Welcome to Fit for Your Mind Friday, where I share an insight from me to you.

Do you feel that you self-sabotage?

So I was talking to a good friend of mine the other day about her struggle with weight loss,

health, confidence in her own skin.

Now, she feels she self-sabotages, and she recognizes that she is privileged, meaning she has

the time, the freedom, the money, the access to healthy foods, trainers, information,

and pretty much anything she would need.

So she has the privilege.

But what was in her gap? Why did she continue to self-sabotage? She asked me for feedback.

And I'm going to share it with you because this is likely something that will help you in an

area that you're self-sabotaging. You see, we haven't all nailed

life in every area of our life. There's usually an area that we thrive in, an area that we

struggle in. And sometimes within the struggle is the self-sabotage. Now, this friend of mine,

she's successful in every area of her life, but she was failing in this one area, her personal health.

So what was in her gap?

Why was she so successful making money in her career, in relationships with friends, with every other aspect of her life, but this one area, she kept self-sabotaging?

So we dug in and we figured out,

and I hope this is going to support you too. So we figured out that she doesn't currently identify herself as a healthy, fit, or slim person. And doing the little I am statements like, I am healthy,

I am fit, I am strong, that wasn't going to work for her because her brain was

disagreeing. Can you relate to that? When we say I am, I am, I am, if our brain doesn't agree,

it's not like we're really hearing it. So we did a little exercise. I asked her to describe her

ideal person as someone outside of her. I had her describe her ideal person,

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