Welcome to Living Well Daily, the newsletter serving up a daily dose of care designed to support you, cheer you on and remind you, always, just how wonderful you already are.

What a treat for us to be alive at the same time as you, you beautiful being! Keep shining your light and being you because the world is lucky to have you in it!

Seeing your potential isn’t about blind optimism, it’s about remembering that you’re allowed to imagine a life that feels good, expansive, meaningful, or fulfilling. Many people fear dreaming because disappointment has hurt them, or because life has taught them to aim small to stay safe. But hope is not naïve; it’s a psychological resource. Curiosity opens doors. Permission to dream reconnects you to possibility.

You don’t have to overhaul your life to step into potential, you just need to soften into the idea that more is possible for you than you’ve been taught to believe. You get to say “it’s okay to hope” and allow yourself to gently inch out of the small places you’ve had to box yourself into.

How to step into your potential:

✅Action step: Spend 2 minutes envisioning a life you’d love to grow into, then write down one small thing that feels possible this week.

^{Love, Lola Graham}

One thing that stops people from resistance training is the belief that they need to spend hours upon hours in the gym to improve strength and muscle. That isn’t true; you can get a great workout in much less time, especially when you use a few simple techniques to make your workouts faster and just as effective.

First, focus on compound movements (like squats, rows, and presses) that work multiple muscles at once, giving you more results in fewer sets. A good way to know if something is a compound movement is if multiple joints are moving through a big range of motion. Like on a squat, your hips, knees and ankles are all moving. 

Second, try supersets. A superset is pairing two exercises back-to-back with minimal rest. This helps keep intensity high without adding time. With supersets, you usually want to pick two exercises that target different muscle groups, like squats and push-ups or rows and lunges. 

Third, use dropsets. A dropset is like a superset, but instead of moving onto a different exercise, you stay on the same exercise but lower the weight or resistance profile. For example, for squats, you could start by holding a dumbbell in a goblet position, then after you complete your set, you grab a lighter weight and do another set, then put that weight down and do another set with just bodyweight. This saves time by removing the rest time between sets. 

These simple shifts can help turn a long workout into a powerful, efficient one that fits your life.

✅ Action Step: Take a look at your workout program and see if you can integrate any of these to help you save time. 

^{By: Joshua Graham}

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Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team

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