There are two types of professionals which one are you...

If it's one thing that I have learned over the years is that there are two types of professionals.

1. The Honest Professional

2. The Others

The honest professional gets up every morning looks themselves in the eye and sets a standard for the day ahead. They have a plan and a vision of what it is they want to achieve and they continually strive for it rain hail or shine.

The others blame everyone and everything around them when things don't work out. They stop and start, they throw the towel in every time things get hard, or it's not happening quickly enough.

For a period of my life, I fell into the latter category until I'd had enough and decided that if things were going to change then I would need to step up, and I hired a coach.

I can still remember the day (like it was yesterday ) when everything changed. I was on a call with my coach and he said to me;

Toni, you're the problem

I couldn't believe it, here I was paying this guy to coach me and he was telling me that I was the problem!

But, after a few days of seething, I decided to listen and see what he had to say.

After a lot of soul-searching and being honest with myself, I realized that I was the one holding myself back.

I would stop and start when I got scared and I'd tell myself that X just wasn't for me. I believed my own bullshit stories because they suited me and sometimes it was because I didn't know how to do x y or z and I was too proud to ask for help.

The truth was I was scared of failing and not being good enough and it was easier to pretend and stay stuck spinning my wheels because that way I didn't need to take any responsibility.

So what's all this got to do with taking back control of your health and fitness?

A lot as it happens, it's no different. The mind is very powerful and can stop us dead in our tracks before we've even started.

I've learned?that fear of failure and sometimes simply not knowing what to do can keep us stuck until we can see no way out and it becomes the default mode.

But here's the good news ( I've learned the hard way) having the support of someone who's been in the trenches can be the difference between success and failure.

Having the support of someone who's got your back regardless can be the difference between success and failure.

Having the support of someone who believes in you ( more than you do at times) can be the difference between success and failure.

These days I'm the former and I hold myself to a higher standard ??

Cheers (The Professional) Toni

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