One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen. Nelson Mandela
With today's quote the light bulb above my head went off. The most important part of preparing for something, anything, is believing it will happen! DUH! This has never occurred to me before, you? I think deep down I maybe knew that but I never really thought about it. Until today. Until the wisdom of Nelson Mandela grabbed my attention.
I think about my lifelong journey with health and wellness. Perhaps one of the reasons I have never achieved health and wellness permanently is because I never had the most important part prepared and that is belief! Belief that I can be at a healthy weight and not struggle so much, belief that there are better things to do with my emotions than eat them *grin and sigh*, and belief that I am worth spending time on to get and stay healthy. And, for me, health and wellness isn't the only thing I don't think I have prepared for with belief. I think there are other things. What could and would change if I put the most important part of preparation in? I think so many things would open up and I would have new eyes through which I see my possibilities and dreams.
What about you? Does today's quote smack you upside the head like it did me or are you wondering why it took me so long to understand that the be prepared full for something we need to believe it will happen? (I admit I am slow on things like this...) What do you think you could accomplish if you did the important prep work of believing?
With today's quote the light bulb above my head went off. The most important part of preparing for something, anything, is believing it will happen! DUH! This has never occurred to me before, you? I think deep down I maybe knew that but I never really thought about it. Until today. Until the wisdom of Nelson Mandela grabbed my attention.
I think about my lifelong journey with health and wellness. Perhaps one of the reasons I have never achieved health and wellness permanently is because I never had the most important part prepared and that is belief! Belief that I can be at a healthy weight and not struggle so much, belief that there are better things to do with my emotions than eat them *grin and sigh*, and belief that I am worth spending time on to get and stay healthy. And, for me, health and wellness isn't the only thing I don't think I have prepared for with belief. I think there are other things. What could and would change if I put the most important part of preparation in? I think so many things would open up and I would have new eyes through which I see my possibilities and dreams.
What about you? Does today's quote smack you upside the head like it did me or are you wondering why it took me so long to understand that the be prepared full for something we need to believe it will happen? (I admit I am slow on things like this...) What do you think you could accomplish if you did the important prep work of believing?
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