Daily Book Excerpt: Girl, You Got This (Renz) - Introduction/Respect
excerpt from Girl, You've Got This by Brittany Renz -
Introduction
I have a 24-hour cancellation
policy.
When I first started my work as a
personal trainer, I was single and had two clients I would meet up with at a
local park because I didn’t have a studio space. Cancellations at that point
weren’t such a big deal. “Oh, you can’t make it today? What about tomorrow
around 3? Great, see you then!”
In the past four years, that’s changed. I
am married with one kid and another on the way, and I am booked. When I say ‘booked,’
I mean I am still a one-person team (unless you count my two-year-old daughter
as my assistant), and I have 76 clients. I work seven days a week from 6 a.m.
to as late as 9 p.m. Now when someone cancels last minute, it means:
1) It isn’t easy
to reschedule, and
2)
Another client could have filled that
spot, and
now
I won’t make that money.
So, what do I do when I get that last-minute
text or call?
Nothing. I don’t charge them or
scold them. If they are sick, I tell them I hope they feel better soon, and
that’s it.
Life happens, people get sick, and
things come up.
My 24-hour cancellation policy is:
Respect for Respect.
That policy served me well as an
entrepreneur transitioning into motherhood. Things change a lot when you become
a mom. When I have to cancel a session because my daughter needs my attention or
some other last-minute emergency comes up, my clients have to understand and
respect that, too.
But respect isn’t just for other people. The hours I work can easily lead to burn out. I can push and work hard on my career, on my marriage, on my role as a mother, but if I let my basic “self-respect” slide, I will crash. It is so much easier to take on heavy loads when I start from a place of love and respect for myself and the life I’m building.
So, what does my so-called
self-respect look like?
It looks like taking care of my
body, taking care of my mind, taking care of my home, taking care of my finances,
taking care of my relationships, taking care of my child, and taking care of my
personal wants and needs. It takes a lot of work, but the more work I put in,
the more energy I get out. That’s the key so many people are missing. Think
about this as an example: You are tired, but you power through and spend two
hours meal prepping for your week. When you are finished, you may feel
physically drained, but you get a small energy boost from the fact that you did it. You took the time to prepare
healthy food for yourself. Not just that, you now also have healthy food to
last you the week, providing you with literal positive energy (calories) for
the week. Every time you sit down for one of those meals you know you respected
yourself and your body enough to make and eat food that is truly fueling your
body.
That type of self-care is what this
book is all about. Transitioning to motherhood is hard, and this book will
teach you how to spend the nine months leading up to that big change, setting
yourself up for success and establishing healthy habits that will help you stay
on top of self-care after the baby arrives. Part of teaching your little ones
how to take care of themselves and the world around them is leading by example.
You need to set aside the time to do so. As a personal trainer, I know what I
am talking about when I say: Nothing
is healthier than that.
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