3 Steps To Free Yourself From An All-Or-Nothing Mindset

You're reading 3 Steps To Free Yourself From An All-Or-Nothing Mindset, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. I used to live in the place of all or nothing. My ‘all’ looked like eating a specific number of calories a day of only foods I had labeled as healthy, working out for a certain amount of time in very specific ways, and making sure not to deviate even 3 calories, 1 mile, or a few bites from my plan. On the occasional day where I’d check all the boxes, I felt on top of the world. For every other day that I didn’t, I felt like a total failure. If a friend baked me a birthday cake and I didn’t know the exact ingredients or calories in my celebratory slice, the day was ruined. If a work obligation came up and I couldn’t make it to my hot yoga class on time, the world came crumbling down. Most moments were day-ruined, world-crumbling-down moments. The moments that weren’t were full of fear that failure was just around the corner. Where are you feeling stuck in an all or nothing mindset? All or nothing thinking keeps us stuck in a cycle of exhaustion and failure. It also causes us to miss out on a lot of the goodness of everyday life. With all or nothing thinking, there’s no room for flexibility, no room for a change in plans, no room for spontaneity. Your narrow definition for success here is nearly (if not wholly) impossible to meet. When you mov...
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