We get around 60, 000 thoughts a day, thats a lot of negative and positive thoughts.
Monday is the perfect day to be the fork in the road.
Do we create momentum to have a good week, or do we believe all the negative thoughts that threaten to derail our week?
There’s someone I read about the weekend who has done six DOUBLE ironman races six days in a row!!! The last one at 59 years old!
When asked how did he get through it, he said it was a minute by minute, daily battle with a flood of negative thoughts. He told himself to quit, it was too hard, it was impossible, he would fail, he was hurting too much etc etc.
But he kept arguing with himself, he focused on getting to the end of the next corner, up the next hill and see what happened,, he did ANYTHING but quit when common sense was telling him he should stop and walk off the course.
My guess is you all, WE all do get these negative thoughts every hour every day, it’s the reality of life.
The question is how we react.
Do we accept the argument we aren’t good enough, we are too old, we aren’t fit enough, we aren’t good enough, we can’t carry on through tough times, throw the towel in?
OR do take one day at a time, one hour at a time even, and keep challenging the doubt, frustration, the lack of instant results, the depressing thoughts that at times threaten to engulf us, and WIN our own argument with our own brain telling ourselves we ARE good enough, we CAN do this, we will take one day at a time but we WILL do our best-that’s exactly where we need to be to win our battle with not only being physically healthy but MENTALLY healthy and ready for life’s challenges that seem to come relentlessly at times.
Good and bad thoughts are going to come, get ready to expect them, but be ready to FIGHT them and crush the bad ones through your exercise and the environment you choose to surround yourself with.
