I am praising God for second chances. Today I feel like I can run a marathon. Although that WILL NOT be happening today, LOL, it will be happening in two years. I am putting it out there and claiming victory today! There is a song that speaks about encouraging yourself, and the words simply say:
“Sometimes you have to encourage yourself.
Sometimes you have to speak victory during the test.
And no matter how you feel,
speak the word and you will be healed;
speak over yourself,
encourage yourself in the Lord.”
And so today, that’s exactly what I’m going to do. I am going to encourage myself on this weight loss journey. I’m going to speak words of encouragement, affirmation, positivity and victory over myself. I am of the complete mindset that I WILL do this thing!
Now that I am feeling 110% better I know that I CAN do it. As far as my body is concerned, it doesn’t feel like such a struggle anymore. I feel like myself again. I know my mind was willing and now my body has caught up.
I am focused and I know I can make my plans knowing that I will actually carry them out and that I will not be hindered by the pain. I’m feeling good today. I’m feeling hopeful and I’m feeling confident that it will be done!
And so with that, what I’ve decided to do is to send a note to my “future self” congratulating myself on accomplishing my goals this year. There is this cool website called futureme.org, which allows you to send yourself an email to the future you to arrive on a future date, which you choose, about anything you choose. Today I’m choosing to applaud myself on a job well done!
My plan is a year from today to post here exactly what I wrote as a letter of encouragement to myself. This is actually a exercise of stating my intentions. I’m going to write it all down, make it plain, speak it as if it’s already done and watch it come to fruition.
And so with that I will write my Dear Stacey letter to myself and schedule the email to arrive in my inbox a year from today…1/16/16.
I’ll be sure to share what I that email said and what I actually lived up to a year from today. I’m excited and I can’t wait to meet the future me