The Mind Body Project
The Mind Body Project
MM 28: Find the Place That Values You
We share how one playlist landed flat in a treadmill class but lit up our 60 and over chair Zumba group, and what that taught us about fit, context, and value. The right room can turn the same effort into energy, connection, and joy.
• why the same song lands differently across groups
• how context shapes taste, mood and engagement
• separating preference from personal worth
• finding the rooms that reward your strengths
• practical ways to test environments before judging yourself
• choosing alignment over grinding against mismatch
Thanks for joining me on this week's Mindful Moment. I'll see you right here next time on Mindful Moments
Welcome back to a mindful moment. Last week, during a treadmill class, you know, every uh every week, I have a treadmill class every day, uh, we have a different treadmill class every day, different workout, different music, different playlist. So this Trickle Dad made a playlist, and one of the songs I like is Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. I just think it's a a neat song. I just really like it. And when we do our chair class for our senior 16 over, we play that song when we do Zumba. We play that song, and you know, they're waving hands, and I mean it's just a great song. So during a treadmill class, during a warm-up, I played the song, and after class, there are several that mentioned that um they didn't really care for today's playlist. And so I took it as they also didn't care for that song. So I thought, well, I don't know why they don't like that song. So uh later in the week we had Zumba. Uh we always have it the first Tuesday of the month with our 16 over chair class. And so we got done all of our songs. Before we did our cooldown song, I said, Hey, I want to play you a song uh because it wasn't appreciated. And I need to bring it to a place that really appreciates it. So I hit play, and they were like, Oh, this is the best song. We love it. And I said, I knew I brought it to the right place. And it was just another reminder for me that, you know, it's a great song. If you never heard Sweet Caroline by uh Neil Diamond, it's just a great song, it has a great beat. Always say that, you know, it could bring the world together if people sang and danced to it. And when I played it for my treadmill group, they they didn't really care for it. Took it to my chair class, my 60 and over, and they loved it. It just was a reminder to me again that there can be great things, we can have great value. But if we're in the wrong environment and show it to the wrong people, sometimes it's not appreciated. It doesn't mean that the people are bad. All the people, all the ladies in my treadmill class, they're great. They just didn't like the song. And sometimes that all it is doesn't mean that it's a bad person or it's a bad environment. It just means it's at a place, you might be at a place that doesn't appreciate you. And so take it somewhere where it is appreciated, where the value is understood, and the value of that is is genuinely appreciated and understood, and it has value. And so I challenge you to do that is to again, the people aren't bad that maybe didn't appreciate or didn't find that value. They can be great people, they just didn't find the value. When you take it to the place where it has is found great value, it's appreciated, it can change your world. If you're in a place that you feel underevaluated, valued, underappreciated, find a new environment that when you show up, just like my my Cherry Class 60 Nova did when I hit that play on that on that playlist, they just erupted and knew what was coming and were overjoyed with what was about to happen. So I challenge you find the place that you're appreciated and valued. Thanks for joining me on this week's Mindful Moment. I'll see you right here next time on Mindful Moments.