Change

I must say I am proud of our EDGE family!  I know we sprung some big changes on you and for the most part you are flowing with them.  It is difficult to make everyone happy and also create a business that is sustainable. We had to decide one way or another to continue with our a la carte system or switch to an all inclusive program.  We based our decision on your responses to our survey and most of you seem very happy with the change.  We love that it coincides with our philosophy that fitness should be a lifestyle not a hobby.  We hope that this opens you up to try new things and perhaps spend a little more time building a healthy body.

Most people do NOT like change.  Many of you have your "favorite" class or "favorite" teacher.  I would guess that for most of you it might just be the FIRST class you took or the first instructor you had..... am I right?  We find things in our lives that we like and we stick with them!  Let me offer something up to you though.  We hear things like this all of the time -"I don't dance",  "I am not coordinated", "I only like dance classes", "I can't do high impact" etc etc etc.....   My husband often says  "argue your limitations and they are yours" and he is right.  Notice the words in what I just wrote above.... don't, not, only, cant.  All negative and all describing limitations.  What if we changed our thought process to make life about embracing things not pushing them away.  What if we had the patience to try something more than once before making a decision on whether or not we liked it.

Example A - "Sally" takes mash-up on Friday and struggles with it.  She says to herself "this is too hard and I am not coordinated enough to get any of this".  She walk out and never takes the class again.

Example B - "Amy" takes the same class and feels the same emotions while taking the class but decides to give it another shot and understands that she might not get it on the first try.  She takes it two more times at which point she is starting to enjoy parts of the class.  She feels a sense of accomplishment in ADDITION to feeling good about working out.  

Humans want to succeed and master tasks but most of us are too afraid to leave our content, happy place to try and master new things.  

Example C - "Kristin" was always the last one picked in PE at school.  She was tall and gangly and uncoordinated.  In fact, her sixth grade teacher told her she couldn't hit the side of a barn if she was inside of the barn with the doors closed.  Kristin spends years avoiding things she knows (or thinks) she is not good at.   She avoids speaking in public, sports, jobs that she doesn't know exactly how to do.  One day she looks at her life and realizes..... it is boring and she is not learning anything.  She slowly steps out of her shell and eventually takes a fitness dance class.  She is gangly and uncoordinated and frustrated taking it, but she doesn't give up.  She gets better and starts to love it - so much so, she eventually teaches it.

Change is GOOD!  Change helps us to grow and reach and achieve and thrive.  It isn't always easy but the alternative is boring.  Even then life will just get in there and change things anyway.   I LOVE change now - I look for it and thrive on it.  I hope you will give some new classes, or new instructors a try.  You may just find that your life is richer and more rewarding than is was before.  A caterpillar has to change in order to know what it is like to fly.