All or Nothing Mindset
A few weeks ago, I shared a post on Instagram:
While it is important to help people understand the habits holding them back from success, it doesn’t mean much if you don’t follow that up with replacement practices. I started thinking more about #1) The All or Nothing Mindset, and it brought me to something I’ve been taught elsewhere: Come Back Rate (CBR).
Come Back Rate
I’ve spent a lot of time learning about mindset and learning mindset practices. As I start this new journey helping people live active, adventurous, and healthy lifestyles, I want to share the translation of what I had considered a personal, spiritual practice to our practical, health and fitness-based lifestyles.
I learned about Come Back Rate from spirituality books by Gabrielle Bernstein. In her books, she applies Come Back Rate to the moments when we feel we “messed up” on our spiritual (i.e., moral, personal, emotional, psychological) journey. If we set our personal standards to never feel negative emotions such as judgement, jealousy, resentment, or fear, we would always be in a state of self-judgement. Instead, we should focus on our CBR. How quickly can we identify our negativity, and then, how quickly can we get our momentum moving in a positive direction? The lesson isn’t that we should never have negative moments, but that we should focus on how quickly we can get our momentum going back in the right direction.
Come Back Rate applies to almost anything in life, and it definitely applies to our health and fitness journey. Instead of getting down on ourselves about “messing up”, we should measure our progress, or even our success, in our CBR. The next time you fall off the wagon, don’t let it ruin your day, week, or month — take on a CBR mindset and be proud of yourself that you indeed Came Back! By celebrating the “Come Back” moments, it will encourage you to want more of them, and your CBR will get shorter over time. Our last blog explained the importance of consistency. The CBR mindset is just one more little tool that will ultimately help you maintain consistency and truly change your lifestyle over time!
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