27: Busy But Thriving: How to Stay Healthy When Time is Tight

Struggling to Fit Healthy Habits Into Your Busy Life? You’re not alone—but it’s easier than you think!

In this episode, Kimberly and Terry share practical, no-nonsense strategies to help busy individuals integrate fitness and wellness into their daily routines without feeling overwhelmed.

💪 What You’ll Learn:
✔️ How to prioritize self-care even with a packed schedule and little free time
✔️ Why the “minimum effective dose” mindset is a game-changer
✔️ Smart meal planning tips to save time and stay on track
✔️ How to use "dead time" to squeeze in quick wins for your well-being

This episode is packed with motivation and actionable advice to help you take control of your health and well-being. You owe it to yourself to create a sustainable wellness routine—no matter how busy life gets.

🎧 Tune in now and start making your health a priority today!

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Transcript

No time is the number one reason people skip workouts, ignore meal prep, and put their self-care on the back burner. But what if we told you that you do have time, you just need the right strategies? Today we're breaking down how busy professionals, parents, and go-getters like you can finally make fitness and wellness fit into your life without stress, guilt, or overwhelm. Let's get into it.

Kimberly/terry (00:57)
Welcome to Group X Appeal, Terry Shorter here with. And Kimberly Spreen-Glick woo! Episode 27. Yes. Woo. What? Feels good. Yes, it does feel good. We hope you're feeling good too. And let me ask you something. If you've ever said or have you ever said, I don't have time to work out. I have. Have you said that before? I have. I've said that too. I'm sad to admit it. Well, at least you're honest. I appreciate that. Because if you've never said that before, you're lying. You're lying!

But listen, this episode is for you if you've said that ever. I have said that. So I guess this is for me too. So because here's the truth, you don't need more time. You just need better priorities. That is a fact. Right. And so as productivity expert Robin Sherma puts it, basically said, don't live the same year 70 times and call it a life. Right? man, that's powerful. Right? Yeah. We got to let that one sink in for a moment. Yeah. Here's the deal.

We all have 24 hours in a day, how we use them makes a difference between just surviving and thriving. So let's break down how you can finally make fitness and self care fit into your busy life in this go, go crazy, busy world we live in, how you can do so without feeling any kind of guilt or stress. So we've got four easily implementable tips for you. You can do this right now. Get rid of that stress, get rid of that guilt, right? Heck yeah. So tip number one would be just simply

scheduling your workouts and your self care as if it were a meeting. It's like an appointment, like your doctor's appointment, your dentist appointment. You don't miss those, right? When they're on your calendar, you show up. Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, if it's not in your calendar, it's pretty simple. It's just not going to happen. I think Tony Robbins once said, you know, if you if you talk about it, it's a dream.

but when you schedule it, becomes a lot more real. yeah. Right. And so when we just talk about it, sometimes if it's not written down or put in a calendar somewhere, other priorities come up and it just kind of gets thrown to the wayside. Yeah. Taken to the wayside for sure. So when you treat both like appointments, you know, with your, we'll treat your, your appointment, your workout appointment or your self care appointment, treat it like a meeting. Like we said, because this is really for your future self. Right.

And not that too far in the future either, not too far in the distant future, because as soon as you're done with it, you're going to say, I'm so glad I did rather than I wish I would have. be good to your future self. You know what's cool about you saying future self, because sometimes I'll ask myself if I'm in a moment and trying to determine, I get into what I committed to, be it a workout or meditation or going for a walk or what have you, I will ask myself.

what would my future self want me to do? So think about asking yourself, what would my future self want me to do in this moment? Would it want you to continue to scroll on Facebook or read or, know, but does it want you to do the thing you committed to doing? Oh yeah. That, is provocative right there. Provocative. I'm very provocative. It's true. It's that red you're wearing. Right. So, um, so schedule it, put in your calendar, whether it's your real.

written your book calendar, whether it's on your phone. I schedule everything on my go set alarms too. If you need to, I have to do that. I have to absolutely. So it'll definitely help. And that's a simple thing to do that anybody could do. You could do it right now. So when would now be a good time, right? Exactly. So

What's the second tip? Yeah, I got another tip here and it is to adopt what's known as the minimum effective dose mindset. That's a lot. know, right? Can we acronym that? The M E D M E D M M. There we go. works. Or it's just the med mindset, but then it sounds like it's medical. Right. We'll just, we'll just explain it like this. Sometimes we know we get it. There are only so many hours in a day.

And so often if we can't commit to, example, a full hour workout, we say, okay, well then I'll skip it. But you know what? What if it's just 10, 20 minutes, even five minutes is better than nothing. Something is better than nothing. And it can absolutely transform your day. So take this idea of something is better than nothing. You know, sometimes, cause I generally try to meditate every morning for 15 to 20 minutes.

but there are some days that I maybe I'll oversleep or I have other things on my plate and I gotta get up and get going, but I have five minutes. So if I have five minutes, do I just say forget it? Cause I don't have the whole 15 or do I say at least I could do five minutes? The answer is do the five minutes. So whatever the case is, whether it's your, you know, your workout routine, getting out in nature, self care, do something because something is always better than nothing. I love it. I love it.

Yeah, we talked about in the last episode in episode number 26, that 1 % getting 1 % better every single day. So that five to 10 minutes, you know, that's that works. That counts. counts. Absolutely. It's compounding. So the third tip that we would love to provide you with is planning your meals the smart way. Now, we're not talking about meal planning or like meal prep rather, right? That's not we're talking. We're not talking about

cooking your chicken breasts in bulk and cooking your chicken breasts, 16 chicken breasts and 19 pounds of broccoli, steamed broccoli. No, we're not doing it all in one time and breaking them up into plastic containers. No, cause a that it just seems overwhelming. Just the thought of it. Right. But also who likes cold old food, right? And the same thing every day for a week. Right. That's no fun. so it's not sustainable is my point. And it's not, it's not enjoyable.

Instead, personally what I love to do, I simplify and I'll create my meal planning for the entire week. So all my meals for the entire week. Oh, like your menu? My menu. Yeah. Exactly. So my menu for the week and based on that menu, all the ingredients that I need become my shopping list. And that way I'm only going to the store one time.

rather than Kimberly had mentioned. What was your example? You go to the store. there have been times where I go to the store one day and I get what we need for say lunch, dinner that night. And then the next day it's like, man, I gotta go to the store again. So you lose a lot of time just going back and forth the transportation to and from the store. Yeah. And that's no fun. That's no fun. So if you can do it in one fail swoop where you have that menu, that week menu, and by the way, Google it.

It's really simple. You can find meal menus online when you Google them for whatever kind of foods that you enjoy eating. Whether I always focus on macro balanced meals that are quick and easy to make under 30 minutes. Just type that in and you will, it'll spit out the best, the most nutritious, the most macro balanced meal ideas and simple to prepare by the way and tasty meals that you can possibly come up with. And you take those ingredients to the store and boom, you're pretty much done.

fresh food, tasty food, macro balanced food, and that's sustainable. love that. That's a guy I'm going to, I'm going to lean more into that. I commit today. So we have one more tip for you and this is about using what could be referred to as dead time wisely. So often we'll find ourselves for, for example, if you happen to be going to the grocery store six times in a week, you're spending a lot of time in the car. Otherwise, you know, anytime you're commuting, maybe when you're

running your kids around or you're going to and from work or to and from the health club. So you're, you're finding yourself in the car commuting. That could just be dead time where you've got, you know, not that music is ever dead time, but you could just have music playing that you're not paying much attention to, or you could just be staring out the window or you could be playing a podcast or an audio book when you're at home watching TV. What about doing some body weight exercises? Okay. So right now,

Do not laugh at me. Do not judge me unless you must. In which case that's perfectly fine. So this, this Monday, which, know, when we're filming this, my birthday is coming up. And so I am going to be doing a balance challenge on the BOSU balance trainer. And so I currently have a BOSU.

in the middle of my living room. Oh, she's been practicing. in front of the TV so that I could practice. love it. Why would I laugh at that? And since it's there, I have found myself, you know, during a show, I'll get up and I'll do some squats or, you know, lunches on the BOSU. ready. So yeah, so just instead of sitting still for so long, maybe challenge yourself to get up for even just a few minutes. Remember, just little doses can be really powerful, especially after you've just eaten. If you can't go for a 15, 20 minute walk, at least do some air squats. If you don't have a BOSU in the middle of your living room,

Like most people should have so weird. but you could just do air squats on the ground. So maybe it's as you have meetings or zooms, you could be out in nature, out walking. You know, know a lot of clients I work with, they love it when I'm out. did a, I did a live for my Facebook community a couple of weeks ago and I happened to be in Laguna. So I took them outside of my car and showed them the ocean. probably love that. Yeah. So could there be, you know, digital things that you could be doing?

out and about. little things, small moments, they definitely add up. They definitely add up. Well, I love that you're getting prepared for that challenge bit by bit, little by little, right? Little by little. That is awesome. there's a right, that's success means is when opportunity preparation means opportunity that equals success. So the challenge opportunities coming up, she's getting prepared. So you can bet she's going to have a ton of success.

Of course, the time, by the time you're watching this episode, I will have done it. So just check in with me and let, and ask how it went. It's going to go great. So, for me, when I want, I'm watching television, I have that foam roller there. If I watch a movie or if I'm listening to podcasts or listening to audio books, I'm rolling doing some, you know, some myofascial work. Awesome. Yeah. So just saving some time, habits, stacking, whatever you want to call it. we'd love to know.

what your as a listener, what your number one time saving fitness hacks are. Absolutely. So definitely drop it in the comments. If you are on YouTube or head over to Instagram, Facebook, and let us know in the comments, what is that fitness hack that you can share? Cause we just shared four. There's, mean, that is not an inclusive list. So by all means share with us, with our community, we'd love to hear from you and be inspired by you. Get some good ideas that we can implement.

Right. Exactly. Yes. And then also in addition to sharing some of your number one time, saving fitness hacks or wellness hacks hacks just in general, please be sure to share this episode with someone who needs the shift, who needs that extra little nudge, to save time because maybe they feel overwhelmed. Perhaps we can really truly together take control of our schedules, with all these different tips. Yeah. You know, the days can fly by, but as

you know, we said in the beginning, every day has 24 hours and we all have the same 24 hours. So it's not so much about time management as much as it is about priority management and being able to not necessarily at the end of one day, because I think at the end of one day, there might be one day where, for example, my son, my work, my friends, all priorities and my wellbeing. Okay. But let's say one day, my son needs me. So he gets the majority of my focus one day.

another day my work needs me because I'm in the middle of a project and it gets majority of my focus. So over the course of say a week, can you ensure that you have offered up enough focus and time and energy toward the things that matter most to you? That's what this is all about. Yes. Awesome. And it's not, this is not something that happened overnight, perhaps implement one or two of the tips that we provided you with and, you'll be able to experience the changes right away.

Yay, that's what this is about. you've got it. Thank you so much for listening in to episode number 27 of group ex appeal. We really, really appreciate you tuning in and that's a wrap for today. Yeah. So listen, make it a great day today and why Kimberly? Because it is a great day to have awesome. Bye.