I've talked before in my weekly emails about the uncertainty of 2024. Going from stability in gym life - although that was a stable path to being burnt out AF - to living with no address, couch surfing, living with parents. Going from the plan to grow our business to include our very own gym, to not being entirely sure the path we were on.
To now, a thriving online nutrition and training business, and owning our first house in PORTUGAL. Sure, it's been abandoned for 20 years.
But there's something about this new chapter that makes me so happy. It makes me feel free.
Like I went through the trials and tribulations of London, coach life, burn out to show me where I really wanted to be.
Obviously, I couldn't just go for a nice house that was ready to move into, because I need a challenge and purpose in life. But all these things are important to learn!

Now that we're in, it's of course still not smooth sailing. Until we organise our Schengen visas (thanks Brexit), we have to manage our stays to be inside our 90 in 180 days rule for the UK. Which leaves us up in the air with travelling back and forth to parents in different parts of the UK.
On this latest trip, we're not sure how long we're back for, which leaves it's only levels of insecurity. Often it's just nice to know how long something is going to be a certain way - but like many things, we generally don't know that information.
So coming into this trip, rather than feeling flustered by the lack of control over the situation, I made a choice.
I chose to look at this as an opportunity:
To spend time with family that we often don't have - with being in London, or now Portugal
To move my body with purpose and top up on some strength that has reduced since we moved in November - I signed up for some online programming to help with the structure and accountability to keep me moving and motivated
To use it as a chance to plan and work on the business - something that can feel lower in the priority when life is busy and there's bits of house, garden or forest to dig up and destroy
I guess I like to have a purpose and focus in life. Even if that's super small, or thinking about being more present in having a good day. Rather than running around riot and missing the good things going on.

I shared this idea with a client this morning, who is struggling with anxiety and uncertainty of being quieter in her business. We both shared that it makes it much easier to have a single focus and noticing what slowing down gives you.
Which all fits kinda nicely with some of the things I've been working on in therapy lately - the Hermetic Principles, especially those of polarity, rhythm and vibration.
"Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled." —The Kybalion
Encouraging the belief that if we believe in the good, we tell the universe we've achieved our wildest dreams. We will. Tell it I've already conquered everything, because I have. Then we help it come into being. Believing that if there's a time of less wealth/work, that's OK, because it will come.
Drop a comment and let me know if considered your purpose through a time of uncertainty and creating one small daily focus helps you to chip along and build something great!
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