One of my martial arts students apologized to me the other day because she had a schedule change and wasn’t going to be able to make it to every available adult class anymore.
…And instead of training five times per week, she would only be able to train four times.
Two times per week is a complete and healthy training schedule—for those who don’t know. And so, of course, I told her not to apologize and that it was totally and completely okay.
A few minutes after the interaction, I happened to have a flashback moment to the time when I was originally pitching the program to her (after she had signed up her son) and remembered her saying that she was very busy and unsure about whether she’d be able to fit training into her schedule.
And I smiled and felt good about the idea that martial arts became a priority that transcended the excuse of busy.
Because it’s never that we’re too busy… is it?
…It’s that we have other things we’d rather be doing or are—consciously or unconsciously—prioritizing. For better or for worse.