The BS Excuses You Tell Yourself
"The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we are afraid.” – Richard Bach
Time to sit down and be honest with ourselves and evaluate the things we claim we “can’t” do. For example, I can’t workout I don’t have the time, I can’t eat healthy, I can’t … (fill in the blank). I recently was listening to an audio book by Marie Foreleo, “Everything is Figure Outable”, which side note is a great way to pass time while commuting instead of mindlessly sitting in traffic. Great book highly recommend. In her book she talks about rewording can’t into won’t and then re-evaluating the previous statements. I won’t workout. I won’t eat healthy. I won’t … When we reword these phrases, it puts it into perspective that it isn’t because we can’t do something it is because we choose not to. We simply don’t want to. We don’t want to make ourselves uncomfortable or put in the work. I know that you are going to say, but I don’t have the time to do xy and z. If it is something that is truly important to you then you will make the time and put in the work. Over this last year I struggled with that exact phrase I can’t workout I don’t have the time and then I would get frustrated. I felt like my life was being dictated and not lead by me. Being that this was an important change for me to make because I knew that working out helps me not only physically, but mentally as well, with that said I had to figure out how to make the change. I know that I personally workout best in the AM, so I readjusted my day by waking up at 5AM and going to the gym or doing a workout at home before my daughter wakes up. Trust me there have been many, and I mean many mornings where it takes my entire will power to get myself out of bed and into a cold shower this early. And the snooze button was my enemy on those days as I would end up getting up later than I needed to and then was rushing to get what I wanted done. Now that I have adjusted my daily routine, I get disappointed with myself if I am not up this early. I am now addicted to being up before the sun. I love watching the sky change into the morning light and the crispness in the air. We all have the same number of hours in the day it is up to us to figure out how to best use them. Try to evaluate areas of your day that suck up unnecessary time, i.e. social media, scrolling the internet, watching TV… Now don’t get me wrong I love a good evening of some vino and trash TV, but I really limit those evenings as a treat to myself over the weekends. Really evaluate the BS excuses we tell ourselves why we can’t, aka won’t do something.
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