Motivational Mindset Monday | Do Something Hard Physically To Build Strength Mentally and Develop Confidence

Motivational Mindset Monday | Do Something Hard Physically To Build Strength Mentally and Develop Confidence

When you do something hard physically, you build strength internally.

How many times have you looked at doing something and said, "Ehh I don't know about this, it seems too hard, I don't know how well I'll be able to do this" but you try and do it anyways?

How awesome does it feel when you finish it, when you can think to yourself, "Huh, look at that, it wasn't easy, maybe it wasn't perfect, but I did it!"

Let me walk you through some thinking here:

Think of a workout that you think you would succeed with. Don't pick something that you know you are going to fail at. Make sure it's the type of challenge you're looking for. I don't want it to be a cake walk but I want it to be something you physically can do right now. I want you to set the goal for yourself right now and understand that you might not be great the first time but you're at least going to try it.

If for some reason you go a few days in and you realize it's not doing it for you, then pick something else. Don't pick something else just because you weren't good at it, you shouldn't be good at something the first time you do it. Where's the challenge then, right?

Then, identify how it made you feel. So much of changing your confidence, changes the way you think. If you only focus on the negative, then that's what you'll attract more of and feel more of so that's where our brain goes and then boom - you get stuck in a rut.

So you're going to start focusing on positives instead. If you're sore the next day, great! - soreness means change. This is you becoming closer to who you want to be, this is you building your confidence by doing something that's scary.

When you courageously do what you know you need to do, when you feel that fear, and you feel that little gut instinct inside of you that tells you just have to do it, just get it over with.

That moment when you finish your workout and you can say to yourself, "Okay I didn't die, I'm still alive!" That will help you start to believe in yourself and build your confidence.