14. Are Your Actions Aligned with Your Values?

On todays episode of the pod, Coach Sam & Coach Dylan do a deep dive on living in alignment with our values, and how this applies to our health & fitness journeys. They discuss how they both found themselves in a position where they weren't living completely in alignment with their own values, how to figure out what your personal values are, how to decipher whether or not you're alignment with them, and what to do if you're not.

Roses & Thorns:

• Dylan's courage to tackle his limiting beliefs, the discomfort of asking for help, the quiet stranglehold of engrained coping mechanisms, feeling frustrated with slow progress, & the power of catching yourself in a moment
• Sam's bittersweet homeostasis, the heartbreaking joy of being fully alive, the grief of slow impending loss, & the honour in reversing the roles to carry the aging family members who once carried you

The Meat:

• how we often find ourselves living out of alignment with our values, especially when it comes to health and fitness
• why "know better, do better" fails us often
• why our environment here in North America is not set up in a way to make health promoting behaviours more accessible & easier to achieve
• having to go out of your way to pursue an active or health promoting life
• the challenge of practicing what you preach
• how boundaries can help us live our values
• Sam's example: valuing mental health -> valuing meditation as a good practice for mental health -> and still not meditating consistently :)
• why we can say we value our health, while still pursuing behaviours that show the opposite
• how we consistently self-sabotage without realizing that it's adding up in a direction we don't want to go in
• the power of looking beyond just today, and recognizing that each day adds up to become the big picture of our life
• why Dylan changed his tune on SMART goals: when corporate diatribe takes over the fitness industry
• the validity in the value of being a healthy person: pursuing health promoting behaviours today, for future longevity
• how to chunk down a broad goal or superordinate goal into an intermediate goal
• why identity based, value driven goals are the most integral
• the power in asking yourself "who do I want to be, and am I living those values?"
• what valuing health means to Sam: being able to stay independent, to take care of the people she loves & not putting the repercussions of health neglect on the people who love her (a hard lesson taught by her deeply missed father)
• the ability to extract yourself to be more objective, and view yourself from a 20,000ft view
• the importance of factoring in Future You
• every choice you make will push you in one direction or the other
• being honest with yourself about not just your values, but the values derived from your behaviour
• making two lists: one with your values / one with the values exhibited by your actions

Why SMART Goals Are Overrated
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