My Journey With Health And Fitness – I Got ‘Er Done

It was a brutal fitness class today. It was one of those sessions where you do 100 of the first exercise, 90 of the next and so on. Once you completed them all you d0 another round. Afterward it was a finisher doing 4 rounds of 30 second planks followed by 30 seconds of crunches. I really pushed myself today to clear my head and by time it was over I had done 300 jumping jacks, 120 full sit ups and had managed to do 1 minute of single arm planks on each side. Not bad for someone pushing 60.

I was really starting to panic this week. I just had too much stuff to do before heading off to Mexico tonight. It included my usual weekly events such as volunteering to lead a group of seniors on a walk, co-facilitating a caregiver support group, and calling isolated seniors. Add to that picking up a new tax client who was 5 years behind in filing, agreeing to help a senior through the volunteer income tax clinic and dealing with being the financial agent for the upcoming Provincial election. On top of that I had 4 dogs that all needed rehoming. Of course there was also at least 4 hours of exercise each day and a physio appointment. I am sure you can imagine my days were pretty full.

My husband was the one who realized something had to give. We had decided to do a day trip Wednesday and go out for lunch. That morning while we were having coffee with friends he suggested that maybe we put off doing our day trip until we return from Mexico and my sister agreed (she was going to be joining us for the day). I almost cried in relief, that gave me an extra 4 hours that I could spend completing everything and I managed to do so by Thursday afternoon.

But there is a real lesson for me here, I can’t do it all. Seriously, I overbook myself like this all the time because I am just not good at telling others I am too busy for them. Then, I get myself into a state where I am super stressed. Trust me it is not because I am not good at time management, if I wasn’t I wouldn’t get half the stuff done in a normal day. It is just I think I need to be everything to everyone and quite frankly I need to stop doing that.

Here’s hoping during the next 6+ weeks in Playa del Carmen that I find some time to just sit back and relax and develop that manana attitude.