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Why The Story You Tell Yourself Determines Your Success

Do you ever feel the story you tell yourself holds you back from achieving your life goals? Do you feel trapped by the story created for you by others?

If you say yes to both of these questions or are curious to find out more. We are here to help you shape a new story.

But first.

Welcome to mindset shift where we hope after this 5-minute read. You can take away nuggets of gold that can shift your life’s direction for the better.

The Story We Tell Ourself

We all have a story.

As a society, we are engaged with the stories of others whether they’re adventures from the past to modern-day celebrities.

When the feeling arises of I want that life for me or I want that story to be my story. Two choices arrises either yes I can do that or no that’s just not for me.

Countless times people undervalue themselves based on the stories they tell themselves. This is the major difference between someone succeeding at the life they want deep down. People have business ideas but talk themself out of them through the story they tell. A lot of people tell themselves they have to work hard all the time which has its positives but stops them from enjoying life.

The story we give to others and the story we hold for ourselves is too powerful to ignore. As this shapes our life’s fortunes.

Below are two mindset shift techniques to help you with your story. The change can be instant in the mind but the weeks that pass will be the hardest to follow through. Think about it every day and be kind to yourself when you make mistakes. You do this and I promise your story will change your life.

Two Mindset Shifts Techniques To Help You Remake Your Story

1. Evaluate your story

Your story has to come from somewhere. Either it’s forced upon you by parents, teachers and society or you have created it by the influences you have been drawn to. Sit down and ask yourself are these my stories or stories others have put on me?

Some stories will be very helpful like your parents teaching you to face your fears in life and to seek discomfort. But some stories will not be, like a career advisor telling you what you can’t do in life or society telling you the position you have to be based on race, gender or class.

Challenging these stories is how we make positive change. You just have to look back in history to see this from women’s right to vote to the end of the rule of monarchies across Europe. So find out today if your story is pushing you forward or holding you back from the story you want.

2. Examine your habits

After evaluating your story, you should next examine your habits. Here you will find a lot of the problems that stop you from growing.

Is your habit of staying up late stopping you from being energised every day or making you late for work, that stops you from progressing in your career? By examining your habits you will quickly see what’s holding you back.

Your habits are mostly subconscious on autopilot. Formed many moons ago. Challenging your habits to see if they hold up for the story you want is vitally important. A habit of eating at night isn’t going to help to change your story to the body image you desire. Blaming others for everything that goes wrong in your life isn’t going to help you be the person who finds solutions to grow in your life.

Today sit down and write down all the habits you can think of, good or bad. Then examine them one by one then shift the habits into positive change.

If a habit of picking up groceries after work leads to impulse buying. Instead, do a weekly shop on a full stomach every Sunday. These little changes can change your bank balance, mindset and how you achieve your life goals.

We At Future Mindset Expect Great Things From You

If you don’t think that anyone expects great things from you, then I’m here to tell you that I do.

I want nothing more than for our community to be filled with people who are setting their sights on goals that matter, battling to raise the bar, and enjoying the life that they are creating for themselves.

We don’t care where you’re starting from. We don’t care how far you think you are from the unreasonable goals you have for yourself.

If you’re a member of this community, then it doesn’t matter where you’re coming from because you’re not staying there. You’re becoming something better.

If you want to take your life to the next level we have life-changing mindset coaching that offers one on one support with the problems you face. Click the link below to get in touch with one of our coaches.

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How Exercise Has Proven To Help You Fight Inflammation Quickly

Fighting Inflammation

In today’s article, we will discuss how exercise has proven to help you fight inflammation quickly. I have faced my own battles with inflammation as I have aged. It affects millions of people throughout the world, with 3 out of 5 people dying from chronic inflammation every year.

This can lead to many underlining negative effects on the body and mind as you grow older.

For example, it can lead to stroke, chronic respiratory diseases, heart disorders, cancer, obesity, and diabetes. This is definitely a worldwide problem we have to fix. Amazingly new studies have backed up the effects exercise can have at preventing chronic inflammation from life-threatening diseases. Especially as we age this should be something you take seriously.

What is inflammation?

How exercise has proven to help you fight inflammation quickly

In simple terms, inflammation is the body’s way of protecting itself from infection, injury, or disease. It’s broken down into two forms either acute or chronic inflammation where your immune system dispatches an army of white blood cells to heal the affected areas.

Why Is Inflammation Bad?

Well, there is a good side to inflammation when our bodies need to fight off injuries and decease but there is a dark side to inflammation which can happen from our diet and lack of mobility. If this isn’t taking seriously. Lack of action can lead to heart disease, strokes, cancer even affecting brain function. The one I was most interested in was acid reflux and how I prevent this from being a normal part of my life.

How Exercise Has Proven To Help You Fight Inflammation Quickly

In the latest study researchers have shown in the laboratory how we can ward off chronic inflammation through exercise. They engineered human muscles that were grown in a petri dish. Then they inundated the muscles with high levels of interferon-gamma for seven days to mimic the effects of a long-lasting chronic inflammation. The results showed that when muscles were developed through exercise. It could fight chronic inflammation while not overstressing the cells.

This is amazing news for anyone suffering from chronic inflammation as our health is important for our mental well-being. The discovery also shows that it works as effectively as drugs that help with rheumatoid arthritis and baricitinib.My own experience of having acid reflux.

Exercising had a dramatic impact on quieting down this inflammation. In a matter of weeks by exercising I was losing weight around my gut but also building muscle in my legs and upper body. My diet slightly changed but not enough to warrant the cause of my inflammation to drop.

How Does Inflammation Affect The Brain?

There have been many studies that derived the conclusion of the effects inflammatory diseases can have on the brain. Neurologist David Perlmutter, MD states that “inflammation fuelled by increased blood sugar, can damage the tissue in our brains and put us at higher risk for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.”

Dr Robert J. Hedaya MD also states “Inflammation affects hormones and other neurotransmitters in your brain. Inflammation drives down the level of serotonin, which can lead to feelings of depression or anxiety, and problems with memory. It prevents melatonin from being produced, which causes insomnia.

It causes dopamine levels to rise, which contributes to insomnia, and feelings of anxiety.” This is a major concern to us all if our exercise and diet are not where they should be. The long term effects as we age can have dramatic effects on how we live in the second half of our life.

What You Can Do Today

The research and my experience show exercising on an aerobic level can have major benefits overall. Whether that be getting outside in nature by brisk walking, running or cycling. It can even be inside by having a cycling machine. Whatever you choose exercising and building muscle will help you overcome the long-lasting inflammation that affects your daily life.

Also reviewing your habits like diet, smoking etc. Of how much that affects your health can also help. For me, anything chocolate, saturated fats, pretty much all the unhealthy foods flared up my acid reflux inflammation. So take into account what sets your inflammation off as well.

Final Thoughts

I hope you gained some great insight from today’s article – How exercise has proven to help you fight inflammation quickly.

It goes to show keeping our bodies active and healthy can go a long way to fighting off bad inflammation. The importance of this can be attributed to long term health and the age we live. But it can also help with our brain function and not letting it affect the impacts of depression and anxiety.

The studies I have read have shown there is hope and a lot of it is in our control. So I leave it in your hands to decide to take action. But know at Future Mindset we are behind you rooting for you to make the changes form a healthy body but something we all need is a healthy mind.

Hi I'm Adam
Hi I’m Adam

I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.