Trajectory

Today is the first day of farm school for my daughter. She is over the moon excited and I’m ready to jam, having set myself up for success with my goals, habits, and personal trajectory. Last week was vital for clearing the way for new success – for me, for her, for getting my son off to college in a few days, and for establishing a foundation on which to build a very different year for our entire family.

(Chicken Detour)

(She and I visited the farm yesterday to meet her teachers, but her interests were more aligned with visiting the chickens. She spent the time chasing animals in multiple trajectories. Photo because she’s adorable.)

Varying Trajectories

In a short period of time we have gone from all five of us under one roof, always together, to spread out over three locations across the state – Lucas’ college is 3.5 hours away, and farm school is 1 hour away. Obviously, he is living at college, and to make the farm school days a success we now have a second home about 1 minute away from the farm. This means that we are splitting our weeks, some of us at home, some of us at the farm location, the mix of who is where varying week to week. It is a huge shift that requires trust and solid anchors.

For me, that starts with being solid with myself.

Hence the habits reboot last week.

Bodybuilding Reboot

Part of my habits reboot included reconnecting with my bodybuilding coach and starting our program again. It was time. And I’m PUMPED about it! Literally. (Had to do it.) Since my last surgery, 1/22/2021, my program was on hold. We had set up an interim diet with the goal of leaning out and I continued to do the weights workouts as appropriate through the healing process, but that’s it. No check ins, no change to program, wait until I was ready to start again.

I’M READY!!

Body Trajectory

I definitely accomplished the lean out goal. I took it beyond what was necessary, to the point where I was chasing the meaningless metric of a scale number. On purpose, knowingly, simply because it was there and something interesting to push for – but not a productive trajectory for my overall goals.

This. I did this. But it means NOTHING! Who cares? Please 100% know that I was and am fully aware that this is ridiculous. I hit my random number and can move on now.

When I read the “3 Things” from James Clear last week, it was the perfect message at the perfect time, the last push to let go of that meaningless trajectory. It allowed me to thoughtfully realign my goals, reconnect with my coach, and redefine my habits so they align with the identity and goals I want to achieve.

Here are the “3 Things” again

Reconnecting with my coach to set up a new plan based on where I am now and what we want to achieve is exactly what I need. I worked very hard on the right thing during the time off (lean out), but to continue to work on that thing would be the wrong thing. Now we have defined what the new right thing is. A better game for better prizes.

This one made me look hard at myself. I take pride in being a lean runner that can wear tiny pants. I take pride in rigid control over my body shape and size.

This does not align with the new identity and goals I want. Hiring a coach to help me move past that and grow into a new, curvy, muscular me is the best thing I have done for myself – physically and mentally.

I know what I want. I made my list of 10 Old Goals followed by 10 New Goals. I’ve set the old goals free with gratitude and made space for the new ones. I have a plan in place for achieving them. I have realigned my trajectory to fit the goals.

I’m feeling confident, purposeful, and supported with my goals and trajectory. From Day 1 of the Habits Reboot Workshop, I feel like I can fill this out and hang it up proudly:

Your Turn

What is your current trajectory and does it align with your current goals and habits? If not, let’s fix that! GO back to yesterday’s post, sign up for the 30 day Habits Reboot Workshop with me and let’s work on this together!

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