“I basically eat healthy but ______ is my weakness.”
Chocolate.
Junk food.
Chips.
Beer.
It doesn’t really matter what you fill the blank in with. The idea is that you’re pretty disciplined. Except for this one thing.
Your kryptonite. That one thing that strips you of your strength, your reason, your free will. You’re simply powerless to resist it.
When we declare something to be our “kryptonite” we’re essentially absolving ourselves of responsibility. If you’re powerless, then how can you possibly be held accountable for your actions?
Yet, we still get to maintain our self-identity as “someone who eats healthy.” I mean, Superman was still Superman, right?
I call BS.
You might like chocolate.
A lot.
And there’s no reason you can’t enjoy chocolate! But you are still in charge of how much and how often you decide to indulge.
And if your choices around chocolate (or chips, or beer, or whatever) are leading to results that you’re not happy with, guess who has the power to choose a different result?
The next time you hear yourself saying, “__________ is my weakness,” I want you to stop yourself, mid-sentence. Instead of giving yourself permission to self-sabotage by abdicating responsibility, try replacing that thought with something more true.
“If I’m not careful, I can really overdo it with _________.”
or
“If I ate as much of __________ as I wanted to, I would not be happy with the result.”
Then, take back your power. You get to choose what you really want…both for the short-term and the long-term.
Maybe you’ll have a piece of chocolate. Maybe, this time, you won’t. But chocolate is not the one calling the shots. You are.
Kryptonite has met its match.