Limiting beliefs

One of my best readers is a very good friend of mine, let’s call her Dr P  :)  She always reads my blogs and comments on my updates. That kind of support is the best kind of motivation to keep on with both the weight loss and blogging.  Not only that but she’s also recently taken off her last few pesky winter kilos just in time for summer, not to mention that she’s about to complete a very difficult course of study in medicine! So a big thankyou, congratulations and good for you babe!!

Anyway, the point of this post is that a recent email from Dr P got me thinking about how much things have changed in the last few years. I first met Dr P in late 2003, on a very exciting trip overseas where we were both working on a pretty cool project. Sometime in that first busy, exciting week, I told Dr P this;

“I don’t run, and I don’t clean!”

And I truly believed it. I hated to run. It HURT. I thought it hurt like that for everyone, so why did other people bother? Turns out it only hurt like that for me, and those other unfortunates with compartment syndrome. Now it doesn’t hurt anymore, and I love to run.

I also hated to clean. Actually, I still hate to clean, but now my desire for my new home to be nice and presentable actually overpowers my dislike of cleaning. Much like my desire for a healthy, attractive body overpowers my desire for unhealthy food…

So yeah, things change. And defining yourself with absolute statements like “I don’t” “I can’t”, “I’m just not” and all those other limiting statements we make (and believe) everyday is never a good idea, because it will just hold you back from allowing those changes to happen.  So next time you catch yourself defining who you are with words, stop and think if that is really who you want to be, because being the opposite might just make you a lot happier!