Losing weight or improving your health is as much something that must happen in your mind and thoughts as it does in your body. Many people start a weight loss program and never follow through with it. When they first start it, their resolve is strong and enthusiastic. Others may start an online course with great excitement and wonder why they lose interest only a few weeks into it.
Our thoughts play a big role in our successes. Researchers have said that the concept “we are what we say we are” is actually more true a statement than we often want to admit. We take off the extra pounds when we begin visualizing what we will look like and we want it so badly that it directs our actions. We achieve in life when we can visualize our success whether it’s graduating college, winning gold at the Olympics or losing weight. It is at this moment when our resolve, determination and confidence kicks in. We convince our self by seeing it our minds first and then telling ourselves that we can do this.
Hold on to the resolve that caused you to enter that writing competition or to study that business course. Believe that you will be three dress sizes smaller come the summer or that you will get that promotion at your job that you have been working so hard to get. Don’t let yourself spend time focusing on what you can’t do, but rather on what you are doing and what you can do to continue to work toward your goals and dreams. No one has ever achieved anything without dreaming and and then actiing with determination to be able to put that dream into action and succeeding.
It cannot be emphasized enough that your thoughts can be your worst critic, but they are also your best ally. Your thoughts are partially responsible for your actions and behaviors and most people trust their personal perceptions when things happen in their lives. Channeling your thoughts to bring out the best in you and then, rejecting the rest is essential to reaching personal goals.
Surround yourself with people who will support your endeavors and ask them to help you erase the negativity that can start without warning. Nip it in the bud before it has time to blossom into something that causes you to lose your focus. Think of yourself achieving your dreams and you are half way to success.