Be Healthy

Mindset Monday 🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️🧘🏻‍♀️

So often on our journey to living our best life, we can get side tracked, derailed, discouraged, distracted...feel like giving up.😫

Making changes, whether big or small are challenging and we will experience set backs...ups and downs...take a wrong turn....2 steps forward, 1 step back.🤦🏻‍♀️

We are human! We are not perfect.🤷🏻‍♀️

Release the need to be perfect...that you have to be successful with everything at all times....you will have wins, and you will have losses. If things go off the rails...don’t give up! 💪🏻

With great love and compassion for self, re-set, re-adjust, re-start, re-focus...as MANY times as you need to. The point is ....just keep moving forward and remember healing and growing in life is not lineal. 📈

Everyday is a new day and an opportunity for you to try again; even if you have to work at it in baby steps. 👣👣👣

When you go off track, this is when you need to be the most kind and gentle with yourself. Silence that inner critic and remind yourself that you are human, and pledge to love yourself enough to keep moving forward.🥰

Take a moment to explore why you may have gotten off track. Sometimes it is because we have a need that is not being met, an emotion or old wound that needs to be addressed. 🤷🏻‍♀️

In my journey, I have had huge set backs, and become discouraged and wanted to give up...and many times I did give up...but eventually I learned to love myself enough to keep trying, and have a mindset that I am always learning and growing, and that I am a perfectly, imperfect human.😍

No matter where you are in your journey, keep these words in mind 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

MINDSET MONDAY 🙏🏻

“Ask for what you need”

So often in life, be it love, friendship, work etc…we tend to assume others know what we need and want, yet don’t ever come right out and clearly ask.

We expect others to just “know”, or to read between the lines. We think our needs appear obvious, however often times they are only obvious to us.

You know what they say about assumptions…😉…so how about starting a new habit of just clearly ASKING. If you don’t ask….you may not get.

Humans always look for the complicated side of things, when being simple, clear and direct is the most successful and easiest!

So let’s work on changing our mindset….and ask for what we need.

“I need 10 minutes of quiet when I come home from work”
“I need you to help me with the housework”
“I need more physical affection”
“I need a raise”

You may be surprised just how much improvement you will see in all areas of your life.

And if you get a “no”…at least you tried, and you are no worse off than without asking. Or perhaps a “no” is an opportunity to explore “why” and open up some good dialogue and exploration.

I cant ....or I won’t ?

If I had a dollar for every excuse I used to make regarding making diet and lifestyle changes, I’d be rich ! 💰

It’s so easy to stay in our comfort zones...but what IF we made some changes ...what IF it led to improvements in our over all well being, reduced inflammation, bloating, tummy aches, joint pain, etc?

Would change be worth it then?

I was the 👸🏽 Queen of excuses. And for a time I really thought they were valid. But as my health declined, I realized something had to change , because I was unwilling to stay sick and tired.

A big turning point in my journey was MINDSET. I realized that when I said “I cant”, what I really meant was “I WON’T” . And that changed EVERYTHING.

I wanted to feel good...be healthy, have energy ...and there was only one thing I needed to do ...STOP making excuses and instead say I WILL!

You don’t have to make grand sweeping changes all at once. Do what you can manage ...but always ask yourself ...is it “I can’t” or “I won’t” ? And see how that feels.

Nothing changes if you change nothing .