The View from the Classroom

Early on in my bodyspace blogging, I wrote a blog about a response I got from a fellow teacher.  After telling her how I lost weight and continue to transform my body, her response was "But, you make it sound so simple."  To me, it is simple.  Make the choice and do what you need to do everyday to get to where you’re going.

Once again, I’ve been thinking deeply about choices which led me to start reflecting upon that earlier blog and wanting to revisit it.

While I still think it’s a simple matter of making a choice and doing what it takes to get there, I now see that it is not one choice, but a series of small choices made every single day that get you to where you want to be.

This is not just true for losing weight,  building muscle or otherwise transforming your physical self, but for anything in life that you really desire.  If you know where you’re going, every choice you make either gets you closer to that destination or takes you further away from it.

In order to make the choices that take you closer to your destination or goal, however, you must first know where you’re going and second, make CONSCIOUS choices, always asking "Will doing this get me closer to my goal or take me further away from it?"

Too many times, we don’t keep our destinations, our goals, our visions right in front of us and we forget about them.  We get home from work, stressed, tired, whatever and reach for the bag of chips without being fully conscious that we are choosing something that will take us further away from our goal.  And what happens?  We soon feel guilty, ashamed, disappointed that we ate the whole bag or that the scale is moving in the wrong direction and we give up.

If instead we had stopped to ask "Will eating the bag of chips get me closer to my goal or take me further away from it?" and we base the choice on that simple answer, we end up moving in the right direction. 

Easy?  Some days, yes and some days, no.   If it was always easy, EVERYONE would be exactly where they want to be with exactly the body they want making exactly how much money they want, etc.

So…if you are one struggling with something in your life, be it weight, work, relationship issues or whatever, decide what it is you truly desire in that area.  Do what you need to do to keep that vision in front of you, be conscious of every choice you make and ask yourself with every single one of those choices "Is this decision going to get me closer to my vision or take me further away from it?"

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