The power of positive thought....

One of the big things I have discovered in my journey along the road to competitions and healthiness is how much a single thought can enhance your journey or derail it completely...

The old "Glass half full" or "Glass half empty" scenario takes on a whole new meaning when your glass is only allowed to contain water, black coffee or green tea......

Bugger the Glass what about a bowl half full or half empty.... I have two bowls I use for my oats... one is our normal breakfast bowl although they are really made for soup or, and this is how they appear to me, Chinese noodles... that's just their shape... I use the small soup sized bowl when I am having a savoury egg white omelet and my oats separately on my low carb days as my oats on that day are a token amount... when they are cooked in this bowl my bowl is half full.....

My other oats bowl is the one I use for my eggy oats on my carb day.. It is a medium sized white mixing bowl that becomes almost full when the oats, water and egg whites are combined and cooked... that bowl really is more than half full...

Now if I cooked the non carb day oats in my normal oats bowl they would look pathetic and I would finish feeling hungry, but because I use the little bowl I always finish feeling that I have had a huge breakfast with an omelet and then oats... wow heaps of food...

Just as we can derail ourselves by only seeing our faults instead of our great bits... thoughts are a powerful weapon in building a great body, a great life, a great day...

Expressing your thoughts can also have a huge affect on you and others, and this is where my days have become a quagmire of doom... I am spending most of my day with a large amount of negativity and it is starting to play havoc with my whole life and not just when I am in the presence of the negativity... It is difficult to see a positive side when you are constantly surrounded by negative attitudes...

This is why I look forward, nope hang on its more like I crave... yep its a crave... my time I now spend at the gym... It is a fabulous place full of positive people, I still get a bit of a shock when I am greeted with genuine happiness by the fabulous girls at the door... honestly it is genuine and they are fabulous, even at ungodly hours of the morning!!! LOL

What gets me is that they are there still smiling and laughing and helloing when I come back again at night.... they have no idea how much they change my whole day... how much they enhance my workout and my cardio.... How much they help me to remember how great my life is and how I could not live without this sport...

I am back to saying thank you each night for the blessings in my life, I am back to knowing that each day will bring a miracle... Now I just have to build a bridge so the negative people in my day can just get over it and maybe then they will find how great their lives can be too...

This plays right through to how we think of our goals and dreams... positive goals are achieved easier than negative ones... "Just 62 more days till I stand on stage!!" as opposed to "62 more days till I can eat..." Think about how you think... it may just make a huge difference to how you get to where you want to be....

Yes tomorrow is hump day... measurement day.. results day... yay!!!! another week conquered!!