Opportunity Will Knock, Prepare to Let it In

VFit’s Weekly Inspo

We are so amped up after our full house classes all morning long and are ready for some serious straight talk with you all today. The VFit studio was SO BUSY this morning, we actually had to double check our calendar that is was JULY and not January. But that is just yet another testament to this amazing team and platform. Being fit and healthy is possible ALL year long.

So now on to some straight talk, because to be honest, there are plenty of you reading this right now that truly need to soak this lesson in and than to take ACTION on what we are so passionate about, and that is…..

Each and every day, opportunity comes to you. 

Today’s theme: “Opportunity will knock, prepare to let it in.”

There’s many many ways to live your life.  There’s the route of comfort, doing the same thing – whether it’s working or not

– OR –

There’s the less traveled path with more unknowns, but with a huge upside! Living your life, spending time outside of your comfort zone.

Living in the growth mindset of wanting to do better for yourself, your family, this world. Rising up to things that scare you or make your arm hair stand up. Being able to make big changes in your life, when you know they are necessary. Knowing when it is time for a change!

Are you going on today, much like you did yesterday and the day before?  Going through the motions of life, but living in the safe place where your pendulum  is always in the middle?  Never quite challenging yourself or changing yourself?

Feeling totally stuck at a job, in a relationship, with your own health?  Lacking results?  Wishing there was more to your day, but you just are not making any changes ?

So many of us stick with the above because of the fear of unknown.  Yes, we may not be quite happy with where we are at, but we are comfortable with it, because we’ve been living in it for so long.

But what if, what if you started going about your days prepared to do one thing that scares you EVERY SINGLE DAY?  Prepared to let opportunity in when it comes knocking to you.  When we talk about something that scares you, we don’t mean you need to go sky diving or bungee jumping every day.

But what we do mean is that to thrive in this life, to enjoy the ride and to continue to grow as a person, you must get outside your comfort zone and let opportunity in when it is knocking! Sometime the knock is so whisper quiet, but it’s still there.

Maybe it is sitting down and having that talk you need with your boss, maybe it is asking your spouse for more help in an area, maybe it is saying NO to another event for your kids, maybe it is not doing the dishes before bed, maybe it is trying a new workout you are intimidated by, maybe it is actually scheduling YOUR SELF CARE………

Doing something every day that is out of your comfort zone truly is POWERFUL! Don’t believe us? Try it each day for a week and see how empowered you feel.

Life is going to be hard sometimes, it can be downright brutal in fact. But when you take the time during your everyday life, to train for the unknown, to continue to grow as a person, to get uncomfortable, to let opportunities in – you realize that most of the magic in this world comes from the journey and not the destination we all think we should be striving for.

What if you let go of waiting for ‘the perfect time’ to make changes or start a new exercise routine?

If you really think about it, every single day opportunity is coming to you.  Your friend is asking you to meet up after work for a walk.  Your husband is asking if you’d like to take time off from kid duty and have some me time.  Your neighbor is telling you all about her new exercise routine that’s pushing her limits and making her feel so good and youthful again!

Are you listening to things like the above thinking about how it’s just not the right time for YOU to do it?

Guess what?!  There’s never going to be a perfect time.  You’ll always run into bumps along the way.  There will be weeks when your workouts will be spot on and then you’ll get a stomach bug that may floor you for 5 days. It happens!  But you know what, you continue on..  You don’t just stop working on yourself when you fall down.  You get back, up.  Even it’s not pretty, or the same it was when you were in your 20s.  You do the best you can do today –  for you.

Opportunities to take care of yourself come to you all the time, you can only change your life if you let them in.  You are in control of your life, right here and right now.

Any excuse you plug into for why you aren’t taking care of yourself is just that.  It’s an excuse. You have every right “not” to take care of yourself, but that is exactly what it is, your right, no one else’s. Life isn’t too busy that your own well being doesn’t matter – ever. We have a member going through her second round of CHEMOTHERAPY and she still shows up to 2-3 classes a week and does what she can.  I can’t think of many stories more inspiring than that.

If you are ready to stop making excuses and take your own health into your own hands, you have to let opportunity in. You have to just COMMIT and go all in. You can’t half “arse” your health, you just can’t. You need to be consistent, dedicated, and give yourself a realistic amount of time to reap the rewards that come along with self-care.

If you let your health slide for the past 5-10 years, do you really think in a month or 2 you are going to be in peak shape? No! But you will be 2 months further in your journey, rather than 2 more months behind if you keep putting it off.

If there’s no time in the day, you set your alarm for 30 minutes earlier and get it done while the rest of the world is sleeping and hit the sack a few minutes earlier.  Yes, it may sting to get up earlier, but NOTHING beats that top of the world feeling you get once that workout is done first thing in the morning!

Even breaking up workouts into smaller chunks, as small as 5 minutes, ADDS up.  Every single time we checked, 5 is greater than 0.   Every time.  Start carving it out and let it build up.  You’ll start feeling better moving that body and seek out more time.

Believe in yourself.  Know that you are worthy of the time you take each day for self care.   Say yes to your own success.  Find your team that will support you.

Rachele, Maria and the VFit dream team!

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