There
is a common theme in my brain these last few weeks, and I was finally
able to put it into simple words that even I can understand. =)
I have come to the conclusion that I am most joyful and most happy when I am living my BEST LIFE.
For
me, these joyful happy emotions first appeared only a few weeks into my
program back in 2010, because although I needed to lose 150 pounds and
was only a few weeks into the process, I was INTO THE PROCESS. I was
doing, daily, everything I needed to do in order to move myself IN to
living my best life.
Being the person I 'might have' been.
When
I was a little girl and dreampt about my future life, it did not occur
to me that I would get married at 22 then proceed to gain 10-15 pounds
per year over the next 10 years. I did not consider it on my wish list
that I would become so morbidly obese that I was as big around as I was
tall. Never did I write in my girlhood journal in sparkly ink that I
couldn't wait for the day I would get physically stuck in the turnstiles
at Disneyworld.
So to say my life, at 40 years old, had not
turned out the way I had planned or imagined, is accurate. I had a deep
seated sense of disappointment in life and mostly disappointment in
myself and how I had been LIVING my life which had taken up permanent
residence in my brain.
But two-to-three weeks into the process of
Take Shape For Life, I have to say that those stormclouds began to
dissipate. I began to believe, to actually BELIEVE, that it MAY be
possible to live my BEST life and make my ACTUAL dreams come true for
myself and for my family.
And guess what happened? I am living
my best life. I am no longer a disappointment to myself or, although
they would never say it I still felt it, to my family. I am living my
dreams of being a fit and healthy woman who is modeling health for
herself, her family, and her community. I have made a career out of
helping other people, and I am back at school also to get my Masters
Degree in Obesity Prevention and Management, and frankly I'm more excited about getting onto the ASU Campus and showing anyone I can HOW OBESITY CAN BE KICKED TO THE CURB! ! If you had taken a snapshot of my life
now and shown it to me 5 or 10 years ago? I would scarce have believed
it. You see, I spent most of my adult life HOPING I could change, but
not ACTUALLY changing. Intent is NOT action. Hope is NOT a strategy.
And
to say that is a FREAKING MIRACLE is NOT an understatement. It is the
MIRACLE of applying ACTION to INTENT, which we ALL have the power to do
in our own lives. It is the miracle of ALLOWING FOR THE PASSAGE OF TIME
and remaining CONSISTENT and MINDFUL of your goals, and acting in a
manner which will take you TOWARDS them not AWAY from them.
Do this, my friend, do THIS, and you can live YOUR best life too.
Rinse and Repeat!
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