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Hello and welcome to the Own Your Health podcast, I'm Cyndi Lynne, and I can't wait to help you step into your health power. Today we're going to tackle the first of the top two excuses of all time, the Dynamic Duo. Not enough time and not enough money.
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Now, these are fabulous excuses, and I know because I've used them myself for years. And if I don't pay close attention, those two excuses can still make their way into my vocabulary. So today, let's talk about not enough time. Not enough time is a simple way of saying I don't want to have to prioritize.
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And I get it. Prioritizing often means making really tough choices. But to truly change behaviors and habits, everything that's important to you, everything worth prioritizing, has to be on the table for consideration.
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In other words, even if you consider it a top priority, it has to be considered. I get pushback on this and I hear there are just some non negotiables in my life or I have to do them. To which I say, great, get them on the table.
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Give them an official place in your life. Now, it might sound a little bit scary, but for some of you, it's also going to sound kind of exciting. And that's what I want to help you feel. It's how I feel whenever I sit down to make sure my behaviors and my activities continue to reflect my priorities.
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Now, there's no need to panic. This doesn't mean that you aren't going to do the things that you have to do. It does mean that you're willing to consider how everything fits together as a total picture. So when I hear I don't have enough time, I don't have enough time to do all the stuff I need to do to be healthy, to prepare healthy meals, you know, these things, to exercise, to maintain relationships.
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I don't have enough time to do everything. And you know what? I know, and I agree. You don't have time to do everything. And that's why it's important to prioritize. But once you put everything on the table, that's when you can honestly start to look at the behaviors and activities that you want to maintain and those that you want to change or even eliminate.
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Now, at this point, it may sound like I'm talking in circles, but the point I want to make, that is until you're really willing to look at everything, you won't have a true picture and you won't be able to make changes that are going to be lasting and they're going to have big impact.
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You also may feel that nothing can change because you've already fit as much as you can into your day and you're already exhausted. Now, if you're happy with how you spend your time, that's great. I'm not going to tell you you have to change anything. But if you're here, I'm guessing it's because you could use a little help.
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I've got that. I can help you. I'm going to give you the biggest trick I've learned to be able to revamp and take control of my time. Here it is, decoupling. See, my mind has a sneaky little habit of combining activities and timing that don't have to be together.
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And these create kind of a pseudo relationship. And it allows these things to become time obstacles. So see if any of this sounds familiar to you. I don't have time to work out. Now in my mind I'm thinking I have to get to the gym, I have to change, I have to work out, I have to shower, I have to do my hair and get dressed again.
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And that's going to take at least two hours. So I don't have time to work out. But what you see there is I automatically linked working out with the gym, which is not necessarily the case with showering, redoing my hair and commuting.
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So it was easy to see that truthfully, I didn't have time for that. Especially if you're starting a new habit, it would be really tough to carve out a couple of hours in the day. Now, as I say this, and I didn't, I thought twice about even sharing this.
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I'm embarrassed. Looking back at the number of hours I've wasted in my life, particularly in my busiest corporate days, washing and styling my hair. Did I really believe that my afternoon would just fall apart if I worked out at lunch and then just freshened up?
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I don't know what I was thinking. Actually, I do. I was thinking of the perfect workout and not thinking of the movement necessary to begin to change my health. You might call it perfectionism. But if I couldn't separate getting exercise from all of the other pieces, that couldn't happen in my world at that time.
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I wasn't ever going to make change. Now I'm happy to say since then, I've learned the value of a 20 minute walk, a value of a bit of dry shampoo and a touch up of makeup in my bag. It sounds simple, but you can probably relate to that.
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So how about this one? I'M going to cook all my own meals. Now my mind immediately goes to five course complicated homemade bone broth masterpieces. And who has time for that every day? I mean, I wish. Think about this, there are people who've built their entire livelihood on creating the 30 minute sheet pan meals and on meal prepping for a week or two weeks at a time.
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It's for a good reason. Because preparing your meals does not have to be complicated or take a lot of time. We often attach those two things. Now here's a favorite. I couldn't possibly get eight hours of sleep at night. Your automatic mind may be thinking by the time I clean up after dinner and tidy the house and get lunches packed and get the kids to bed and I need some downtime in front of the tv, I'm lucky to get to bed by midnight. And this may be what you currently do in the evenings, but technically none of that has to be done before you go to bed.
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Could lunches be made and frozen on the weekend and just pulled out each evening and morning? Or what if good sleep became your most enjoyable downtime? And I can hear the responses already. Am I supposed to let my 3 year old wander around on their own? No.
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But if you're trying to cultivate healthy habits, maybe your 3 year old would benefit from an earlier bedtime too. And are you really the only one who can do the bedtime duties or pack the lunches or tidy up the house?
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Or has it become a habit that you might want to change? Now I get it. These can be tough topics and they can impact your greater family. But putting all of your habits on the table is what will lead you to real change and ultimately to you being that much closer to owning your time and ultimately your health.
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Now my intent in this short podcast is not to solve your time problems. I simply wanted to point out some of the examples that so many of the things we think we have to do and do at a certain time are simply old habits that may not be serving us anymore. Our health is worth taking another look.
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If you want to reprioritize yourself and your health, consider a three session jumpstart with me. You can click on the link below and we can get started together. And as always, if you're not really sure where to start, grab a time on my calendar for a free consultation.
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And please consider rating this podcast and sharing it with a friend. I'd really appreciate it. Now I'm going to see you next time to talk about the second of the dynamic duo - not enough money. Until then, let's go out and own it.
