She had me worried...


I want to share something with you from this week- I had one of my 1:1 clients go completely quiet for a couple weeks.
No check-ins. No messages. Nothing.

Honestly, I assumed she had fallen off or wasn't interested in coaching anymore.

When she finally reached out, she told me something I've heard multiple times before from others:

“I felt embarrassed.”

“I didn’t do the workouts.”

“I didn’t hit my steps.”

“I felt like I failed myself and you.”

Here’s the twist: She wasn't being lazy or unmotivated. She was sick - like genuinely sick. And then she took a week off to travel.

The workouts weren’t happening because she physically couldn’t do them. But one "off" week turned into three weeks, and then she felt like she needed an “on-track week” before checking back in with me.

And every time I hear that, my reaction is the same:
Those are the weeks coaching is actually for.

Anyone can follow a plan when life is going well.
The harder skill is knowing what to do when life isn’t.
When work gets crazy. When your kids get sick. When you get sick. When motivation disappears.

One of the biggest things I try to teach my clients is:

Never drop to zero.

Maybe your normal week is 3 workouts and 10k steps.

Cool.

A rough week might be:
- 1 workout
- 6k steps
- protein at breakfast

That’s still progress.

You don’t need to be perfect. You just need to keep going. That’s usually where long-term results come from.

Not the perfect weeks. The imperfect ones.

- Sanjana

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