Yes, my ass is on the line here. I’m the first one to the left. (That’s me in my 2nd figure competition) You may say, not bad for a 53 year old ass, BUT…..
I realized during a recent conversation with a friend that my BUT had gotten way to big.
It was time to pull back and access the situation.
Unless you’re Kim Kardashian, you may not be proud of your big but(t). As a matter of fact, you may not want to admit that you have a huge but(t) that is causing a lot of unnecessary stress to your life.
Take a deep breathe because what I am revealing here may be challenging for you to hear. This self reflection stuff (aka: taking ownership of the things you do) is not aways easy. It takes a big girl to realize she’s got a big BUT(T) standing in her own way.
How often do you catch yourself saying, “I would, BUT….”?
I bet it’s a lot more than you care to admit. Let’s be honest, naked and vulnerable right now. Your big but(t) may be in your way and holding you back from living your fullest and best life.
There are 2 ways that your big but(t) can hold you back. One is physically and one is emotionally.
Let us address the physical BUTT first.
If you are feeling that your butt is too big, you’re being self critical and most likely not participating in extreme self love and care. When you truly embrace self love and treat yourself from that loving place, you don’t pick on your body parts.
You don’t compare them or judge them. When you are fully in the process of extreme self love and care, you treat your body with respect. Not only in what you think about it, but also in how you talk about it, refer to it and feed it.
Extreme self love allows you to practice acts of kindness towards your body.
Consciously choose food that is good for you and treat your precious body well. When you eat healthy whole unprocessed foods (I call these naked food), your body responds well.
Continued eating in this loving style brings you easily and gently to your perfect weight. Perfect because deep down you’ve lightened up knowing that you have treated your body temple with the divine care it deserves. It’s a great feeling when the scale, the numbers and the size no longer matter. Being true to yourself is the only thing that counts.
So where in your life are you allowing self sabotage, self denial, lack of self care and love?
What has to change for you to put your self love first?
Let’s address the emotional BUT.
This one is a true pain in the BUT(T). When you suffer from this, you create big ass blocks to the things you really want.
Because putting a “BUT” into your command sentence allows you to play it small. The thing you attach to the end of your “BUT” holds power over you.
It has the perfect amount of power to stop you from getting the very thing you say you want. There’s one reason we use this BUT for stopping us. It’s because you are afraid. You’re afraid of that thing you want either because you don’t believe enough in yourself to think you can have it or you’re scared you’ll look stupid if you don’t actually succeed.
Either fear based reason butts you right up against a wall and stops you.
Using my body building figure competition as an example, I had a very big BUT staring right at me. Here’s how it sounded.
“I want to enter a figure competition…
- but I’m too old,
- but I have too much weight to lose
- but I’ve never done it before
- but what if I start and I can’t finish
- but what if I look like an idiot on that stage?
I could have easily picked anyone of these 5 but’s and hung on to them. They could have worked as a grandiose excuse and opportunity to play my life small. Today instead of writing this blog, I would be wishing I had done it and filled with a whole lotta regrets.
Thankfully I did not attach myself to the fear and instead I let go of the “but”.
I stepped up on my stage!
That one moment of the baring of the butt, transformed my life in ways I could not have imagined at the time. What appeared to be a physical transformation ( and it was) was more profoundly a spiritual AH-HA.
I would be an ass, (sorry I couldn’t help myself) if I let you off the hook here.
Ask yourself what it is you want for yourself if you could just do it without any asinine excuse getting in your way.
Where in your life do you let your “BUT” interfere?
What would happen if you deleted that concept from your vocabulary list?
How would your life improve?
What scary thing would you step into?
I love self reflective questions.
In my Happiness Intensive Program, questions are key. How else do you get the answer if you don’t ask the question?
Scary is good…even though it sure doesn’t feel it at the time. Things that scare you are like a set of keys for opening all kinds of doors that lead to opportunities.
For me, standing on that stage, was the catalyst for publishing my book, Sleeping Naked After 4o, and the basis for what I share with you now.
If your self conversation is stuck in the fear zone and loves to talk you out of things that set your soul on fire, check out the Happiness Intensive. Because I belief with all my heart that
When we get to the naked truth of who you are and what you are here to do, happiness follows every time!
I hope I’ve inspired you to do something that scares you,
