You’ve tried everything and you can’t seem to get yourself over the finish line and lose that last 30 lbs. You did what you were told and started exercising in the mornings, drank your water, planned your meals and stopped eating candy. But, the scale won’t budge. In fact, you can barely even look at it even more because the same number has been staring you in the face for months.
You want to try something else, but it all feels hopeless. It’s just more of the same. Solutions that worked for someone else, but not for you. Even your doctor said you should just be satisfied with your current weight, since your body has settled into it so naturally and isn’t budging.
Whether your goal is weight loss or something different entirely, we can all get stuck in the groove of sameness. Thinking that no matter what we try, the results are what they are. And the longer we stay in that mentality, the bigger the groove gets and the more we believe there is no way out.
When I find myself stuck in sameness and thinking that nothing works, I love to ask myself how that could be false? What have I not tried?
Many times it feels like we have tried everything. But, our journey always comes back to mindset and the sure sign that we haven’t tried all our options is actually the thought that we have.
In order to take action in the direction we want to go, we need to work towards embracing the person we want to be. In the weight loss example, a person who loses that last 30 lbs isn’t stuck in sameness. She is determined to lose the weight and constantly brainstorms and experiments with new ways to break the plateau. She becomes someone who lives her goal weight at the same time or before she actually achieves it. And she is relentless in the pursuit of her goal, without being married to how she manages to get there.
If you were the person who had already achieved your goal, how would you behave differently? What habits would you have? What choices would you make?
You must be willing to change what you are, to become what you want to be.
-Orrin Woodward
As a Life Coach, I help people cut through the sameness and go after what they want. If you are ready to change your life, schedule your free consultation here and let’s get started!