When it comes to achieving any goal, we intuitively know planning is a key part of achieving. You need a road map for success, and that’s essentially what a good plan is.
For your fitness and health goals, planning might look like: logging your macros the night before in your tracking app, having a set training schedule or a time to cut off work to get to bed at a reasonable hour.
However, sometimes we also have to “plan to plan.” If you’re always forgetting to plan your macros out, you may benefit from setting an alarm in the early evening to whip out your tracking app and log your meals for the next day- actually setting aside that planning time.
We encourage our clients to pick an hour in their schedule to map out and plan their week. I personally benefit from doing this on Sunday mornings, before any “Sunday Scaries.” Pick a time that works best for you, and use it to plug in your calendar your training days, times to walk, stretching, meal prep days etc. I’m a Google Calendar girly, but you may find a pen and paper planner or a task app is best for you. On the way to achieving your big goals are 10,000 other small goals. Entering those smaller goals into our calendar and planning to fit them in our schedule is how we build habits, and avoid falling back into conveniently scrolling on Instagram.
The final key part of planning is Planning to re-evaluate. If you repeatedly miss planning out your macros the night before, is it because you’re “lazy” or “disorganized?” Or, is it perhaps because you’re making meals too complicated and that’s why there is resistance to the habit?
The resistance might be due to something deeper such as goals no longer truly being in alignment with your values. In either case, by scheduling time (perhaps at the end of the week, end of the month, or in your check in with your Coach) to re-evaluate, you are able to make the appropriate changes to continue moving forward to your highest self.
For example, maybe the time you “planned to plan” is the only time you have to chill and hang out with your spouse and that’s why we keep missing it. In which case the planned pre-tracking time should probably be moved. Problem solved!
Navigating your schedule and implementing habits and routines that are going to move you forward towards your goals are key parts of coaching.
At Fortify, it’s not just our way or the highway. We are going to meet you where you’re at, we’re just not going to leave you there.
Let’s move forward together, and rewrite the narrative to become your best self.