Getting What You Always Got

If you always do what you have always done you will get what you always got.  I heard this saying a long time ago and it made me think of a hamster, always on the wheel running but going nowhere fast.  Many of us feel like the hamster running with no purpose in mind.  In you health journey you have a purpose, achieving a healthier life, a life lived to the fullest.  This my friends requires change.

Changes must come in life but few are prepared to make them.  Many times the process of change is not a comfortable one because it calls for introspection and honesty with ourselves and with others.  Our discomfort can cause us to become stagnant and not change and so avoiding having to deal with our baggage.  At this point along our journey some have fallen off because they were not successful.  Why you may ask? Because saying no to self was too hard.  Ultimately when making any change the person who needs to be convinced is YOU.  The voice in our heads that tells us we cannot do it.  Haven't you tried this before and it did not work?  What makes you think that it is going to work this time.  The answer to those questions is that this time you are prepared to do the work required, this time you have a true purpose are willing to do the necessary work.  The most important work is silencing the voice in you head.

Practice positive affirmations.  Tell yourself I will succeed.  I will make it this time.  I value me and appreciate the person I am becoming.  Some may say positive affirmation is psychological babble.  I disagree.  It is learning to love yourself.  Many of us have been taught that we are not lovable  not worthy, worthless and as such we treat our bodies that way.  You may not conscientiously say this but our actions show that we do not love ourselves the way we should.  It is time today to choose to love yourself because only then will the changes be made only then will you get off the wheel and do some thing different.  Some will say you are being selfish and I say to this which is more selfish? Loving myself or harming myself?  I would rather love myself because in so doing I learn to truly love others.

Doing something different begins with replacing the voices in your mind that tell you cannot succeed with ones that say all things are possible.  Have a great day and remember the purpose of the journey, health4life.