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Often I am surrounded by people who think I live such a naïve form of life. I have faith, I have hope and I am rarely concerned about my life in many ways these days. This was not always the case. If you have read this blog you often will hear me refer to the days before I lost my weight and changed the focus in my life.
I didn’t like the way I felt back then, but I still never gave up working on being excited about life and finding a way out. Struggle is tough! It sometimes takes all we have to keep going. Heck there are still some days at the end of the day I am glad that day is over. The good news though is even those days have something exciting happening and progress is made in some area of my life.
What’s the difference? I get to set the pace! I make the choices to stick to the plan I have or to take some time off from it. I had to laugh yesterday I was told that I sure have myself in a lot of areas. I work with clients, I am part of a team putting together a revolutionary life coaching plan, I do clinical hypnotherapy, have a full time IT position that put me on call, I watch what I eat and exercise, and recently have been asked to go back into ministry work. Sounds like a full plate. My response was that in one of my favorite life giving books I often read that if you are given talents you should use them or they may be taken away. In the same book it tells me to whom much is given, much is expected.
With all that said than I control my life with choices. I choose into my life to get all life has to offer. Diet and exercise take time and planning. So does being ill, it robs hope and joy along with time. Everything has a cost. I just look for the results rather than getting bogged down in the effort. It is more fun to be fit rather than struggling with carrying around all that extra weight. It was a small price to pay for the fullness of life I experience now.
Want control of your Life? Take it, plan it, work it, and live it. Start replacing disempowering thoughts with empowering thoughts. Learn to breath. Find out what faith and hope is again. Stop the excuses, stop the self abuse, and take one step at a time. Do it and keep going at it. Perfection is not the mantra here. It is all about the journey and what you learn along the way. After all whose life is it anyways?
Not sure where to start? Fill out a contact form and lets talk. No charge! Yeah, that is one more thing I do, help others to find a way to get started to enjoy their life. After all, to whom much has been given, much is expected.
I am reminded during Memorial day weekends of people that have come and gone in my life. I remember my grandfather that has passed from cancer and who fought in a World War only to came back with his faith challenged from the tragedies he saw. I still remember his questioning the existence of God and the stories he told me. I remember my dad who died of cancer yet lived the life of a proud Marine even though his service time led to a broken back and a life of pain. I remember my good friend Jim who fought with his weight and struggled with diabetes all his life only to swiftly die too young. I remember each one and what they taught me. They taught me freedom isn’t Free, it has to be fought for.
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Each one stood for the idea that if we want freedom’s in our life we have to go after them. We have to claw, fight, struggle and seek those freedoms. Many would offer easy solutions but dedication and work was needed to get out of life the things that many people take for granted. By nature we all seek the easy road, but by design only those things that become habit and purpose will stay with us. Our life choices will determine the outcome, not some cosmic spinning wheel of fate or luck.
This comes to our health as well. We have choices presented to us moment by moment. Eat this, don’t eat that. It is all choices that will determine our weight loss or weight gain. It will determine if our body will operate at optimal health or something less than. It is never just simple calories in versus calories out. There is no quick fix although there are choices that will take us where we want to be faster. But like all choices we have to make the ones that will take us where we want to go. It gets down to choosing health or illness. Freedom or something less.
So today I choose to keep fighting for health. Fighting to help others find it. Taking on a different battle but taking in on with everything I have. Why? Because I have a legacy of fighters in my life that taught me that “Freedom in any area of life is worth fighting for!” And I take nothing away from the battles and the struggles those very dear to me fought. Today like many days I still hear them say to fight the good fight no matter where you find your battle. Live life to the fullest and help those who would come along beside you. For many people died so that you might have those choices to make each day.
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I had an experience yesterday that I won’t go into a lot of detail with, but I found myself severely disappointed and feeling let down. Perhaps you know the feeling. You work really hard during the week. You eat right, you work-out as planned, and you even pass right by that tempting desert. Yet at the end of the week you don’t see the results that you had great expectations for. Well this disappointment wasn’t weight related, it was people related. It also didn’t involve days, weeks, or even months worth of work. It involved years! Thank goodness I have had this last year to learn a few things. Otherwise I might have been even more crushed by the results.
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First Lesson: No matter what you think the results should be, they are what they are. You have to dig down to find that hero inside to keep going. After all why do you do what you do? Is it the short term results or the long term journey that you are after. For instance in weight loss. Loosing weight and adding years to your life is a long term goal. In the scheme of things does it matter if it moved today? No what matters is your consistency of doing the right stuff to reach the long term goal.
Second Lesson: Don’t count on anyone else to get you where you want to be. After all they are so focused on themselves they might not even give you another thought. Now don’t confuse this with coaching and mentoring. They are essential to success. It is just a clear statement that if it is meant to be it is up to me! I will need to take the steps each day to achieve that dream I have. I need to stay on my purpose.
Last Lesson: It is not if there will be disappointments in a journey. There will days when it seems like everything is going as planned. The scale is moving, people are noticing, you are feeling stronger, and you make all the right choices towards your goal. Then there will be days that everything seems to go in the opposite direction. It is on the days that you feel like nothing is changing, you question yourself on if you will ever get there. Remember this one thing: “What the mind can conceive it can and will achieve.” Stay faithful to your journey and mindfully take each step. You will get there!
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Found this quote for one of my weight loss clients today and the more I look at it the more depth it has. So for today just take some time and think about your journey this year with this quote in mind.
“Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be…Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.” ~ Erich Fromm
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It is funny to me the way life is served up. This last week at church there was a great study that talks about how the world influences what we believe. Christian or not you have to see the truth in that. One of my favorite books tells me that I can be in the world without being of the world. Otherwise I can live with all the hype, good/bad news, and various other things we get blasted with these days, without being all about those influences.
Adding this quote reminds me that my vision of the world changes, just like my vision of what life would be like from a year ago has changed. In my weight loss journey this last year I have come from feeling like I was dying (and not so slowly) to living like I haven’t in years. This changed my mentality from the probability of never getting better to how much better can I get. Some call it possibility thinking, I would call it much more.
So close your eyes, imagine with me for just a moment, what would life be like with your spirit soaring and living like you have never lived before? What will it take to get that back? Are you willing to make the journey?
In the journey of weight loss there are often hurdles that people face. I personally have dealt with many such hurdles. We all face them and it is different for everyone. Some it is food triggers, or diet restriction issues, health and fitness, motivation to to keep loosing weight, etc. etc. What came down to for me was faith. Did I have the faith to stick it out? Did I have faith in myself to do what I needed to do? Did I have faith that I could become healthy and fit still at 50+ years of age? After all I had tried so many different things to no avail. Loose 10 lbs gain back 15 was a common problem.
I find my faith in the promises of my favorite book. Not everyone’s favorite but it is one of many. From there I believe all things are possible. Some times they are tougher then others, but I am not alone and I am not doing it all on my own strength. I find a great deal of comfort in that. It brings me strength not only for myself but to help others that I end up coaching in their journey.
Today I found a new video I would like to share with that in mind. I don’t express my faith often on this blog because some times it gets in the way. Today’s post just felt right to share this video with you. I really found the song a reminder that anything is possible. Enjoy!
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