Whoa, What Are You Committed To?

Well, I was not expecting this to come out in my morning pages. But it did. Some days my Morning Pages consist of jibberish that is circling in my head. All my to do that I’ve not captured yet on my Master Actions List in Notion and things that are distracting me. But, this little gem popped out at me. What are you committed to?

The Why

Why was I not keeping up with my commitment to maintaining a strong healthy body? Well, I have lots of reason and in the end, the reason why I’m not doing matters little as to why I need to be doing it.

In order to hold true, I need to have a strong why. My why always circling back to my family. It was at that moment that I made the conscious decision to schedule lifting, along with my walks and yoga practice.

What came to me

Okay, so the thing that actually came out to me, you aren’t committed when things are hard, or you don't know the outcome or how it's going to be?

I'm committed to my health and fitness. But it felt really hard to actually just start again, which is weird because it's something I enjoy and love to do.

If you’ve ever been in my shoes before and stopped working out. The thought of starting again felt really hard to me.

I didn't want to be sore, and I didn't want to struggle because it would be hard.

But I had to change that thinking. And really ask but what are you committed to, do you want to be healthy? How are you going to do that if you're not willing to commit to anything?

So that was one of the ways that I flipped it. I also write out specifically, what's my why.

So why am I doing this? What's the purpose? And why do I want to be committed to this? And all of that came pouring out of me, so I could actually take a look.

Yeah, so now I've started lifting and I'm happy that I started. Was it hard that first day, heck ya, was I sore for two days and could hardly move? Yes, but I kept going, and within a few days, it felt better. The starting is all done and now it’s on to the progress. I can see every single day that I'm increasing, that it’s easier and it's getting better.

Limiting Belief

But it all had to start with that shift. It all had to start with me taking time to look at my limiting belief that I have. And realize that that's what it was, it was just a limiting belief.

And honestly, my desk is full of post-it notes of all of my different limiting beliefs.

Limiting beliefs has really become more apparent to me, as I've worked my way through my NLP training, that really, these thoughts that I have repeatedly in my head is just a limiting belief that I've gathered someplace and haven’t processed yet and replaced it with a new thought.

These limiting beliefs may be with me from my youth and are truly ingrained in my thought patterns.

I have to figure out ways in order to debunk these beliefs. Yeah, I worked so hard, I got that one debunk, I have to figure out ways to debunk my thinking. So, if I'm not willing to commit to something, what is the reason why I'm not committing to it?

Is it because my why isn’t strong enough? Is it because I haven't really sat down to let myself mentally think about why I need to be doing it.

What am I committed to, if I'm not committed is having a fit and healthy body then what truly is my goal if I'm not willing to commit to it?

So that is just the thought process in which I go through in order to try and look at how to make sure that I'm successfully moving forward towards my goals. Thank you so much for reading, and I appreciate you. Enjoy your day.

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

• This little gem popped out at me in my morning pages. What are you committed to?
• My first thought was, well, that's a strange thing. Why is that surfacing?
• From that one choice there, it just snowballed I sat contemplating on all the different goals
• So why am I doing this? What's the purpose? And why do I want to be committed to this?
• I have to figure out ways in order to debunk these beliefs.
• What am I committed to, if I'm not committed is having a fit and healthy body then what truly is my goal if I'm not willing to commit to it?