Its time our heads have a training program, too
When I was at the gym this weekend, trying to work off the holiday feast, I noticed someone meditating in the corner. My first thought was, “Good for you.”
My second thought was, “Why aren’t more of us building mental fitness into our schedule the way we build physical fitness?”
Most of us who want to feel stronger emotionally do it in scattered ways. We meditate one day, read a mindset book the next, talk to our team about bouncing back from setbacks…and call it a mental routine.
But it’s not a routine. It’s a collection of one-offs.
If we treated mental fitness the way we treat physical fitness, we’d have a structure—cardio one day, strength the next, stretching later in the week.
We’d know what we were training and why.
And it’s no wonder everyone feels overwhelmed. The daily noise—emails, texts, alerts, bad news, and friends in distress—hits us faster than we can process it. Without a structure to handle it, the mind goes into system overload.
When your computer locks up, the fix is simple: reboot.
Mental fitness routines are quick, intentional, and surprisingly effective ways to reset your mind.
A client told me recently, “I know what I want next. I can’t get myself to start.”
He thought he had the wrong plan. He didn’t.
It wasn’t a strategy problem; it was a mental fitness problem.
His motivational motor was idling.
He was waiting to feel ready, but readiness isn’t a feeling — it’s a result of action. Mental fitness trains that muscle, and so many more.
Mental fitness is built the same way physical fitness is built:
- Small, daily reps
- New habits
- Training different parts of your mind
- A little stretch
- Noticing progress and celebrating it
Mental fitness is the daily practice of building the steadiness and agility that help you move toward what’s next with purpose.
Your mental rep for today: choose something small — pause for two minutes, write down one worry, take a short walk, or send a quick note of appreciation.
I’m creating a mental fitness program, and I want it to be useful, simple, and real. Which area would you like included? Please comment
A) Emotional steadiness
B) Managing overwhelm
C) Building next-step confidence
D) Something else-Please add
Just hit reply with A, B, C, D
