If you dream of success, you need to PLAN! It’s pretty simple.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. 

As busy women, we need to plan everything. It is all very well to think that things will fall into place, but they don’t, and often those things that are more difficult are the ones that get left behind. 

Unfortunately, changing your lifestyle is just that – difficult.

Things come up along the way, like; 

• Last minute meetings, 
• Sick kids
• Your pre-prepped food goes off
• You don’t make it to the gym one night,
• Accidental sleep-ins, 

You get the picture. These are the more obvious, tangible things, and they can make the journey difficult enough. What we often don’t think about however, are those emotional or psychological things that arise as we change, like; 

• Recognised some of our relationships are unhealthy
• Being confronted with limiting beliefs
• Realising our friends and sometimes most loved ones don’t respect our boundaries
• Realised how selfish our children are (and they’re allowed to be!)
• Feeling unsafe
• Feeling different, often not knowing ourselves as we start to clear the water. 

So it’s going to be difficult within a busy schedule to handle all of those things that come up. It’s worth it, but we need to plan for them. 

We also need to plan for setbacks, if you dream of success. 

As an example, for a competition prep we may only need 16-weeks of dieting for a client to be ready for a competition. Despite this, we set aside 24-weeks, as things come up. We don’t know if there is going to be a car accident, a virus, a last-minute trip away, or self-sabotage. As we don’t know, we plan to have space for it. 

So the best thing you can do here, is the following; 

• Plan what you are going to eat in advance. Write down a shopping list, and purchase everything you need in one go. If you have kids then yes, you might need to plan twice, and you will do this if this goal is important to you. 
• Put in your calendar the times you will exercise, when you will food shop, and when you will meal prep
• Plan in advance how you will balance this with your significant others
• Tell your friends what you are doing, and how you need things to be
• Avoid deadlines on goals, use guide timeframes instead. If I had known it would take me 7 years to fix my chronic fatigue I would never have even tried. 

As you move towards your goals, even before you have reached the end you will already feel the benefits. Think of it like clearing the fog off your windscreen; it’s not ‘perfectly’ clean until it’s all off, but as you move past each milestone some of the fog is wiped off and you are now seeing more clearly. 

Planning will take time, as many of your plans will fail. But over time, you take stick of what didn’t work, and what is getting in the way, and you can plan to navigate around that, too. If you dream of success in any goal, there is no way around this.

Sometimes you need to remove other things from your life in order to keep progress coming, and this is OK. It’s a process of learning and growing, and only by planning and trying will you be able to land into a routine that works for you. 

I hope that helps!

Jen x