THe stars don't have to align for you to get what you want

This morning, I was working the front desk at the fitness studio I work at part-time when a mom with a toddler came in looking disheveled and exhausted. They were at a storytelling event next door and she saw the studio on her way to the car. She asked about classes and schedules and memberships with a sense of excitement and desperation. She said she was going to try to come back for a class two hours later.


As the start time of said class approached, people started trickling in, but she didn’t. I thought, Oh no, please let her make it and have this time for herself.

She ended up running in one minute before class started, just in time.

After class, as I got her checked out, I noticed her energy was lighter. She said she was so happy to have made it happen, but she wouldn’t be able to commit to more classes, since she had her toddler at home with her most days.

Today, the stars aligned for her — she was motivated, she had someone to watch her daughter, she saw that we were open and there was a class time that worked. AMAZING!

And yet, I wonder how long those good feelings lasted. Maybe through tonight or until tomorrow. Maybe they were zapped as soon as she walked through the door back home. For her sake, I hope it was longer.

Now, I hope this doesn’t sound patronizing. I’m trying to paint a picture for you of a situation I’m sure most of you have been in at one point or another. I certainly have. Where people and responsibilities require so much of you that you don’t get to do anything for yourself. Where you don’t even recognize what you’re sacrificing until maybe it’s too late.

What if you didn’t have to wait for the motivation to get started or for the stars to align in order to do something for your health and yourself? How would that change your health? Your relationships? Your life?

There are always going to be excuses. You can always insert things into your life that make it so you don’t have the time to exercise or the brain capacity to meal plan or the money to invest in a therapist or coach or…or…or….

​So you have to choose what’s most important to you. Then you commit to it. And then you take action. And when you make that commitment, you can come up with solutions that are (mostly) excuse-proof (…some people are REALLY good at making excuses).


If you are ready to commit to your priorities and change your health and life, you’re in the right place. I have a 5-Day Resolution Restart 2024 starting on January 29, and I’d love for you to be my guest! We’ll be live on Zoom talking about your vision of optimal health, creating goals, and putting them into action. Info and register here.