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You Are Amazing!
Three simple words. But they changed a life.
Tonight during my fitness class I noticed a newer member in the back row, diligently working to keep pace with the frantic routine of jumps and kicks. He had been there a time or two before and I remarked to him afterward that he seemed to catch on quickly. Had he studied karate or martial arts? No, came his calm reply. He simply had been working to get himself in shape. It was a personal mission that began two years before, at a weight of 315 lbs. He was now a slim 175.
Intrigued, I asked him if there was some event, some singular moment, that had triggered this quest of his. He paused for a moment and thought, and then slowly nodded yes, there had been something. It was something shared with him he had never heard before. Something spoken two years earlier that required repeating three times before he could really hear it. And it was simply this…
You are amazing!
This had never occurred to him. And yet is was suddenly so obvious. He wasn’t a big body, he wasn’t a depressed person — these were just self inflicted labels. He was far beyond any of that. And it could only be summed up by what he had just heard…
You are amazing!
Two years and 135 lbs later he tells me that people don’t recognize him any longer. Not just physically, but in his personality. The person he had been before had somehow faded away, a work of fiction. Everything had changed from that day on. A shift had occurred. A recognition of three words.
You are amazing!
How does that feel when you hear it? Does it ring true? Can you sense it? You really are amazing. And it has nothing to do with your labels. Be thinking this week about how you define yourself. What concepts do you keep in your head about yourself, your business, your life? Do these definitions help you or limit you?
I look forward to speaking with you next week.
Phil