Your Next Chapter by Evelyn Watkins

Author:Evelyn Watkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sound Wisdom
Published: 2013-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

CREATE A WINNING MIND

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter toward him. —JAMES ALLEN

If you can change the way a man thinks you can change the way he lives.

IF YOU CAN CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK, YOU CAN CHANGE the way you live. If you want to transform your life, you have to renew your mind. The truth is, you can redo the thing you’ve had your whole life—your mind. This is an important and positive reference because many of us may think, I’ve always thought this way, or My whole family thinks this way. To redo suggests that we are able to convert old thoughts and make new ones, and as a result of all of that we are transformed. Transformed into what, you ask? Whatever your new mind says you desire to be.

Hopefully by the time you are reading this section, you’ve already begun changing your mind about your possibilities, your future, and your success. The way you think will be your ace to assure you are steadfast until the very end.

I spent years as a young woman hovering at a size 16, nearing an 18. I remember losing a significant amount of weight and being forced to go clothes shopping. I remember the store: Tempo Fashions at the Worcester Center. It seems just like yesterday; I can even recall the pants I was trying on. They had a checkerboard pattern and they were “baggies,” which were the craze back then in the mid-eighties. I reached for my size 16, hoping that because they were “baggy” I could avoid going up a size. To my amazement, they fell to the floor. I dressed and went back out to the small store and picked up the 14. Same result. The next time I picked up a 12 and 10. Both sizes were abundantly too large. I recall just staring in the mirror, stunned. How could this be? How had my body melted away without my knowledge? Clearly flipping the waist of my pants couldn’t mean I was this small. My fitting room experience continued until I finally put on a comfortable size 4.

What I discovered that day is that although I had experienced significant weight loss success, I had become so accustomed to being overweight that I couldn’t wrap my mind around the concept that I had won. The race was over. I had the mind of that young woman who repeatedly failed at weight loss, so I couldn’t even recognize what the whole world could. I had lost the weight and had a body I could barely believe was my own.

You have to work diligently at possessing a winning mind—a mind which understands you are not a failure until you succumb to the impossibility of ever winning. A mind that doesn’t notice the other people around you who have made it to their finish line already.

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