Seeing your Experiences as Experiments to Make Each Season Better

Research papers consider limitations, not as failures, but rather as variables that could’ve negatively impacted the result or limited the results in some way.

You might read a research paper that says a limitation of their study on the impact of social media on self esteem was that they didn’t perform a mental health assessment before collecting the qualitative data.

Doesn’t mean the qualitative studies through stories collected need to be discounted. It just means they need to be viewed from a new lens of “here’s what we didn’t know or didn’t consider while gathering this info and even though it would’ve been better if we did, future studies can!”

I repeat, it does not mean the study was an utter failure or worthy of discrediting (likely wouldn’t have been published if that bad!)

It just means future research can now take those things into consideration to improve and refine the results.

I like to think of every season we have the same way.

Your setbacks or challenges are not the defining moments of the entire experience.

Rather, they are variables you can consider for the next one.

Seeing each day as an experiment can help detach from the negative emotions of attempts made that didn’t go as planned or learning something “too late” that you “wish you knew before”

If you remain curious and objective, considering alllllll contributing factors to your journey, and even asking for others to support you or provide feedback, then you’ll only gather more data or breakthroughs to apply next time you prep or reverse diet or go out to eat or have a vacation or try a new thing.

I discussed this on the monthly group coaching calls I hold for my #BUILDMORETHANJUSTABODY community of past and current clients and members.

You can get access to the replay of today’s call and our past calls on a wide variety of common mental health topics of concern or for growth of competitors and athletes now by joining the On-Demand Mindset Coaching Platform at www.celestial.fit/ondemand
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Hope to see you in there so we can all support you in making the most of all your experiences by applying insight gained from the last!

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