Letting Go of "Used To"
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Are you stuck comparing yourself to what you used to be able to do...or how you used to be like in a different season of life? Well, it's time to cut that out because it isn't helping.
"I used to be able to…"
At one time in my life – about 6 years ago – I front squatted 240 pounds.
Today, I front squatted 75 pounds.
I'm not a bad person. I'm not "worse" now than I was back then. This is a different time in my life, and I have different priorities and interests. Back then I was training for olympic weightlifting. Now I do a mixture of different training: kettlebells, barbells, BJJ, corrective exercise.
Be honest, how often do you start a sentence with "I used to be able to…" and go on to trash yourself for not being as XYZ as you used to be?
Here's the fierce love truth:
You aren't there anymore. You're here, now.
Maybe things have changed.Maybe you chose those things and you're happy about it. Maybe you didn't choose those things and it sucks.
Either way, yes, feel your feelings. Reminisce, even. But at some point you have to process and keep moving.
But let's be clear: You weren't a better person because you could squat more once upon a time.
In today's episode, I'm serving up some real talk, support, and love so you can let go of living in the past and actually enjoy your present.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there what's going on welcome to episode 236 of Harder to Kill radio |
| 0:05.2 | it's fierce love Friday and I'm your host Steph Godro I'm really pleased that you're |
| 0:11.1 | here with me today for this Friday episode of the show. Today I'm |
| 0:17.1 | going to be talking about using the phrase, but I used to be able to and why this is not helping you and why it is time to let this |
| 0:29.7 | shit go. So this episode is going to be a lot of real talks today. It's going to be |
| 0:36.1 | fierce love. We have always had an explicit rating but if you are listening to |
| 0:41.7 | this in mixed company or their sensitive ears |
| 0:44.3 | present you may want to pop in some headphones for this one. I recently posted this on my Instagram and on my Facebook pages and the amount of |
| 1:00.6 | outpouring that came from this particular topic of people saying oh my gosh I |
| 1:07.4 | needed to hear this or this is where I am right now and I'm working on this was incredible. |
| 1:15.8 | And when I see those sorts of things, |
| 1:18.5 | I then like to turn those things into podcasts |
| 1:21.8 | because not everybody sees Instagram or Facebook. |
| 1:25.0 | Number one, number two, really unpacking these topics more |
| 1:30.0 | in the spoken word can be even more useful, even more powerful. |
| 1:36.2 | So that's oftentimes why I will use Instagram, for example, or Facebook as a testing ground. |
| 1:44.4 | And if a concept, if something that I said or how I said it starts to resonate, |
| 1:49.4 | I know that I want to share this with a larger audience. |
| 1:53.0 | So if you saw those posts, then you're going to be in for a treat today |
| 1:56.0 | because we're going to go a little bit further with this particular information. |
| 2:00.0 | But before we jump into that, just couple of updates first and foremost I'll be heading to New York and |
| 2:07.0 | Massachusetts next week. I'm fan-girling super hard because I'm going to be going to the Marie Fourlio everything is figure outable experience on Monday and |
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