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We've all been there at some time in our lives.
'Haven't got time'.
'To tired'.
'I had a long day'.
Or we simply don't want to because the sky is the wrong shade of blue.
A.K.A.
Personal neglect.
The number 1 force in sustainably feeling shite.
The good old-fashioned anchoring to the comfort zone, featuring the bottle of wine, mindless tv viewing, and the biggest fake comforter of all...hyper-palatable foods.
This isn't about being so busy that you don't get the chill time to enjoy life.
Life is enjoyed with freedom, freedom is created by consistent decent choices, that comes from discipline, the thing most feel 'restricted' by.
The paradox here is, the real restriction comes from a lack of discipline and/or an ineffective value system.
is life really being enjoyed with poor health habits, an unhealthy body supported by a poor personal relationship with health, fitness, and wellbeing?
Do you really feel great about covering yourself up, being unfit, and/or always hoping and desiring to transform into a better version of your current self?... That's the point where unhelpful defense comes into the frame to protect lack (here's a blog/vlog on that).
This is the crunch zone for ownership, saying that you are 'ok' and 'fine' when you're not is only harming you. it's the kind of stubbornness that will grab you by the nuts and twist them until they are blue (and the female equivalent).
Maybe something gets done in the sense of a diet, or an ab toning belt...
A.K.A, grasps at the NOW from the fixed mindset mentality, something for nothing...the shortcuts.
They don't work.
They never have and they never will.
They are approaches that delay the real breakthrough.
I know this can sound quite blunt, however, these are where the true breakthroughs, not...
'I know what's healthy, I just need to do it', all that this represents is a systematic short circuit or a mental one.
If that were truly the case, wouldn't the desired actions that support your vision be consistently happening?
Back to the title.
When our health, fitness, and wellbeing gets put into the objection section, it's basically saying that you don't value your health.
It's saying that indulgent tv viewing is more important than your physical health.
It's saying that your taste buds are more important than your hormone balance and immunity.
It's saying that short-term limited happiness during the tv show, or the consumption of junk food (which immediately dissapears), etc is more important than your self-esteem.
When we allow that momentum to take hold of us, it lowers our mood, strengthens the limiting beliefs, reduces our drive, and worst of all, erodes our self-esteem.
Ultimately psychologically creating an environment where the most important thing we possess becomes second best to all, the perfect recipe for body fat cumulation, lethargy, brittle relationships with the different health systems and a complete nose dive for true effective self-care.
None if this is from judgment or to shame, it's all from my own personal experience of operating in a way that wasn't helpful for to me, to now operating in a way that is.
These very reflections are the ones that changed my mindset, direction, happiness, and purpose, it means there's more of me to help more people like you.
You can't pour from an empty cup.
Who could you be with a fuller cup?
How different would your life be?
More purpose, personal control, confidence, health, fitness, it's all there for the taking.
It starts with an honest self-evaluation, a smart systematic approach, and patience with the learnings.
There's the recipe for a different life right there.
If you don't know, ask for help, if you need support, get it, if you have resistance, great, that means you care.
Just do it anyway 😉
You'll be glad of it.
When you do, and you smash it, I won't say 'I told you so', I'll say well f*****g done for stepping up for yourself 🚀
Time is inevitably going to pass right?
Why not apply in that time and feel great for it?
Chat soon,
- Coach Paul