Sunday Story…Change your Mind!

You have been on countless diets. You have tried numerous exercise programs. You have done first-year Spanish 6 times. You’ve gained all your weight back (and then some). Your fitness is still lacking. And your Spanish is woeful.

 

All is not lost. The problem isn’t the diet or the fitness program or the language teacher. The solution isn’t to find a better whatever. The solution isn’t to be stronger, find more willpower, or create a better solution. No, the solution is simpler than any of that…Change. Your. Mind.

 

Simple, not easy. Change your mind. Shift your thinking. Adjust how you mentally approach the challenge. You’ve tried everything else, haven’t you? Why not this? The answer to that question lies in your years of programming. The nonsense that you, other people, society, and culture have poured into your brain about who and what you are. “I’m the fat kid.” “I’m not the athletic one (that’s my brother or sister).” “I have a bad memory.” Nonsense until you believe it and then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

Changing your mind is real work. Maybe more work than all the sweat you will produce working out. The blueprints aren’t easy. You are going to have to fight against years of bad messages poured all over you.

 

Visualize who you want to be. Do it with the same focus and will power you use to stick to those other regimens. Become the person you want to become in your mind’s eye and the rest of you will follow.

 

Change your mind, change your life, and change the world.

 

John Mariotti

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