Hi, everyone. It’s Adrian Maddox coming to you once again from Tune Up Your Temple and today I'm going to take some time out and just really talk you guys about facing opposition. Unfortunately, not everyone is going to give you all their support and stand behind you when you are making a change especially when it comes to something as important as exercise in any right.
First of all they might just be full of jealous. They might tell you out of their mouth that they support you but deep down you can tell when someone is jealous of you. And this is especially true if they see you to see that you're making progress and improvements and they may have tried it and failed and not seeing those improvements that they’re seeing and they maybe resentful.
Basically the best way that I would react to that type of scenario is I would just basically really include “we” in conversation. Don’t put yourself above or like you're better than because you're not. We were all created to be equal. Let them know that we maybe they want to try this and maybe you want to try that. Let them know that you’re in this to win and you would love for them to join you okay. That would have to include them. Don’t separate yourself from them. People want to know that they belong.
The second thing that might stand in a way is if you are used to spending all your time together and all of a sudden you’re taking time away from them in order to go exercise. And if they are used to having all your free time and all of a sudden you’re leaving to go exercise that can also be a source of jealousy for them because they feel that all your time should be their time. If they bring that up like, “Oh, you're never spend any time with me anymore” then let them know that you have to take time for yourself so that when you are with them you can be at your best.
We all know that we need time for ourselves okay. That’s not being selfish, that’s saying, “I need to take care of me and after I take care of me I can take care of you because if I don’t take care of me I can't take care of you.” It’s that simple.
Another reason that they might be jealous is they think that you are going to impose your new lifestyle on them. They think just because you are now exercising that they have to exercise and they may not care about it or the same with eating right and so at that point you really need to take the time to let them know you’re going to do this either with or without them. They don’t get to be the deciding factor.
In Deuteronomy 28/7 I think it is, it talks about how God will take care of anything that comes against you. So you really do need to remain steadfast to move on and abounding and your goals. This is about your life. This is about your health. This about how you get through the day through tomorrow so you can have energy, so you can have vigor and vitality. It’s not necessarily about anyone else and they can't do it for you. It is just really something that you have and go from there. It’s not really about anyone else so I hope that encourage you to stay strong and to keep going. Don’t let anyone throw you off okay?
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