I was working with one of my clients, AG, the other day and at the very beginning of the workout she informed me that she was not going to join our team to climb the 739 steps of stairs at the Wall Centre to raise funds for the BC Lung Association. She felt it was too much for her and she wasn’t ready. I told her that was fine but I was still going to train her as if she was participating.

Within 10 minutes we were in the staircase walking upwards. Fifteen minutes later when we were all done and she was catching her breathe I looked at her with my straight, deadpan semi-serious look and said “you just did 420 steps plus you came down so you just did over 800 steps.” AG smiled, and said “I was waiting for that!”… pausing she says “thank you, lesson learned – I get the message you’re sending me… I can achieve more than I think I can!”

She still didn’t join our team but she is one step farther along in the process of realizing how our perceptions of reality can limit us and that we all have the ability to expand those borders, break out of our comfort zones and achieve more than we give ourselves credit for.

To your health,
Ted