As many of you already know, I really enjoy running long distances – preferably on trails. My running coach has an expression that applies equally to running as it does to living a girly lifestyle.
As a side note before I continue, if any of you girls also enjoy running please go and give my coach’s blog some love. He helped me get Pink Femme set up so that I could just focus on writing content for you.
Getting back to the expression that my running coach uses: It is better to be consistently good than occasionally great. Looking at it from the perspective of my running, if I go out and do a 30-mile run I will need between 5 and 7 days of recovery. At the same time, I can do 7 miles every day without needing any days off for recovery along the way. Running 7 miles each day will give me 49 miles for the week which is further than I’d get by having one “great” workout of 30 miles.
The same applies to being girly. You will get more benefits from doing something every day that helps you feel girly on the inside than going “all-out” once every couple of weeks. You can still have your once every few weeks where you have full immersion into girliness, but over the long term, you will make more progress by being consistently good and doing something every day that feels girly on the inside.
Finishing off with another expression from my coach: The best time to start is yesterday and the second best time to start is right now. What can you do right now that will validate the girl that lives inside you? Hugs.
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This post was created by the talented Candie Hart and originally appeared on her Tumblr blog. It is reproduced here with her kind permission. Be sure to check out more about Candie at the end of the post and give her some Pink Femme love.
I have discovered that a little bit of girliness every day goes a long way toward making me feel more in touch with Candie. It might be something as little as shaving the hair off the back side of my hands (hair there is gross btw), dabbing a small bit of perfume on the wrists, or wearing a feminine bracelet or watch.
There are some things that are mainstays for me, meaning that they are every day or almost every day. Almost every pair of shoes I own are women’s. I keep at least my upper legs shaven along with my torso and armpits. I now use a girly lotion frequently. And of course, I work out 5-6 days a week, even if it’s just stretching, and I always dress feminine for my workouts.
There is also disposition, gestures, voice inflection, and posture. Creating more feminine movements requires developing habits. So, it’s always nice to practice those things daily.
In the end, it’s a matter of giving your girliness a chance to breathe. It might seem forced at first, but it will eventually become natural to you.
Cheers to you, my girly-boy friends!
CandieHart
Candie is an enthusiast for all things fit and femme. All of her very creative captions carry the same positive, motivating ethos that I envisioned for Pink Femme when I started this site. Use this link to go to Candie’s blog on Tumblr and give her captions some much-needed love.
If you would like to see more of Candie’s longer-form content with captions here on Pink Femme – here is the link to the list of posts that have been published.
If you are new to Pink Femme, be sure to check out the unique 40 Steps To Femme program that will help you to feel more girly one delicate step at a time.