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Hello and welcome back to another bonus episode on the Embrace Real podcast.

Today I want to talk about something that so many of us, and I'm talking to myself, like I am preaching to myself first, struggle to accept. And that is the idea that you can't always give 100% some days, some weeks, even months. All you have is 60%. And that's not failure. That's being human. We live in this culture, though, that glorifies us all or nothing. It tells us that if we're not giving our absolute best, like we're crushing our workouts, we're tracking our macros perfectly, we're staying on top of every little habit, then somehow we're falling short. But the truth is, life doesn't always work out that way. There will be weeks and even months where you're tired, you're overwhelmed, just pulled

in a dozen different directions. You might be dealing with stress, kids, help, work, deadlines,

or simple burnout. And expecting yourself to perform at 100% all the time is just unrealistic. Life doesn't

always line up perfectly with your motivation or your energy or your schedule or just life.

Some seasons are about growth and pushing

forward and others are about protecting your peace, maintaining what you've built and doing the best

that you can with the energy that you've got. And that doesn't make you lazy. It doesn't make

you uncommitted. It makes you consistent. Because showing up 60% of the time still means that

you're showing up. It's proof that you're building discipline that doesn't or isn't dependent on perfect conditions. And you're choosing to move your body to

fuel yourself and to stay connected to your goals even if it looks a little different than it did

before. And learning to be okay with that, to release the guild of not doing enough. That's one of

the most important mindset shifts that you can make

on your fitness journey. When you start giving yourself permission to scale your effort based on

your season, you stop operating from guilt and you really start operating from grace. And that's

where real sustainable progress actually happens. So in today's episode, we're going to be talking

about why 60% effort still matters more than

you think what maintenance mode actually looks like and how to give yourself permission to

scale back without losing momentum. I'm just going to dive right in so that we can get to these.

Number one, why 60% effort still matters. So there are going to be seasons when everything just clicks.

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