{"id":44499,"date":"2021-07-02T09:17:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw\/?p=44499"},"modified":"2021-09-02T17:05:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T21:05:19","slug":"test-your-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw\/2021\/07\/02\/test-your-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Your Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p><em>By Joy Crump, Founding Partner and Executive Chef<\/em><\/p><p>What we are capable of changes.&nbsp; Year by year, day by day.&nbsp; The list of what we are sure we can do as women, partners, managers, mothers&ndash;is long because we juggle those things daily.&nbsp; We push ourselves in so many aspects, right?&nbsp; We work to be more thoughtful, more capable on the job, more attentive to our children or our parents, more fit, more healthy, more fun, and more fabulous.&nbsp; We work and along the way we see the proof that we can do many, many things.&nbsp; And that knowledge of what we <em>know<\/em> we can accomplish is, in many ways, our power.&nbsp; But every once in a while, we need to test our power.<\/p><p>I take a 45-minute spin class a few times a week.&nbsp; I like it because it starts on time and the music is loud and when it&rsquo;s over, the bright green circle on my apple watch tells me that I finished something that day.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s tough, but I know I can do it.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve done it before&ndash;many, many times.&nbsp; So when I walk in and click into the pedals, I&rsquo;m powerful.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m doing what I know I can do.&nbsp; A few weeks ago, I signed up for the 30-minute class because that&rsquo;s all I had time to do.&nbsp; I thought the class would be easier for me because it was shorter.&nbsp; Honey, I was dead wrong.<\/p><p>About 22 minutes into it I was beyond breathless.&nbsp; My legs were on fire, sweat poured off of me and my eyes were clamped shut as I worked my tail off just to keep up.&nbsp; And exactly when I was about to turn my resistance down in order to take the pressure off of my pace, take the pressure off of <em>me<\/em>, the instructor shouted to us all, &ldquo;Test your power!&nbsp; You think you know what you can do but you can do more!&rdquo;&nbsp; And I did.&nbsp; I kept the resistance on, I pushed through and 8 minutes later, the class was over and I was on the other side.&nbsp; Green circle closed.<\/p><p>On the way to work after that workout, it hit me: of course the 30-minute class isn&rsquo;t easier than the 45.&nbsp; In fact, it&rsquo;s tougher.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m taking what I know I can accomplish in one box and cramming it into a much smaller box.&nbsp; More stuff, less time to do it.&nbsp; Now that I say it out loud&hellip;what was I thinking taking that 30-minute class?!&nbsp; Without even realizing it until it was over, I was testing my power.<\/p><p>Now, in no way is the moral of this story that we as women can always do more.&nbsp; I mean, we can (because we&rsquo;re awesome).&nbsp; But that&rsquo;s not what I mean when I suggest we test our power.&nbsp; Let me put it like this: the instructor who shouts at me a few times a week in that spin class is nothing short of a phoenix.&nbsp; She balances the small business she owns with the big corporation for which she also works during her &ldquo;spare time&rdquo; (spare what?).&nbsp; She&rsquo;s a mother, a wife, a trainer, a manager, an athlete.&nbsp; And like so many of us, she stumbles, nurses her wounds and finds the grit to stand back up to go another round.&nbsp; Professionally and personally.&nbsp; She&rsquo;s one of my private heroes and also my dear friend so when she screams, &ldquo;Test Your Power!&rdquo; I know she isn&rsquo;t saying it in that manic, over-achieving, don&rsquo;t-you-dare-rest kind of way.&nbsp; She&rsquo;s saying, what we&rsquo;re capable of changes.&nbsp; The needle moves and we may not even know it.&nbsp; The down times when we are overwhelmed, under-rested, under appreciated, unseen&ndash;those low moments can be the fuel we need to grind out the last 8 minutes of the task at hand.&nbsp; She&rsquo;s saying your power is a living, breathing thing.&nbsp; So check it.&nbsp; You might be surprised at what you find.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joy Crump, Founding Partner and Executive ChefWhat we are capable of changes.&nbsp; Year by year, day by day.&nbsp; The list of what we are sure we can do as women, partners, managers, mothers&ndash;is long because we juggle those things daily.&nbsp; We push ourselves in so many aspects, right?&nbsp; We work to be more thoughtful, 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