I was doing a Coaching Call with one of our members the other day.
Where I speak to them on the phone and we look at what’s been going on, what’s been going well that we can use to build confidence and momentum with and perhaps any areas we can add a bit of extra value to.
It’s something I do in addition to conversations in the club.
As I find conversations in the club very easy to immediately be forgotten.
With phone calls I can make notes, send a summary of what we’ve agreed, and arrange follow-up and accountability (check www.myrise.co.uk/apply if a lack of follow up and accountability is part of what’s stopped you before).
On this particular call, the member I was talking to was telling me how they’d maintained their weight recently.
Their exact phrase was “it’s neither up nor down”.
Which is, of course, what made me think of the Grand Old Duke of York rhyme.
They were more than happy with this.
Because, under the circumstances, it had been a time frame in which they probably previously would have gained significant weight.
Multiple social events and some challenging logistics in their life.
It’s easy to forget the value of maintenance sometimes
It’s not as s*xy as forward progress is it?
We rarely see it being celebrated in the same way we do when people have achieved significant change.
But, over the course of a lifetime, we’ll all have countless periods of maintenance.
And if we manage to change those periods of regression to those of maintenance, that will probably have a significantly higher impact on our overall results than the periods of forward progress will do.
Regular two steps forward, three steps back……….
Produces worse results than alternating between one step forward and standing still.
It is, of course, fine to want and to work towards those periods of forward progress.
To want to be “up”.
But remembering that, when that isn’t happening, neither up nor down is the next best thing will probably have the biggest impact on our results.
Much love,
Jon ‘The grand old Duke of York, he had 12 million quid. He gave it to someone he’d never met, for something he never did’ Hall
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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!
