A couple of years ago, someone I follow posted "Day 1" on Instagram.

I was like "Ooooh! I wonder what's up there!"

The next day, they posted "Day 1."

"Hmmm... I wonder what happened yesterday."

Then the following day they posted "Day 1."

"Ohhhkay, this is really weird."

But after about a week, I realized the point. Every day... is Day 1.

When I started coaching women on their health limiting beliefs, many of them found the phrase "Day 1" to be triggering.

"It reminds me of the first day of a diet," I'd hear.

Yet, every time I asked, "And what day did you have the greatest motivation?"

Every single one of them said "Day 1."

What's the most defeating day of anything? Not Day 1.

When I was getting my run coaching certification, they asked "what's the biggest challenge for a beginner runner on Day 1? Get them to come back on Day 2."

Day 2 is an ugly, defeatist day. But Day 1? Day 1 is limitless possibility.

I wrote a few months ago about why I don't count days in sobriety. I don't need a rope tied to a point in the past so I can just obsess over how long it has been. Every day is Day 1.

Granted, sobriety for me, as my friend MartinJon would say, is "a beverage choice." I never created a structure to make it mean something disempowering, and unlike many people, I began my recovery nearly two years before I finally let go of alcohol.

When I wrote a few months ago about a fictitious scenario of someone binge drinking today after a long dry period, someone on my list wrote to me about having a visceral reaction to that.

That doesn't surprise me. Because to that person, it was likely seen as an absolute failure. Because now, we need to have another Day 1, and then subsequently.. a DAY TWO. Defeatist, burned out, "I'm a big failure" DAY TWO.

If someone doesn't drink for 700 days, and drinks on Day 701, if they don't drink the following day then they have 701 days of sobriety. Not 1.

Day counting is triggering.

What if every day was Day 1?

What a nice thought, Andee.

No. For real. Every morning, I wake up and I say "Day 1." I've done this every morning since Monday, March 16th, 2020.

That was the day New York City essentially shut down because of COVID, and I started building my life in a new direction.

I remember every tiny action I have taken since then. I needed a new life. There was no other option.

I knew thinking big wasn't going to work, so I'd say "Day 1. What's here? What can I build from today?"

What is here now, and what can I do right now?

Present moment awareness. It's the crucial piece many people miss.

We're always thinking way off into the future, but the subconscious mind doesn't care about psychological time. It knows now and only now.

Since the beginning of 2020, I've run 5,079 miles. According to Strava, that's 774 hours of running.

That seems like a big number, but it isn't to me. That happened step-by-step, thump thump, right now, on Day 1. The number never got big in my mind. It's just Day 1. What can I do today... on Day 1?

That includes many, MANY days of not running, and just relaxing. That includes many days of "fuck this I'm staying in bed." It includes a few vacations and one cross-country road trip where I sat in the car for days on end. It includes lots and lots- probably too much time sitting on my ass in front of the computer. And lots and lots of time lying in bed watching TV.

Day 1. Can I dedicate a half hour to this today? A half-hour... out of my whole day... to this? Day 1.

I don't feel stressed or tired at all. That's what happens when it's just Day 1. Every day.

When I come home from that run, I ask myself- what can I build from the existing structure that's standing before me?

What can YOU build? Today... On Day 1?

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After much resistance, I am building a group program for women. I plan to launch it next month- I'm aiming for mid-June. I already have reached out to the first few women that I want to be in the program, people I think will help build the culture.

Training for Bubba Gump, and being a beta tester for Wisdom app taught me a lot about how the initial core group of people really mold and shape the culture of a community. After years of being a voice in other people's communities, I am creating one of my own.

I'll be writing about it more as I take more solid action to get it going.

I want it to be a great experience for everyone, so I have an idea of how I want it to look, tech-wise. Now it's just thump thump.

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ALSO, POWER HOURS are continuing through the next TWO WEEKS. They are powerful 90-minute sessions where we deep-dive into the one area of your life where you can't seem to make motion.

They are followed by a week of discourse in notes (like I do with my long-term clients.)

If you're feeling stuck, I highly recommend you check this out. They're intense, and you'll likely feel much, much freer having had the experience.

90 minutes can do a lot for a person. If you've never met with a coach before, this may radically shift your life in a completely new direction.

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LEARN MORE ABOUT POWER HOURS HERE

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I hope you all have a great Day 1.

We'll talk soon.

Stay Beautiful.

Andee