Author: jessgoesnorth
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Fitspiration
The world doesn’t have enough images of older women and men being athletic, determined and having fun doing it. So I am incredibly grateful for the work of the wonderful Alex Rotas, whose website is a gallery of inspiring pictures which are well worth a browse. Not just to celebrate people who are just as…
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Still, she rises
A few years ago I joined OurFutureHealth, a fascinating project to build up a really solid data set on factors affecting health in the UK. They recently sent me an email with some of their data on physical activity, and I found this graph particularly interesting. It shows the percentage of men and women meeting…
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Being flexible
So my cunning plan to improve my mobility and sleep through nightly yoga videos isn’t working for me. Having a good wind-down routine was helping my sleep as I had hoped. But while my frozen shoulder is gradually recovering, I still don’t have the shoulder mobility for a lot of yoga moves. It’s easy to…
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When your jar isn’t empty
You may be familiar with Covey’s model of time management, where our day is like an empty jar that we have to fill by putting our most important commitments first (large rocks), before adding less important things (smaller rocks and sand). But as a woman with a family, I know I don’t start with an…
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Keeping promises to yourself
I nearly slipped up with my plan to do yoga before bed. I forgot to set the reminder, fell down an internet rabbit hole, realised I’d forgotten to hang up a last minute load of washing…. you know how it goes. Inevitably I found it was nearly bedtime and I no longer had time to…
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Turning ideas into a plan
Looking at my ideas from a few days ago, some were a lot more specific than others. And it’s no surprise that those are the ones I’ve started to act on. One thing I didn’t include in that post, but which is an important step, is brushing up how I manage tasks. I am a…
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Walking down the stairs or jumping into the unknown
It’s funny how the run up to taking a decision can be so much harder than actually taking it. I’ve been hesitating for far too long about leaving my old job, which hasn’t been right for me for many years. I’ve dithered one way and another, sometimes desperate to leave, sometimes feeling things were improving.…
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Coming up with ideas
In my previous post on life balance, I identified 3 areas where I want to do more – mobility, client outreach, and family and friends. Mobility is straightforward in many ways – I know what I need to do, I just don’t give it enough priority. My PT training has reminded me that it’s important…
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Life balance
Following on from my post about what I want to prioritise in my new routine, I now need to explore how to get that into balance. I find a generic wheel of life can be a good starting point, but most of them neglect physical health, which is why I created my own generic wheel…
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A new routine for a new life
Being in limbo can be a great time to start to plan ahead. I know my existing routines won’t work for me as I shift to a new way of working. At least to begin with I will have plenty of time, but with so much open diary space there’s a risk that I won’t…
