Breaking out of your own jail

One of the best things about being a fitness coach is the conversations you get to have with people. If you start having enough of them, you start to see some pretty consistent patterns and a few you are even forced to recognize in yourself.

Whether the goal is committing to a fitness program, eating a little better, or even chasing a dream, it's staggering the number of people who will rattle off a bunch of great benefits to their life by making a change but will end the sentence with but. Then automatically, they will proceed to tell me all the reasons it isn't possible. Time, money, knowledge, etc.

There's a reason for that famous motivational Speaker, Les Brown, likes to say we are wired to be negative with our thoughts on things we'd like to do.

Isn't human nature kind of mean?

The interesting thing is that if you ask those same people why something is possible, they, completely on their own, come up with solutions for the barriers they first mentioned and then thank me for pointing the way! I literally did nothing except change they're perspective.

The moral of the story..... we all feel trapped in the prison of our life sometimes. Just remember that we also hold the key to the cell.


Thanks for reading.