Lori Todd: Being Right or Be in Shape
Being Right sometimes is fleetingly satisfying. However, being right is the booby prize. I can be right or be healthy, be right or be in shape, be right or have the relationships, success and satisfaction we want. Being a WorldLegacy trainer I should know better than choosing to be right!. Being right doesn’t improve my life. I “should” know better. But lately I haven’t.
I have been being right about personal trainers and health clubs. My health club closed so I had to travel one hour round trip. I traveled because my trainer of five years was at the new location; and I had a great trainer. Then my trainer got resigned about the training business and quit and left!
So I started to be right about the commute and stopped going to the club.
I was annoyed but I finally bit the bullet and joined a new club near my house. I still gave myself the right to be annoyed.
I looked for a new trainer, which annoyed me more. “I shouldn’t have to, I had a great trainer and he should have stayed in the business.”
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Two trainers in a row missed their appointments with me. Now I had more evidence to be right. So I stopped going to the club and complained about how people do not live their word. I even thought, never another health club membership. I even rationalized it by seeing all the money I was saving by not having a personal trainer. I even thought of canceling my membership.
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I can be right or be in shape. So this morning I went back to the gym, got on the equipment and worked out. Tomorrow morning I get to do it again.
And then I will hire a new personal trainer. And I am sure after awhile, I will say he or she is the best trainer I ever had. If I am going to be right, it might as well be about some good stuff.
I knew this. As a WorldLegacy trainer and student of transformation, I of course should know better. But then, being right is a cultural conversation. It just doesn’t work.
Dr. Lori Todd is the senior coach at WorldLegacy and a Leadership and Advanced Trainer. Lori has been coaching and leading transformational workshops since 1996, and leads trainings across the United States and Mexico. She received a BS from Antioch College, MS from Cornell University, and a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1990, she became an Assistant Professor at UNC and, in 1994, President Clinton awarded her a Presidential Faculty Fellow award for her teaching and research, one of thirteen scientists in the US. In 1995, Lori was a finalist for the Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation for her research in mapping harmful chemicals in air. In addition to being a scientist, trainer and coach, Lori is an artist and animal lover. Dr. Lori Todd is also committed to transforming the technical world with her new company, Geek Leadership.