{"id":1477,"date":"2021-08-28T07:47:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T07:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/dont-give-up-youre-just-on-the-other-side-of-a-breakthrough\/"},"modified":"2021-08-28T07:47:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T07:47:23","slug":"dont-give-up-youre-just-on-the-other-side-of-a-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/dont-give-up-youre-just-on-the-other-side-of-a-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Give Up, You\u2019re Just on the Other Side of a Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I love those posts about famous people who didn\u2019t reach their stride until mid-life. Or \u2018til after receiving hundreds of rejection letters. Or following some huge life-altering experience. Like George Lucas who got turned down by three major movie studios. Michael Jordan who got cut from his high school basketball team, twice. The dude who started FedEx who allegedly got a C on his college term paper promoting the original biz idea.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re all well-known now (well most of them), but without special skills like tenacity, self-compassion, and flat-out trusting the process, they might not have ever gotten there.<\/p>\n
The same thing goes for those of you struggling with sticking to a primal or keto diet, or trying to stretch out your fasting window by a few more hours, or ramping up your workout routine. I see it fairly frequently with my health coaching clients. They\u2019re diligently following their real-food-eating-plan, tuning into their hunger levels, and moving their bodies regularly, then suddenly, there\u2019s some obstacle that totally derails their hopes and dreams of success.<\/p>\n
Obstacles can look like:<\/strong><\/p>\n The path to anything, be it fat loss, healing, PRs, or personal growth, is never a straight line. It\u2019s curvy, messy, and often times chaotic. It\u2019s just part of being human. And although it feels like you\u2019re not making progress, you actually are.<\/p>\n It\u2019s like in the old days before electric drills and powerful jackhammers were a thing, they used to break boulders with handheld sledgehammers. Workers would hit those darn things over and over again without seeing any progress, but they\u2019d keep at it because that was their job. Then, on the 50th or so hit, the boulder would magically split in half. Except it wasn\u2019t magic, it\u2019s science. They\u2019re breaking down the integrity of the structure, each hit microscopically chipping away at it.<\/p>\n Just like my boulder analogy, the same thing is happening to you and your goals. Even though it looks like nothing is happening on the outside, each time you choose bacon and eggs over a jumbo Costco-sized muffin or go for a walk even when you don\u2019t feel like it, you\u2019re shifting something key to your success on the inside.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n When you\u2019re armed with this knowledge ahead of time, you can lessen the powerlessness that can tag along for the ride. You know, the feeling like you\u2019re banging your head against a wall that doesn\u2019t ever move. People with a sense of resiliency are usually the most successful at persevering the ups and downs of their struggles. They\u2019ve learned how to adapt, emotionally and physically, in the face of adversity. Not only does this help them keep a positive mindset, it prevents them from giving up \u2014 which, really is the biggest piece of this puzzle.<\/p>\n Resiliency isn\u2019t just something you\u2019re born with either, you can learn to develop it. According to research by Susan Kobasa, a psychologist who studies hardiness and grit, there are three elements essential to resilience:<\/p>\n Basically, resilience helps you handle stress in a more positive way.<\/strong> A study by developmental psychologist Emmy Werner backs up that thinking. She followed a group of 698 kids from birth through their third decade of life, monitoring their exposure to stress along the way. Two-thirds of the subjects came from stable, successful backgrounds while the other one-third were qualified as \u201cat risk.\u201d Of the at-risk kids, she discovered that some developed significant behaviour and mental health problems, while a small subsection of the group achieved academic, domestic, and social success.<\/p>\n Sifting through the data, Werner learned that there were several elements that predicted resilience, most of which had to do with how the children responded to their environment, adding that the resilient kids had what psychologists call an internal locus of control \u2014 they believed that they (not their circumstances) had the biggest impact on their accomplishments.<\/strong><\/p>\n The reason resiliency is so important here is that breakthroughs typically happen right as (or after) you hit your breaking point. And you want to have the skills to actually get there and persevere. While some of these signs may seem negative on the surface, they mean that you\u2019re on the right path, and that a breakthrough is right around the corner.<\/p>\n Most people give up before the good stuff happens. Right before they see the results, get the PR, or fit in the smaller pant size. If you\u2019re feeling frustrated, filled with doubt, or wondering why you ever started working toward your goal in the first place, let this be your invitation to stay the course. These five signs mean that you\u2019re just on the other side of a breakthrough:<\/p>\n How about you? What signs do you notice when you\u2019re getting close to a breakthrough?<\/em><\/p>\nBreakthroughs are Never Linear<\/h3>\n
Why You Need Resiliency<\/h3>\n
The Three Cs of Resilience<\/h3>\n
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Are You on the Verge of a Breakthrough?<\/h3>\n
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Don\u2019t Give Up, You\u2019re Almost There<\/h3>\n
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