When I was starting out with my career in health & fitness – two comments plagued my journey.
I was told I wouldn’t make a good coach from a fitness trainer I had really respected.
I was too quiet.
Didn’t have the personality for it.
It wasn’t the right fit.
That same year when someone asked what I did and I responded with ‘I’m a nutrition coach’, they replied that they ‘would only take nutrition advice from someone who is 100lbs and 10% body fat.’
As much as those comments stung, by some miracle even with my then very low self-esteem, I didn’t let them stop me.
Maybe it was stubbornness of wanting to prove them wrong.
Maybe it was the passion I had for genuinely wanting to help people.
Maybe it was the fact that I had been in the exact spot of the clients I wanted to help.
But something inside me knew that I was capable and I decided to work for it.
I think back to those two comments a lot and realize just how much they taught me.
I quickly learned to never let someone else decide what I was or wasn’t capable of.
I taught myself that “Looking the Part” means nothing…
and that having the heart, hustle, knowledge, & belief is everything.
Please never let fear of judgement or failure hold you back.
You are FOREVER more than enough.
What things are you letting fear and judgement hold you back on?
