Week #6: Positive Mindset

"Making and maintaining meaningful change requires something much more than reshaping your body. You must strengthen your ability to control, refocus and renew your mind on a daily basis. When you do, you'll be able to transform procrastination, uncertainty and negativity into authentic confidence, positive focus and brightened clarity. And that is going to help you transform your life." -- Bill Phillips

Three examples of uncertain thoughts I have experienced so far in this challenge process which have caused me to delay or procrastinate are:

Why am I doing this? I have done it before and failed and I will fail this time too.
My stomach is never going to go down.
I can't do this. It is too much.

Three new empowering thoughts which I can shift my attention to are:

All those failures have set you up for success. You can't be a success without the failure to learn from.
My health is improving and my stomach is getting stronger and smaller.
Every day is another step toward my goals, and the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Take it one day at a time.

A description of how I envision my future, healthier self goes like this:

I'll be going up steps and feeling invigorated. I'll be very physical and will feel motivated. My core will be strong and I will compete in something. The world will open up for me.

Empowering words which I utilize in my daily communication with others and myself, which lift my state of mind are:

Positive, strong, crush it, just do it, energy, excitement, passion, motion.

An example of how I use empowering words to transform a negative thought or statement into a positive one is:

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. So think that you can and don't put limits on what you can do or who you are.