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Episode 3949, lean into leverage.
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Moms, it's time to rediscover, rejuvenate, and renew whom you are in mind, body, and spirit.
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Welcome to Create Your Now, Your Best Selfie, the show that help you do just that.
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Here's your host, certified life coach, personal trainer, and nutritionist, Christian Warno.
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Happy everyday. I hope you're having a fabulous week.
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I cannot believe it's already midweek, take a deep breath because what is going on in your neck
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at the woods like seriously? Have you been watching the weather? We'll hear down south,
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we're thinking we're going to get a big one, we'll see. But today it's all about your health
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and wellness. Lean into leverage. For those of you who are brand new to Create Your Now,
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welcome to this incredible family. I'm so delighted of your presence. If you already
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haven't had the opportunity, you want to head on over to creaturenow.com where you can learn more
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and sign up for the Kisses newsletter. They keep it simple strategy, everyday solutions,
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to live, love, and impact, where this episode is brought to you by aim, inspiring connection,
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and community. You know, if you have a life where everything is perfectly aligned,
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you've got the ideal schedule, boundless energy, just these endless resources.
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Fabulous. This isn't for you. But for the rest of us, especially when it comes to healthy living,
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the reality is messier. It's more complicated and rarely perfect.
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So instead of getting caught up in the magnitude of all the things' health,
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maybe it's all about how you lean into leverage. And not the leverage you're probably thinking of,
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right? I mean, if you're chasing that ideal health picture, you know it rarely last.
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So instead of drowning in the overwhelming list of habits and foods and workouts and wellness
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trends, the list goes on and on. What if you shifted your focus? What if thriving really thriving
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was less about perfection and more about leverage, leveraging exactly where you are and what you
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already have? So think about the word leverage, because I know you're going, Christian, I need a
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dictionary. Or what we think about leverage is maybe a negative. I want you to look at this as
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a positive, right? Leverage is all about maximizing impact with the resources at hand.
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That's how I want you to define the word leverage today, not waiting for the right time,
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or not waiting for perfect conditions. It's pulling strength from your current situation,
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your season of life, and making it work for you, not necessarily against you. Because again,
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go back, right? If you are living in a perfect world and you've got everything together,
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then honestly, series them being just really real with you. You just need to turn this off now
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because it's not going to match. But if you're one who says, oh, Christian, I've been up and down
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and all around. It's been a roller coaster. If you only knew what kind of life I've been having,
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I know I get it. And that's why I think we need to have a reminder in this. Maybe for you,
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you pick a word for the year, right? Well, maybe you've been looking for that word. Maybe that word
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needs to be leverage for you. And if you have picked a word and it's not leverage, feel free to
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share it with me. Connect at createyournow.com. So let's keep this real. Let's keep this grounded
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and actionable, right? You want to take aim, action ignites motivation. You want to create a system
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for the season. That is your kiss to keep it simple strategy. Create a system for the season.
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I like saying that like 12 times. I like the system for the season. I don't know. It just rings
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a bell and it has this rhythm to it. And I think when we want to have impact in our life,
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we want to be able to have something that moves with us, not against us. And a lot of times when
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we are talking health, we have a lot of things that go against us. I can't have this. I can't do that.
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But you must do this and you must do that. And you're thinking, but I don't want to do this.
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And I don't want to do that. But no, you have to do this and you have to do that. You see,
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it's like, why am I playing with this kind of fake flower that, oh, you know, I love you. I love
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you not. I love you. I love you. Not do you remember that way back when, okay, maybe I'm really
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aging myself right now as I'm saying it out loud and thinking about it. But remember when you
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take a flower and you would sit there and say, I love you. I love you not. I love you. I love you
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not. I can remember, okay, this is really going back. It's horrible. Elementary and I would have
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girlfriends. It would be like, I don't know if he likes me or not. And they would sit there and go,
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I love you. I love you not. Well, that's kind of what we're doing here. We're going like,
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this is great. I want to do this part of the diet. But over here, nope, don't want to do any part of
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the side. But over here, I'll do this part of the diet. And there's no wonder that by the time
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you're done, all your petals have fallen off. And what do you have? Just an empty stem. Nothing
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that looks pretty. Nothing that's good. You know this all too well. Healthy living isn't about some
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cookie cutter diet or one size fits all formula. It's about creating a system, a personal flexible
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system that fits your unique season right now. I don't think anybody really out there talks about
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this much because they want you to get on the bandwagon of, it's the new year. You need to have
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New Year's resolutions. You need to do whatever it is, right? With the voice of their choice.
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Yeah, no. Because honestly, the older we get, the more complicated life becomes.
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We gain wisdom. And with wisdom means there's responsibility. And with that responsibility,
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it basically gives us more choices. But now they become different because we are older.
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And if you're kind of over the big hump of half a century, you know that you're on the downhill.
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Pretty much, right? Even if you live to be over a hundred, you're still basically on the downhill.
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Now, that's not to say don't take care of yourself. I totally believe in taking care of yourself.
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If you can live to your 110 on your terms, by all means, go and let's do it.
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But if you want to sit here and say, man, well, I kind of want to do this. Well, I kind of not.
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I kind of want to do this. I kind of don't want to. Right? Back to the pedals.
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That's not going to help you when it comes to a healthy lifestyle.
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What it's going to do is going to set yourself up. Your body up for complete failure.
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You're not going to be able to handle it. You're going to have everything going in all the wrong
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directions. Right? And so if you don't have a system for the season, you're just fighting an
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uphill battle that guarantees burnout and frustration. And you might be already living that now
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without thinking about health. So how did you really begin to create a system within the season
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that you're in right now and build it to where it actually works for you, not against you?
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So you don't have to sit there and do those pedals. You can just look at the whole flower.
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That's what I want for you. I want you to have the whole flower. Number one, take stock of your
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current resources. So here's some questions to really consider. What time do you realistically have?
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There are some people like, I want to lose all this weight. Okay, well, depending upon how much
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you need to lose, I guarantee you cardio is going to be involved. Number one, your heart needs it.
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Number two, you got to be realistic. You need cardio. So instead of believing those, you don't
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have to run or exercise or do anything. No cardio, nothing. But you could lose 30 pounds and 30
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days. Run away fast. Okay, I'm just saying, right? And we've heard all those infomercials.
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Maybe you've even tried them in your younger years. But now what did I tell you? Your older,
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your wiser, your decisions are different, which makes your responsibility even greater.
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So what times do you realistically have? What food options are accessible?
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If you live down south and not right now where we're going to have this winter storm coming through,
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but where you can grow your own food and you have access to your own eggs and maybe even your own
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beef and chicken and all that jazz, it might be easy. But someone who might be in a cold or
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climate and they don't have access to the food except for what comes in the grocery stores,
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that's going to look a lot different, right? So what food options are accessible? What does it look
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like? How can you have a well-balanced meal? Okay, where your body will take it in and use it
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for the betterment. We can eat whatever we want. We can drop our calories all we want to, right?
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But if we're not eating what our body needs, we're just pooping it out. I'm just going to be
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real with you, right? What about movement? Intentional movement. What feels good to you? Are you one
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who really does enjoy aerobic exercising? Great, but maybe you don't, but you do enjoy dancing
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and just train on some music and you find yourself doing that when you're cleaning your house or
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doing your laundry, then maybe you need to consider something unique like that. You know, you don't
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want to look at what should be there, but what's real? This honest inventory becomes your leverage
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foundation and that's the key. You want to build a baseline. Because then you have something to
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work with. This isn't about starting really something from scratch. It's about starting where you
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are and knowing this is where I want to go and what does it look like between here and in between.
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So take stock of your current resources. Number two, set micro goals that fit your capacity.
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We all have a capacity, right? I am one who can get up early and stay up late and survive. If I
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have to, on three and a half to four hours, however, the older I've gotten, it doesn't work real well.
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I really need about five and a half to six hours strong. If I can get that, even if I get up once
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to go to the bathroom, I'm being honest, I can make it really good and I can feel good. But is that
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really what I want in the season of my life? Is this really what it, you know, boils down to? No.
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So look at your capacity of what you have, what micro goals fit into that. Forget giant leaps,
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none of those anymore. Focus on small wins. Maybe it is that 10 minute walk. Okay, down to the
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end of the street and back. Maybe it's adding water before coffee. You're like, I'm a coffee
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hall like great, but drink 24 ounces of water before you have your first cup. Okay, now you may not
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start at 24 ounces, but maybe you start at one right when you get up at the morning, these eight
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ounces go go go go go right. And then the next to another eight ounces go go go go go go and you've
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got 16 ounces right there. The next will be I'm going to have water while I make my coffee and then
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you've got 24. That's something to celebrate. Maybe it's swapping one snack for fruit. You know,
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maybe you're one who says, oh my goodness, I've only I could have like, oh my chocolate and all
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of this. Okay, great. But can you cut back a little bit? Maybe for that, it's I'm going to eat healthy
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vegetables or I'm going to have a healthy fruit. Little steps, micro goals. These are steps that
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add up without derailing your life. It's not a, oh my goodness, this is going to change the world.
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But it is going to have greatest impact, a greater impact, honestly, long term because our micro
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and micro adds up to macro. You got it. Number three, create habits that align with your energy
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and schedule. This is, oh, so important. I've been traveling a lot. I've been got almost
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out two weeks when you're gone and away from home. And yes, we got this storm coming into my
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mind's a little bit all over the place. But as I'm on the road, it's hard because there will be
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nights, especially when I'm at a conference or with the grandbabies or wherever I'm at that
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my schedule when it comes to sleeping is all messed up plus I'm not in my own bed. I don't have
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control over that. And so you've got to think, okay, I know I'm going to be traveling for this season.
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I've got a good friend right now who's traveling to England took her whole family. All seven of them
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are going over there. I think it's fabulous. But guess what? Their schedule is going to be messed
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up, especially their sleep schedule. Primarily why? They're on a different time zone. Okay, they're
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going to have to adjust. So if you want to eat healthy in that type of environment, it's going to
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look differently. If you want to work out in that type of environment, it's going to look differently.
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It's going to feel different. So you want to create habits, you want to create these
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pockets of this is what's going to work right now in this season. And a season could be a couple
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days, a season could be a couple weeks or maybe a couple years. And remember, seasons change all
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the time. So you might be in a season for two months and then you jump into another season.
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And that season may go for just a couple weeks. And then you jump into another season that may last
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for months. You've got to be able to say, this is what I need, where I'm at at this moment.
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And what do I need to go and do through this season, whatever that length of season it is?
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If mornings are rushed, maybe evening is your movement time, right? That's when you say,
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I'm going to work out then. Is that good or bad or ugly? It just depends. Don't sit there and judge
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yourself right now. Get yourself in a habit of doing and moving. Maybe cooking feels impossible.
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So consider prepping simple nutritionist meals on a weekend. Maybe for you, you're like Christian,
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I don't cook. You know how many options there are out there now that you can have healthy foods
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sent to you. Don't tell me you can't figure it out. You can. But I think we have to start looking at
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their system and our season that we're in and meld them together, right? Systems are flexible.
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They're not rigid. And so when you sit here and say, okay, I'm going to build this in. I can build
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this into the dunks and credits of my day. I know I can do this. You can do it because I know I've
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done it. Now, I'm not saying it comes easy. You still have to have determination. You still have
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to stick to what you want to do. You want to have accountability and you've got to create consistency.
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That goes with absolutely anything. But what happens is this works with you, not against you.
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Remember, the path to wellbeing, oh, my friend, it is not a sprint. It's a steady climb, right? It's
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that marathon. And sometimes it might feel like a marathon going up the hill, literally running up
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the hill. Remember, once up at a time, these two miles of greatness. So if your season feels complicated,
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maybe you're shifting in your career. That happens when we get older. Maybe you're retiring.
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Congratulations. Then maybe you're like, oh, no, no, no, no. This is where I'm starting to have
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problems. Maybe you're in the middle of parenting. You got kids at an age that, oh, my goodness,
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it's just wearing down on you. I get it. Maybe you've had a few health setbacks. You've been in
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the hospital. You've been recovering from a few things. My mom, you know, recently broke her
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ankle. Let me tell you that was a setback. But let me also tell you she's on the come back.
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But you get to choose which side of the coin you want to be on the setback side or the come back
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side. That's all the more reason to lean into leverage. Use what you have where you are.
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My friend, don't throw in the towel just because the terrain is rough, right? Lace up your shoes.
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Put your feet in the right shoes so you can go out and run the terrain, walk the terrain
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for the journey in front of you. That's how you build your system for the season.
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Because honestly, that's where real progress lives. And then it sticks. You want healthy living
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to be sticky. And when it's sticky, that means you know, well, you're doing something right.
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Go on peace, train for life. Love your journey. I love you so very much. I cannot wait to see you
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on the other side. Blessing tags and lots, lots of love. We'll talk to you real soon. Have a glorious
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plus day. Bye-bye. Feeling inspired and ready to train for life and love your journey,
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visit createyournow.com for more incredible resources to help you along the way. We'll see you next
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time on Create Your Now Your Best Selfie. And remember, always be sure you consult your position
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before beginning any health and fitness plan.