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Rebuild, Rise, Repeat: Guide to Self-Love and Power · The Diva Details

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Welcome to the Diva Detail. Welcome to the Diva Detail,
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where bold, confident women embrace life unapologetically.
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From love and sex to wellness and reinvention,
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we keep it raw, real, and powerful.
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No filters, no limits, just fearless conversations
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to help you thrive. Let's dive in with Diva Mia.
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Well, hello. This is Diva Mia. And today
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we're going to talk about taking care of yourself and your comeback after
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you go through a breakup or divorce. But really, you should be
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taking care of yourself all along. There's something that happens to women
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after you start taking care of yourself again. Maybe you had children. And I'm
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not just talking about losing weight. I'm not just talking about Botox, a new hairstyle,
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buying a better wardrobe, or suddenly becoming obsessed with the gym. I'm talking
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about the moment when you look at your life and realize, I've neglected
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myself long enough. I have been taking care of other people for so long.
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Maybe you spent years raising children. Maybe you built a business. Maybe you took
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care of a husband, which was also a child or a partner, aging parents,
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employees, clients, or everyone else who needed something from you. Maybe you
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went through menopause or had an illness. Maybe you're coming out of
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divorce or someone just broke your heart. But life just beats
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the hell out of us sometimes. And sometimes you have to struggle through and come
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out the other side. One of the things you can do is have positive self-talk.
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I think that's the most important thing. When you're going through hell, turn to your
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self-talk to make things better. Sometimes somewhere along the way,
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you've disappeared from your own priority list. One day something changes.
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Maybe a switch got flipped and you start walking again. You start lifting again.
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You start fixing your sleep and your eating habits improve.
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And you finally start doing your hair the way you like it. Maybe you just
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start working out more and taking better care of yourself. It seems to happen to
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ladies in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. We kind of go over the top.
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We're starting to pay attention now to our skin more. We're starting to drink
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more water. You make that doctor's appointment you've been putting off and
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your house starts to get cleaner. Your finances get cleaned up. You just start saying
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no to everyone else and yes to you.
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It's all about self-love now, ladies. There's a reason why so many
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women are deciding to stay single because the alternative seems
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to be chaos. Or maybe you were in a relationship and married,
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and then you come out and you date someone who's just as bad as raising
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another child. You stop answering texts immediately
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from other people. Maybe you stop accepting crumbs from people.
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Sometimes something very interesting happens. Your confidence comes back.
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Your self-esteem, your self-worth skyrockets.
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Here's what people misunderstand about confidence. Confidence isn't simply believing
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that you look good. Real confidence is realizing how truly amazing
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you are, how fantastic you are. You may have a really big heart,
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a really good spirit. You're a loyal, trustworthy, honorable person
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who's smart, intelligent, sexy, and fun. Then you realize
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I can trust myself again. Maybe you've been putting yourself within arm's
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length of the wrong people, but you need to learn to trust you again.
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That's what today's episode is about. The confidence to come back to
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the best version of yourself, to make you the priority, to give
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yourself the self-love that you need. I know a lot of times we
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give so much of ourselves to relationships and marriages.
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And sometimes we forget to give back to ourselves. You're not going to become
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somebody different. You're just coming back to who you truly are.
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And you need to build your self-confidence. It's not vanity to have self-confidence.
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Let's get something out of the way. Wanting to look good does not automatically make
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you shallow. Wanting to feel attractive does not make you insecure.
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A strong body does not make you vain. It makes it so you don't break
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a hip later, ladies. A strong body keeps your metabolism up, makes you feel better.
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Losing weight doesn't mean you hate yourself. It just means you want to improve.
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All about constant improvement. Can you love yourself right now and
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still want to improve? Absolutely. Improvement just means you're trying to grow
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and life is all about growth. These ideas are not mutually exclusive.
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You don't have to say, I don't want to improve myself because then I'll have
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too big of an ego. No, your ego is not involved
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if you're trying to improve yourself for the right reasons. There has
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been this bizarre cultural argument that if you want to change your body,
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you must somehow be rejecting your old self. And I don't follow that.
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I think you should be growing in all areas of your life at all times.
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Some you may take bigger leaps in it in a given moment, but you
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should not be decreasing your education, decreasing your workflow,
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especially if you're still working. Don't cut back. There's no reason
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for you not to achieve anything you want. You have good morals,
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values, and ethics, which means you don't need external validation.
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You're not doing this for external validation. You're doing this
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for you. Sometimes changing your body is one of the greatest demonstrations
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of self-respect, because what are you actually saying? You're saying,
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I deserve strength, I deserve energy, mobility, good health. I want
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to feel fantastic again. You want to be the best looking person you can
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when you walk into a room. Yes, you deserve to look in the mirror and
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like what you see, but there's nothing wrong with that, because body confidence
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shouldn't be built around when strangers think you're attractive. You should
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think yourself's attractive, because if all you're doing is wanting other people's validation
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and attention, it's a fragile self-confidence. It means you're insecure.
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But real body confidence comes from knowing that you're taking care of
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it. There's a huge difference. Confidence is built through evidence,
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and you don't think your way into confidence. You behave your
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way into it. So think about it. If you're a very disciplined person, you might
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be motivated, but discipline is where it matters. Every time you tell yourself you're going
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to do something, you do it. If, on the other hand, every time you
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tell yourself you don't do it, you weaken your own trust. You've got to be
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able to look yourself in the at the end of the day. Are you doing
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what you say you're going to do? When you make a commitment, are you following
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through? Don't say I'm going to start Monday and then Monday comes and
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you'll say I'll start tomorrow. Don't go out saying I'm going to stop drinking every
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night and then every night you still drink. Then there's also the old relationship.
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If you're in a nasty relationship, stop giving excuses for
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the man. If it's time to leave, just exit. If you're having financial
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issues, you need to start working on your finances, maybe with your partner or your
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husband. But get it done. And if you're solo, work on it yourself,
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because the reality is nobody's coming to save us ladies. We got to do it
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ourselves. I think everyone should be lifting weights personally. If you want to live a
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long life, weightlifting is going to be a requirement. It's not optional anymore. Getting adequate
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sleep is so important. So if you're with a snoring guy or a snoring husband,
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or if you're, you know, you've got situations,
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craziness going on, you need to make sure you're getting enough sleep because as we
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get older, we need even more. Then Monday becomes next Monday. Don't push things out.
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When you say you're going to do something, do it. Stop making excuses
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because the excuses, the old saying goes, you can either have your excuses or
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success, but you can't have both. Eventually your brain has heard so many promises
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that it basically says, oh yeah, right. You're actually never going to do it.
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That's not a confidence problem. That's a credibility problem with yourself. Can you trust yourself?
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If you have problems trusting others, are you not trusting yourself? Credibility can
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be rebuilt, but you have to rebuild it by rebuilding trust.
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Like you do it with another person. You have to take baby steps. You have
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to do what you say you're going to do. You have to commit to doing
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what you say you're going to do. And you keep your promises, but start
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small. Tell yourself you're going to walk for 20 minutes and walk for 20 minutes
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every day. Tell yourself you're going to drink adequate water and make sure you drink
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8 to 10 glasses a day, depending on what you need. Make sure you get
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in bed by 8, 9, 10, whatever your bedtime is. Go to bed.
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Don't stay up scrolling through social media. Because you tell
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yourself you're going to stop checking social media and then you keep checking it.
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Stop doom scrolling. Social media is no more than a brain
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rot for most people. A lot of it's not good stuff, not information
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that you need. If you need something, you can go look it up. You don't
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need to doom scroll mindlessly through social media.
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Evidence becomes self-trust. So as you achieve and as you do,
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and as you create more discipline, you're going to start self-trusting yourself.
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Self-trust will turn into self-confidence. That's what we're really
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talking about. Your self-confidence and how to build it.
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So take care of your body changes as soon as you can,
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because your body is changing all the time. Because when your body's taken
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care of, your mind changes. There is something incredibly powerful about becoming physically stronger,
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especially for women. It makes you feel a little safer,
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especially in midlife. You start lifting weights and suddenly you're watching yourself accomplish
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things you couldn't do 6 months ago. Then you add another thing
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and you add another plate on, or you walk another mile, or you get to
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swim faster and your clothes fit differently. You can stand more erect, your posture,
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you get more confidence just with your posture changes. And your shoulders,
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they move, they pull back and your head comes up. And that's
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just a confidence statement in and of itself. You stop trying to make yourself
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physically smaller in every room and become proud of who you are. You are
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an amazing person. This can happen for men or women because you
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can start to begin to think, what else can I change? Work on yourself
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instead of looking for external validation instead
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of looking for kudos from people that don't matter. I know with social
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media these days, a lot of people are constantly posting videos of themselves
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for the likes so they can constantly get self-validation
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and attention. The problem is, is the people that do that, they need to spend
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more time working on themselves. Now I get it.
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You can make a business out of it and it, maybe you're doing
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it to teach people to lift a certain way or do something. But if you're
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nonstop posting information about yourself, is there a hole that
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you're trying to fill? Just to get more thumbs up. Physical transformation often becomes proof
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that transformation is possible everywhere else. Once you transform your body,
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you might be able to change other parts of your life, your business, your relationships,
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maybe your environment. Write that book you want to write
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or leave something that isn't working for you. You can start something
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you've been afraid to start. And I highly recommend this because that's all about growth.
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Growth is what life is about. You should be improving, not staying the same.
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Don't stay sedentary in any areas of your life.
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Improve, become better, become the person you want to be.
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And stop looking at your life as a fixed condition because you get to choose
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it. Everything you have is a choice. Start looking
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as if it's something you can build into something amazing, something in 20 or
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30 years you look back and you're like proud of and you're like,
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wow, I did that. Confidence isn't something you turn on
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Saturday night and that build it till Monday morning, then when nobody's watching.
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It's a lifestyle. It's a, it's something you're going to do for the rest of
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your life. If you're trying to rebuild yours, there are several areas of your life
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that deserve your attention. Your body's being number one. Your body and
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your mind go together, but your body is number one. So you got to move
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it. Go walk, go lift weights, stretch, swim, get that muscle
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going and protect your mobility. Your food. Stop treating
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food nutrition like punishment. Enjoy the food you're
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eating and make them healthy. Eat foods that make your body function better.
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Proteins, vegetables, fruits, water. Figure out what foods make you feel
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fantastic and which foods make you feel like you swallowed a sofa
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and you swell up. Pay attention. And there's also a lot of different
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allergy tests and food sensitivity tests you can take. And a lot of
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times when you cut out the foods that you're sensitive to, you decrease your inflammation
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and you lose weight. And then don't forget about your sleep because sleep affects almost
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everything that you experience in life. If you don't sleep, you're not going to have
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energy the next day. You might be hungrier. You might even skip a
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workout because you didn't sleep enough. It will definitely affect your mood, your patience,
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and your appearance. And any decisions you make are affected by sleep.
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You cannot continuously run your body into the ground and expect confidence
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to flourish because exhaustion makes everything feel harder.
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It makes you more snippy. It makes you more argumentative and it
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may make you snap when you haven't had enough sleep. Then let's talk about your
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overall appearance. Yes, appearance matters, not because other people get
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to determine your value, but you should be proud of your appearance.
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Presentation changes how many people experience themselves. It just does.
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So if you walk out in a suit or like a nice dress,
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you feel better than if you're walking outside in a pair of sweatshirts with your
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hair not done. Take care of your hair, your teeth, your skin, the basics,
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but make sure you feel good in your clothes too. Wear clothes that fit your
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body. You may need to lose 20 pounds, but don't wait till you lose 20
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pounds to find clothes that make you feel good about yourself because that will
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help you get the 20 pounds off. Get dressed when you leave the house,
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do your hair, put on earrings. Now I'm not big on doing makeup all
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the time, although a lot of people like don't leave the house without makeup.
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I have a kind of a natural skin tone that I don't like to
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put a lot of makeup on because it just, it's just not my thing.
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And if you need makeup, by all means, but do what makes you
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feel comfortable and makes you confident every time you leave the house.
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Maybe you need earrings, wear that perfume that you've been putting off
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that maybe, maybe the time is now just to start using up some of the
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stuff you got. Your good life does not begin 10 pounds from now. It begins
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right now because life is short. You might be gone tomorrow.
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And if you were, would you look back and be proud of what you built?
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Would you be proud of who you are? That's the question.
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Did you live the life to your fullest? Because we only get one life.
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Stop scrolling through it on social, on your phone and
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start running after it because you have one life. Take it
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by the horns and own it. Your environment, look around your house. Does your environment
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support the person you're becoming or is it complete chaos? Clean your bathroom, organize your
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closets. Those types of things help. I just reorganized my closet. It was amazing.
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I have so much more room now. And get rid of the things that no
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longer belong in your life. Your physical environment
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constantly communicates with your brain. So if it's overcrowded, your brain's
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not going to be happy. Sometimes confidence begins with throwing out 14 years of mystery
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chargers in the junk drawer. I have that problem, I must say, but you got
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to start somewhere. The connection between confidence and self-respect
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is it gets deeper as you get older. I think that's why so many women
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our age are so proud and loud and confident because we
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just don't give a damn, especially us Gen Xers. We just don't give a damn.
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When you start taking care of yourself, your tolerance for mistreatment by
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others often goes down. It's because self-respect
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changes your standards. So when you get mistreated, you just cut people off. It's a
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definitive thing. When you don't feel good about yourself though, it becomes easier
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to tolerate people who don't treat you particularly well. So if you haven't slept,
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if you're not feeling so good, if you're getting gaslit
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or breadcrumbs or hot and cold, you may allow more things
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than you would if you were more confident. So don't
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chase validation and don't overexplain. If something is
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bothering you, get it out of your life. You may accept inconsistent behavior,
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but do you really want to? You may make excuses for somebody,
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but do you really want to? And how many times do they have to disappoint
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you before you let them go? Whether it's a friend, a family
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member, or a partner or a spouse, you may tolerate disrespect because losing
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them feels scarier than losing yourself. But the question is, have you already lost yourself?
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Do you need, you need to find your way back? Because a lot of times
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people in marriages, they lose themselves in a marriage or
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in a long-term relationship, and they have to find their way
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back. And sometimes they need to end the relationship in order to do so.
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But when you start rebuilding your own life, something shifts. You start thinking,
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wait a second. I get up every morning and take care of myself.
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I got this. I work hard. I'm building my future, protecting my health,
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becoming strong. You're lifting weights.
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You've got peace in your life again. Do you want to bring chaos into it
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again? I think this is why so many women aren't dating because of the quality
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of men out there. I don't think you do. Absolutely not. Don't bring chaos into
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your life. That's when standards start changing. Confidence makes
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rejection less fragile because your entire identity isn't dependent upon
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another person's approval. And that's a beautiful thing. You don't need
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constant validation from other people. You got this,
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girl. You're in control of your destiny. It's so great to feel this way,
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ladies. It just really is. You can walk into any room and you can see
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people who are confident, people who aren't, just from their body language. It's especially important
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in relationships. One of the greatest mistakes people make after a breakup is immediately searching
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for somebody else to make them feel desirable again. They rush
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into another relationship trying to Keep that dopamine fix
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going. I think there's a better approach. Before becoming desirable yourself again,
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build a life you genuinely enjoy, and then you
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can look outside. But make sure you're happy and you love yourself first,
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because otherwise you're going to repeat the same mistakes in the next relationship.
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Exercise, travel, see friends, go out partying, girls, go dancing.
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You can build your career, create hobbies, learn something, get strong and healthy.
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And then deal with a partner or bring in somebody
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new into your life. I'm really one for, you know, hibernating after a relationship.
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I really like just building on myself. Make your home beautiful and
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take yourself somewhere. Maybe go on a retreat, go on a vacation just for
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you. You got to be interesting to yourself to be interesting to others,
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ladies, because when your life is full, dating becomes very
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different. You're no longer interviewing someone for the position of please
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rescue me from my loneliness. You're evaluating whether this person actually improves
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an already great life. If they don't improve it, why are you letting
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them come into it? This is an entirely different negotiation
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position. I'm not trying to make light of relationships, but it is kind
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of a negotiation and an interview position. Why are you asking people
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to come into your life if they're going to make it more chaotic
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or worse? It used to be that you wanted a relationship. Oh, do they
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like me? And you say, do I like who I am when I'm with this
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person is around? Are they honest? There's a lot of dishonest people out
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there. So you got to really cycle through. And if they give you any icky
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feelings, just don't bring them in. Are they consistent? Do they
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make my life calmer or more chaotic? Do they make, give you peace when
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you're with them or is life more chaotic? Do they match
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their words with their actions? And do they respect your
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boundaries? That's a big one for me. Because I have let
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my boundaries down in the past to, I guess it was to allow someone
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to stay in my life that I really enjoyed,
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but then I wish I hadn't later on. That was a regret I had to
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take in and say, you know what, next time I'm not going to do that.
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I've learned that lesson. Do they have integrity? Does their word actually
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mean what they say? Because there's a lot of cheaters out there, ladies, be careful
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with that. Confidence changes the question. The new questions,
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it's more of, will I allow them in my life? Or does he take away?
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And you'll learn over and over as you get more confident, the questions
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that you want to feel, and you're not going to bend your boundaries next time.
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But stop waiting for motivation. Here's another important thing. You will not
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always feel motivated. You won't. Nobody does. If your entire
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self-care program requires you to wake up every morning at 4 o'clock screaming, let's go,
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you're eventually going to be disappointed. Some mornings you're going to wake up thinking,
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absolutely not. Then discipline comes in. You do the walk anyway.
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You get up, you get out of bed. You got to make it for yourselves,
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ladies, to get out of bed. So like put your alarm clock
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on the other side of the room or your phone or whatever you use for
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an alarm clock. So you have to get out of bed to turn it off.
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Make a healthy breakfast every day. Just have only healthy
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ingredients in your house and it's much easier to eat healthy. When you go to
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bed, make sure you're going to bed consistently at the same time.
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Once you start keeping promises to yourself, motivation gets you more excited
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and routine will get you the results you need because it's all about discipline
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and consistency. Here's the 30-day confidence comeback I want to go over with you.
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If you're listening and thinking, okay, Mia, where do I start? Let's start
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with 30 days. It's not a complete reinvention, not a 47-item
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morning routine involving Himalayan sea salt and chanting under
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a full moon. It's 30 days of basic consistency.
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Pick a few commitments that you want. I think it's a good thing to
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start with anywhere from 3 to 6, depends on how motivated
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you are. Let's say you want to walk every day for 30 minutes, or if
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you are capable of doing more progressively, do more. So maybe start at 20 minutes
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and add 5 minutes a day or 5 minutes every few days and add resistance
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training several times per week. That's a basic. And then clean up your
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nutrition. You don't need perfection. Focus on nutrition foods most of the
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time and make sure you don't buy any processed foods when you go to the
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store. Prioritize protein, vegetables, hydration, and those types of
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foods. They're going to make you feel better. If it's real food, we all know
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it's better to eat than the bag of Doritos. And you don't need that can
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of soda. You just need a glass of water. You can do, and you know
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that you need to do those. Prioritize your food and then fix your sleep.
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Fixing your sleep is huge because you've got to create a bedtime that works for
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you. Put down the phone, put it in another room if you keep going to
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your phone. Make your bedroom somewhere you actually want to sleep. Make it peaceful.
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Get all the junk out of there that you don't want and make it beautiful
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for you. Then get ready every day. Make sure you shower
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every day. And if you're working from home or you're retired, make sure you
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still go through your skincare and your hair and your clothes. And I recommend trying
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to get rid of as much stuff as you can in your house every day.
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Maybe you set a rule that you have to get rid of 30 things a
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week or something like that, but Get rid of stuff in your house and clean
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something every day. Maybe it's a drawer or your car or your bathroom
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or your kitchen, even a closet. Just physically clean something to
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create breathing air and breathing room. Make sure you keep your promises.
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If you're making a list of your 3 things that you have to do tomorrow,
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your 6 things, the most, the 6 most important things that you have to do
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tomorrow, make sure you're getting, these are the bare minimums you have to do.
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Anything else comes after. This is a big one. Write it down
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on a piece of paper every night before you go to bed and then just
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get it done. And ask yourself, what do I need to keep my word on
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to myself tomorrow? That if I, as soon as I get through it,
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I will feel successful. And then you win the day. That question's gonna
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change you. It's gonna give you more self-confidence and you're gonna be more committed to
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yourself. But stop making yourself smaller for other people.
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Confidence is also deciding you're finished shrinking for other people. Women do
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this all the time. We shrink our opinions, our ambitions, our bodies,
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expectations, even our achievements to make other people feel big.
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Someone compliments us and we immediately explain why they're wrong. Oh, you look amazing.
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Oh God, no, I still have 30 pounds to lose. Oh, I love your house.
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You should see the mess upstairs. Oh, your business is doing incredibly
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well. Oh, I just got lucky. Why do we do that? If somebody says you
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look gorgeous today, say thank you. If somebody says your business is doing great,
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say I work really hard at it. Thank you so much. Or if somebody says
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that, you know, you are an amazing
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person, you say, you know what? Thank you so much. I do try to
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be better every day. Stop diminishing yourself and just use the
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word thank you. You'll survive by saying thank you. You don't have to diminish yourself
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to make other people comfortable. Your age is not the problem. I especially want women
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over 40 and 50 to hear this. Your life is not over. You're just getting
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started. Our 40s and 50s, ladies, are some of the best years of our lives.
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Your attractiveness is just getting hotter. You really are. Your sexuality,
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let me tell you, sexuality can increase tremendously in your 40s and 50s.
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And your ambition is not over. It's, it's just getting started.
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Your ability to change your body is not over. You can make yourself look better
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now than you ever have in your entire life. And you'll fall in love again.
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There's good men out there. Just try to avoid the bad ones
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because they, if you spend too much time with the bad ones, you miss out
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on the good ones. Be more selective. And that way you get a good one
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instead of staying with the bad one for too long. Your ability
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to create wealth is not over either. A lot of women start businesses in their
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50s and their 60s. We can reinvent ourselves. It's definitely not over.
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You may have approached your body differently than you did at 25. Maybe you're
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not running a, you know, 5K every day. That's okay. Learn your body
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now, but don't confuse age with surrender. There are,
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those are completely different things. You can decide at 50 that your
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strongest years haven't even happened yet. You can decide at 55 that
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your best relationship hasn't happened, that you're gonna start again. You can decide at 60
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that you're starting a brand new business. This isn't some imaginary expiration date.
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Where the universe comes down and takes your dreams away. You do what you want.
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It's an amazing time to be alive, and there's so much we can do.
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I want you to remember this cycle. You take care of yourself, you feel better.
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Because you feel better, you make better decisions, and those decisions create
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better results. Those results will help you build your confidence, and that confidence
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causes you to take even better care of yourself. The cycle will repeat over and
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over again. That's the confidence loop. But there's an opposite loop too.
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If you neglect yourself, you feel worse. You make poor decisions.
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You lose confidence. You withdraw. You allow people to treat you worse.
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You neglect yourself even more. The interesting part is that both cycles are created through
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small daily decisions. And those daily decisions will determine your life and
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how successful you are, which means you can interrupt the wrong cycle whenever
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you decide to, because it's those small daily decisions, those small little tiny habits that
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you have to change. One final thing. You don't need a revenge body. You don't
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need a revenge body because some little boy broke your heart. You don't
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need to get healthy because somebody cheated on you. You don't need to get fit
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because somebody rejected you. Don't rebuild yourself hoping
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your ex will see you in 6 months from now and has an existential crisis
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in the Whole Foods parking lot. No, what you need is to
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do it for you. Absolutely. But that's not the goal. Building your body,
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you're going to be living in it forever. So build the strength that you need,
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build your health the way you want it. If you want to compete in a
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bodybuilding competition, go for it. Build your confidence because you want
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to walk into every room knowing that you respect the woman. Walking through the
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door and you're doing the best you possibly can. The greatest transformation
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isn't when somebody who hurt you regrets losing you, because who the hell cares?
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Let them go. It's when you become so fulfilled with your own
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life that you stop caring about that person completely.
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That's a good place to be. I hope that for everyone. It could
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be that your parents hurt you or a friend hurt you, but you should be
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doing things to improve you for you. So your confidence starts now. You don't
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need next Monday. You don't need January 1st. You don't need to wait until
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your divorce is final or your kids are older or work slows down. You got
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to do it daily and you definitely don't need somebody else's permission. So start today,
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drink the water, take the walk, clean your room, make your appointments, lift those weights,
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go to sleep, put on your outfit and take those pictures.
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Apply for that job you've been holding out on. Start that company, write that book,
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leave the situation that keeps destroying your peace. Get away from the people
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that don't give you the love that you need. Keep one promise to yourself today.
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Then do it again tomorrow and the next day. Because confidence isn't
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something you find. Confidence is something you build. And sometimes the
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most powerful comeback of your life begins with something incredibly simple.
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You decide to start taking care of yourself again.
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I hope this helped. This is Diva Mia. Take care of your body,
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protect your peace, raise your standards, and never forget that becoming your
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best self is something you get to choose every day. Until next
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time, make it a wonderful week.
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