“Your Only Competition Is…”

When was the last time you doubted yourself?

When you look yourself in the mirror, what do you see? When I look myself in the mirror, I see a warrior. I see an influencer. I see a gamechanger!

My fitness routine is back up and running and I’m feeling great! I am still doing my own created workouts at the gym, and am trying to remain consistent. I am doing some of the exercises from my May 2021 Fitness Program, which I shared the videos publicly on my YouTube Channel. I feel that so long as I have cardio + some strength, I am doing my body some good. But let’s not forget that exercise is only 20% of the battle!

Have you heard of the 80/20 rule when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle?

The 80-20 rule talks about 20 percent exercise and 80 percent nutrition. While most mistake this the other way round, it is important to understand how 80 percent nutrition plays a huge role in fitness. Both nutrition and exercise compliment each other and neither can do anything without the other. This means that without exercising, you will not end up burning calories of the foods you eat and without food, you will not have the desired energy for exercise.

Times of India Website

I am still learning what works best for me in the kitchen, and I will share more about this part of my fitness journey in a later post. But knowing that fitness and workouts are only 20% of the battle sort of gives me some peace of mind, haha! We stress ourselves out if we don’t make it to the gym 5 days a week. If we wake up and want to take a rest day, we beat ourselves up about it. But so long as we don’t completely quit and we stay the course, we can still have positive results because we are still capable of monitoring what we eat.

We know we are so capable of many things. However, sadly we are sometimes going to doubt ourselves and our capabilities because of what others are doing and saying. The people who are not supportive of you, your efforts, and your dreams are called haters. The people who question you, your skills, and your work ethic are called haters. Don’t become your own hater.

Don’t lose your peace because somebody is going to speak out against you. Sometimes the best response is to keep on trucking. You got a mission, a purpose, and the better you are at communicating and just realizing that the percentages might stay the same, but the more influence you garner, the more people who are going to ultimately be triggered by what you do. Don’t let it change you, don’t sell out. Continue on, continue on, continue on… How to handle the haters — let them handle themselves. You keep moving on and lifting people up!

Episode 514 of Daily Mind Medicine podcast, “Haters Gonna Hate,” @TaylorAWelch

Don’t confuse influence with intimidation.
“Influence” means the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself.
“Intimidation” means the action of intimidating someone, or the state of being intimidated, and “intimidating” means having a frightening, overawing, or threatening effect.

Don’t confuse being transformed with being triggered.
“Transformation” means a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance.
“Triggering” means (especially of something read, seen, or heard) causing someone emotional distress, typically as a result of arousing feelings or memories associated with a particular traumatic experience.

I believe that a lot of people lose sight of what they set out to do because of what others are doing or saying. Please try not to blur the lines between someone influencing you to do better and someone intimidating you to not want to continue crushing fitness. Please try not to blur the line between being mentally or physically transformed in your fitness routine and being triggered by what someone else is doing.

Your only competition is yourself! Your journey won’t look like someone else’s. Own that. Believe that. And keep on trucking!

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” — Galatians 2:30, NKJV.

Moni Jay, Off the Record