I had a few people say the same thing to me recently.
And, as always, I know that if a few people are saying it, many more will be thinking or feeling it.
It’s the phrase to this blog title.
“I know you don’t believe that people can be too busy”
Said when I’ve been talking to people about why they haven’t been engaging with the programme.
“I’ve been really busy” they’ve replied.
“I know you don’t believe that people can be too busy, but I have”
Or words to that affect.
And I’ll dispute that.
I know that we can be “too busy.
Both from my own experiences of being “too busy”……..
And from twenty years of working with people that are “too busy”.
But it’s what we are “too busy” for that we would benefit from questioning.
Because in those conversations where people have said that to me……….
I hadn’t asked them about any specifics.
I hadn’t said “Why haven’t you been doing three Sessions a week down at the club?”.
I hadn’t asked them why they hadn’t been eating brilliantly.
They’d jumped straight to that.
I’ll freely admit that we can be too busy to do everything we might like to do.
We can be too busy to do the optimum version of a health and fitness based programme like ours.
We can be too busy to make the number of Sessions we’d like at the club or to eat in the way we might ideally like.
But, I tell you what we can’t be too busy for;
– Spending 10 seconds replying to a text message from me
– Spending 30 seconds taking stock of how we’re doing and clicking a button to Touch Base on a Sunday evening
– Spending 1 minute setting a specific intention for the coming week with our rise plan that is worthwhile but doable
Not doing these things is not a “busyness issue”.
It’s a “mindset about busyness issue”.
It’s where we’ve told ourselves that when we can’t do a very specific version of what we’d like to do………
Then the next option is to do nothing at all.
To “stop”.
To disengage.
With a view to “starting again” and reengaging at some point in the future.
Next week.
Next month.
And, as always, that approach is fine for you to do.
Until it’s not.
Until it consistently doesn’t get you lasting results over time.
Like it hasn’t for the vast majority of people I’ve ever encountered.
It’s ok to be “too busy”.
But you’ll benefit massively from always remembering that you’re not too busy to do anything.
And that not doing anything is the surest way to not get the results that you desire (and that clicking this link to try out our 4 week ‘Transformation Programme’ is the quickest way to results and to lasting change –> www.myrise.co.uk/apply) .
Much love,
Jon ‘Bee’ 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!
