🟣 Lessons I learned the daft way

Happy Monday my favourite little goblin,

I hope this email finds you better than my profanity found Venessa the other week:

Apparently I’m proper cringe for being a sweary little nugget and my nipples will wince in 10 years when I look back at what I do today

And you know what?

Venessa probably isn’t wrong.

Not because of the swearing. I’ve called people fuck-faces since I was 6 years old and it’s worked as a fabulous filter in social media to stop knobshafters following me

But I probably will cringe as it’s something I AIM to do.

I cringe looking back at my first ever instagram videos

(My first one was a 90s video that took 2 hours to film. I did it in front of a clock that exposed me. Still keeps me up at night hahaha)

I cringe reading back some of my emails

I cringe thinking back to how I used to approach nutrition and training

I cringe when I remember it took me as many years as it did to stop dating men 😂

But to cringe is a fundamental, human part of the process of improving and figuring your shit out.

The best bit of advice my pups ever gave me was; “You figure out what you want to do by fucking about with what you DON’T want to do”

I’ve produced 1000s of videos since clock-gate,

I’ve completed roughly 2000 workouts since I stepped food in a gym

With those 1000s of reps, I’ve worked out what works by embracing a lot of doing what didn’t first

So of course, I (lovingly) look back and cringe a bit at how much less I used to know

But if in 5 years, I don’t look back and cringe?

I probably haven’t continued to improve.

I chat to SO many of you who are scared to get into the gym

Start a health pursuit

Or start your business to build the life you want

Because they worry too much about whether people around them will think they’re being cringe.

So to be dead straight up with you:

People will think you’re cringe. Naff buggers will say it behind your back or to you to try and knock you down.

Real ones will joke with you or support you wholeheartedly anyway.

It can suck.

But the sooner you accept the weight of being cringe and do the fucking thing anyway.

So go forth, be cringe.

And have fucking fun doing it.

And if you want to skip a few years shite workouts, falling for bollocks advice, and thinking you’re broken when it’s just your plan that is. My latest YouTube will do just that:

>>> 25 Brutally Honest Fitness Truths I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago

Big love 

Rachel