is a MUST.  I've also re-adopted an old obsession.  Before I was a private personal studio owner, I was a yoga enthusiast.  I did 4-5 hours a week and even found myself at some amazing retreats just for Yogis.  I am finding that love again and it started with 10 minute videos.

So when I say I am rebuilding my physical self from ZERO... I ain't EVEN kidding!

After 2 years of trying to walk our dogs 1-2 miles a day, that walk has gone from the meat of my "workout" for the day to an after workout walk.

So even at the injured, fatigued, mentally fogged worst, I still pushed, its just the version of pushing myself (10 squats and a 1 mile walk) was humbling.  Being injured, then depressed, then overweight then losing a business is NO JOKE on the ego.  But, while I was pushing a boulder up a mountain, I managed AFTER YEARS to gain momentum.

For my entrepreneur friends, what a tall order to be able to leave a day behind.
Im working very hard to create this next chapter using ALL the lessons I've learned so that I am not serving my own creation but the other way around.

I hope you are too!

Its all in your head (I used to sign my very first blogs building my first busies this way!  I think I'll use it again!

Anna