

I haven’t looked forward to a workout so much or felt so good afterwards in a very long time. My new favourite is The Class, by Taryn Toomey. Do any movement that makes you feel good. Move - Forget about what burns the most calories or working on your arms or glutes or whatever you think your imaginary problem area is.Below I touch on 8 areas where we can build and deepen a practice: Recommit to and prioritize them in your day to day. Now find ways to deepen those practices and habits further, reaching for tools (perhaps new tools) that will support you.

Review all the good, positive things that you do that make you feel good. But when things get harder, I've always found solace in re-evaluating and deepening that practice. I’ve written before about the power of a daily practice. How do we make it easier to live from a place of hope? We practice. It is easier to turn to eating or drinking too much, or reacting too much as a way of coping with the cycle of emotions. At first it is sometimes easier to be in a constant stage of outrage, anger, or to feel sad and depressed.

It is not complicated, but it doesn’t mean it’s easy. That is how we allow our choices to reflect our hopes rather than our fears. We imagine the feeling of our dreams realized and we live and choose from that place, from those wildly powerful feelings. We shift our focus to our hopes, our dreams, and to an entirely possible better future. Nelson Mandela famously said, “ May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” How do we practice this when it seems that fear surrounds us? When it seems that we are “supposed” to feel fear? It is actually not so complicated.
