You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations — Zig Ziglar\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You can approach life with a positive or negative outlook. A lot of people who are just beginning their road to better health and fitness have become burdened down by the negatives in their lives. Negative emotions, self-image, job, housing, health. Sometimes you can fix these things, sometimes not, but the one thing you can always fix is how you see these things and oftentimes how you react.<\/p>\n When a person first begins, they start like a baby learning to walk. You have to do all the steps in the right order or it generally won’t have the best of results (in spite of the few oddball exceptions). Roll over, sit, scoot, pull, crawl, hobble, walk, run. Just like that. Most parents intuitively know this, and don’t go yelling “NO! Stay Down Where It’s Safe!”. Unfortunately, most outsiders aren’t all that supportive and utter blatantly negative statements.<\/p>\n Don’t run, it’s bad for you. Sometimes though, even very strong fit trained people will say something inadvertently negative, with far-reaching impact, and it never once occurs to us. How about a discussion like this:<\/p>\n Trainer: You should eat more cruciferous vegetables, which have many cancer fighting properties as well. For one thing, that’s only an opinion, probably based on a childhood experience. Many kids don’t like the stronger taste of cruciferous vegetables, but grow to like them as they age and their tastes mature. You have no idea what someone else will like or dislike. Also, the relative taste of the food in question has no bearing on the fact that you should eat more of it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Perhaps now this client will quit the whole program, assuming it will demand that they force down detestable food that no normal person could. This is a wild example only of how a brief negative utterance could seriously impact the future of someone who really did want to make a change.<\/p>\n![\"Fat](\"http:\/\/fps.dzl.mybluehost.me\/website_031b6ccf\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_0119-cropped-1440.jpg\" "\\"IMG_0119-cropped-1440\\"")
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\nHere, eat, you look tired.
\nWhy are you exercising all the time?
\nOne won’t hurt you.
\nTake a few days off – you earned it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nClient: Like what do you mean?
\nTrainer: Things like kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts..
\nBuff Friend>: Oooooh yucko! Brussels sprouts taste like nasty dishwater!
\nClient: Oh, never mind then.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n