Positive self talk has really become a game changer for me!! No, it doesn’t mean I only have Positive thinking all the time. I honestly don’t feel it’s right or possible to be positive all the time. Life does suck sometimes, life throws up crap that is hard, life throws us tines where we need to feel sad, need to experience unpleasant feelings, but that doesn’t mean you allow it to overrun your life. It means you learn to experience those emotions, feel them and let yourself have time to process and be ok with knowing these emotions will come and go and you will be ok.

So back to the walk, I was upset because the previous run I had done, I had planned, I had a set goal, and my mind was 100% with me and that task at hand. For me that day, it was completing 2 virtual runs that I had signed up for in the fall, but had yet to complete. And I must add that yes I most certainly had numerous days of negative self talk for not completing those runs sooner!!! But hey everyone does things at thier own pace and thanks to virtual runs now, at there own time also! As I continued walking, it dawned on me. Today when I set out, I had no specific goal, no specific route, no specific time or distance, I was just out without any focus. Well, this was the Ah ha, moment for me.. yep silly as it is I realized I need to set my mind to specifics to have a better chance of getting it done. Seems silly, seems super simple, seems stupid to some I’m sure and that’s ok. Maybe this thought isn’t for everyone, and that’s totally ok!!

Think about your own life for a minute, are there times where your mind is all over the place and you feel like the blue head picture above, your thoughts, tasks, whatever are all jumbled up and you just have no focus? What if you practiced taking one or two things from the jumble and practice making a clearer path, like the road mind picture above?

It may not seem possible, it may seem too jumbled, to hard, to many EXCUSES that keep your mind in a mixed up mess of everything. I get it. Start small, start little positive self talks, start practicing mind shifting, stop comparing to others, stop with excuses. Most times if your mind wants something, you have the inner strength and ability if you simply set your MINDSET correct!!

One step, one thought, one gentle self talk at a time, let those be the starting of you setting your mind to be your biggest motivation, your biggest cheerleader, your strongest power. It’s not impossible, be gentle with yourself and you just may be suprised with how much you have inside yourself, that you just haven’t been tapping into💜