Keeping Your Word ... to YOURSELF!

Keeping Your Word to Yourself
This Abundant Healthy Living Principle was a real 'eye opener' for me. While I pride myself in keeping my word to others, I was constantly letting my self off the hook for commitments that I made to myself.

When you keep your word or as coach extraordinaire, Mark Fournier, likes to say when you be your word you begin to trust yourself more, rely on yourself more and create different results in your life.

Best Selling Author, Robert Kiyosaki says we each have a winner and a loser inside of us. Who are you going to let run your life? If your loser wakes up in the morning and says you can skip exercise today, you roll over and go back to sleep and let yourself off the hook. What happens is that your self esteem goes down a notch. It's nothing huge but a continual pattern of these actions and you won't have any faith in your ability to follow through.

Start keeping track of your promises, commitments, intentions. when making them, catch yourself and make sure that are really attainable and then do your best to follow through.

Acknowledge and celebrate when you keep your word to yourself. Strengthen the muscle and soon you will notice that you have a new attitude about yourself.



QUESTIONS FOR THE BLOG
What area of your life do you allow yourself the most do-overs?
What do you think will change if you begin to keep your word to YOU?

ABUNDANT HEALTHY LIVING ACTIONS
Take one day this week and honor yourself by keeping your word to all of your intentions.

Sometimes the Message Catches You Off Guard

I woke up in my hotel room yesterday morning at the crack of dawn and clicked on the TV remote.  I figured I would wake up for a few minutes with a Sunday morning infomercial.  I moved through the channels and settled not on an infomercial, but on a church service led by Joel Osteen.  I like Joel and decided to listen for a bit.

Joel's message was on the power of the positive mind and on forgiveness and how you needed to clear your head from messages of self-doubt and anger in order for God to work in your life (feel free to insert the name of your own divine power, here.  Mine just happens to be God). I continued to listen because I could feel it was a message meant for me. 

My topic for the blog is Bright Train/Dark Train.  And Joel's message was timely.  I realized that while I have made great strides toward getting myself and my goals back in alignment, I was also firmly on the dark train about some things.  I need to work on forgiveness.  Unless I do, my bright train will not be as bright as it can be.

Country artist Josh Turner sings - "...The Devil is driving that long black train."  

So, sometimes, the message about getting on the bright train comes from the strangest places - your hotel room, a stranger, a dream, a song lyric. Are you listening?  

So, to Joel, Josh, and God - I hear you.

Love, Tee

Questions:

Are you firmly in your seat on the bright train?  Is your view a little cloudy?
Do you feel that by having a seat on the dark train - even for one stop - is holding you back from your goals and dreams?

Activities:

Look through your baggage before getting on your bright train.  Decide what bags you can leave at the station.
Spend a day aware of each situation and your reaction to it.  What direction does your mind go to?  If it's negative, catch yourself and switch the moment to a positive.  What happened? 

What You Think You Are...You Are

Our thoughts are powerful.   Everything exists twice.  Everything.   First as thought, and then as form.

So how is this good news for those of us on an Abundant Healthy Living journey?

When we focus out thoughts to be supportive of the healthy fit person we know we are, then our actions will begin to support thoughts and our life will show up in healthier happier ways.

A great book to use that will help you on this journey is "Law of Attraction" by Michael J. Losier.   There are many exercises in this book and I highly recommend you take the time to do them.    You'll find this helps you create some powerful shifts in your thinking and that's only the beginning.

Here's one tip from the book.  When creating affirmations it might be a stretch for you to say "I am a healthy fit person now!"   Your mind may resist this and fight against this if you have a lot of challenges.   So, let's change these words to say "I am in the process of becoming healthier and more fit each and every day."   YES!   We are in constant change.   And if you have a commitment to your health and wellness, then you ARE in the process of becoming healthier and more fit.

Life IS a self fulfilling prophecy.   You decide what you think about YOU!  

QUESTIONS FOR THE BLOG
- Were you ever told things as a child that made you think 'small', made you hesistate, to not try new things?  Do those early messages still affect you today?   How can you change these thoughts?
- Share at least one empowering statement you either have been using or just created.

ABUNDANT HEALTHY LIVING ACTIONS
- Start with the phrase:  "I am in the process of..."    Write out 3 or 4 healthy fit statements and begin and end your day reading these.
- Sometimes it's easier to listen to the words someone else says than to listen to your own words.   Take time to really listen when in conversation with some else.   Do you hear limiting thoughts expressed?   Do you recognize those same thoughts in yourself?   Find a way to open the converstion to rephrasing these thoughts to more empowering statements.   After all, friends exist to build each other up!