Hey guys, good morning. Happy Monday morning. I just wanted to pop in here on this Monday morning

with a quick little message for you. This is kind of like an unofficial podcast episode. Maybe a

bonus. We'll call it a bonus. But last night as I was laying in my bed, one of my daughters came in pretty upset and she

needed to talk. And she started asking me how she can lose weight so that her stomach would look

flat in her swimsuit and so that she would feel more comfortable wearing a swimsuit. And we had just

been swimming with family and friends

earlier that evening. And me being her mom, I was totally surprised by this because this daughter

of mine, she already has a flat stomach and she has a gorgeous body right and I'm not just saying that because

I'm her mom like she really does have a very cute body but that being said it didn't matter

what I said to this daughter of mine she was still set on believing that her stomach

shouldn't look the way that it does. And you guys, our brains are so

tricky. Okay, even if I said, okay, let's make some modifications to your eating so that we can

get that stomach that you want. You know what her brain would then go and do once she got the stomach that she

thinks she needs? The brain is then going to work on finding something else that is wrong with

her or her body. It's not like her brain's automatically going to start believing,

oh yeah, I can be confident now because I have the perfect

stomach, okay? Our brains will work on finding other things that are wrong with us and then trying to

figure out how to change that in ourselves so that we can then feel good about ourselves. And it's like

this cycle, you guys, that never ends where we're always

trying to change ourselves because we think that we should look different or be different or

do something different. Okay. Self-confidence isn't about changing who we are or the way that we look.

It's one, knowing your value and two, trusting in yourself

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