{"id":25,"date":"2016-06-14T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thefight\/?p=25"},"modified":"2016-06-03T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T16:13:45","slug":"choose-to-be-a-better-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thefight\/2016\/06\/choose-to-be-a-better-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Choose to Be a Better You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/400\/2016\/06\/IMG_3784-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Don't compare your current abilities to the limitations of your past. Nobody can put limits on you but you!\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have all heard a \u201ccomeback\u201d story about someone and been happy for them and not surprised that they came back from adversity.\u00a0 Why is it that we are so hard on ourselves sometimes and our memory of our shortcomings is so vivid?<\/p>\n<p>I challenge you today to acknowledge the events in your life that you are not proud of.\u00a0 Acknowledge where you fall short as a person.\u00a0 Acknowledge what you wish you could have done differently in the past\u2026and then vow to believe that you are a new person.<\/p>\n<p>You aren\u2019t stuck being the same man or woman as you were yesterday and yesteryear. You can change.\u00a0 You can grow and you can grow dramatically!\u00a0 Stop putting limits on your tomorrows because of the shortcomings in your yesterdays.\u00a0 If you will choose to dream and believe great things about yourself, your life will slowly start shifting in that direction.\u00a0 Your best days and blessed days are out ahead of you.<\/p>\n<p>But the power of tomorrow\u2019s blessings can\u2019t be fully taken advantage of if you don\u2019t start with looking at the person in the mirror, loving that person, and believing great things for that person.<\/p>\n<p>Everything you need is already inside of you and is waiting to be wielded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all heard a \u201ccomeback\u201d story about someone and been happy for them and not surprised that they came back from adversity.\u00a0 Why is it that we are so hard on ourselves sometimes and our memory of our shortcomings is so vivid? I challenge you today to acknowledge the events in your life that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,4,9,3,7],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-comparison","tag-iron-michael-chandler","tag-limits","tag-michael-chandler","tag-mma-fighter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Choose to Be a Better You - The Fight<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thefight\/2016\/06\/choose-to-be-a-better-you.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Choose to Be a Better You - The Fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We have all heard a \u201ccomeback\u201d story about someone and been happy for them and not surprised that they came back from adversity.\u00a0 Why is it that we are so hard on ourselves sometimes and our memory of our shortcomings is so vivid? 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