Imagine this scenario: There’s a person. A corporate executive
To the outside world, it seems like they have it all. They have a nice car, a great job, a lovely house, and are married with kids.
But underneath the facade and the pretty edges, they struggle. They feel drained and exhausted daily, using caffeine, sugar, and alcohol to pick their energy up and get them through the day.
They’ve put weight on over the last decade. It used to be easy to lose it, but not anymore.
They had a great life, an amazing relationship, and young kids. Everything was jolly, but now, fast forward a decade, they are tired, stressed, and feel disconnected from their partner, and their kids barely know them, as they are never there, working late.
They aren’t stupid. They are smart, but it just feels like it’s all too much. They are so overwhelmed and stressed that they don’t know what to do about it or how to start making changes. They lack the energy to make anything happen.
The truth is, the solution isn’t complicated. That’s not to say it’s easy, because when you’re busy and you’re stressed out, it’s not easy. But we have to tap into the resources that we do have.
The thing that this person needs more than anything else in the world is more energy.
So here are three steps to destroying overwhelm in your fitness for busy executives to get more energy and feel like you felt in your 30s.
Step One
We’re going to get clarity on your strategic objectives.
What is it that you want, and why do you want it? Without a clear and defined direction that we’re going, all you are going to feel is overwhelmed, directionless, and thus create more stress.
So it’s important that before you try to take anything on, by trying to work on your fitness, go to the gym, start a diet.
Before you do any of that, you need to know exactly what you want so you feel in alignment because if you don’t, you’re just making things worse.
Step Two
Scheduling
You’re busy. You don’t have a lot of free time, and if you leave it to “well, I’ll do it after work,” you know that it’s never going to happen.
Meetings overrun, fires need putting out, the boss asks you to work overtime, and by the end of the day you’re so exhausted you just want to go to the pub or slump down on the sofa and put the TV on.
You’ve got to schedule yourself like you would a meeting.
Put the time in your diary and honour it as a meeting with your boss. That’s the only way that you’ll show up and get it done consistently.
So start scheduling time for yourself.
Whether that means going to the gym, having a walk, or if it means sitting in the park and just being with yourself for 10 minutes while you’ve left the phone in the office.
Step three
Action Items
What are the few things that make the big outcomes.
We are going to apply the 80 20 rule.
There are lots of things you could do, and honestly, you don’t need to do most of them, so you want to identify the two or three key things that are actually going to make the biggest difference and then do those and only those things.
That is what will lead to you being able to successfully implement changes without getting overwhelmed and burning yourself out in a week.
If you would like some help with this and you would like to lose 5 to 10kg over the next 12 weeks regain your energy and feel like you did a decade ago, even if you’re super busy and you don’t have time to go to the gym (maybe you’ve had personal training before but it didn’t work you didn’t lose weight), that’s cool shoot me a message and we’ll have a chat.
James