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Your Perspective Is Your Reality: Why Stalling Doesn't Mean Failing
Have you ever felt frustrated when your weight loss stalls or fitness progress seems to hit a wall? That moment when doubt creeps in and you question whether all your effort is even worth it? You're not alone—and this perspective shift might be exactly what you need.
Coach Adam Kelley tackles a game-changing approach to health plateaus that can transform discouragement into determination. While society normalizes health decline (with the average American gaining a pound of fat and losing a pound of muscle every year after 30), simply maintaining your current state already puts you ahead of the curve. This isn't about settling or making excuses—it's about recognizing that progress isn't always linear and that not getting worse is actually winning when regression is the statistical norm.
The true power lies in understanding that health isn't a temporary project with an endpoint but a lifelong journey where the process itself must become fulfilling. Those who achieve lasting transformation find satisfaction in the daily habits, not just the results they produce. When you show up to exercise despite fatigue, choose nutritious foods when you'd rather indulge, or maintain healthy routines during challenging times, you're developing character traits that enhance every area of life.
Every successful person—from elite athletes to business leaders—faces periods of self-doubt and plateaus. The difference between those who ultimately succeed and those who don't often comes down to perspective and persistence through these challenging phases. Some days will bring substantial progress, others minimal advancement, and on particularly difficult days, simply not moving backward constitutes success.
Ready to transform your approach to health plateaus? Subscribe to Win On Purpose for more mindset shifts that turn obstacles into opportunities. Share this episode with someone who might be struggling with their progress—it could be the perspective they need to keep moving forward.
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What's up, guys, welcome to the Win On Purpose podcast with Coach Adam Kelly. Appreciate you guys for tuning in. This is going to be a really good episode, guys, super excited about this one. So we're going to discuss some key perspectives that are really going to help you stay on task, stay on drive, stay on track for your goals, your life term goals, by the way that you think and the way that you process. Times where we stall, times where progress isn't moving the rate that we think it should, times where we feel like we may just be wasting our time, and it's really not beneficial, guys. So we're going to fix that perspective, we're going to correct that way of thinking so that it no longer stops us from achieving our goals and bettering ourselves, but we can use it to fuel our momentum and keep us on the path to success. So you guys, enjoy the episodes and, as always, we'll see you on the other side.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Win On Purpose podcast From health and fitness, business, personal development, relationships and more. We promise you will find inspiration to help you win on purpose in all areas of your life journey. Now for your host, adam Kelly.
Speaker 1:What's up, guys, welcome back to the Win On Purpose podcast with coach Adam Kelly. Thank you, guys, for once again tuning in, dedicating this time to listen, to learn, to ingest this information and hopefully utilize it on your journey or utilize it to share with other people who may be on their own health journey, and now you are empowered to help educate them and help inform them of ways that they can really better their health without all the extra nonsense and without all the extra noise that's out there on social media. So I appreciate you guys. I definitely appreciate all the likes and the shares and the comments. You know, you guys, sharing the podcast on your stories, things like that really helps us, really helps get the message out there, helps us get the podcast out. You know, just helps us get in front of different crowds who may not have access. You know, maybe without that are outside of my reach, outside of of Transform Health Initiatives reach. So really appreciate you guys there.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to hop into the topic of the day and this is just basically I'm just chatting with you guys one on one. I have no notes prepared, anything like that, but this topic is definitely near and dear to my heart because I know how much it affects people. I know how much it can really just discourage people and put them in a place to where they end up regressing and going back to their old habits and their old ways of doing things. So very important topic for me and I think it could benefit you as well. So, if you're on a health journey, especially if you've had times where you've stalled out, or maybe you're in a stall right now and you know you're kind of contemplating if you want to continue on, if it's even worth it, if it's worth the extra time and you know the the work that you're putting in at the gym, or just you know being more physically active, and is it worth the work of dieting and you know counting your macros or whatever. However you're going about that part of things. This message is definitely for you guys, so just roll with me here.
Speaker 1:So what I want to talk about is the fact of how important our perspective is, just in general. Okay, one of my favorite things that I say is you know, your perspective is your reality. Okay, typically, whatever, however we see things, whatever we experienced personally, and how we, you know, analyze that and interpret that from our own viewpoint is how it's going to affect us and therefore, you know, our perspective can really control the direction of our life, rather for good or for bad, can really control the direction of our life, rather for good or for bad, and this is so important to understand. This is why I really hammer down on perspective with my clients, with you guys on the podcast, with anybody that I talk to. Our perspective is so important because that's going to be the determiner if we can continue on doing hard things and doing the things required of us or if we're going to buckle and fold and go back. Ok, so perspective is everything.
Speaker 1:And you know if you've been dieting for any given time or you've had diet history in the back, you know in your background and you are maybe in a place right now where you've kind of stalled out or maybe you're kind of still new in the game. You're just a few weeks, few months in and you're just not really seeing the progress that you want to see. You know the scale's not moving in the right direction. You're not seeing what you want to see in the mirror. You know maybe other people notice something and you're like, yeah, okay, but you're not seeing what you had perceived that you were going to see back when you set your goals and when you started out on this journey. And that can be a very hard pill to swallow when, like I said, we're having to go out of our way to eat better. You know, rather, if that's meal prepping or tracking our food or avoiding certain foods or certain situations, trying to break old habits, you know we're investing our time and energy and effort in the gym or just being more physically active, and that takes its toll. So, you know, if we don't have the right perspective when it comes to those times where we feel like things aren't moving the way we think they should, or at the rate that we think they should, most likely it's going to cause us to regress and backslide and go back to doing those things that got us in that position to begin with.
Speaker 1:So this, obviously, is not something that I want to see for you guys, not something that I want to see for anybody. So, hopefully, what I have to say today is going to kind of open up your mind to a new way of thinking. You know not to use it as a crutch or excuse, but use it to empower you and to inspire you to keep going and keep trucking along, okay? So let me kind of set the backdrop a little bit on some context, so you guys kind of understand where I'm coming from on this, and I'm going to give you a couple statistics here. Okay, so in America, on average, each adult gains about a pound of body fat per year after the age of 30, from the year 30 and on. Okay, that's just on average. Some people it's more, some people it's less, and at the same time this is happening, on average americans lose about a pound of muscle mass every year from the age of 30 and on.
Speaker 1:So we have a double negative thing happening here, two ways that our health is deteriorating each and every year. This is statistic wise. So, across the board, this is what we see. So this is what's considered as normal for our society at this given point in time, and obviously that shouldn't be anything any of us want to experience, but that's what it is. Obviously that shouldn't be anything any of us want to experience, but that's what it is. And so, with that being said, it's very normal in our day and age to get worse every year and our health to deteriorate every year.
Speaker 1:That you think you should, or things aren't happening as fast as you want them to understand that if you go six months a year, two years, five years, two weeks, and at the very least you're not getting worse, then you're actually winning there. Guys, think about that because, again, the majority of the people around you in our society are getting worse health-wise every single year. Okay, they're setting themselves up to die faster and have a lower quality of life while they are still alive every single year. So if, at the very least because, say, you happen to be maintaining where you're at and progress has stopped, or progress really doesn't seem to have began, but yet you're not regressing, you are actually progressing. Okay, because, again, statistic wise, you should be gaining weight, body fat and you should be losing muscle, but you're not right. So maybe you're building muscle, but your weight's not going down the way that you think it should be. You're building muscle, but your weight's not going down the way that you think it should be.
Speaker 1:This isn't really so bad when you consider what's not happening, which is you regressing and getting worse. So you're extending your quality of life, you're extending your lifespan, you're extending your enjoyment out of life. These are all positive things because, at the end of the day, yes, training is fun. I enjoy lifting. You know, all these things are great, especially when it comes to like superficial reasons, like we want to look a certain way or we want our clothes to fit a certain way All those are great. But the true goal of health and fitness should be to extend our lifespan and the quality of life within that lifespan.
Speaker 1:Okay so, if doing what you should be doing with your health, okay. So this is not to say, like I said at the beginning, this topic is not a crutch or an excuse to stay where you're at If that's not where you want to be now. Maybe you want to maintain where you're at, maybe you're happy with where you're at, maybe you don't need to lose anything and you don't want to gain anything. And maybe you've already got to your goal weight or your goal body and you do want to stay there and maintain that to your goal weight or your goal body and you do want to stay there and maintain that. That's totally fine, guys, you've already won. Just keep doing what you're doing. You're going to have to keep doing what you're doing, but just keep doing that.
Speaker 1:But if you do want to get better, if you do want to lose body fat, if you do want to build muscle and strength and stability and mobility, if you do want to feel better and live longer, if you do want to feel better and live longer, then you just have to realize that sometimes there's going to be slow periods within that. Sometimes there's going to be plateaus, if you will I don't really like using that word, because people have a big misconception of what an actual plateau is but those do happen, especially if you have a larger goal or a longer time goal that you're trying to accomplish. Those times are going to happen, it's guaranteed. There's no way around it. Okay, but just because that happens doesn't mean something bad is happening. Okay, if you're just breaking, even at the end of the day, then nothing's bad is happening Because, again, according to our societal norms, you should be getting worse.
Speaker 1:That's the standard and you're already above the standard, even if you're just maintaining your health. That you were at 49 into year 50, or that you were at 34 into year 35. Okay, so that's a big win there. So definitely we should go for our goals, we should build the body that we want to live in, we should want to feel our best and move our best and think our best and all these great things. Absolutely.
Speaker 1:I will always encourage people to become the best version of themselves, but don't let that idea of becoming the best version of yourself make you think that you're failing, because you're not seeing a change day to day, or even week to week, or even month to month. Okay, this is a lifetime journey. This is something that we have to understand. This is not something that you're just going to do for. If you want to be successful for life, okay, I'm talking to those people. This is not something that you're just going to do for the next two to three months in order to hit a certain number on the scale or fit in a certain size clothes, just for your vacation, and then, when you get back, you're just going to go back to doing all those old things that you used to do. That's not going to happen anymore.
Speaker 1:You have to become a new person. You have to develop new habits, new standards for yourself, new ways of living, maybe even new environments around you, in order to become this best version of yourself. But you have to also embrace those times where maybe things aren't moving the way you think that they should, because, even though they aren't good, things are still happening. If you are including exercise and physical activity and movement into your daily life, if you are putting nutritious whole foods into your body that are going to fuel your body, fuel you to a cellular level, if you're getting in your water and hydration, if you are working on your sleep and getting good sleep, you're investing in your long-term health, not just your short-term goals and your short-term physique, but your long-term health. And again, we have to keep that as the main focus. Guys, that has to be our main focus.
Speaker 1:Yes, we have these little side bullet points. Okay, it's kind of like when you watch like movies that are about detectives, or you have somebody trying to figure out a crime or figure out who the mass murderer is or whatever it is, and you see their wall and they have all the pictures that are, you know, kind of pyramiding from the bottom up to the top and you have all these different suspects and witnesses and you know possible, you know people of interest and all these things. But they're all dots that are connecting, that are leading up to this one person, this one criminal, this one idea. And that's the same way with our health journey. We do these things, we set these little goals that keep us moving along, keep us getting towards that best version of ourself, but understanding that it's really leading towards a lifetime of health and fitness and feeling good. That's really what the goal should be overall, and we pick these little small goals, these little bullet points along the way to keep us heading in the right direction for that ultimate fulfillment.
Speaker 1:Okay, so kind of take that, guys, and chew on that for a little bit, because this can really be life changing when it comes to you being able to stick with something that's hard or something that doesn't seem to have a quick benefit or you're not getting that instant gratification, or maybe it's super slow gratification. But what also goes with this idea and the stop process is understanding what a journey is and what an actual health journey is, because your health is something that you're going to deal with until the day that you stop breathing and as long as you have breath in your lungs, the time is going to pass. Either way, ok, but your, your health journey, no matter if you're making poor choices that are going to harm your health or making good choices that are going to improve your health. Either way, all of those instances and experiences and moments are part of your health journey, right as you go along. It's so important to understand that it's more about the journey than it is about the destination, because the destination is the end of our life.
Speaker 1:I don't think any of us really are in a rush to get there, necessarily, so we want to extend that journey out and make that journey as smooth and, as you know, as safe as we can, because there's going to be bumpy spots, there's going to be dangers there lurking around certain corners. We have to go through dark spaces and tight spaces and scary spots, and you know that all comes along with a long journey. But the journey is the destination, not the goal. Your health goals are not the destination because it doesn't stop until you die. So unless your plan is to hit a certain goal weight and die the next day, I truly hope it's not. Okay, guys, don't do that, it's not that serious. But if your goal is to hit your goal, weight and die the next day, then this doesn't apply to you. To hit your goal, weight and die the next day then this doesn't apply to you. But if that's not your goal and you want to live at that goal weight or in that goal body or in that goal how I feel every day when I wake up and go to sleep, then the journey is the destination.
Speaker 1:So, as long as we stay in progress in the process, we're going to obtain progress. It just comes along with it. If we embrace the process, then the progress will come with it. It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, it may not be next month, but if you continue on on that process and embracing that process and fine-tuning that process and finding satisfaction from that process and finding fulfillment from that process and passion in that process, then, regardless of what your goal may be, you're going to get there and you're going to surpass that by all means.
Speaker 1:Because as long as you're still alive, you have every reason to get up and keep pushing and keep driving and keep trying and keep giving your best effort and keep becoming a better version of yourself and keep getting better than yesterday. Because, again, this is a journey. All right, and the journey we're not. We got pit stops. Yeah, but you're only going to reach that final destination. Yeah, but you're only going to reach that final destination when you get there, and then it's done, we don't have to worry about these bodies anymore at that point. So hopefully, guys, this gives you some good perspective and inspires you. You know, motivates you to get to keep. Keep your foot on that pedal. Sometimes you got to ease up. You know you hit a. You hit a school zone. You know you got to slow up the speed a little bit. Sometimes you got to stop at a red light or a stop sign. That's fine, but keep pushing.
Speaker 1:If you're somebody who has tried to lose weight in the past, or you've tried to get more fit or feel better or increase your energy or improve your sleep or improve your eating, and you have given up because of these times, have gotten hard, let this be encouragement to you, guys, because there's not a single person on this entire planet that has had a big goal or any goal that's going to require something from them. Okay, not something that's given to you, but something that's going to require something from them that hasn't gone through these periods of self-doubt, of reconsideration. If this is even what I want, is it even possible? Can I even do it? You think of all the greatest athletes in the world dealt with these thoughts. You think of the richest businessmen, most successful business people in this world have gone through these moments.
Speaker 1:We're not just talking. This supersedes health and fitness. This goes into all aspects of life and this is why, with the Went On Purpose podcast, I say that it's not just about health and fitness, but also every other aspect of our life, because a lot of the things, a lot of the ideas, the concepts, the lessons that we learn from our health and fitness journey can be applied directly to every other aspect of our life and improve every other thing in our life. So, as we're improving our health, we're applying those same principles to everything else in our life. So our whole life around us starts to get better and better, and this is when health transformations truly become transformational, because it affects every other thing in your life.
Speaker 1:All right, if you show up to the gym on the days that you don't want to be there, the days that you're tired, the days where you're sore, the days where you're low on energy, the days, women, when you know it's that time and and you just feel like you don't want to do anything but just roll up in a ball or whatever the situation may be, but you still, because you made that commitment to yourself because you decided you know what I'm going to make this happen. So those days, you still went to the gym. You still did the best that you could within those circumstances. You know, if you that, all the times that you've turned down meals or junk food or whatever it is your favorite things, because you know that, hey, this temporary sacrifice is worth the long term reward of whenever I feel the way I'm going to feel as I continue on.
Speaker 1:Like so many different things that we learn along our journey, we can apply those to our businesses, to our relationships, to you know the way that we care for anything around us, and it's going to benefit everything, guys. So never be afraid to take what you learn, you know on one subject and apply it to other areas. And, like I said, that's what I love about the gym, because there's so many correlations to life and to everything else that you know we can apply and get better. So, like I said, guys, I'm hoping that this benefits you. Keep on trucking on, guys. Get back on the mission, get back on the goal, and the goal is pursuing the best health that we can, each and every day. All right, which means there's no deadline, there's no ending point, until we're no longer breathing.
Speaker 1:So we are consistently striving for a better version of ourselves every day. Some days we're going to make lots of progress. Some days we're going to barely get anywhere. Some days, the best that we can do is just not go backwards, and that is a heck of a win, especially if you've gone backwards in the past and now you learn to overcome that, you learn to push through that. That is truly transformational. That's where you're going to find the transformative power from prioritizing your health and your fitness and your well-being. All right. So, guys, whatever you do with this information, make sure you do something good for yourself, something good for yourself, something good for your health, something good for those you care about. And, whatever you do, make sure you win on purpose. Talk to you next time.