One of the things I love about listening to Jillian Michaels\u2019 podcasts is how she doesn\u2019t let people get away with saying \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d for an answer to her questions. She\u2019s totally right in that we do know the answer, it\u2019s a matter of digging deep to get there and many of us aren\u2019t willing to do that.<\/p>\n
Jillian typically asks a caller why they aren\u2019t comfortable going to the gym, or why they won\u2019t look in the mirror, and often time the answer is \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d But, deep down, they do know and after much prodding, she\u2019ll usually pull the answer out of them and you can almost feel the \u2018aha\u2019 moment of the call.<\/p>\n
Which brings me to my point. Have you ever had one of those days when you\u2019re just grumpy and you can\u2019t figure out why?<\/p>\n
I had that day on Monday. I didn\u2019t really understand why all I wanted to do was sit in my room in the quiet at the end of the day and have no one talk to me, except maybe a bag of chocolate chips cookies. After all the talking I do about needing more social interaction in my day, here I was hiding out from everyone.<\/p>\n
I wasn\u2019t even having a particularly bad day, I was just done with everyone by the end of it, I just couldn\u2019t pinpoint why I was grumpy.<\/p>\n
Everyone was bugging me, I just wanted to be left alone. I asked myself several times why I was so grumpy and I kept answering (to myself), \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
But, I did. It was there, I just chose not to acknowledge it.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, I got up and got in my workout and then went to work. I was still anxious. And then I solved a looming problem I\u2019d been working on at work and all of a sudden the cloud went away. I had let this stupid issue get to me. I knew if I had needed to spend a lot of time fixing the problem that my boss wasn\u2019t going to be thrilled and I was worried that it was going to take a lot of time. Thankfully, I had the problem solved by 9:30.<\/p>\n
So, two thoughts \u2013<\/p>\n
1) Why did I let it get to me? It\u2019s really not a major issue, but I\u2019ve had to be pretty self-taught in much of my job and I\u2019m finally feeling like I\u2019m getting the hang of some of the details and I hated that I was still fixing some things I screwed up on early on.<\/p>\n
2) There was a reason for the grumpiness. I don\u2019t know why I couldn\u2019t or wouldn\u2019t put my finger on it on Monday night. It was there once I admitted the source of my stress and dealt with it, I felt so much better.<\/p>\n
This wasn\u2019t really a big issue, but it did get me thinking about how I didn\u2019t want to admit what the problem really was and then it got me thinking about Jillian\u2019s responses to the \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d answer and then I felt like blogging about it. So there ya go, pulling back the curtain into my thought process.<\/p>\n
What are your thoughts on the \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d answer to a deep question. Do you think people don\u2019t know? Or do they just not want to say?<\/p>\n
How do you break out of a bad mood? Do you need to find the source of the nagging or can you move on without finding it right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the things I love about listening to Jillian Michaels\u2019 podcasts is how she doesn\u2019t let people get away with saying \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d for an answer to her questions. She\u2019s totally right in that we do know the answer, it\u2019s a matter of digging deep to get there and many of us aren\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfitnessfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfitnessfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfitnessfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfitnessfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfitnessfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/familyfitnessfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfitnessfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfitnessfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfitnessfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfitnessfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}