Do you relish the days when you had more time? Life was simple, responsibilities were light, all you had to care about was yourself. You could spend hours in the gym and answer to no one!

Yeah those younger years were great. But they were also much less meaningful! And boy did we take them for granted.

How we spend our time now looks much different than when we were younger, but our lives look different too. We are different. We’re a better, wiser, stronger version of ourselves!

So why would our routines, our self-care, our time in the gym still look like it did when we were younger? Why are we shying away from who and where we are now, today? Why try to cram the idea of what things should be like into a time and space that doesn’t exist anymore?

I bet you catch yourself saying, If I can only spend twenty or thirty minutes in the gym today, then it’s not worth it. I’ll wait until I have more time.

And we wait and wait until the time is right, or we think we might have an hour to spend tomorrow or this weekend, and then… nothing. Tomorrow or next weekend comes, and we are in the same place, still waiting.

Don’t you wish you had used that thirty minutes, maybe used it multiple times over the week, and just made it work? Because you’d be hours, and many workouts ahead of where you were when you decided it wasn’t enough, and you waited.

I call this the Perfection Syndrome. Instead of adapting with life, we push back, and wait until the right time, so we can fulfill our idea of what things should look like, how long they should last, how we should feel.

Well while we’ve been shoulding all over ourselves, we’ve wasted precious time and gotten nowhere. How is Perfect working out?

Doesn’t thirty minutes sound pretty good now? Or hey, twenty minutes in the morning and then another twenty after work?

Why don’t you look at your week, pencil in those quick workouts for yourself, have your things ready to go. And while you’re at it, have plan B drawn up for when your first plan falls through, because it will.

Life is not about perfect, it is about finding what works for you in the moment. Right now. Because c’mon folks, that’s all we have!