Changing Your Mindset

If you want to change something about you, like your weight or your career, you first have to change your mindset. It is not just enough to go through the motions of change. If you do you might quickly find yourself reverting back to your old ways. You need to have a change of the way you think. For example, when trying to lose weight you don’t say to yourself, “I want to be healthy”. Wanting is just a wish, a hope, a desire. What you truly need to do is change how you think about losing weight. You need to say things like “I am a healthy person”. By affirming that you are a healthy person you will make healthy choices. Another example is exercise. You may “want” to run a 5k marathon, but there it is again, the word want. You need to change your mindset to I “will” run a marathon. You have to tell yourself, “I am an athlete!” You are what you want to be. When Tony Hawk, the greatest skateboarder in history, entered a skate contest as a young boy, he saw the entry form which had check boxes. One said “amature” and the other said “professional”. He checked off professional and from that point on he was a pro skateboarder. It was simply a mental decision on his part. So what are you going to do? Check off amature or professional?