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May is about Maintenance (May-tenance… 😊 ) If April was about assessment, taking a closer look at the routine, what is working, what is not working, what do we need to change or do more of? May is about maintenance. Maintaining your routine is just as important as starting it. In fact, you could argue that maintenance is the whole game. This gives us a nice progression from last month: April: Notice what’s working (and what’s not) May: Protect the time, habits and activities that are working   The key to living healthy is to make it, whatever your routine is, to make it last long enough for it to matter. The people that have the best long-term routines aren’t the ones with the most intense or hardest workouts. They don’t have more willpower than you do. They don’t even have knowledge that you don’t have. They simply do something repeatedly. Practice and repetition is the whole process. Every time you do something, you are training your body, mind and even your planning ...

Put Your Own Mask On In the airline safety briefing, they have a consistent message: “Put your own mask on before assisting others”. You’ve heard it before on every flight. It sounds obvious in that scenario. If I run out of breath while trying to help someone else, we are both in trouble. It makes sense when we think of safety at 30,000 feet. BUT, it’s a lot harder to live on the ground. Most people I work with are wired to take care of others first. We have family, work, team, and all kinds of responsibilities. Over time, that starts to feel normal. Each of these is necessary and can even become part of our identity. But there’s a cost. When your energy is low, your patience shortens. Your clarity fades. Your ability to show up the way you want to starts to slip, even if your intentions haven’t changed. A few things to remember when thinking about self-care: First, a disclaimer: Self-care is as simple as doing what you need for yourself. I’m not talking about some com...