Do something...

The struggle is so real y'all!! It is not inevitable (in fact very avoidable) but is in fact difficult to stay disciplined on the "health" front at the beginning of every school year. And so here we are, in October and I'm trying to get back on it. I might also add that age most definitely increases the difficulty. It is probably a linear relationship but lately it feels exponential.

Anyway, I have decided that I would do something. And that I would do "something" every day. I figured I needed to establish a minimum or else I will not do anything. It's crazy to think about the difference between nothing and something.

It is not just kids that need to be given things in small pieces. Sometimes as adults we need small chunks at a time so that we have the motivation to move from nothing to something. I am a to do list person and I have seen how that is so necessary to my productivity at work and in life. Especially when I think about the school year as a unit, I can get very overwhelmed. So I make a list and I get the next thing done. And then the next, and the next and you get the point. I don't see growth in my students in a weeks time. Sometimes, I don't even see it within a year, like I wanted to. But as long as "something" is done, growth will happen. While I would like to think I have patience in my classroom, I struggle to have the patience to see growth in certain areas of my life. I want to be done getting healthy but unfortunately that's not how that works. Just as my faith does not work in that way which I believed to be true before God rocked my world. 

But here I am, growing in all things, including leading a healthy lifestyle. I receive any and all encouragement! Thankful for friends that encourage me to keep going. Here is the minimum "do something" I have established:

2 Rounds of:
12 squats
20 jump lunges
10 push ups
10 tricep dips
45 second plank
10 plank jacks

It's so minimal and I am very aware of that. Some days I will do more than the minimum and some days it will just be the minimum. I have been in so much better shape in my life but I'm using this opportunity to practice humility and be real with where I am at. Growing.

If you are currently doing nothing, just know, it takes a very small step to move to something. Be brave. Take the step. Then take another. You got this!