Sunday, September 15, 2013

Today Can Be IT...Today Can Be YOURS!

Are at a crossroad in your life?


Maybe you've sat there and asked yourself, "Is this it? Is this all there is?" And your just at a dead-end. You want change, but maybe you're just not sure how to change. Where in the world does one start?  You know what you want to change, but the real truth is you've lost your COURAGE to take a step forward into the light of change.  Does that sound familiar to any of you? 

I want to challenge you.  A weight loss journey can be and is an amazing journey.   Along the way, you learn your weaknesses. They really begin to stand out.  I mean, REALLY stand out.  For example, one that many have seen in themselves are the promises they cannot keep with themselves.  "I'm going to lose this weight!" It doesn't happen.  The opposite happens.  "I'm going to start eating healthy!"  The same foods you love some how magically end up in your kitchen again! I think you get what I'm saying.  In these moments, life is showing you that you are displaying fear, therefore the lack of courage.  Dishonesty.  Yes, you are being dishonest with yourself.  You display that when the above statement happens and it's not fulfilled.  Pretty soon the lies to ourselves are so easy.  We can talk about it, but, being about it, well, that's another story.  THIS is where you are being taught.  Pay attention.  Because those attributes CAN be changed.  Lying to yourself, it can change. They really can.  But, also in this journey, you get to see your strengths, maybe not so much physically, but mentally and emotionally. If you really pay attention while on this journey you begin to walk beside yourself and it's in that walk, that YOU have the opportunity to give yourself a gift. COURAGE. Courage to keep putting one foot in front of the other and in that walk you become more aware of who you really are. It is a journey that can transform you from the inside out.  This is one of the reasons why I am so passionate about helping those enter into a healthy LIFESTYLE.  I am passionate because once you begin this NO LOOKING back journey, I get excited for you because it's going to be a RIDE!  And when you get off that ride, you become a different human being.  And THAT is EXCITING!

So nothing is missed, no lesson has gone unlearned, I encourage all of my clients to keep a journal -- just for this journey.  A journal where they keep account of their steps as courage begins to bloom into their lives. A journal that you can record your weak moments and your strong moments. It's all to teach you something. 

If you are wanting change in your life, I ask you to take your right foot and your left foot and place them on the ground firmly. Then stand up and stengthen your courage muscle each and every day and PAY ATTENTION closely, because the YOU that's in there is going to blossom.  It's almost like being re-born.  Re-born into a light that you will never want to leave again. It's a light that you are meant to live in.  You had that light once, but unknowingly you turned the switch to off.

A healthy lifestyle isn't just about weight loss, exercise and eating right, it so much more! This is your opportunity to explore you even more. GO FOR IT! Please get out of your way just for one day at a time and put one foot in front of the other.  Work your courage muscle one day at a time! Remember you CANNOT get to COURAGE without being VULNERABLE first. 

A key to begin is to let go of what you think you know, letting go of your fear of changing your life makes you vulnerable and yes, even humble.  Don't fear what others may think of you.  Let them think what they want to think.  It doesn't matter anymore. YOU are DOING THIS with or without anyone's permission! No matter how many times you have failed before today, don't let that STOP you.  Don't fear yourself and your past failures. Show yourself something different everyday.  Something that you weren't able to do the day before.  That will build your courage muscle.  Maybe it's stepping through the double doors - inside the gym.  Maybe it's letting go of your favorite foods.  Maybe it's changing your schedule so you can allow time for YOU to exercise.  Whatever it may be, do something in a positive direction each day that is going to lead you into that life that you have only dreamed about.  Maybe it's not weight loss. Maybe it's an idea or maybe it's a fear you have had to do something for others that you are passionate about - it scares you, so you hold back.    GET UP - take it!

Putting yourself in that state, will help you on this journey to change your life.  Go get it. It's YOURS!  Watch and see your growth. 

Don't look back.  You are not going that way anymore.  So, what are you waiting for?  Turn the light switch back on my friend.


 

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

STOP - if you keep telling yourself you want to lose weight STOP & think about something. Do you break promises to those in your life (make plans, forget about them, blow them off)? Do you break promises you make to yourself? Or do you keep your promises to those in your life BUT not yourself? Either answer --- WHEN YOU BEGIN TO KEEP A PROMISE TO YOURSELF (such as wanting to lose that weight),... you will want to make another promise and another KEEP YOUR PROMISES TO YOURSELF (as well as those in YOUR life!)
 
When you begin to do this - watch how you become a DETERMINED PERSON to get this show on the road once and for all! Suddenly YOU are being TRUE TO YOU!!!!! YOU CAN DO THIS!
 
If Bob can lose 126 pounds in THREE months with both knees blown and I can lose 95 lbs in 5.5 months (what was our secret to success? No secret! We KEPT PROMISES TO OURSELVES!) YOU CAN DO THIS TOO! It's up to you! Start by making a weekly goal - promise yourself NOTHING will stand in your way of YOUR goal for YOUR LIFE (only to make your life even better). Succeed - then make another promise and do NOT break it nor BLOW IT OFF and make ridiculous excuses!
 
 KEEP DOING THIS!  DON'T GIVE UP!