Optimum Health course - part 2
So the optimum health workshop wasn’t so much about health this time and more about helping you realise your dreams. I know that sounds a bit wanky and there’s no way I can make it not. But the workshop was about planning for the future and setting tangible, measurable goals for yourself.
My god it was exhausting; not least because we were talking about what we really wanted to achieve in our lives and what we wanted to change and in the course of discussing these things we opened up about our aspirations and I found this quite exposing. To expand, I felt like a worm under a microscope at times. What did I want? What was stopping me? Had I done everything I possibly could to help me realise these dreams? (Turns out not) Why did I want it? We had to take turns in being the life coach and the client and it very much felt like therapy at points and as such, was immensely draining.
And now I’m thinking - I wish people didn’t know that I wanted to be a writer, I wish I’d just kept it to myself and quietly scribbled away…
One of the things that stops people taking risks and putting themselves out there is fear of rejection, the other is fear of failure, but I like our tutor/life coach’s analogy of watching his children learning to walk, knowing what they wanted to achieve, emulating their role models (parents and siblings) and falling over a good few times before they reached their goal.
And the moral of this story is:
You have to get on board with the fact that you will fall and you have to get back up and try again (and again).
