I am speaking from direct experience. I lived in this exact


place for ten years. Shake up my ENTIRE life and change? No thanks, I’m good.


So, because we would rather not change because of the


unknown, we are faced with the same dilemma every day, when we start to experience that new spark of discomfort.


Live our truth. Be authentically us. Learn to see “what if” as a tool - that maybe not for 100% of it all, but for a lot of my life, I can decide how I show up and experience it.


OR Don’t. Don’t change. Don’t try. Don’t dream. It’s easier, less


risk. We’ll just keep doing what we were doing, and we’ll be just fi ne, thank you very much.


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The second option serves as a much more comfortable, more immediately gratifying choice. And because we are so distracted, because we have the capacity to know and be more than ever before but don’t, because we don’t want to get uncomfortable, we don’t. We abandon our motivation. Only to feel it spark up again when the desire for a change becomes so big that it’s gotta get out somehow. You’ll see this in a collective sense on New Year’s. All. The. Resolutions.


It’s my personal conviction, that an even greater tool than motivation, is progress.


Progress is elusive and is much harder to feel than motivation. But it is the number one driver to seeing a goal through. People LOVE to make progress. It feels inherently good. You feel pride and a desire to go even further. 100% motivation, isn’t as strong as 1% progress. One is here for the long run and will grow with you, the other stays at the party for 20 minutes and then leaves without saying bye to anyone and never answers texts. Guess which one is which.


Start with 1%. Start by just showing up. That could look like


many different things, but in terms of our context here, we’ll talk about fi tness. Showing up is the hardest part. Everything after that is progress. Truly, nothing changes if nothing changes.


Committing to showing up comes in two parts: See your greatness: This is the hardest part for basically


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everyone. To see it before you feel it. A little bit every day, in some way, choose yourself. Even if you have to fake it till you make it, choose you - even just once. Get to class. Take the nap. Say no to an elective social obligation.


Feel your greatness: This part is easier because it’s embodied, but it takes consistency to get there. Delayed gratifi cation, is really really sweet. You’ll FEEL different. This is even more progress and can drive you even further. When you feel strong from the inside out, and supported by your own body, things start to change. It’s a magic, better experienced than explained.


Shannon Osborne is the owner and founder of Honor Movement Studio, 502 Stevens Avenue, Portland. She doesn't believe in a one-size-fi ts-all approach to fi tness, but she does believe in empowering others to create their own body balance. Her modern approach to holistic fi tness is the result of nearly a decade of


geeking out about anatomy and her unabashed belief that move- ment is medicine. When she's not at the studio you can fi nd her exploring the Maine woods with her boyfriend and their dog. She can be reached directly at Hello@HonorMovementStudio.com. For more info, visit: www.honormovementstudio.com. See ad on page 8.


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