How A Small Change Can Change Your Life

This photo was taken at 8:53pm tonight after I trained legs in Bondi.

Every time I train outside of the gym I work at, I walk to the gym to workout.

It takes 30mins there and back, so technically takes up 60mins of my day.

I used to catch an Uber there instead, so now I save $25 at the cost of walking 60mins.

Though I hate wasting time and don't mind paying for efficiency and convenience, this habit of walking 60mins has changed my life.

Though I wear headphones, I never listen to music. They just protect me from people trying to talk to me and steal this time I set aside for myself.

This 60mins of walking is "ME-TIME".

I walk through the park.

Immerse myself in the nature that surrounds me and gaze into the sky that changes colour from light blue to a deep orange as the sunsets.

I listen to the birds chirp and think of how grateful I am to do what I do, live where I do, eat what I do and have the people that I trust around me.

So many thoughts flood my head.

Always good ones.

Sometimes I even run though the park because it reminds me of when I used to have rugby training as a kid on the fields of Hansen Park in Christchurch.

But his concept of "ME-TIME" is very new to me.

See, at the age of 20 years old I had a mid-life crisis.

I broke down because I didn't know who I was, why I was on this earth and what I was going to be.

I hit the wall.

I was sleeping 4-6 hours, starving myself on all these stupid diets, pushed the people that cared for me away and worked until I literally didn't know what I was working for.

I lost vision and ended up losing all hope.

Though my work ethic hasn't changed, this "ME-TIME" has changed my life for the better.

Sometimes I write instagram captions.

Sometimes I write my daily email in my Notes app.

Sometimes I think of where I want to travel next.

Sometimes I think of ways I can service my clients better.

Sometimes I call my best friends or my family I struggle to keep in contact with.

Sometimes I answer my Q&A questions on Instagram.

But if I don't want to do any of that, I don't.

It's like a recess/lunch break to my chaotic day of running my own business.

I take that time for myself, to look after how I feel and "check myself before I wreck myself".

I stop myself from burning out because I've done it over 3 times in my life now and I'm only 25.

To be honest, it scares the shit out of me.

I need to be proactive and beat it, I need to beat it before it beats me.

We all have to beat something before that something beats us.

If you need to beat your health and fitness before it beats you [ or bad health and illness does ].