EVERYONE IS AMAZING! In some way, somehow, at some time, every one of us is amazing.
The trouble is most of us will not acknowledge our amazingness. And for some reason only known to an old, wrinkled, budda shaped sage hiding in a cave atop a snowy mountain in his unicorn onesy and bunny slippers, women are far worse at acknowledging their amazingness than men are.
Not sure why this is as I have yet to climb that particular snowy mountain and ask the unicorn onsey clad buddery sage that particular question, but as soon as I know, I will definitely let you know.
Meanwhile back at sea level I constantly watch our clients do amazing things and then as soon as it is pointed out to them the females will rapidly deny their amazingness, the males will usually give me a look that says…. “Duh! Of course I am amazing!” yes, sad but true.
The trouble we have as a Personal Trainers is being able to measure this amazingness, and this makes it sometimes difficult to show the achieved amazingness to our clients.
This is because amazingness is a very individual thing. What is non-amazing to one person is incredibly amazing to another. For instance, if you have always had the ability to stand up, bend over and touch your toes, then seeing someone else do this is not gob smackingly awesome. But if you have never in your 80 years been able to touch your toes and then by improving your fitness you find that one day you can – yes! It’s Officially Amazing!
Now this also doesn’t mean that the person who could always touch their toes is not amazing, honestly as someone whose toes have always wiggled out of reach no matter how I try, anyone who can achieve this is on my amazing list.
I also don’t think that wanting to be amazing should be the reason to do something. In fact I’m pretty sure that all those amazing people who are acknowledged for their amazingness never thought “I will swim the Bass Strait 19 times non stop wearing only zebra stripped budgie smugglers and copious amounts Outer Mongolian yak grease to prove how amazing I am!” Nope I’m pretty sure that they did it just to prove to themselves that they could.
Now, as you try and remove that mental picture forever from you mind, I want you to consider YOUR amazingness, and telling yourself you are not amazing at anything is not an option, because that’s just not true.
Yes, I will admit to being told I’m amazing by people. This is because I challenge myself to do things others find difficult or scary. I love to lift heavy things and then put them back down. I don’t think that’s amazing, to me it is what I enjoy doing and lifting heavy stuff is one tiny reason why I like to exercise, not the most important reason, but one on my long list of why I push heavy weights.
I also take part in speech contests, and most people find public speaking insanely scary, and so did I a while back, but now the more I do it the less amazing I think it is because now it is my normal.
But just like everyone else, when someone tells me it’s an amazing thing I do, I giggle nervously and say “NO! Anyone could do it if they tried” Because HONESTLY anyone can! You just have to start and keep going!
All of our clients have challenged themselves and improve their health and fitness. They are ALL achieving amazing results from these changes.
Some may be obvious, such as being able to complete 3 sets of 10 push-ups on their toes when only 8 weeks ago they struggled to complete 1 set of 10 push-ups while almost standing upright doing the push-up against their kitchen bench.
Other achievements are not so obvious, but are just as amazing, walking further every day when only a few weeks ago they never went for a walk. Going for a walk amazing??? Not to some, but to someone who found walking around the supermarket difficult then yes!
And just because no one tells you that you are amazing it doesn’t mean they don’t think you are. We tend to think people are judging us for the wrong reasons, but this isn’t true! If you decided to try a little jog while you are walking and you see someone looking at you, most women will think “oh no they think I look ridiculous!”. In reality the person watching is most likely thinking “Look at her Go!! I wish I could jog too!”
So if someone tells you they think you are amazing don’t mumble that you aren’t. Say thank you, be proud and see if you can help them find their own amazingness. Maybe they want to be able to do as well as you are, and in that case encourage them to join in with you and be amazing together.
Embrace your amazingness!!! And if you are looking around frantically trying to uncover your amazingness but are having trouble finding it then why not see if your amazingness is waiting for you at our place, or in one of our classes. If you want to have a chat about how we can help you uncover your amazingness give Cathy a call on 0408803037 honestly you will be amazed!
The trouble is most of us will not acknowledge our amazingness. And for some reason only known to an old, wrinkled, budda shaped sage hiding in a cave atop a snowy mountain in his unicorn onesy and bunny slippers, women are far worse at acknowledging their amazingness than men are.
Not sure why this is as I have yet to climb that particular snowy mountain and ask the unicorn onsey clad buddery sage that particular question, but as soon as I know, I will definitely let you know.
Meanwhile back at sea level I constantly watch our clients do amazing things and then as soon as it is pointed out to them the females will rapidly deny their amazingness, the males will usually give me a look that says…. “Duh! Of course I am amazing!” yes, sad but true.
The trouble we have as a Personal Trainers is being able to measure this amazingness, and this makes it sometimes difficult to show the achieved amazingness to our clients.
This is because amazingness is a very individual thing. What is non-amazing to one person is incredibly amazing to another. For instance, if you have always had the ability to stand up, bend over and touch your toes, then seeing someone else do this is not gob smackingly awesome. But if you have never in your 80 years been able to touch your toes and then by improving your fitness you find that one day you can – yes! It’s Officially Amazing!
Now this also doesn’t mean that the person who could always touch their toes is not amazing, honestly as someone whose toes have always wiggled out of reach no matter how I try, anyone who can achieve this is on my amazing list.
I also don’t think that wanting to be amazing should be the reason to do something. In fact I’m pretty sure that all those amazing people who are acknowledged for their amazingness never thought “I will swim the Bass Strait 19 times non stop wearing only zebra stripped budgie smugglers and copious amounts Outer Mongolian yak grease to prove how amazing I am!” Nope I’m pretty sure that they did it just to prove to themselves that they could.
Now, as you try and remove that mental picture forever from you mind, I want you to consider YOUR amazingness, and telling yourself you are not amazing at anything is not an option, because that’s just not true.
Yes, I will admit to being told I’m amazing by people. This is because I challenge myself to do things others find difficult or scary. I love to lift heavy things and then put them back down. I don’t think that’s amazing, to me it is what I enjoy doing and lifting heavy stuff is one tiny reason why I like to exercise, not the most important reason, but one on my long list of why I push heavy weights.
I also take part in speech contests, and most people find public speaking insanely scary, and so did I a while back, but now the more I do it the less amazing I think it is because now it is my normal.
But just like everyone else, when someone tells me it’s an amazing thing I do, I giggle nervously and say “NO! Anyone could do it if they tried” Because HONESTLY anyone can! You just have to start and keep going!
All of our clients have challenged themselves and improve their health and fitness. They are ALL achieving amazing results from these changes.
Some may be obvious, such as being able to complete 3 sets of 10 push-ups on their toes when only 8 weeks ago they struggled to complete 1 set of 10 push-ups while almost standing upright doing the push-up against their kitchen bench.
Other achievements are not so obvious, but are just as amazing, walking further every day when only a few weeks ago they never went for a walk. Going for a walk amazing??? Not to some, but to someone who found walking around the supermarket difficult then yes!
And just because no one tells you that you are amazing it doesn’t mean they don’t think you are. We tend to think people are judging us for the wrong reasons, but this isn’t true! If you decided to try a little jog while you are walking and you see someone looking at you, most women will think “oh no they think I look ridiculous!”. In reality the person watching is most likely thinking “Look at her Go!! I wish I could jog too!”
So if someone tells you they think you are amazing don’t mumble that you aren’t. Say thank you, be proud and see if you can help them find their own amazingness. Maybe they want to be able to do as well as you are, and in that case encourage them to join in with you and be amazing together.
Embrace your amazingness!!! And if you are looking around frantically trying to uncover your amazingness but are having trouble finding it then why not see if your amazingness is waiting for you at our place, or in one of our classes. If you want to have a chat about how we can help you uncover your amazingness give Cathy a call on 0408803037 honestly you will be amazed!
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