learning – Jael Covey

There is something special about opening a new book and beginning to read what is in it. I love learning and so it gives me a great pleasure to dive into the pages of new books. I have started a new course in my program and I am loving it.

I am taking a program that is training me to become a certified holistic nutritionist. Like many students, I don’t know what I am going to do with it. But I know that I am extremely interested about the topics in this course. They are already helping me grow and learn about my health and the environment around me.

I completed the first course a couple of weeks ago. I was actually surprised how much is taken into account when talking about health. When I began this course, I thought that physical exercise and eating was the only things affecting my health.

Oh boy, was I ever wrong!

The first course started my brain in a whole new train of thinking. And now I know that there is so much more to learn! With each new lesson I am learning more about what affects our health.

My fitness journey started about five years ago. It has been an up and down process and also slow going at times. But it is now accelerating at a fast rate. It is growing with leaps and bounds and I am so excited to be on this path!

The current book I am reading is about 1,000 pages and filled with a whole bunch of fun information! I have spent several years trying to figure out what I love and I think I have finally found it.

I always felt like I was slow and behind everyone else, but it wasn’t true. I just didn’t find the path that I was supposed to be on. Now that I have I can actually see that there is no one to compare myself to.

There’s only myself to look at and I am on the right track. My life started to change when I stopped looking at everyone around me and started looking at me. I have a different path than other people and that is good!

When I was in my twenties, I tried many different things and found what I love and don’t love. In my mid to late 20s, I found fitness and nutrition and from there everything started to change. It is like something lit up inside of me and I can drink, eat, and learn fitness and nutrition. I was made for this!

If I can give you one peace of advice I would tell you this. Find you, find what you love and keep trying new things. One day, you will find that thing that lights your soul up.

It may take years or just a couple of days. But that’s okay! Everybody’s pace is different.

Sometimes when I start to feel stressed or anxious about where I am in life. I remind myself that I am right where I am supposed to be. My path looks different and just because I may feel like I am behind, I am not. All I can do is take is one step at a time.

Have you ever felt behind in life? What do you find helps when you start feeling that way?

I am excited to be on this beautiful journey of life!

Join me on my journey of becoming who I was created to be!

Cheers!

Life is tough!

There, I said it. I have gone through life wondering when it is going to get easier and when everything will just magically fall into place, but I won’t sugarcoat it. Life will rarely happen the way that you want it to.

I am an eternal optimist. I love to see the silver lining in everything, but there are times that even I find it hard to find the joy in the sadness, the peace in the waiting or the calm in the middle of the storm.

I have tried to run long before I knew how to walk and I have run long before I knew how to walk. I have tried to rush life along so that I can get where I want to be, but it doesn’t work. Life will come one day at a time and we must live each day to the best of our ability.

All we can do is take one step at a time!

I worked in kitchens for ten years of my life going from a fast food chain restaurant all the way up to a Michelin-starred restaurant in the UK. Working in Michelin was an incredible experience! But if you want to talk about a time of running before I learned how to crawl. That was it!

It was an eye-opening experience. I had not realized the level of perfection and excellence that was required when you work at a Michelin restaurant. I learned so many things so quickly, but the intensity that I had to learn was intense.

There were a lot of steps I had missed so I had to be attentive and learn quickly. I felt like I was constantly playing catch-up. It wasn’t easy to do, but I did it! I learned more about myself in that two years than I had in the 24 years before that time.

Of the many things that I learned while living in the UK, I learned the level of strength that I have and how much I can endure.

I would be so frustrated with myself when I messed up (which was often). However, I learned that building a foundation is important when trying something new!

Last June, I quit kitchens for good! I took some time off to figure myself out and now I am in a whole new career. Growing and learning a whole new set of skills, but this time I am also putting in the groundwork at the same time. I am doing school alongside my career and so far, it is working.

I am crawling this time because I know that once I start walking, I will gain momentum and be able to start running pretty soon after that. But I have to start slow and work my way there.

Have you ever had an experience where you were thrown into a situation that you were not prepared for? What did you do? Were you able to catch up?

Cheers,

Jael

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