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Confidence and Fitness - Coffee Talk
Blog | October 03, 2013
I haven’t done any coffee talk recently and since I was resting at home after shooting two kettlebell workouts, I decided to do a coffee talk and talk about confidence and fitness. It breaks my heart when I read comments or emails from young women that are struggling with their self confidence and blame their fitness and appearance for it. Don’t get me wrong, I know exactly how it feels when you are out of shape. I’ve been there. I know how it feels, when you think you’re out of shape, while many people around you are telling you otherwise. I know how powerful our mind can be to trick us and make us feel worthless. I also know how powerful and great our mind can be. Watch this coffee talk video, then read on, and if you feel like you want to contribute with your own opinion or thought, please leave a comment.
I believe that confidence has little to do with our appearance or our achievements. I know people that are happy and confident while living very modestly. I also know people who seem to have it all. They’re in great shape, have a lot of money and great success, yet they’re still not happy and lacking self confidence. Do you have any idea how many rich, and beautiful people who are depressed are out there?? It is insane for so many of us to even imagine someone who is in top shape, has a perfect face, and tons of money, being depressed about their life. Yet, it happens all the time. We tent to think that if we only were rich our problems would be gone and we would be happy forever. You don’t think that those rich depressed people thought the same thing, before they became successful? Of course they did. What a surprise it must have been after all those years of striving for better life, that wealth is not what makes them happy!
It’s the same when it comes to your fitness. It helps to be in great shape, just like it helps to be successful, however that by itself will not make you happy or confident if you won’t change your believes and your inner dialog with yourself. Also I want you to realize what a gift it is to have a goal that you can strive for, because the journey is the most exciting thing. You should always enjoy every moment that is between setting up your goal and achieving it. Once you achieve your goal you want to look back and be proud of all you went through, because the achievement itself won’t have enough power to keep you happy and fulfilled for a long time. You will always have to set a new goal and start a new exciting journey.
I have an exercise for you. Write down all of your negative believes and everything that you don’t like about yourself. You’ll be surprised what your mind can come up with. Then you have to make sure that you change every single negative belief into a positive one. I know that it’s not always easy, because you want to be honest with yourself, but being honest doesn’t mean cruel or negative. Instead of thinking: “I’m a lazy slob.” You can decide to think this: “I’m done with laziness, I’m a new person now and I know I can get into the best shape of my life.” See, you don’t need to lie to yourself about your past, but realize that it’s only your past. Every minute is an opportunity for a new life.
Enjoy your workouts and be excited for what’s to come!
Best,
Zuzka.
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My fiance once said to me…”you should be confident”. Ever since then, anytime I am feeling compromised, I remember this and I can ride through anything by calling on my confidence in myself thanks to his words of wisdom. I love him for this has changed me. You are right, Z~!
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They did a study one on very poor people’s brains and very rich people’s brains. What they found was that some of the poorest people in the world could be just as happy than the richest people in the world, and their brains looked the same.
What I take from this is that it doesn’t matter where you are in life, and what you have/don’t have! You can be happy and confident, and you can enjoy life. It is possible for anyone.
Thank you for reminding me to think of that today, Z. I am definitely one of those people that gets down sometimes, and I worry about a lot of things, but I’m pretty well off, all things considered. I have every reason to be happy and confident in myself. We all do!
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You are so very right! I am generally very optimistic but it took me a long ti,e to apply that optimism to my self and health and it change everything for me. The journey is so much a part of life. All the ups and downs make us who we are and how we look at them can change what we learn from them. 🙂
You were such a huge inspiration for me as I got into shape and built up my body to be strong and healthy and you continue to be so. Thank you. Recently I have started a new life journey battling breast cancer and altho I get frustrated that during chemo I have been unable to exercise like before and am losing strength I know I must be patient. This talk encouraged me to keep trying when i can and focus on my health because this too shall pass 🙂
Thanks for all you do Zuzka 🙂
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I really love your workouts. When I was living on campus all I was doing was this one rep cycle of yours that I had modified for myself and every once in a while running. I lost 30 pounds without even realizing it! I truly think it was due to your workouts, even modified to a beginner like me, they had AMAZING results. Unfortunately, life threw some really hard curve-balls at me that I did not handle well, and I am back at the beginning and then-some when it comes to fitness. I look forward to doing your workouts again to get back to that happy place I was in! <3 you Zu!
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So true. Thanks for these talks. Love them! 😀
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Thank you for this video, I have tears in my eyes because just that I need to hear. I sit at the table in work which I hate because I am not able to do some another job but from now I believe that one day I will do what I want and I will be happy for that as well, because now I have also reason to be happy but people are people and I am one of them who want more. Maybe not tomorrow and maybe not next year but soon I will be so confidence that I turn my life at 180 degrees. 🙂