Our Worth And Reaching Goals

I have learned an interesting thing in my approach to reaching the difficult goals I set out for myself in life. The goals that seem more challenging to attain often times, at some point, become discouraging for me to follow through with.

 

Why is that?

 

I have talked a lot about working on our understanding of our own worth and value, and this is the year that the Lord challenged me to work on my own personal understanding of this and fully embracing it.

 

The Lord revealed to me that it was my lack of embracing my own value that was holding me back from reaching and pursuing those goals that were a lot harder for me to put my focus on.

 

Reaching the vision I had in mind with my fitness goals for example, honestly, was not being attained because of my mindset. Somewhere in my subconscious I had believed a lie that being as fit as I would like was not for me at this age. (not sharing that with you here 😉 )

 

This particular mindset definitely reflected my struggle with my awareness of my self worth.  

 

Before I would be able to reach my goal, I knew I needed to work on changing my mindset by rewriting the lie I was believing about myself and turning it into a truth. 

 

Whether I truly believed this new truth about myself or not in the beginning was not the point.

 

Taking that new truth statement and choosing to believe it for myself was my next step of action. An action that I worked on as often as I was thinking about my fitness goals. 

 

I told myself this truth statement for months, caught the lie that kept trying to creep back into my thought cycle and fought against it. 

 

I was not always exercising like I should, or eating healthy in the beginning of working on changing this mindset, however, I continued to tell myself I was worth reaching the fitness goals I had set out for myself at the beginning of the year. 

 

Then a shift happened. 

 

I began to do more research on how to become healthier, how to lose those last stubborn pounds, how to break through weightless plateaus.. and soon I was ready to put into action the new truth statement my mind had finally accepted. 

 

When I started to see results, I was motivated to keep up my pursuit of my fitness goals. 

 

And then this month I accomplished what I had set out to do at the New Year.. I became stronger physically, I have the energy that I wanted, and my belief that I was worth reaching this new fit lifestyle led me to my own personal victory.

 

I reflected back on when the Lord told me it was a shift that needed to take place in my thinking, and I thanked Him for helping me and leading me to success. 

 

God cares about our physical health. He cares that we have the energy we need to do what He leads us to do in this life. He cares if we feel good about ourselves or not.

 

God wants us to see our value in Him.

 

Is your lack of understanding your value and worth and importance holding you back from something you have always wanted to pursue or be? 

 

I encourage you to work on seeing your value and His love for you as you pursue your goals and visions. Do not let your own mindset be what is holding you back. 

 

Become your own cheerleader rather than your greatest enemy.