08/26/2025
‘Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face’ ~Mike Tyson
Oct 15 2015. I hit the wall playing squash. Literally ran into the wall. Blood, stitches, broken wrist. The wall won.
At the time I was playing squash 5x/week, working full time in my practice, running the clinic, spending evening and weekends doing physical labour renovating our clinic at 22 Guelph and chasing after 2 young boys. I was unstoppable. Until I wasn’t.
The run-in with the wall was my punch in the face. It forced me to engineer a Plan B - to shift gears, slow down, be more intentional.
I’ve come to appreciate the power of a Plan B. How many times are we working a ‘plan’- whether for health or fitness, for career, for finances or retirement? Then there’s a punch in the face. Job loss…Illness…Injury…A pandemic …or (insert any number of events that can derail Plan A for the meantime). What do we do? We resort to a Plan B or even a Plan C. Setbacks don’t need to knock us out of the game.
The menopause transition can be that proverbial ‘punch in the face’ for some women. The go-to Plan A strategies for stress, focus, sleep, mood, weight aren’t working anymore. Instead of recycling old habits and thought patterns we look at this age and state with a fresh set of eyes.
And engineer a Plan A with a new set of guardrails. And a Plan B and a Plan C. Because when we’re it for the long haul we need a plan that withstands all the punches.💫
