Friday with Heidi: September contemplation…
I’m sure I am not alone in thinking that if you’d have asked me to hand over good money on whether I’d still be zoom-bound in September I’d have said ‘no way’.
And yet here we are.
I’ve just finished my weekly networking meeting on Zoom.
Before that I was talking to my campers on Zoom for their 7am session.
I’ve set my Dad up on Zoom today and spoken with him.
And tomorrow I am watching a very special Mind Reading event … on Zoom!
I think I also would have paid good money that people would have been glad to get back to a normality from pre-lockdown, but that isn’t the case either.
With the slowing down of lives, the reduction of commuting times, the family bonding, the opportunities to do less with more time I am noticing a change in how people want to continue behaving.
It’s made getting FastTrack Fit Camp back outside way more of a juggle than I thought and this week I announced how we were going to do just that.
I don’t propose for one moment that I’ve got it right. I also don’t assume that there may not be future changes to how society operates and so I’ve decided to plan for the next 8 weeks only.
It seems sensible to look at what we CAN do until the clocks go back in October and then revist what I can do THEN at that time. 8 weeks is a long time in 2020. A lot can happen!
However in all this I’ve learned that the only thing I can definitely do to make something happen is to DO IT. Thinking about doing it, creating a meeting to talk about doing it or scribbling ideas down about it don’t make anything happen.
It merely delays the process.
So whilst I did decide in March that I’ll adopt a 24 hour rule on decision making. I’ve now realised that I then do need to DO something!
So what are we doing?
With effect from Monday 7 September this is where I can definitely say we’re running sessions at this moment!
Monday
- Wokingham/Winnersh Early Risers: 06.00 Bearwood Recreation Ground, Heidi
- Henley Early Risers: 06.30 Henley Hockey Club, Laura
- Virtual Online: 09.00, Kirsty
- Swallowfield: 19:30, Lambs Lane Primary School, Heidi
Tuesday
- Virtual Online: 07.00, Vicki
- Virtual Online: 18.30, Vicki
Wednesday
- Virtual Online: 07.00, Heidi
- Winnersh: 09.30 Bearwood Recreation Ground, Heidi
- Swallowfield: 19:30, Lambs Lane Primary School, Heidi
Thursday
- Virtual Online: 07.00, Heidi
Friday
- Wokingham/Winnersh Early Risers: 06.00 Bearwood Recreation Ground, Vicki/Heidi
- Henley Early Risers: 06.30 Henley Hockey Club, Laura
- Winnersh: 09.30 Bearwood Recreation Ground, Heidi
Saturday
- Virtual Online: 08.30,Kirsty
Sunday
- Virtual Online / SWU: 09.00 Bearwood Recreation Ground, Heidi
I also had the same thoughts around our regular end of year events like the 100 Day Fitness Challenge and our annual Happiest Year Yet New Year kick off event.
Was it a good idea to run them? How would it be in this limbo period of lockdown/threat of lockdown/back to normal life we’re living in?
I decided that I CAN do them both.
This means that on 23 September I’ll be starting the ninth 100 Day Fitness Challenge and then on Saturday 2 January I’ll run a virtual Happiest Year Yet event (yes…on Zoom!) to catapult us into 2021 more than ready for a clean slate and a new start.
To get involved you can join the 100 Day Fitness Challenge Facebook Group HERE to start getting ready.
For the Happiest Year Yet you need to mark your diary for Saturday 2 January 14.00 – 16.00. There will be more details on this later in the month.
Therefore my little thought to leave you to contemplate this week is, what CAN you do now?
Sometimes the smallest of ‘cans’ makes the biggest of shifts.
Good luck! Let me know how you get on!
In Social Enterprise news I summarised last week in our Facebook community what has happened this year that has been kept fairly low key given the other stuff we’ve been dealing with.
- Trainers all collected to be reused by the local charity The Cowshed. They must have had 5 large bags yesterday. Thank you to everyone who donated.
- Trees purchased on the back of the free Sunday Wake Up! sessions in lockdown. I had several people ask how to donate something. So we collected their donations and purchased these trees with their dosh. You’re awesome, thank you!
- Any royalties I get for the sale of my book ‘Why Weight?’ (I’m not going to retire on this!) goes to a charity supplying spectacles via a B1G1 project. I talk about taking a new look at your world in the book after an experience I had with my daughter when she put her first pair of glasses on when she was 3.
- I make a donation to a water charity in Malawi for each Metabolic Balance client who signs up to the programme. This is for the clients who’ve signed up since June this year.
- When I had the Social Enterprise idea it was also to put money towards trees when we had various memberships purchased. So since lockdown my less than simple calculations has generated the sale of 16 more trees to be planted in Berkshire.
Thank you for all your contributions and help with these projects. It’s delightful to know that we’re able to keep doing our bit in this difficult phase.
Come join us!
FastTrack Fit Camp is an outdoor fitness business with the focus on improving people on the inside so they feel good on the outside. In 2019 FastTrack Fit Camp became a Social Enterprise and committed to distribute a minimum of 50% of profits back to community environmental projects each year with the goal of helping our local citizens feel good whilst being outside too.
