Light Bulb Moments with Weight Loss and Exercise
I'm going to tell a favorite joke of mine that illustrates a story one of my clients told today in our forums about her light bulb moment.
Once there was a huge flood and a guy realized his house was going to be washed away. As he watched from the porch the waters rising, a man came by in a big truck and said, "Get in, the water is coming." The man calmly said, "No need, I have faith in the Lord. He will save me."
He climbed to the roof to avoid the water rushing up to the porch at this point. A couple of guys in a canoe rowed by and said, "Get in...we'll take you to safety." The man replied simply, "No need, I have faith in the Lord. He will save me."
As the water rose to the top of the house, a helicopter came, dropped a ladder, and a loud voice exclaimed, "Climb up or you are going to drown!" The man waved them off and screamed, "the Lord will save me" and then the water swept over him and he drowned.
The man was walking around heaven and demanded to see God. He wanted an explanation for why he was there!
God came out and the man said, "Lord, I had unwaivering faith in you. Why did you let me die in that flood?" The Lord rolled his eyes and said, "I sent a truck, a canoe, and a helicopter to pull you out. What did you expect, Noah's Arc to cruise by?"
When my client discussed her lightbulb moment today she commented how in the last two days she naturally woke up when it was time to work out (but didn't), slept through getting her usual junky Starbucks, and then had no cash on her this morning when she stopped at McDonald's drive thru (their register was broken and weren't taking debit cards). Aha! She said maybe she is supposed to be on this journey right now and maybe she should just quit fighting it so hard.
What an epiphany. It's so true. We all have times in our life that truly are set up for us to succeed and yet we fight it tooth and nail. Have you ever...
Put the kids to bed early and watched TV versus packing a healthy breakfast and lunch for the next day; then complain that you don't have time to eat healthy.
Woke up to go to the bathroom at 5:00 a.m. when you should be to workout; then just go back to bed for an extra 45 minutes of sleep.
These are just a couple of ways we fight success. The world will work for you when you know what you want and actively seek to find a way to do it. I firmly believe that if you expect to be a success you will and even when you DON'T expect it God, the world, whatever you believe in wants it for you. Often others and the unseen forces want it a lot more for you than you do. Listen to the signs in your life and figure out what they are telling you.
So, what signs have you missed or which signs are you seeing now that you have clear purpose?