Is Your MINDSET Sabotaging Your Success?

People want a quick fix.  We want instant gratification.  We want to be thin, and boy do we want it now!  Patience is hard to come by these days.  It seems that we don't want to wait for anything.  I mean, it's hard to wait for an Amazon Prime order! :)

When you start your health journey slowly, it allows you to think through all the changes.  Typically, women that I work with have started out with a positive mentality.

I can do this.
This is gonna be great.
No one can stop me.
I can absolutely do this!

I love that!  I love that they are so enthusiastic to get started!  But sometimes life happens.  There are family emergencies, kids' activities, church functions, vacations, and so much more.  Sometimes these obstacles are the best way to learn.  By taking this lifestyle change slowly, you are allowed to figure things out.

How do you best deal in stressful situations?  How will you get supper ready?  Where will you eat?  How will you juggle it all?  What sacrifices will you make?

Those are all some valid questions that you may have to learn along the way.  These obstacles give us time to grow.  When we struggle, we change and build character within ourselves.  This is all good.

When you jump on the quick fix fad diet and see all the rapid changes, you don't have time to change your mindset.  So when you get off that diet for one reason or another, you may see the weight come back, and you may see even more pile on.  That's because you didn't have time to make a shift in your thoughts.

This is such an important part of the journey.  We have to shift our thoughts about food, working out, our success!  Everything on this journey centers around what we think!

Whether you think you can or you think you can't--you're right. Henry Ford

Do you think you can do it?  Do you think you can open yourself to trying new things?  Do you think that you can be proud of yourself?? I KNOW you can!  YOU just have to believe it!

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