Good morning! Today's coaching conversation will help you overcome frantic activity and burnout by investing time in your physical health.

First, I hope your Fourth of July celebration was enjoyable. It is incredible to consider that, although far from perfect, the freedom and 249-year experiment of democracy has created worldwide human flourishing. May we live with deep gratitude for what has been granted to us in the United States and seek to love our neighbor as ourselves.

Take a moment and settle into this coaching conversation with a moment of micro-gratitude.

What are you grateful for right now?

This past week, we celebrated my wife's birthday. In particular, her devotion to the Lord, her deep loyalty to pray for others, and how she serves women on their fitness journey.

Now, in today's coaching reflection, I want to help you recalibrate your health.

Recently, several clients have shared powerful wins:
– One client won his local 5K race.
– Another ran a 10K with his wife.
– One is planning his first home gym purchase.
– Another is hitting the gym every day with a friend.
– One chose to start eating nutrient-dense food, consistently.

These aren’t just fitness goals. These are identity shifts rooted in emotional clarity, inner healing, and sustainable belief.

Calibrate: is the context | Insight: is the emotion to overcome | Action: is taking the next best step

Calibrate: I need to overcome burnout.

A client, the CEO of a hospital. His days are full. Much like any service-based vocation, he spends his waking hours giving to everyone else all day, and your family gets the leftovers. Our initial conversations have focused on healing, forgiveness, and shifting his mindset to believe in himself, beyond his performance.

Insight: "I've made it to Orange Theory 2x every week since we started coaching."

During our coaching conversation, celebrating wins together, he casually made this statement about getting back to the gym. The irony is that this particular commitment was not directly tied to one of our previous coaching conversations. I believe it was tied to the emotional burden that he was holding onto, and once he released the guilt is was able to walk in freedom.

Action: "I've left the office every day as desired."

During a transformational accountability check-in, he said that he had been leaving the office at his committed time. Why? Because he is becoming what he believes. He believes that his identity is beyond his performance and that his health is worth investing in, and he can honor his commitment to get home because he has first honored his commitment to get back to the gym.

In Your Corner: Are you stewarding your body?

Your body is a container in which the Holy Spirit of God resides, and we are all called to steward it so that He gets glorified.

Far from perfect, and in fact, making a 90-day commitment to myself as I head into turning 45 at the end of September. Most of us don’t skip the gym or eat junk because we’re lazy. We do it because there’s an emotional block—grief, bitterness, guilt—that’s quietly running the show. Until we name and address that wound, our health will reflect the weight of it.

• What would you do for your physical body this week if you believed in yourself?
• At your current pace, will you be able to play with your grand-kids on the floor when you are in your 60's or 70's?
• What is your one-sentence health manifesto?
• What inner healing, bitterness, or grief might be sabotaging your health commitments?

I will leave you with one quote from Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, a book on health I read two years ago.

The best workout and fitness program is the one that you will do consistently over time. The quick fix is not a sustainable path. The path is found in showing up for yourself and stewarding the one body that God has given you.

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Be Strong, Lantz Howard Professional Coach ​ ​

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