The Big Day

I can't believe the 5k is really tomorrow!  This journey has gone by so fast.  I have so many blog posts floating around in my head and I really wanted to get them on the blog before the challenge ended, but my time is running out.  I will be working on that.  In the meantime, I am just excited to see everyone at the 5k in the morning.  I'm praying for good weather, a good run, and a strong finish. 

Don't Believe Everything You Think

I saw that on a bumper sticker the other day and it really made me think.  It is another way of saying another quote that I learned from a good friend..."Feelings are real but they're not always true."  I have been thinking a lot lately about the mind games that go on in this little brain of mine.  There is so much power in our thoughts, because our thoughts lead us to action. 

Whether it's on our journey to find our healthy selves, in our relationships with others, at work, in parenting, or life in general, a lot of times the answer to a better day is a positive switch in our brain.

This is something I am working on.  It is a hard lesson to internalize and live consistently.  It seems like there are always those voices in my head that fill me with doubt, that encourage me to focus on how much more I could be doing (in all areas in my life), etc. etc.  I know that my job is to quiet those voices and replace them with confidence and optimism.  There is equal power in "Of course I can!!!" and "I can't".  It is up to me what I tell myself, and eventually believe about myself.  No one else can give it to me.

Our thoughts can't be positive and negative at the same time.  So when a negative thought pops in my head, I will remember the life lesson I learned from a bumper sticker..."Don't believe everything you think."