Try something new

Re-energise through something new

I often meet with clients who feel like their life has become a constant tussle between work responsibilities, parenting responsibilities and all manner of other things that require attention: renovations; elderly parents; managing finances; staying in touch with friends. This can come to feel relentless, and many clients describe feeling depleted.

In coaching, we explore how to re-energise by finding something new. For some of my clients, it is about reconnecting with a long held dream (this week a client said she had always wanted to write a book), but for other clients it is about trying something completely new.

For me, it has been kickboxing. Every Saturday (when there is no clash with teen sport), I join Sean for a kickboxing class that is challenging, fun and rewarding. Alongside my yoga practice, I am not sure many things bring me as much joy as punching a bag to music. From a neuroscience perspective, the brain likes to try things that are new.

I never quite get the moves right, and Sean is patient in trying to explain them to me, but it actually doesn’t really matter. It’s new. Its different. It might be a long way from my yoga mat but I always come away feeling better than when I arrived, and that is the enough for me to know that it is good for me.