Your mind!

I'm not going to start this off with an apology like all my others, instead I'm going to tell you why I've been silent.  I have started four different blogs in the last four months, and all of them are a quarter complete, because I couldn't finish them.  The reason why they remain unfinished is because I wasn't believing what I was thinking.  The mind is our greatest weapon when used correctly, or it can be your own personal WMD, and for me it was the later.  I have spent the whole summer attempting to think "happy" thoughts, and soon as you have to tell yourself to think "happy" thoughts, you are pretty much screwed.  The trick to anything in this world is just be, and don't think about it!  As soon as you start thinking about anything you are screwed! You start to over analyze every little detail and start to believe the worse will happen, because the thing most people think about is the worst case scenario, and if that's all we focus on guess what you start to believe it!  That is the start of the biggest downhill battle you will ever see!  So I've been focusing on the positive side of things lately, and not been thinking about the negative.  And truth be told it's a lot harder than it looks!

Everyday I wake up I tell myself the same mantra I have adopted whenever I work out, " I can do this, I will do this, I am doing this!"  Every time before I walk through my gym's doors I say that to myself. between every rep, between every set, and between every station I keep telling myself that.  The second you say you can't do something, and believe you can't you never will!   Never use the word "can't", instead use the word maybe!!  Because then there is the possibility you can, or if you're unable to you will keep trying until you do, and the word "maybe" becomes can!  There are two great motivators in life: When someone tells me I can't do something, it dares me to prove them wrong!  The second thing is changing maybe to can, and upping what you can do now to another maybe!  My goal in life is to be better than who I was the day before!! Some day's I succeed, and some I don't!  But I never tell myself I can't do it!  Instead I tell myself maybe I can!!