Getting Past What Holds You Back with Baby Boomer Weight Loss Expert Scott 'Q' Marcus
As someone once said, “Pain is mandatory, suffering is optional.”
We all experience pain during our lives. It’s inevitable. It’s part of the human condition. However, focusing on it and fearing how much worse it can get does nothing to limit nor lower it.
When I am in pain, I am able to reach out to others for support and to take time to comfort myself. At times like those I need healing, not more to worry about.
I am constantly exposed to new information.
When what I learn no longer matches what I knew, it’s healthy to adjust what I think and what I feel. Simply holding on to yesterday’s beliefs because I’ve had them for a long time is no reason to continue to harbor them. It’s healthier to change.
We cannot “command respect,” it is given to us by others who admire what we do.
By regularly doing what I way I will do – and doing it with dignity and compassion, I will have no choice but to earn the respect of others.
When we don’t accomplish our objectives, we beat ourselves up with insults such as “I can’t believe how stupid I am,” as if we are incapable to doing what we need to do and as if insulting ourselves would move us closer to what we want.
Accomplishment has less to do with intelligence than it has to do with emotion. You can be the smartest person on the planet – yet if you don’t believe you can accomplish what you want, you won’t. Period. End of story.
Rather than considering yourself stupid or ignorant for not accomplishing everything you want, focus on what you have accomplished as proof that you have the skills you need to continue on your path.
Today, I will accept the fact that the only way for mistakes to be avoided is to remain stagnant.
Whereby that will prevent me from making errors, it will also prevent me from the possibility of enjoying my life, as well as growing. I will therefore move forward, fully aware of the fact that the unexpected can – and most likely will – happen, but that I can handle them when they do..