Episode three thousand nine hundred and seventy seven plant your patience

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certified life coach personal trainer and nutritionist Christian Wardo

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Because aren't you ready for spring? Well, it is time to plant your patience

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Well as you know Wednesday we've changed kind of the focus not exactly but it's well spring Wednesday

And it's really talking about how to love your reflection loving your whole self

Where you're showing up how you're showing up how to make those choices of course

We've got to look at ourselves from a healthy perspective the fitness part the nutrition part

But also it's our mindset

Where are we allowing our beliefs to come filter in to our thoughts which dictate our actions and in our actions

Where do they lead and who is doing all this?

Are we doing it? Are we walking in step with God? I mean what is the process?

So here on well spring Wednesday

We're just going to dive in and it's one of those things where you know

What do you do to make life work well?

And with spring around the corner. I can't help but think about planting. What about you?

You know in the relentless rush of daily life

It's easy to feel like we're sprinting on a treadmill set to maximum speed like oh, we got this we got this

Chasing the next goal the next move the next achievement

Only to end up overwhelmed

Exhausted and stuck in a loop of what didn't get done

That constant hurry doesn't just steal time. It steals clarity. It steals our joy

It steals the chance to grow something meaningful in our lives

It takes away the impact that we have on the world that we touch

So what if instead of rushing

You plant your patients and I'm not talking about those flowery patients

But maybe you could think of it as those beautiful patients that you plant they are gorgeous by the way

But it's about your patients your resolve how you approach things

What if you slowed down dug deep and gave yourself the permission to nurture progress with care

not speed

You know the truth is simple, but often ignored anything worth having or becoming takes time

success

mastery

healing

connection

all these start as small seeds fragile and tentative

They need

Watering they need sunlight

They need time to sprout and grow strong

You know life gets so confusing when we let the chaos of busyness control us and we do

The tangled mess we often find ourselves in is rarely due to the external forces

But rather to our letting impatience lead

Pushing us into frantic motion that scatters our focus and energy

Have you ever woken up more tired than when you went to bed? You're like gosh, did I get any sleep?

And then reality you fell asleep maybe only woke up one time to go to the bathroom and said

Have three times to go to the bathroom, but you're still scratching your head going why do I feel more exhausted

Because sometimes we're just always in that hurry scurried mode

And we don't know how to step away from it

So let me bring in a new perspective for you patience is not passive weighting

It's an active powerful choice to nurture your goals thoughtfully

To expect the natural pace of growth

And to stay present in the process instead of racing toward the finish line

Right, we've got a plant your patience

That is your kiss to keep it simple strategy plant your patience now

What are you doing at this moment?

in your life

What does the season feel like? Are you running from one thing to the next?

I know for me I kind of am I'm traveling every three to four days

And it drives me a little bit crazy, but guess what I know that's the season I'm in

And so I have made changes

To allow myself to be in that season

So I can flourish

So yeah even in this kind of craziness of my life knowing I'm traveling every three to four days

I still have to plant my patience

I have to figure out okay, what can I do now? What is working? What's not working? What do I need to maybe do more of?

Now when you're traveling a lot, what do you think you lose?

sleep

Why because you're not in your own bed most of the time it's hard

It really is and patience well it does help if you get some sleep, right

So when you're looking at the season of life that you're in

And you're ready to spring forward and you're ready to say you know what I want to do something different in the season

It's got to start with your patience

And you've got to be able to cultivate what that landscape looks like for you

So what does it look like to grow your patience and plan it so your progress can blossom

number one

Plant belief as your seed

Every change begins with belief

the conviction that what you want is possible

And worth the time it takes notice the and it's not just it's possible period

Right, it's possible and it's worth the time

That's where huh. Hello patience comes in, right?

So without this foundation patience feels like a frustrating weight

But with belief it becomes a hopeful planting a promise to yourself that you're investing in your future

And you can take one step at a time that leads to miles of greatness every single day and that one step doesn't mean

That you've taken 20

It literally means one step one step

And that one step isn't like a dinosaur step

It might be that little cute tweety bird

And it may be just a baby step. I mean so small

But if you were to take one step every single day and 365

Days you will have taken 365 steps right in your year

Don't you think that's going to get you somewhere most definitely

So plant belief as your seed and if you're like I don't really know what I believe well then start there

Figure out what your season is where do those beliefs filter in

If this is a spiritual question for you. Well then you need to dive deeper

Into spirituality

How God shows up for you

If the belief might be gosh, I really need to lose weight because well

I just know I need to I'm getting older and I don't need to have this extra weight around my waist

So what does that look like? Okay, so that belief is different

Is it all about the number on the scale maybe you used to think that when you're in your 20 somethings

But now that you're in your 40 and 50 somethings and 60 somethings and 70 somethings

Not number on the scale may not mean the same to you anymore

So that belief has changed or if it has it maybe it needs to see where I'm going with this

So your belief is the focus of where your season is

Because if we were looking at your entire life

Holy cow, that's a lot of beliefs. Okay, so get to the core of where you are in your season plant belief as your seed at number two

nourish with consistent action not instant results

Oh, I don't know why we can't get away from this goldfish syndrome here

It's like I see it. I want it. I see it. I want it

We go through the drive through I see it. I want it and I don't want it in 10 minutes

I don't want to wait for my chicken extra crispy to be cooked for 13 minutes and I can have it fresh

It should already be ready when I drive up and so when I go to the second window after I paid at the first window

It's ready

Ring a bell

Maybe had nothing to do with extra crispy chicken, but we all can relate to wanting something immediately. We see it. We want it

But you see patients isn't about sitting still. It's about steady deliberate care

It's not about the fast food drive up

either

It's not about I just got to get this done right now small purposeful steps compound over time to produce growth

So celebrate the daily efforts one step at a time leads to miles of greatness

I don't care if it's the one step that's like the dinosaur size which it doesn't have to be but there might be times where it is a dinosaur step

Right or maybe for some it's an elephant step, but dinosaurs I think would take a much bigger step

I'm just saying their stride would be much bigger

versus a little bird

But you can have a conglomerate of everything in between

Celebrate those daily efforts even when results aren't immediate

Because they build momentum and faith in the process

Now a lot of times we have to wet it comes to our belief

And then we have to go okay now that I'm doing this with consistent action

I see it coming and then it builds momentum and over time it's like yes

So let's go back to weight

All right, you want to see that number move. Well, maybe that number's not going to move as fast as it used to

Because your metabolism is different. It's okay. Welcome to aging gracefully

Say whoop whoop. It's wonderful. You don't need all these gadgets to tell you what you need to do with your health. You already know

And it starts with consistent action

believing in who you are and who you are becoming and then taking those little steps and those little pretty steps are just as good

Maybe it's about switching out

Your vegetables and having more vegetables than you do bread or whatever it is

Whatever you're working on maybe it's drinking more water. So it's taking a can of soda now for a

bottle of water

And I'm all about saving the world

But if you're making that switch by those bottled waters for right now make it an easy grab an easy decision

Then you can go and

Buy something else that you want to so you know definitely recycle the bottled water

You know the bottles of the water come in but make it easy for you right consistent action

nourish your

Decisions with consistent actions

And that's how you build that momentum

And where you can have faith in the process of where you're headed who you are and who you are becoming

And then finally number three create space to reflect and adjust

Okay, notice it's not just a reflect. It's also to make the adjustments needed

We got to be flexible and not just in our fitness which is very important as we grow older

But we need to have that flexibility that adaptability

We need to be able to adjust in real time growth doesn't happen in chaos

So carve out moments away from distractions to observe your progress

To adjust your approach and to quiet the noise of doubt

If you haven't been listening you're just now kind of catching up go back two days ago

Right the power of silence go listen to that one

And then go listen to yesterday's come back to center

A lot of that is about creating that space to reflect to say you know what it's mindful reflection

That's going to refuel my patience and it's going to keep my vision grounded. It's going to keep me in the game of life

And there's going to be a lot of things that

You're like I'm done. I'm finished

And it can be anything that can derail you there's lots of stuff that can

Bills right? Oh, let me tell you about bills. All right. I mean all of these things that we have

In life it could be our health

It could be where we live it could be our career it could be our kids it could be our spouse

It could be our colleagues

It could be about retirement

Right there's so many things what is it for you

Remember patience is a muscle you build with practice

It's not a fixed trait you either have or you don't

So the more you cultivate it the more your progress expands naturally and powerfully

And it allows you to have a greater impact on the world that you touch

So to honor this journey. I want you to really think about what it's like in planting patience

Plant the seed

Though the soil is bare

Though the days feel slow

Though no bloom is there

Water it with belief

Sunlight of quiet grace

Roots grow beneath in their own time and place

Storms may come and winds may bend

But patience is the promise that growth has no end

So slow your hurry tend with care great things take time they blossom where

You dare to plant patience there

Oh my friend patience planted is progress made

When you root your actions in belief and nurture them with steady care

The impossible shifts closer to the inevitable

It's time to stop rushing

What if we were to start from a point of rest

And you start by saying you know what

What's in my heart start planting

And watch your own growth surprise you

Go in peace be present

Be incredible be you

I love you so very much. I cannot wait to see you on the other side blessing tags and lots and lots of love

We'll talk to you real soon have a glorious blessed day

Bye-bye

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