An inherent part of freshening our mindsets is taking out the trash. I mean, how many times have we come home from the store with a bunch of new produce and found that we have to get the sad wilted lettuce and the other expired stuff out of the way before we can even put what we bought in the fridge?
When we spring clean our homes, or clear out our closets, we go through and figure out what needs to go. What is worn out? What doesn’t fit? What hobbies have we grown out of? What’s broken?
Sometimes we learn, as we make space, that what we really needed wasn’t a bunch of new stuff, but rather the space itself.
In a fitness context, this can mean anything from letting go of ideas about ourselves (“I’m too ___ to do that thing I want to do.” “It takes too long.” “People will look at me funny if I…”) to rethinking what dinner looks like (hint: if it is mostly nutritious and tastes good, it can be whatever you want). Maybe we’ve gotten tangled in a complex system of workouts and we just need to make it simple for a while. Maybe, dare I say, we can put away our gizmos and trackers and just move for a bit to see how that feels.
My trash might be your treasure. There are so many useful paths to take. The key is that we use our big brains to evaluate what is actually serving us as we live our healthy, happy lives.
Go play.
