ColdShower #78🥶🚿 Tunnel Vision

You can lead a human to knowledge, but you can’t make them think.

Apr 10, 2024

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The ColdShower: Weekly thoughts for better health, habits, and happiness.

This Week is ‘Totality’ Cool

Recharge: Tunnel Vision
Refine: Road Warriors, Part 2 - Controlling your environment
Rethink: Q&A with Jessica Williamson, HotWorx Franchise Owner, on shifting from the corporate world to business ownership

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Recharge: 🏃✌️Runner’s High🏃✌️

Runner’s High - (noun), the euphoric feeling produced by running long distances and experiencing total clarity of thought.

What burnout feels like

Last week, mentally, I was struggling. I had been “at-it” for 12-weeks straight. More focused and disciplined than ever.

That kind of focus is tiring. I started my week on Monday tired. I ended Friday exhausted. I thought to myself - “This is what burnout feels like.”

Tunnel Vision

The picture above is from my Friday morning run. I decided to run a new path and ran my usual 10-miler on Friday as opposed to Saturday.

What struck me that morning was the feeling inside this tunnel. I started my run anxious. But in this tunnel, my world quieted down. Suddenly, I didn’t care about all of the “external noise”. I couldn’t hear the cars passing below on I-4. It was just me and the run.

Take steps forward

I felt calm. Something about the concept of ‘tunnel vision’ quieted my mind.

Yes, I have a lot on my plate.
Yes, I have a world of distractions

But I know the way. And it’s a lighted path.

To get out of that tunnel, all I needed to do was take steps forward.

“How to keep healthy habits while traveling.”

Let me see you Flex

Road Warriors, Part 2 - Controlling your environment

Need to catch up - check out Part 1.

New place, who dis?

The problem with being a road warrior is that you’re constantly changing your environment. We are creatures of habit. We like the familiar.

Traveling flips that on its head. You drive on new roads, sleep in new beds, eat different foods, and are forced to exercise in the everchanging but always dissapointing hotel gym.

All this is detrimental to keeping good habits.

Controlling your environment

I’ve found the more I can control my environment, the better chance I have at keeping my travel intentions.

What that means for me:

I organize my hotel room - Unpack, setup my workstation/charging station
I look up restaurants and food options ahead of time
I bring my key exercise equipment with me - Jump rope & bands
I get ahead of sleep issues with sleep aids - Weighted eye mask, supplements, and limited alcohol

You can’t control every aspect of travel, but you can sure give yourself a fighting chance at staying productive, healthy, and nailing your morning routine.

Rethink: 🚿😉SWSWAF🚿😉

SWSWAF (Save Water, Shower With a Friend): Collaborations with great writers, creators, entrepreneurs, and storytellers

Flexibility & Letting go

Missed last week? Check out a clip from my interview with Jessica.

Jessica Williamson (Mom of 2 under 2, Franchise Owner) on transitioning from the corporate world to business ownership:

What did you learn during your transition from corporate to Hotworx Franchise Owner/Operator?

More letting go. I feel like both parenting and moving out of corporate broke me out of my need for control. Like you literally wake up and the day tells you what's important. A struggle in that was losing touch with what was important to me. Or not losing touch, but battling what I used to think was important (working out), and realizing that it was just okay to want to sit down for a minute after running around all day to 3 studios and then between 2 kids. The transition was soooo tough like I was working from home and doing laundry during conference calls one day, then the next day I drove to 3 different studios and spoke to at least 50 people about their health goals in person. The FREQUENCY my brain was working at was completely different and it took me a good week or so to understand why I was tired in different ways and felt like I had no energy to give. The biggest thing I learned was to give myself grace to learn and NOT do everything every day. Dishes piled up, I took a nap here and there, and life looked different because IT WAS different.

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