It was never a motivation problem
The Capacity Compass is Coach Andrea's free planning tool. It changes how you look at the day before you plan it.
With Coach Andrea
BioTRUST Capacity Coach
Everyone treats this like a motivation problem. I did too.
I used to start over every Monday. By Friday I'd have dropped it, and I always came to the same conclusion about myself. I'm just not disciplined enough. Then I started paying attention to what was actually happening on the days I quit. It was never that I stopped caring. It was a kid home sick, a meeting that ran long, nothing in the fridge, and a plan that only worked if the day went well.
Here's what changed my mind. I have never missed a school pickup. I have never blown a deadline. I'm not undisciplined. I'm consistent about everything my day has room for, and health was the only thing I planned as if every day would be my best one. That's true of more than a routine, by the way. The gym membership. The meal plan. The supplement sitting in the cupboard. None of them do a thing in a week with no room in it.
Some days I do the whole routine. Some days I do one small piece of it. Both of those days still count.
Coach Andrea
Andrea Burke, BioTRUST Capacity Coach
So before you plan the day, you ask yourself one thing.
What does today have room for?
Your capacity is the time, physical energy, mental focus and patience you have available today. It changes. And that's okay.
Healthy habits get easier when they're built for your real life, not the life you wish you had time for.
Not what you should be doing. What today actually has room for. There are four answers below. Find the one that sounds like your day, and it gives you the single question to answer.
“I want to keep something important steady.”
What do I want to protect today?
“I need to let go of something.”
What can I let go of today?
“I need to refill my tank.”
What would refill me today?
Start tomorrow with one question.
It arrives in a few minutes. Print it, or keep it on your phone.
Meet Coach Andrea
I'm a life coach. I work with women who are good at almost everything and quietly convinced they're failing at the one thing they most want to get right.
The strongest women I know aren't the ones who can do it all. They're the ones who stopped arguing with reality. Honoring what today actually holds is what lets them keep showing up tomorrow.
That's the whole idea behind the Compass. Nothing in it asks you to be someone else on a Wednesday.
With you,
Coach Andrea
Andrea Burke, iPEC CPC, is a life coach and BioTRUST's Capacity Coach. She writes from her own experience of fitting health goals into a full life. The Capacity Compass is a free planning tool and is not medical, nutritional or fitness advice.
Inside the Compass, you'll find two things I keep on every kind of day.
These are the two I kept, and only because they were small enough to survive a hard day. Morning Fuel, protein to start the day. Evening Recover, magnesium to wind down.
First thing, before the day starts making decisions for me. It takes two minutes, which is the only reason it survives a busy morning.
On a full day it sits alongside breakfast. On a hard day it is breakfast.
Once the kitchen's shut and I've stopped answering things. I keep it where I'll see it, because if I have to go looking I won't bother.
Some nights it's part of a whole wind-down. Most nights it's the only part I manage.
Free daily tool. No purchase needed.
At BioTRUST, we're trying to help people live longer, healthier, more vibrant lives. That takes two things, and only one of them comes in a bottle. Great science gives you products worth taking. Great guidance is what helps you actually stick with them, through the easy weeks and the hard ones.
Andrea's Capacity Compass is that guidance. We made it free because the thing that helps everything else work shouldn't be the thing you pay extra for.
Tim Skwiat
Head Coach & VP Scientific Affairs, BioTRUST
Tomorrow doesn't have to
go to plan.
Your worth doesn't change from day to day. Your capacity does. The Compass is a way to tell the difference before you plan.
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