Being the Main Character in Your Fitness Story

Does it seem everywhere you look everyone is trying to create a sense of significance in every post posted from every experience experienced?  How is it that we can allow ourselves to get wrapped up in everyone else's story and somehow become a part of some Oedipus Chorus instead of the Main Character to our own great story.

Are you like me and find yourself inflating your own experiences in life due to the social pressure of self-expressionism that everyday living seems undervalued without the grand explosions of "likes" on our news feed?

Here's something to begin using for the upcoming New Year to help refocus our camera back on us and valuing the small wonders of everyday living again.

I call it Reflection Journaling and this type of recording is perform daily or once a week ...but it must be for only you and not our Social Chorus.

The theme is titled "1 thing I noticed this week NEW when I slowed down to enjoy the moment."

You just begin by writing down one thing, big or small, that you happened to notice when you made the decision to stop from the hustle and bustle of the routine to really enjoy the present moment.

Recording these moments will become a tool for you to revisit when the lens of life begins to slip off of you and onto something that may not be that important, but has caused you to fade from the main stage of your great story of life.

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Here's an example of the lens of life slipping away from us called "You are everywhere you should be.... but never anywhere you could be" by Thomas Plummer

You are never where you are supposed to be.

You are sitting at your desk thinking about your next workout.

You are at the gym thinking about what you left on your desk.

You are with your kids checking your phone for texts.

You are out with friends checking the pictures your kids sent.

You go to dinner with your spouse and talk about how little time you have together, wasting the entire evening of being together.

You go to a race over the weekend, but you are so busy taking pictures of the race and posting you forget to enjoy the experience.

You rent a movie, but never really see it because you are face down on your phone or arguing with your spouse about not spending time together.

You never have time to call old friends because you are too busy at work, thinking about your workout and texting your friends.

You are everywhere you should be.... but never anywhere you could be. You waste your life outside the moment, because you never learned how to focus your energy on where you are and what you are doing.

Just once this week try being where you are, focused on what you are doing with the distraction of your phone off for a few hours. You have a wonderful life, with good friends and the perfect family. Too bad you are never there to enjoy any of it.

Coach Chris