As you may well know, Cody Rigsby is my favourite Peleton instructor.
The others are good, but he’s my go-to in the mornings if I want someone to cheer me up and put me in a great mood for the day.
Today, however, I had to resist the urge to slap the monitor because he totally triggered my word-rage reflex.
He was talking about how he’s just discovered the benefits of taking cold showers.
It’s not my thing just yet - I’m all about warm baths - but I understand that cold water exposure can have huge benefits on mental and physical well being.
After my December dip in the North Sea, I can confirm it’s extremely invigorating, but still not something I’d choose to do on a regular basis at this point in my life.
The reason Cody triggered me was not because he used one awful word which I’d heard one of his colleagues use a few weeks ago - resiliency - but he went on to talk about how training yourself to push through the reflex of avoid cold water develops your ability to deal with uncomfortablecy.
AGGGGRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!
Now, I’m not sure if he was joking but he didn’t look like he was laughing!
No, Cody!
That word is not OK.
I love you swearing and talking about how Mel B was the only Spice Girl who could actually sing, but please don’t think it’s OK to put “cy” on the end of any word, because it’s really not.
(I had to look uncomfortablecy up to make sure it isn’t accepted as a real word like resiliency is, and it isn’t, thank God!)
However, the word-rage triggering episode got me thinking about the value of emotional bank accounts.
Cody has such a huge balance in my emotional bank account, that within seconds I totally forgave him for his word crime.
Emotional bank accounts are deposited in with good deeds and kind words, and withdrawn from by asking people for favours or needing forgiveness.
Cody makes deposits in my emotional bank account every day - I feel so grateful for him giving me great workouts and things to laugh about, that one little slip up wasn’t enough to make me want to avoid all his classes in the future.
How are you doing with your emotional bank accounts?
Have you ever had the experience of someone going overdrawn in your bank account, or are you taking too much from someone else’s without making deposits back in?
Might be something to consider if anyone gives you “the look” and you’re not sure why…
We cover the subject of relationships in our 90 Day Breakthrough programme which starts in April.