In the mean time I have been developing my own company entitled "O.W.L. Help You: Opportunity, Wellness, Life." Check it out at www.owlhelpyou.org and on facebook at www.facebook.com/owlhelpyou (make sure you like it!). Please provide constructive criticism as you see fit... I am totally new to this webpage development, as well as creating my own little "side hustle."
So what is it that I do with this? I provide Life Coaching, Wellness Coaching and pretty much therapy while I'm at it... since I AM a clinical social worker and all. I just do not accept private insurances for the time being, but that will change eventually. Whatever the issue, I should be able to help. However, if a higher level of care is deemed appropriate I WILL make that referral. :) Thank you all for your support and encouragement thus far. I hope to be able to coach people with running, all while training myself. So many times people complain or use the excuse that they do not want to go to the gym alone or they know no one else, etc... well I'll be able to take that excuse away and go with them. I'm pretty excited about that. :) It will keep me on track and what's more encouraging than providing encouragement for someone else along the way?!
But since I last hit publish, what else have I been doing? Well, interviewing for various positions trying to find the best fit while awaiting credentialing for private practice (ugh, tedious). Within the past couple of weeks I have received a large influx of opportunities, so we will see where that brings me. It's funny though because as I interview and look at job opportunities my second priority is finding a local gym, hehe.
I went running once... (I think, since hitting the last publish button). It was a nice, lonely run in the frigid cold... but so awesome. Okay, maybe I've gone twice. I also went to TRX three times, but only went in twice because one of the times I forgot my sneaks... yeah, I KNOW. ONLY ME.
However, in going to an interview last week I had to obviously dress up and avoid my workout/lounge clothes... ha, that was a joke. I put on my "skinnier" dress pants from this summer to find that I am already swimming in them. A single digit dress pant size and it's big on me. Looks like I will have get a whole new wardrobe when I do begin to attend the professional atmosphere once again.
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and then my mom came up from North Carolina. Don't worry. I went to TRX today at Fit Coalition for the first time. I already popped an Aleve. :-p But I am most certainly going to be sore tomorrow! Or this evening.
I think it's fascinating how every trainer is so different. It's definitely all about finding one that will work for you. That goes with any relationship in life. You need to find a husband that works for you, with you, not against you. You need a therapist that works for you, with you, not against you. You need a boyfriend that works for you, with you, not against you. You need a Life Coach that works for you, with you, not against you. You need a doctor that works for you, with you, not against you. You need friends that work for you, with you, not against you. I think you get the point.
The really awesome thing about that?.... yeah, you get to CHOOSE those people. I know that many grapple with the fact that everything in our life is a choice, everything.. from how we think, to how we feel, to what we do next.
YOU have the power. Sometimes we feel as if we don't. But we do. It's all about taking that first step...
I have learned in my short 29.5 years that we get to choose. Even when things are difficult, we still get to choose... just as we get to choose when things are at their all time high. Just move forward, tip toe if you must! (if you want to continue seeing these daily motivators, like facebook.com/owlhelpyou)
My good buddy is now blogging about his own change in his life, as well as how to change, when to change, why we should change or why we shouldn't. If you want to read about that, check out: http://thechadanthony.blogspot.com/
Some people or maybe all people will not agree with your change or your choice. I have learned that in a very difficult choice that I made in my past. You win some, you lose some... but in the end, you are right where you need to be at that moment. Even in the movie "Planes", Dusty arrives in India and asks something similar to the question, "am I where I am supposed to be?" That is the question to life that we must answer. And only YOU have the CHOICE to CHANGE the outcome.
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