About a month ago I was minding my own business walking around the house in socks on slick floors, when I slipped and fell -- WHAM -- directly on my tailbone.
No I didn't have it x-rayed, and please save your "butt in a sling" jokes, thank you. Truly, the pain just wrecked me, and I hobbled around for days feeling like an 90-year-old woman.
About a week after the fall, I went to Transform U Fitness for a speaking engagement, and Adam Hammett, professional fitness trainer and competitive body builder -- also husband to my sweet and very buff trainer friend Debra Zubrick Hammett -- was in attendance. Before starting the session, I whined to the group that I'd not been able to exercise since the fall. Adam's eyes narrowed with skepticism.
"You can exercise your upper body," said Adam, with authoritative certainty. "We have elliptical machines that operate by moving just your arms and torso. You can still work out. And you'll feel better*." He crossed big arms for punctuation.
Adam is a physically imposing figure (being totally ripped and huge does that to a guy), plus for all the world he looks like every cartoon image of Jesus from my many childhood years in Sunday School. So I listened. But I didn't want to.
It's hard to change.
Just the idea of it scares many of us out of trying new things that we KNOW can make a genuine, positive difference in our lives. A new roommate, love interest, relocation, next step in our education, job promotion, even a new exercise regimen can make some of us (me too) slink back to the couch, afraid and resigned to settle for the same old boredom, loneliness, dissatisfaction, pain.
If you are ready to think about stepping out of what's painfully familiar into a new and more challenging, more rewarding, more exciting life, then I hope you'll attend my next LifeInspired group coaching session (see sidebar). It's going to be good; I promise you'll learn something about yourself and have fun.
* Here is where I will openly admit that Adam was right. When I finally made myself try exercising again, well of course all of me felt much better right away, top to bottom. If you are looking for a no-bones, get-it-done personal trainer, call Adam at 214-642-5853 and Debra at 972-345-3569 or find them at www.serious-results.com. They will help you make it happen.
February 17 at 7:15pm 
