I have written about doing your 2024 wrapped.
So I thought, I better do mine.
And well, 2024 was a much better 12 month period for me than 2023 was. And really that is all I can ask for, hey?
From Oct 2019 until November 2024 was an incredible roller coaster.
Lockdowns, rumours, losses, and through a lot of that I just sort of lost myself a bit.
I lost my way with nutrition, training, learning, and generally became pretty guarded.
I was just sort of floating around.
Jodie had been diagnosed with a couple of different kinds of arthritis and coeliac disease.
So I went into my caretaker mode, which meant I made sure everyone around me was OK. Jodie, Georgia, all the members at CFA. But I forgot that it is all well and good to be a caretaker, but you can’t perform that role if you aren’t at your best.
I had allowed the pandemic, increased market pressures in town, the losses of four people close to me in the space of four months, financial pressures, rumours, to all get the better of me and allow myself to neglect myself.
So this year I set about sorting it out.
It wasn’t just a ‘hey, it’s January let’s do this!’, for those that know me, I am not at all a New Years Resolution person. It was more that I looked at my state, was honest with myself and did an audit on me.
I had been inconsistent with what I was eating, my sleep patterns were shithouse, I had not been hitting my workouts with intensity, and I had not prioritised the right things to do at work each week.
I knew what to do, so I used my coach (yes I have a coach) to keep me accountable to my plans, but mostly to keep me accountable to myself.
Am I where I want to be right now? Mostly I am. And I think that is a good way to be. If I am ever completely satisfied I may not go on to do more. I might just rest on my laurels. I have done that before. The fall is not at all graceful.
So you might be reading thinking, ‘gawd mate you are bit of a bloody bore talking all this shit about yourself.’ but I am only telling this to you so that you can see that sometimes we fall off by the wayside. All of us, we don’t look after ourselves like we should, but we can get back on track, in a decent way, in a reasonable amount of time. And really a year is not a long time.
When I think back to Dec 2023, I was really struggling, but I had to hold on for those around me. I had to be resilient, and it took a quick look to realise that to do that, I had to look after myself.
Move
Eat
Sleep
Head
Or MESH, came from this.
Each day am I doing something to Move, toe Eat well, to Sleep better, ande to have a better Headspace?
Each day, I audit these things, I assess and evaluate and then make the necessary adjustments to be better.
Those four simple things have helped me get right back on track and still be here, still be doing all the things, still enjoying each day, seeing the beauty in each sunrise, still being able to open the doors of the business here each day, still see those I care about, still find joy in so many things.
So this next twelve months, instead of just living by the MESH model I am really going to help you all use it to find your way to the place you want to be at this time next year.