Why Resolve

RESOLVE

{verb}

1. to settle or find a solution to (a problem or contentious matter).

2. decide firmly on a course of action.

{noun}

1. firm determination to do something.

WHY

My mother (what a way to start a first blog, but as my biggest influence, she was bound to make an appearance early) always said to me "You can do anything you set your mind to". It’s ingrained in me. An unquestioning self-belief, rather than an arrogance, that hard-work will yield results, and I am worthy of these results.

It’s why, on day 2 at a new primary school, I nominated myself for Sports Captain (I didn’t play sport). I got up in front of ~70 kids and teachers and told them why they should vote me as their leader (they shouldn’t have).

It’s why I tried out every year for Rep Netball (couldn’t play netball). It’s why I got up and sang in front my entire school (had never sung before). It’s why I became a Group Fitness Instructor (actually this one I worked really hard at). It’s why I quit my steady, well-paying, get-paid-to-travel-around-Australia-and-Asia job to go back to study. It’s how I got my current (DREAM, STARS ALIGN, COULDN’T ASK FOR MORE) job managing the most incredible team of talented and dedicated Group Fitness professionals in Sydney.

Resolve. The verb. And the noun.

It’s in my sister too. We share this hungry, fierce, insatiable desire to achieve more. We decide on a goal. We set a course of action. Then we just go, completely irrespective of the work involved in getting there (I'd attribute that to both our parents). It’s never an IF. It’s a WHEN.

This is so important for the decision to use the word Resolve. “What is a name that will communicate my core values?”

The thing I’ve noticed most about many people who struggle with lifestyle choices surrounding diet and exercise –

(Side note: Diet - the kinds of food that a person habitually eats *NOT* Diet - a special course of food to which a person restricts themselves, either to lose weight or for medical reasons)

– is that they do not have strong self-efficacy in this area of their life. Maybe they’ve never been taught. Maybe they’ve never succeeded. Probably, they’re overwhelmed by the contradictory information they got from their doctor, personal trainer, barista/Instagram fitness model (so you know he’s legit), friends-cousins-sister’s success story, health blogger (AKA – me!), that they decide to do nothing, because it’s just so confusing.

Unhealthy lifestyle habits are just that. Habits. They are changeable. But it’s hard work. Through my Group Fitness classes, as a Manager, as just another health blogger, and eventually (oh, eventually!) as a Dietitian, I want to help build people’s self-efficacy, thereby developing their (noun) resolve to make consistently healthy lifestyle choices (verb). Irrespective of the work involved.

Ps. I got Sport Vice-Captain.

So you know I’m legit.