Comments on: Monday Facetime

By: cheryl

cheryl — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:57:36 +0000

Negative people in my life that tried to sabotage my Ironman and my workouts….well, I got rid of them. Not in the “snuff” sense, but I didn’t NEED them, so I either left them or asked them to leave! NO MORE negative in MY life!
(And they are STILL who they choose to be!)

By: Michele

Michele — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:57:44 +0000

Great video! I have to tell you that I am super jealous of your arms! They look awesome!

By: Tony K

Tony K — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:42:57 +0000

Hi Mizfit,

Good facetime. It is so important to know whose problem is really coming to the surface. That is an important piece of mental health in my oh so humble opinion.

BTW, I put up another shot at my blog at explaining how low carb works. It builds on the preivous one about Good Calories, Bad Calories.

tony

By: Eileen

Eileen — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:07:50 +0000

Amazing video and I love the advice.

You’ll be happy to know that in order to get me through the last mile of my long run yesterday, I had to keep saying “there is no trying – only doing”. It worked, and I did finish 6 miles.

By: Cara

Cara — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:04:30 +0000

Oh man my new boss is all about not trying just doing. He has some yoda poster up to encourage us to never say we will try to do something, but just do it. ahha.

Thanks for the entertainment and sound advice!

PS: Austin is amazing.

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:09:20 +0000

My problem is not people saying negative things to me, but about themselves. It makes me so sad to hear someone I love and admire berate themselves. I try sharing the tidbits of wisdom I learn here, but if they don’t want to change, what can I do? Any advice?

By: Zandria

Zandria — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:42:58 +0000

Damn those Energy Sucks! I love how you said you don’t give them power and you don’t buy into what they’re saying. You look at them, and then you put them out of your mind (unless you get defensive, of course, and then you might think about it later). I’m lucky in that I purposefully don’t keep people like that in my life, but I know it’s unavoidable to come certain across random people who just like to bring others down.

By: Dani

Dani — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:27:47 +0000

Great, great, great advice!! You are fantastic!! Honestly… such a simple yet powerful message:)

By: Gena

Gena — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:16:46 +0000

I won something? Me? Awesome!

Great advice as always, Mizfit. I’m very fortunate that I have mostly positive people in my life, and my most negative coworker recently moved away. My husband is full of positive reinforcement, so most of the time the negative talk comes from within.

But after the conversations of last week I have made more of an effort to take the negative thoughts and replace them with something positive. It’s amazing how much better a day can be when you get rid of the negativity!

By: ShirleyPerly

ShirleyPerly — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:32:34 +0000

Excellent advice! While riding my bike on the roads, I’ve met up with a number of rude drivers who’ve tried to run me off the road, yelled at me or even occasionally thrown things at me (worst one was a beer bottle). These things could so easily have caused me to give up riding altogether or at least ruin my workout. Learning to let things go by not reacting negatively or reacting in an unexpectedly friendly manner has really helped. You can’t control how other people behave but you can control yourself.