You Begin Where You Begin

Beginning where you begin is critical when building new habits, adapting to a new body, adjusting to a new lifestyle and approaching methods in an ever-changing environment. Your body is an ever-changing environment. This concept applies to breathwork, movement, recovery and nutrition.

However, it is much easier to say than to practice. We encourage you to make this an integral part of your daily practices. Every day you are experimenting with a different body, a different state, a different body. Sure, some things remain the same. But you’ve already felt how different your training can be in a body that’s fatigued, under nourished, and not rested. You just can’t seem to perform in the same way.

Acceptance is another sharp edge to this sword. It’s one thing to notice you’re fatigued or injured. It’s another thing to accept it and adjust your training and practices to honor where your body is at today. We all want to be at peak performance most of the time. The dirty truth though is that’s not possible if your body has zero reserves. 

If you’re sick, or injured, or simply tired, your body is allocating extra resources to decrease inflammation. Does pushing harder serve you in this circumstance? Maybe some days. Maybe not at all. This is where you, an individual, need to experiment and add play to the way that you move, breath and recover.

The best version of you is the one the recognizes ALL parts of you. That includes the pieces that are not at their peak performance. Your push may have driven you deep down a path that you have to rewind before you are able to push again. Where is that beginning for you? Today?

This is the unsexy, hard to sell untrademarked truth that you won’t see online. There’s no click-bait in inviting people to take back their individual agency and autonomy. There’s no top 5 tools for your morning routine that you can sell. Because it will be different for all of us at different times in our lives.

It requires your focus and diligence in honoring and re-honoring exactly where you are at and what your body needs at any given time. A TON of nuance. 

We suggest before you flood yourself with all the toxic “should’s”, check-in with yourself instead of checking boxes. What would happen if you simply allowed yourself to begin where you begin? Let’s see what that might feel like. Watch the following video and let’s check-in together.

For a more in-depth way to recover from burnout and perform at your best, join our yearly course The Magic of Mistakes: Your Performance Lab or join us for daily practices in the Waffle Membership.