John Murphy explains how shifting from static self-labels like "I'm fat" to forward-looking ones like "I'm on my way to my target weight" reprograms your mind toward action. Calling yourself overweight reinforces the state; framing it as a journey moves you toward the goal.
But once you start to change your story, your I ams, from fear-based, I'm doubtful, I'm conflicted, I'm too old, I'm too young, I don't have enough degrees, whatever people are thinking, to I am on my way, gets back to that relentless vision. And even something as simple as people will go to the gym and get on a treadmill, and in their mind they're thinking, I'm fat, I'm 20 pounds overweight. That's right. And as long as you're thinking, I'm 20 pounds overweight, you're going to keep being 20 pounds overweight because you're programmed. So if instead a shift would be, I'm on my way to a target weight of 120 or whatever that target is. So I'm not fat because at the end of the day, I'm still 20 pounds overweight or whatever it might be, but I am moving forward in a positive way. So we just shifted from something negative in the mind to something Positive. I'm on my way. And so whether it's meditating on, I'm enriching my mind, I'm grounding myself, I'm starting the day grounded.
