TRAINING
focus
on your 90%
By Kyla Gagnon
www.insideoutfitnessvictoria.com
I
was having a conversation with a client last week about an
upcoming date she had with her mom. They were going for “high
tea” on the weekend and she was feeling preemptively nervous
about the food they would be serving.
Do you know what high tea is?
It’s a very english thing, with small bites and tea. The “bites” are
typically small sandwiches, pastries and desserts.
This client in particular comes into the gym at 6 am every day to get
her cardio in. She then shows up to her personal training sessions
or boot camp in the evenings and eats a diet that is very structured
and clean.
We so often focus on what we can’t do, or what we did wrong. What
we don’t have or what we never said.
Rarely do we celebrate what we can do, what we did right, what we
have and what we said.
It’s always the case … when someone cuts us down or says
something negative to us, we hold onto that and remember it like it
was engraved into our memory wall.
When someone compliments us, we rarely take it seriously, typically
have a quick response as to why it isn’t true and then quickly forget
it was ever said.
Why do we do this?
I have been guilty of this my whole life. When my mom used to tell
me i was pretty i told her she was only saying that because she was
my mom and she had to.
And i believed that, no matter how much she would tell me otherwise.
Even today my best friend will tell me i’m smart and my immediate
reaction is that she’s smarter.
It is so important to recognize who you are and what you have to
offer. Every single thing you do or don’t do is exactly perfect.
It is so important that we learn to celebrate all of our good. Every
workout, every healthy meal, every compliment paid, every
compliment given, every good deed done, every day of work, every
single thing you do is worth recognizing.
So recognize!
Our life is made up of moments, we all know this.
We layer moments upon moments to create a story line, so why
on earth would we focus on the anything other than our great
moments?
Nothing is meant to be perfect, that in itself is what makes life so
amazing.
We are designed to mess up from time to time, on everything. It’s
how we learn and how we grow. It’s how we evolve into ourselves.
Our imperfect yet incredible selves.
What i am trying to say is simple.
Focus on your 90% rather than your 10%.
We are bound to slip up, in diet, our workouts, our social life or our
romantic lives. Pay no attention. Instead celebrate the good, there is
much more of that anyway.
Live your best, do your best be your best 90% of the time… and
then…
Enjoy some “high tea”, a girls night, guys night, date night, family
night, pizza night, wine night…. Whatever it is that you want to
indulge in for 10% of the time.
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Natural Muscle Magazine
May 2015