New Year, you hear new YOU! Let’s challenge this and take a new approach. Let’s talk about how to start strong and stay strong in the new year!
Starting strong isn’t usually the problem, staying strong is. As women, we’re wired to get things moving. We build. We organize. We carry families, businesses, relationships, and expectations. We’re good at momentum.
But at this stage of life in our 40 and 50’s, it hits differently. Our bandwidth changes. Our nervous system speaks louder. Suddenly we’re not just multitasking for everyone else, we’re tracking our sleep, managing supplements, optimizing routines, and being told we should be entering our “unstoppable era.”
And honestly? That pressure alone can be exhausting, because what if you don’t feel unstoppable? What if you feel a little deflated? A little behind. A little unsure how you ended up here when you once had such a clear picture of where life was supposed to go? That quiet disappointment can easily turn into self-blame. Another thing added to the invisible list of “why I didn’t follow through.”
I share this because I’ve lived it. Not once. Many times, and what I’ve learned through movement, mindset work, and real life is that strength doesn’t come from pushing harder. It comes from building something you can actually stay with.
Tips To Start Strong & Stay Strong
It’s important to meet yourself where you are, not where you think you should be.
- Look at your time management, what will fit in so you have success?
- Understand we all can “add” on another thing but sustaining it for a period of time is the challenge
- Set an Intention after looking at your schedule – example 3 x a week you can successfully complete 15 minutes.
- Give yourself permission to start small and build. This allows you to succeed to obtain a goal and build on a healthy habit.
- Find a movement exercise that you ENJOY and has health benefits (lift weights its important)
- Look at 12 weeks, 21 days to start a habit… but we want to look beyond and build a healthy lifestyle.
- Find a community that can support not only the training but the healthy change of your lifestyle.
It’s not about reinvention; it’s about returning to home to all versions of you.
It’s about returning to your body, to your rhythm, loving all versions and welcoming this new version of you that can find strength in soft, calm and capable.
You’re not just moving your body you’re learning how to regulate your energy, your expectations, and your inner dialogue as you move forward. It takes into account time not just piling more on, making it fit.
Why 12 Weeks Matters
Twelve weeks gives you enough time to stop starting over if you set it up so it fits your life. It allows the beginning of a healthy lifestyle habit. It gives your body time to adapt and your brain time to settle. Our nervous system has time to trust the process, not elevate it during the process. Over those weeks something will shift within you. Strength will become familiar; consistency starts to feel natural. You start showing up not because you have to but because you want to.
This is how you start strong and how you stay strong, one day at a time! Your goal is not to become someone else but to come home to yourself and that is the kind of strength to believe in!
