The School of Greatness - 666 Become Emotionally Fit with Natalie Jill

Episode Date: July 13, 2018

ADDITION IS MORE POWERFUL THAN SUBTRACTION. You’ll hear from a lot of people that if you want to succeed at something you need to cut out all of the bad. This may be in your business, your personal life, or even in your health. In reality, that’s not always the easiest thing to do. How many time have you had your heart broken and find yourself going through your ex’s Instagram posts to see what they are doing? Sure, it would be nice to cut it out - but for some reason you just can’t. The key is not to subtract these things from your life, but to add more positive things. When you do this, you won’t have the time to let bad things into your life. For example, if you are at a restaurant and you sit down at the table you may be eyeing the dessert menu. Maybe that chocolate cheesecake sounds so good. When you order your meal you start with a salad, then order a healthy plate with a lot of vegetables. When you’re finished eating, you’re so full you don’t even want that cheesecake anymore. Apply that same principle into your life. Fill it with positivity in every area of your life and the bad will weed itself out over time. To dive deeper into this subject, I wanted to bring you back an older episode from Natalie Jill. Natalie is an inspiration to everyone. She wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and at one point lost everything she had worked for. Since then she’s gained it all back and more. She sat down and gave insights on how she is able to continually build on her success, and how anyone can achieve their goals. So learn how you can make your dreams come true through abundance instead of deprivation, on Episode 666. In This Episode You Will Learn: What you should think about in fitness (00:54) How to improve your emotional health (1:39) What feeds into negativity (2:53) What Natalie wants to be known for (3:42)

This is 5-Minute Friday! Welcome everyone to this special episode of the School of Greatness podcast with a dear friend of mine, Natalie Jill. Now for those who don't know who Natalie is, she's a licensed master sports nutritionist and functional fitness trainer. And she has leveraged the power of the internet to be able to help hundreds of thousands of people worldwide get in shape and be their best selves. She left a very successful career in corporate America to follow her passion with health and fitness and also overcome some of her own health issues that she had while working in corporate America. own health issues that she had while working in corporate America. And in the process,

she has created a globally recognized brand with a couple million social media followers worldwide and created an online business that's generated over seven figures in revenue. In fitness and nutrition, I would say the same thing as I would say in business or personal life and emotional fitness. I always say that it's better to add than to think about taking away. So I'm not a deprivation person. I don't like to say, get these things out of your life. Because as soon as we say, get these things out, you can't have sugar. You can't have this. We start thinking, oh, I need sugar. I need this. Depriving myself. I'm depriving. So the more room, the more of the good you add to your life, the less room for the bad. So when you look at diet and nutrition, I'd say,

can I add more fruits and vegetables? Can I add more water, add more proteins? What can I add to make less room for the bad? I'm going to say the same thing with emotional health. If you are weak on that, where can you add in more of the good to make less room for the bad? It's very hard to say, get this person out of your life or don't do this anymore or don't go on Instagram and look at, you know, that's too tempting then. But if you say, you know what, I'm going to listen to some positive podcast every day. I'm going to make sure I go walk every day outside. I'm going to make sure I do things that feel good. I'm going to call my girlfriends or girlfriends and like have a positive conversation. Exactly. That creates it. So on my phone, for instance, I am in the notes section. It's nothing crazy advanced, but I have a list of names of people. Um, and this evolves it.

I add to it. So I'm going to take people off that when I talk to them, they are that contagious energy that I like. They make me feel better about what I'm doing. I get in a better mood. Um, I know I can always count on them to, to help lift me up. I have a list of those names of people that I know, just a text to them or call them. That's going to help me. Those are people I will do anything for because they do that for me too. I make it a point to have those names present. I also, I have podcasts I subscribe to. Yours is top on that list. But knowing I listen to two podcasts a day, every single day I do it because that is good brain food. I'm surrounding myself with good information. It's less room to just scroll feeds on. So true. I love the way you approach this because you know, the idle time where we're just like

not thinking about anything or we have downtime. Uh, if we're going through a challenging time in our lives where something is stressful or we're going through a breakup or something, going through a challenging time in our lives where something is stressful or we're going through a breakup or something, that's just going to feed into negativity for not adding in positive things. I've been there. I'm sure a lot of people have been there as well. I do like people to become their best themselves possible. And I do believe anyone can achieve any goal they want.

And that's part of the evolution too. Like I want to accomplish my own goals too. And if, you know, if I don't want to accomplish my own goals too. I don't want to just say, okay, I did an e-book. Anyone can do an e-book. Anyone can do it. Absolutely.

Can anyone publish a book and do it successfully? I don't know. I don't know. So I like the challenges on myself too. But I would say the big reason is I do want to get this out

to more people. What do you want to be known for in the next couple of years as you've evolved from this woman that's transformed her health and her life to having the things that really mean a lot to you as opposed to the corporate, the marriage that wasn't working? What do you want for the next couple of years after this book to be known as or for people to think about when they

hear you? I don't want to be known as anything special. I want to be known as the person that led the way to an example that they could do it too. Because I think it doesn't matter what someone's goal is. I think everybody should have an opportunity to go for their goals and become their best them. And I feel, and I've been told that I represent that average person because fine, somebody might look at me now and say, oh, she's fit. She looks good, whatever. But I worked really hard to get there and I did not always look that way or I didn't always feel this way. And I love sharing my age. I love sharing struggles I've been through because I want others to know that it doesn't matter where you come from or what you're starting from. There is a way for you to improve and become your best you. And so I want to be

known as that example that helped encourage others to do that same.