Get R.I.D. of It!
"Take delight in the simple things, for you will soon realize they are the big things."
There is an unspoken, but hard truth about fitness. For most of us, it comes from a bad place. I understand and I invite the discomfort that truth evokes. The reflection in the mirror isn’t good enough; the comment of friend or partner about appearance isn’t what you want to hear; the memory of being bullied about any part of your physical or mental state exists in your mind and serves as a constant obstacle to your true and deserved happiness, yet we allow that past to hinder our future. The fact is, whether it be added weight, emotional distress, or past anguish, we all have something that we wish to RID ourselves of once and for all.
I proudly introduce to you The R.I.D. system, the mantra of The Mills Method.
RELEASE
the insecurities about your body and accept the reality that everyday is an opportunity for a new beginning.
INVITE
the fear of vulnerability and open yourself to a new brainpower.
DEVOTE
yourself to continuing the hard work on body and mind to establish and enjoy the process of achieving true balance.
The R.I.D system allows you the ability to make any situation more positive, to make all decisions more fluid, and to make all innate confidence of your self worth more cohesive.
Release. Letting go of whatever the situation is that exists as a roadblock or obstacle to your ability to complete a task or accomplish a goal. By taking the moment to take a breathe and acknowledge this block in the mind, you are able to bring the idea of forward progress to reality by allowing the idea to be a concrete and manageable reality.
Invite. The most difficult but simultaneously the most rewarding. Invitation of the pain, the struggle, the disappointment, or even the failure is never easy, but the invitation of finding comfort in allowing change to be constant and welcomed is a mentality that you most likely have not been trained to use until now. Inviting a new brainpower to look at a situation from a new angle, to be open to seeing a different perspective creates the space necessary to not only become better at self-exploration, but also to work more cohesively with others by seeing and understanding how someone else has used the R.I.D. system to demolish their obstructions and accelerate the achievement of their goals. Though it may not be immediate, it will become increasingly easier, more efficient, and more goal oriented. You are looking to make a personal change, but you are anything but alone. By yourself, you face the challenges of carrying an unbearable weight alone - a weight that has likely led you to feeling discouraged or incapable of accomplishing your goals. Shared experience, an open line of communication, and a singular focus defined by you and encouraged by a community of celebrators creates a defined, focused, and structured goal.
Devote. This is what brings it all together. Having allowed the steps before this to occur opens the door to an infinite realm of possibilities as you clearly focus on a new goal. Creating the space to allow change and define a positive path- a task that seemed to be a solitary Herculean effort, is now several simple small tasks set forth geared at accomplishing small, attainable, and realistic goal often. No matter what your main goal may be, the little daily challenges that we face to help reach these goals becomes more concise and quantifiable, creating a constant flow of inspired change.
Using this system, whether in an intensive mind and body reset over the course of many months or simply in a brief few minutes amidst a stressful day is guaranteed to garner the power to invoke intrinsic change and redefine personal goals. Though there may not truly be a paved road in this lifetime that defines success, the truth remains that obliterating stressors and obstacles that hold each of us back and devoting each step towards a deserved love of self will make taking each step in the right direction easier, better, and more confident than all steps that you have taken before.