This post is pulled from a recent coaching call with my group coaching clients inside Miles.Muscles.Magic about the frustration many women feel when they look back and realize how much they didn’t know earlier about strength, nutrition, and taking care of their bodies.
We talked about the spiral of “I should’ve started sooner,” and why that thought comes up so often for women in midlife.
This short clip comes from that conversation, where we were talking about honoring past versions of ourselves while learning to navigate the flood of information we have today.
Here’s the bigger point that came out of that conversation.
The Landscape Was Different
The challenge today isn’t a lack of information, it’s the opposite.
There is more information than ever before. More advice, more opinions, more programs, more voices telling you what you should be doing. So much noice, everywhere.
At some point, the skill has to become to learn how to filter.
Learning what deserves your attention and what doesn’t.
Learning what aligns with your goals and what is just noise.
Learning how to focus on the foundational things that actually move the needle.
Because without that filter, the amount of information out there can feel like a fire hose… and it’ll keep us in a loop of doing nothing, and everything all at once.
Honoring the Woman Who Got You Here
One of the most important shifts we talked about in this call was this:
The past version of you did the best she could with what she had.
She was operating with the information, access, and conversations that existed at that time. So instead of beating her up for what she didn’t do, the more useful move is to honor her.
She’s the reason you’re here now.
And now you get to take what you know today, use what’s available to you today, and build from here.
