Hello, welcome back to Empowered Radio. Today is episode four of our hot and healthy summer series.

And today we are going to talk about what happens if you had the best intentions and things just haven't worked out.

Maybe you went on vacation and you're having a hard time getting back into the swing of things

maybe summer in general has kind of taken you out of routine and you've lost momentum and you're

really trying to refocus and it's what can I do to get out of my own way so I've got three super

simple tips I'm going to share today that will help you

to get the momentum back and the ball moving in the direction towards your goals. I do want to start

first with saying don't try to do everything all at once. That's when we get overwhelmed. A lot of

people want to sit down and like make these

lists and try to plan all these things they're going to do and that's great. It's almost like

overconsumption and you think you're doing a lot because you're like putting all this effort

into the planning part of it and then you never actually do anything. And so it's like,

oh, I'm going to make,

you know, these are the meals I'm going to make this week and these are the days I'm going to

work out and these are the workouts I'm going to do. And again, it's all this mental energy. And it

feels like we're doing a lot of stuff, but we're not actually doing anything. And so the one thing I want to make sure is if you are having a hard time getting started

in general, if you're somebody that's maybe this is day one of your fitness journey or

your nutrition journey and you're trying to figure out like, how do I get started?

You know, I can't motivate myself to start.

Or maybe, again, you've come off a vacation or just the summer in general has you in some

kind of way that's making it hard to just keep going or you've kind of fallen off and you're

trying to get back into the swing of things. Start small and let those small things grow into bigger things and compound. So the first thing

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