You are your biggest hurdle! Be careful what you say to self!

In the dbodyarchitect #Instagram post today, the caption starts:

"Every challenge we face, the person we talk to the most about it, is ourself!" - https://instagram.com/p/1ss2ZxstzL/

I recently stumbled across the Nike Women campaign: Better For It - Inner Thoughts. Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzbjEMaDjrk

For many of us, that series of thoughts or conversations are all to familiar. We convince ourselves to delay on starting a new challenge or project, delay stepping up a level in our training or even convince ourselves to quit before we have really challenged ourselves. This campaign speaks to everyone who has ever started something and talked themselves out of it or almost did. If you have done any type of endurance event, this I' can-I can't' conversation can go on for miles!

It's not just because it is a Nike campaign that I like it but because it is so realistic. I can hear those of you who know me saying 'Yeah right!'. I wish I had $5 for every time someone said that I am going to start training before I start your class. At that point, I know the person has already started that 'conversation with self' and self has started to convince self that self is not able.

Another classic delay tactic is waiting for the 'fresh week' or 'fresh month' to start that new fitness program, nutrition plan or project. Let's change that today. Push yourself, change those conversations with self to positive thoughts and affirmations. You have to get up and get, is what my father would always tell me. That new regime, that new course of study or that event you have been teasing your with self trying, start your journey today and more importantly see it through. As the good people at Nike Women would say, you would be Better For It! 

Share this blog with someone who you think needs to stop procrastinating or who has a tendency to quit their challenges. Thanks for reading - dbA.