While you’re waiting for your opportunity, your chance, your moment in the spotlight to show itself......what are you doing to prepare for it?? Are you just standing in line waiting....are you impatient....or are you practicing for the upcoming chance? Time to sharpen your axe.

A way toward long-term results is experiencing long-term frustration

Do you have the ability to talk about yourself from a stranger’s perspective?? A GREAT tool to start developing yourself without a book. It’s a simple yet VERY difficult task. Can you talk about yourself if you walked into a room? What are the positives? The negatives? What are you presenting to others? Good luck!

The feelings of "impostering" is real.  Do you think they go away or should ever go away? Should we want it to go away? Here’s a different take on how we can use the phenomenon of imposter syndrome as a benefit in our lives.  We can use it in a way that allows us to accept feelings of uncertainty that continue to move us forward.

The skill of meal-prepping doesn't have to be as complex and challenging as it seems.  Yet, we make new skills to learn so difficult that we'd rather not give them a shot.  Here's 3 things you NEED to know and ask yourself when it comes to doing this skill.

1) You can't do it right and you can't do it wrong

2) Not everything has to go in a container

3) Release Being In a Prison Over This

Ever felt hypocritical for thinking specific thoughts that you shouldn't have?  As a physique competitor, I'm "supposed" to have control over my hunger cues and cravings every day right??  Today, I wanted yogurt-covered pretzels as a dessert and I felt entirely hypocritical for thinking this due to being a physique competitor.  You know how we have a specific persona placed on us and we should follow the "rules" of that persona.  If you don't follow the rules then it feels like a failure right?  That was where I was.

Discussions for today:

The technique of the psychological tool "Cognitive Defusion" as a method to view thoughts from an external perspective versus internal laws we create about ourselves.  Through the practice of cloud watching, we have the power to NOTICE our negative thoughts and not get caught up IN those thoughts.

Is your FOMO acting up?

Break it down into what it is.

1) Do you feel denied by something such as an experience, a feeling, an event, or recognition?

2) Challenge those feelings of denial by asking is it just a delay for later?  Is what you seek a delay that will come later in your life.  The experience you want right now or the feelings you want right now will come.....buuuuttt they'll be delayed for later in your life.

Make sure to keep the two terms of denying and delaying separate.

"Your path is delayed but not denied"

---Unknown

The ability to shed the skin and welcome a "new version" of the self is what we all want.

But HOW....how do we do it.  Today you'll learn 4 actionable steps to take you from CV (current version) to FV (future version) by working backward and not forward.