Let Your Soul Sparkle

Sparkle Every Day: You Just Get One

Jaclyn Sanguinetti

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What's up ? Sparkle Squad , welcome to Sparkle . Every Day I am just driving trying to find some parking at the beach and I wanted to jump on here and give you guys a little message that I actually heard from one of my mentors and coaches this week and it was so , so good . She shared it in a podcast episode as well and I was like I have to share that with the Sparkle Squad because it is just too good , and I believe that she even mentioned that she had heard it from one of her coaches .

Speaker 1

So imagine that when you're 18 years old , somebody gives you a car and they tell you that this car , this vehicle , is going to be the only vehicle you ever get for your entire life . You're never gonna be able to buy another car , you're never gonna be gifted another car like this is your car for life . You probably would want to take really good care of that car , right ? You'd probably be like , well , wow , this is the only car I'm getting . I better really take care of this thing . I better really , you know , check its oil and you know make sure to put new tires on it and keep track of everything and , you know , not running into the ground and only give it the best and you really would make sure that this car was a priority , because if it died when you were like 40 or when you were 50 or when you were 60 , that's it . You'd be taking the bus , getting rides from people you know you would never get another car , and I can sure you can see where I'm going with this , right . Why is it that when it's our body , we do something different . We think to ourselves eh , one more year of , you know , staying up really late for work , just this year . But once this year's over , I won't do this like level of stress to my body anymore . Or just one more , you know , couple weeks of eating like this and then , starting on the first of the month , I'm going to get my shit together . You wouldn't do that if it was the only thing you knew you were ever going to get , but guess what it is ? It is the only you know body that we're ever going to get . You don't get to get another one .

Speaker 1

And even when you make these healthy changes like I know myself I've made a lot of healthy changes in my life it doesn't go back and take away the time when I was in high school and eating fast food and living a sedentary lifestyle . It doesn't take that away . Like , yes , does it make it better ? Does my life improve ? Of course it's amazing , but it doesn't take away those years . You never can go back and remove the poor things that you've done to your body . You can only improve upon them . So if you are , you know , living a lifestyle that's really hard on your heart or really hard on your you know body , your joints are in pain all the time just because you lose a bunch of weight , it doesn't make that go away .

Speaker 1

So am I saying this because , like , oh , you're screwed . If you didn't do it yet , you're screwed . No , I'm saying this is your vehicle . You get this for life . So whatever you need to do right now to start taking care of it , do it now . You only get one chance at this . And I don't know you guys .

Speaker 1

I felt like it was so , so eye-opening . Even in our group , the coaching group , somebody put a picture of like an old beaten down vehicle and then a really nice , shiny vehicle next to it , and she was like I'm putting this on my vision board to constantly remind me that , like , I don't want to be that beaten down vehicle , I want to be this shiny car for the rest of my life and I need to do everything I can to take care of it Like you are your shiny new ride , and take care of it like it's a gift , because it is a gift and it's the only gift you're going to be given of this body and this lifetime . So , with that said , I'm going to go on a walk and do my meditation and treat myself to you know , some good health . All right , bye .