The amazing thing about our mindset is how quickly it can change.  Thanks for sharing the video with me Jules (on your blog)…  

Another quick story about mindset.  A friend of mine who I’ve been trying to help with her weight loss goals mentioned to me one weekend that she went into the gym, that she was pretty sluggish, maybe a little down, low on energy.  She had no intention of having a really great workout on the treadmill.  That was her mindset.  It was going to be a mediocre workout.

She decided to step on the scale to see how her progress was coming along.

She had dropped 9 pounds since her last weigh in (maybe a week or 2 before).  Suddenly, her mindset changed.  She proceeded to have the best workout of her life that day.

Obviously 9 pounds is not a typical weight drop for most people, and not something we should be aiming for (that’s not really the point of this story).  It was a great example to me, of how powerful our mindset governs our focus and intensity in everything we do…although we are not always in control over our mood and our mindset, if we realize how it relates to our ultimate success, perhaps we can be more mindful of how we are thinking each moment…and stay a little more positive about what we are trying to do.

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