Transcript: Show Up: How You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything
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Ashley introduces the episode's central idea — that how you do one thing is how you do everything — tracing it back to a money mindset class and connecting it to her 300+ days of consistent movement.
How you do one thing is how you do everything.
What's up you guys? Famous Ashley Grant here.
Welcome to More Movement Please, the podcast
where I hope to inspire you to move your body
more. Today I want to talk about the idea that
how you do one thing is how you do everything.
Basically, this was taught to me in a class that
I was taking about money mindset, and it kind
of got me to thinking that, is it true? And after
more than 300 days of movement, I have to tell
y 'all, it kind of is. How you do one thing is
how you do everything. Now, let's explain what
I mean by that. When you start showing up for
yourself, that's when a lot of things change.
So when I started moving more and committing
to myself and deciding that I was going to really
get serious about fitness, that's when I started
recognizing a lot of the other ways that I was
not showing up for myself in my life. Some of
Ashley lists the concrete changes that followed her fitness commitment: eating habits, client selection, opening a high yield savings account, purging clutter from her home, emails, and cloud storage.
the things that have happened since I started
really committing to myself include, but aren't
limited to, starting to focus on what I'm eating
more, starting to look for the clients that I
actually want to work with. I actually started
a high yield savings account. I moved some of
my money into a high yield savings account. and
just other things like that. Like I started purging
more. I started getting rid of a lot of the clutter
in my life. I started letting go of clutter around
the house, clutter in my emails, even clutter
in my cloud storage and my hard drive. All the
things. And it's just interesting how when you
start really showing up for yourself and committing
to the fact that, hey, I'm wanting to make a
change for my life. I want to better my life.
You start recognizing all the places that you
weren't taking care of yourself before. Or at
least it's been my experience. And so it's kind
of wild to me that when I started this whole
thing more than 300 days ago, the goal was simply
to start taking better care of my physical health.
It's fascinating to me that along the way, I've
started taking care of my mental health, my emotional
health, my financial health, even my spiritual
health. I've made jokes before that, you know,
in class is when I pray the most. I've said that
so many times, like, please, God, don't let me
pass out. Please, God, don't let me throw up.
Please, God, let me get through this next rep,
that kind of stuff. But the reality is it goes
way beyond that. I pray more. now than I ever
have in my whole life I mean it's kind of wild
to me just how much I'm committing to spirituality
and I don't necessarily mean you know in in the
ways some people may think of it because um I've
never really talked about this before but I had
some bad experiences with you know, the institution
of church as it were. And so when I say that
I've gotten more spiritual, no, I'm not saying
that I've like started going to church all the
time and things like that, which I know is much
Ashley shares that she has prayed more in the past year than ever before, and that — despite bad experiences with organized church — she has found her way back to God in ways she never anticipated.
to the chagrin of my mother and some other people
in my life. But the truth is I have found my
way back to God in ways that I never in a million
years anticipated. I never thought that something
like going to the gym more and showing up for
myself. would be the thing that would make me
start showing up in so many aspects of my life.
And I'm not going to lie to y 'all. It's not
been easy. It has been a rough year. And I mean,
because the truth is that life is hard. Like
there's no sugarcoating that. There's no, you
know, dancing around that. The truth is sometimes
some aspects of life absolutely suck. But I am.
I am grateful that the more I show up for myself,
the easier it is for me to handle the stuff that's
coming to me. And I'm one of those people that
believes in some of the woo -woo. I like the
manifestation and the law of attraction of it
all. And I have started to really hone in on
the fact that life is not happening to me. It's
happening for me. I'm starting to really focus
on that. And I'm starting to focus on, you know,
the universe meeting you halfway, so to speak.
That's one of the things I learned from my money
mindset mentor, Denise Duffield Thomas, is she
said, you know, yeah, there's law of attraction
and you can try to just attract things into your
life, but it doesn't mean there's no action.
That's one of the big things about the law of
attraction. What actually makes it work is the
action. You have to meet the universe halfway
and show that you are willing to show up because
as you start showing up, that's when you start
bringing other things into your life. In addition
to finally showing up for myself financially
and spiritually and mentally and emotionally,
honestly, I've cut some people out of my life
that I was starting to realize were toxic. I
have started really nurturing the friendships
that mean the most to me. I've really started
to focus on the things that are for my highest
good. That's the best way I can put it is I'm
focusing on the things that I know are for my
highest good. It's been a really interesting
journey. How I do fitness is how I'm doing everything.
If you had told me a year ago, and I've said
this before, if you told me a year ago some of
the things that are in my life now would be in
my life, I wouldn't have believed it because
Ashley reflects on believing in manifestation and law of attraction, citing money mindset mentor Denise Duffield Thomas's point that what actually makes it work is the action — you have to show up.
I couldn't see it. I couldn't see that something
as simple as starting to work out would change
so many other things. So basically, the whole
point of this episode is I want to tell you that
if you're wanting to make a change in your life,
if you're wanting to start really bringing the
magic into your life, start showing up for yourself.
It is one of the best things that's ever happened
to me. I mean, like I said, I won't tell you
that this year has been a year of rainbows and
unicorns because the truth is it hasn't. There
have been some bad things that have happened.
That's just the way life is, right? It is not
like every single day is magic. Even though there
is magic in every day, it's not like every day
is just sunshine and roses. It's just not. And
I'm recognizing just how important it is that
even in those moments, especially in those moments,
that's when it is so critical that I still show
up for myself. That's when it's critical that
if I've made a decision, even though it sometimes
hurts, to have made that decision, I have to
stand by it. So like one of those decisions was
that I decided that I'm not going to go to the
gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays anymore. And y
'all, it's only been two weeks and I'm still
really struggling with the fact that I made that
decision. It's very difficult for me to accept
that I've made that decision, but there's a reason
for it. And though I can't really get into it
right now. I have to stand by that commitment,
just like I had to stand by the commitment that
I was going to be the more movement, please,
girl, just like I had to stand by the commitment
that I am going to show up for myself and work
out and move every single day. I am moving every
single day. I may not be moving as much as I
want to, but I am moving every single day. And
that's important to me. So. Long story short,
Ashley wraps up by directly addressing listeners who feel something is lacking, encouraging them to start showing up for themselves this week and noting that it will get harder before it gets better — but it compounds.
I want you guys to start showing up for yourself.
If you are listening to this and you are feeling
like something is lacking in your life, if you're
listening to this and you're feeling like something
just doesn't feel right, maybe it's the fact
that you're not showing up for yourself. How
you do one thing is how you do everything. And
I want you to make the one thing that you do
this week is to start showing up for yourself.
Start showing up for yourself. I want you to
do that because. even though it won't make things
easier. In fact, in a lot of ways, it'll start
making things harder first. It's going to get
better. and it's gonna get better, and then it's
gonna get better. And these things compound on
themselves. And so I want that for you. I hope
this was inspirational for you. I hope this message
moves you to start showing up for yourself. And
if you would like to share your journey with
me, I would love to hear from you. Head to famousashleygrant
Ashley describes cutting people out she recognized as toxic and doubling down on friendships that mean the most to her, framing it as focusing on what is for her highest good.
.com backslash fitness. Or if you have a tip
that you wanna share with my movers and shakers,
if you're in the fitness industry and you wanna
share something about fitness, I would love to
hear from y 'all. Famousashleygrant .com backslash
fitness. Thank you so much for tuning in. onwards
and upwards, my friends. Have you worked out
today?
Ashley admits she recently decided to stop going to the gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays — a decision she is still struggling with two weeks in — and connects standing by that choice to the same commitment muscle she has been building all year.
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