“Picasso didn’t wait until he was Picasso to start working like he was Picasso” Robin Sharma
I read that on a Facebook status that a mutual friend had liked. It is funny how the multiple things we read and then out of the blue…your eye catches something and your brain goes…..WHOA!! That just stopped me in my tracks…simple but something to really make you think. To be great, to be successful….in anything….you have to do the work. Period. If your work happens to be where your heart is….all the better. We all have lots of things we do for fun….but it might not necessarily be your passion. Where your heart is.
Lets talk about you…what is it you want for yourself? A smaller waist? Better numbers on your blood work? Less clutter in your world? (that one is mine), A more fulfilling career? Whatever it is….you are capable of having it. HOWEVER…you and only you are required to do the work for it. When I first started on my journey to a healthier me, I read a blurb on a page…TO GET SOMETHING YOU NEVER HAD, YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING YOU HAVE NEVER DONE. I cut that out and stuck it to my computer at work. It dawned on me that I had never been really fit, I had never been thin, I had never had good body image. I sat a stared at that statement for many days at work until I decided what it really meant to me. It told me to change my ways. STOP talking about it. STOP wishing for a healthier you. I started to write down my automatic thoughts and then give evidence for them and come up with a substitute thought. For example…I can’t tonight I need to do the following things for the family…..evidence to support…..NO, I did not NEED to do those things…I took them on as my responsibility while everyone else did what they WANTED. Substitute thought….everyone’s responsibilities in this life are not my problem. Plan, go home and tell everyone I was leaving to go work out and gave a list of what they needed to do for themselves while I was gone. Result, I felt good about myself and nothing got done at home so I stayed up late and did the list. We repeated this until I sat at my desk and read my little paper again…..SOMETHING YOU HAVE NEVER DONE…..hmmm. That night I came home from exercising….took a shower, organized myself for work, made sure Mary had what she needed and went to bed. While the house ran around like chickens the next morning I went off to work. They figured it out and I kept strong. Now, four years later, I do not take on roles that I assign myself at home, I do not talk about losing weight, I do not wish I exercised, I am not miserable and complaining how much I need to do for everyone….and I feel better.
I have no idea what and even IF you have something you want to do or change or feel….but if you do….it is my same message….JUST GET STARTED….just trust in yourself. You do not need a big elaborate plan…just start taking steps in that direction. Start assigning EVIDENCE to support your thoughts of WHY NOT. Actual evidence and not just your beliefs. No one starts out great…it is not handed to you, copycats are never great so just do you…get a plan….start working!
Like the trapeze artist that trusts when they let go of one rope and the other will be right there for them to grab….let go of the old you and trust that the new you will be right there and have so much more to offer. Look at me….I let go of the old me and the new me found all of you.
Be Good to Yourself!
Kelly