Healthy SoFlo Issue 51 - Inca Goes Above and Beyond to Provide Safe & Healthy Foods

HEALTHY LIFESTYLE · AUGUST 2017
We are our own
worst enemy
so much of the
time. We get in
our own way,
we hold ourselves back from overcoming a
hurdle, accomplishing something amazing,
becoming someone new. We get in the way
of the Holy Spirit, allowing our inner voice
to drown His out. We create an unhappy
reality for ourselves without even realizing
it, and then complain about it.
This is called having a fixed mindset or
a limiting belief about yourself or your
circumstances.
LET’S LOOK AT SOME EXAMPLES OF
HOW THIS COULD BE LIVED OUT.
Let’s say you’ve always been significantly
overweight. You think about what it would
be like to be fit, imagine how your body
would feel, daydream about what it would
be like to wear a certain outfit you admire,
but you can’t actually envision that fit,
strong person being you. It just seems
totally impossible that you would ever really
lose that weight and have that body - that’s
a fixed mindset.
HERE’S ANOTHER EXAMPLE:
You’ve always had a lot of clutter. It
wouldn’t be a birthday party in your
house if you didn’t spend the entire day
beforehand screaming at your family to
help and shoving crap into the bedroom
closets. This is just the way it’s always been
and you can’t really imagine how your life
would look if you had absolutely no clutter.
You can see how it would free up your
time, but you can’t actually envision that
being your life. Fixed mindset. Limiting
belief.
Let's look at one more example, this time I'll
pull from my own life. I’ve actually related
to both the examples listed above, and
overcome them, but I want to dive deeper
with you. Getting personal here!
I didn’t finish college. My parents never
really expressed a deep disappointment in
me for that or anything, but I felt like it was
there, probably because I put it on myself
(I’m the oldest and being the oldest means
you’re super hard on yourself).
I got married young and my husband Brian
(who also did not go to college) and I came
back from our honeymoon to hardship - he
had been laid off and the economy was
crashing - it hit us right from the start. We
struggled financially from the moment we
said “I do” and it didn’t let up.
Brian had a solid job that provided for us
and allowed me to stay home with our
babies (this was a nonnegotiable for us)
but it required working lots of overtime
hours or we wouldn’t make it. He was gone
six days a week and we barely scraped
by. We had our four babies and
struggled to make ends
meet all the time.
OVERCOMING
YOUR BIGGEST
HURDLES WITH
MINDSET SHIFTS
There were very dark, scary nights when
we didn’t know how we’d make it through,
and I had grown used to this being our life.
Money was something I just never thought
we’d have - it wasn’t in the cards for us.
I believe I spent a lot of years punishing
myself for not finishing college, because
I was raised to believe that college was a
huge privilege that I had and you can’t make
a good living without going to college, and I
clung to this limiting belief.
Long story short, God brought our family
into a situation that led to the idea of me
starting a business out of this blog. I’ve
always had an entrepreneur mind (I was
raised by two successful business owners)
and it felt like something I was meant to
do, but my money mindset was very limited
and held me from success for months.
I wanted to help more overwhelmed moms
experience the freedom I had through a life
of less clutter and overwhelm, and I knew I
could do that through my business, but my
limiting beliefs held me back from changing
lives and changing our finances.
When I finally realized this, I remember
feeling like a rock had hit me in the head -
my whole world was shaken up and I didn’t
want to live under the weight of my fixed
mindset for even one more minute. I went
outside and prayed, and started speaking
truth over myself and my business. I did this
every day (and still do) and after a week,
my business exploded and everything I
had been working so hard for that wasn’t
happening finally came through.
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