Fitness & Health is Not a Sacrifice, It's an Investment

00:00Inside the bubble is your world. You know what you're going after. You know that all these things that you're doing are positive for you with the results you want to see. And you cannot allow anybody to pop that bubble around you. What's up, you guys? Welcome to The WarriorBabe Show with Nikkie Stott, co-founder and brand personality of WarriorBabe, where we talk about mindset, methodologies, and tactics that will help you lose body fat, build muscle, be strong, and feel insanely confident.

00:33I am your host, Nikkie Stott, and welcome, guys, to episode number 14. I'm excited for this one. We're going to dive into the mindset pillar. I'm going to talk about sacrifice versus investment. But before I dive into speaking about that, if you guys are on this journey to build muscle, to lose body fat, and you're doing things different than what you've been doing, and if you want to win, guess what? You are going to be controversial. There is going to be controversy all around you.

01:09When you see people hating, when you see people talking about you, when you see people not agreeing with what you're doing, oh, you're spending all this time working out, you're eating this way, the setbacks that you encounter, this is all a part of controversy of doing something great for yourself. And a big reason why you guys care so, so, so much about all of this stuff around you going on, people don't agree with you, if people, you know, talk about you, if people hate on you because of the new actions that you're doing,

01:39that are in alignment with the goals you want to accomplish, accomplishment, it's because you want acknowledgement, which is the opposite of what you're getting. You want recognition, which is the opposite. Typically, at the beginning of your journey, when you're setting out and doing different things than what you've been doing, and you're doing, you're basically embarking on a different identity of what people know you as, right? You're getting all of the opposite of acknowledgement and recognition, which is what you truly want. But when someone takes it from you before you even win you guys, if you allow all of those opinions, all of the non-agreements, all of the talking about you,

02:11all of the hate, all of like, why are you doing this? Why are you spending all this much time? If you allow all of that to get to you, those people are taking it from you before you even win on the results you want. Or they're taking it from you before you even get what you want. And that can seriously wound you and that can seriously stop you dead in your tracks from even continuing to be on the rest of your journey. Like if you're, if somebody doesn't agree with you, if you're, someone's talking about you,

02:42if someone is, why are you doing this? And you allow those opinions to get into your own mind and start changing your own thought processes, it's literally just going to stop you dead in your tracks. And you're not, you have to be a strong individual. And that's what I'm going to help you do in this podcast to crush all of that nonsense coming from other people and just solely focus on what you want. And that's what the premise of this whole podcast is today. You are doing this for you. No one else. I just want to repeat that. Like you are doing this entire journey that you are on for you.

03:16Nobody else. No one is in your head. No one sees the goals that you want to accomplish. Nobody understands it more than you because you have emotion, you have feeling you, everything attached to that goal you see in your brain. Nobody can see that. Okay, so you are literally doing this for you. No one else. And guess what? In the end, it may, it's going to affect others in a better way. All of these people who have all these things to say about what you're doing right now, I guarantee you a year into your journey, it's going to affect them in a better way.

03:46They're going to come to you. They're going to ask you what you're doing. Those other people may not see that right now. And I'm going to explain this more in a bit. But like, as you're on this journey for you, it's all about progression. You are progressing here. And you are doing more than what you are doing right now to get different results. So everything that you're changing up, how you eat, you're changing up what time you're waking up in the morning to go work out. You're doing more than what you were doing to get different results. And guess what, guys?

04:17As you do that, as you wake up at 5 a.m., as you're packing all of your meals, you're going to be judged. When those around you see you striving for something, they see you getting after it and getting results, it makes them uncomfortable. They, deep down, at a subconscious level, think that they are not good enough. It has absolutely nothing to do with you. All of the things that you're doing,

04:47all of the actions that you're doing, waking up at 5 a.m., changing your nutritional plan. Like, if you really think about it, those are positive things. Yet some people have all of the negative things to say about it. And it's because it makes them uncomfortable. It is coming from their own thought process, and they're spilling it onto you. And this is where you need to have, like, I used to say this to the clients I worked with, a bubble around you. A positive bubble around you. Where, like, inside the bubble is your world.

05:19You know what you're going after. You know that all these things that you're doing are positive for you with the results you want to see. And you cannot allow anybody to pop that bubble around you. Everybody's got these needles. Everybody's got these thorns. Everyone's got these opinions. But, like, your bubble is so strong. Okay? Maybe I should do something different because a bubble can be easily popped. You have, like, a force field around you. And, like, anybody who pricks at it gets electrocuted. Okay?

05:49But, like, you have to make this sacrifice. This is what's so hard. Right? Like, this is all part of the progress. It's that controversy that your mom may not understand what you're doing. Right? Your husband may not understand what you're doing. All of these guys, like I'm saying, have all of these things that they have to say towards you. Like, the people that you work with may not understand what you're doing because you can't eat the french fries at lunch. Or, like, not that you can't. You just choose not to. This is part of the sacrifice, which is a part of the progression. But most importantly, sacrifice versus investment.

06:21This is an investment in yourself. So, like, as I dive deeper into this podcast, I don't want you to think about it in the terms of a sacrifice. Like, start thinking about it in terms of an investment into you, into what you want, and into the goals that you want to accomplish. It is all of that. It's not a sacrifice. Because, like, how you speak to yourself is how you act. So, like, that verbiage, sacrifice, like, if you think, oh, my God, this is so hard to do.

06:52I'm going to get up at 5 a.m. Like, this sucks. And, like, you allow, like, everybody to say around you, why are you eating that way? You're sacrificing eating this way. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, that verbiage, sacrifice, could actually be making it harder for you to do the things than it actually really is just by you mentally thinking that way and using that type of language. So, like, if you're like, oh, my God, I'm sacrificing my sleep because I'm waking up at 5 a.m. it's going to actually be harder

07:23for you to do it than it actually really is because you're mentally thinking that way and you're using that type of language. Like, oh, oh, I have to pack my meals. I have to track my food. I'm sacrificing this delicious food because I need to eat, like, the chicken to get my protein. I mean, you know, I'm adding tonality there, but, like, you're making it harder than what it actually is just by mentally thinking that it fucking sucks and using that language, right?

07:54When you think you're sacrificing going out with your friends, you aren't sacrificing it. You're making an investment into your future self. You just haven't seen the payoff yet. And, guys, here, I am speaking so much to experience because at the beginning of my journey, I chose not to go out with my friends. I chose to say no to going out and having a couple of drinks. I chose to, you know, have a night in and wake up more clear-minded the next day where, like, a lot of people think,

08:24oh, you're sacrificing your friend time and spending time with your friends to go out and do this thing. It's like, no, I'm not sacrificing doing that. I'm sacrificing the ability to, you know, to not feel groggy. I'm not sacrificing it, but, like, I don't want to feel groggy the next day. Like, I don't want to feel foggy. I don't want to feel... And, like, now at age 32, it's like, man, it takes me weeks to recover from a night out of a couple of drinks, right? So it's like, I don't want to sacrifice two weeks of recovery from just a couple of drinks one night

08:54when I want to be able to wake up the next day clear-minded and be able to go crush a workout, plan my next, you know, plan my meals, hit my meals, hit my nutritional needs. Like, alcohol is going to make me want to just snack on shit, right? It's going to make me sleep in. It's going to make me feel like absolute shit mentally. Like, I don't want that. Like, I want to... I want to be... I want to not have two weeks of recovery. I want to be ahead by everybody else by two weeks, right? Like, I want to wake up ready to rock and roll and be clear-minded for the two weeks.

09:26So it's like, you're not... I'm not sacrificing making... going out with my friends and making an investment in my future self. And I'm saying this that you guys haven't seen the payoff yet is because you haven't seen the results by doing that, right? You need to understand you need to fall in love with delayed gratification because by you saying no, you're not going to get instant results the next day. But by you saying no consistently over time, you don't have to say no every time, but you say no majority of the time, it's going to compound effect. Delayed gratification. It's going to show up in months to come and years to come. Hey, hey, just want to drop a huge appreciation

09:56to you guys listening to this show. It means a lot. I hope you guys are enjoying it and there's so much more to come with it. If you are enjoying it, hit the subscribe button. I'd appreciate that tons. And also it would help this podcast reach others who need to hear these messages too. Thanks so much, guys. Let's get back to the show. The investment in your future is getting something in return. That's not a sacrifice. So when you miss a night going out to work out or just to stay in, like I just explained, you're not sacrificing a night out. You're making an investment

10:26into your future self. And that investment is going to create a better body. It's going to give you way more confidence, right? The more that you say no, it's giving you more confidence to know that you can say no again. And like the people that don't support you, you guys in this transition as you're trying to get after new goals for yourself and like get after new habits and making more supportive habits embedded into your journey. It's like the people that don't support you, it's like, you know what? Just put them at a distance. You don't have to say like, oh, I can't be your friend anymore. It's like, okay, you know,

10:57I'm sensing some things that this person just, you know, has opinion after opinion after opinion. And it's not supportive opinions. It's not like, yeah, girl, go get it, crush it. Like I'm rooting you on. It's like, why are you doing that? Like, come on, you don't have to do that. Don't go to the gym today. It's like, okay, I'm just going to place you at a distance because I want to do all of these things. Like you're doing it for you. Remember that. And that's all you need to do. Or like if it's more immediate people in your family,

11:29it's like, yo, sit down with them and have a straight up conversation. Like communicate with them. Make them understand. Like if you say that you're doing this for you and you want to feel more confident and better in your own skin, like my eyes are wide to the camera right now. If somebody disagrees with that and like doesn't want you to do that, die them. But like straight up communication like that, if you have a loving, supporting partner, loving, supporting family, they should understand that this is what you want to do.

11:59And they should just pump the brakes on the negativity that they're alluding to you and all the opinions that they're alluding to you. That's only coming from their mental sphere. Remember that. It's making them uncomfortable. They're like, damn, you know, she's getting after it. Maybe I should get after it. So just know that. Like push if you can. Just push some people away. You don't have to like not be friends with them. Just put them at a distance. Anybody's in your immediate family. Just like sit down, have conversation with them. You're doing this for you. They're supporting of you. They're going to understand.

12:30You just have to communicate. Like you don't feel comfortable in your own skin. So you want to make this happen for yourself. Right. And it's going to, but you doing that, you're going to create a better body. You're going to get the results that you want. And you're going to have way more confidence in yourself by just making, by doing that stuff, by knowing that you're not sacrificing a night out, by having clear communication, by pushing some people just at a, at a distance. You're going to be, you're doing this all for you. Okay. So like, don't look at it as like, you're sacrificing something. You're totally making a future investment into your future self.

13:01And like, for me, for example, like I know that I just shared with you that story, but like, I know when I'm skipping something that's fun to do something that's hard. I know there's a better payoff that's coming later on. Like I'm speaking this from experience, you guys, right? Like take it from me. Like, listen to me. Like, believe me, believe me that like all of the things that may sound like the really hard for you to do right now, the beginning of your journey, because you feel like you're sacrificing your time or you're sacrificing doing all of this stuff. There's going to be a payoff later.

13:34It's coming. You just have to be obsessed with delayed gratification. Okay. You're not skipping things. You're not sacrificing things. The payoff is going to come into the future. As long as you do all of these things and continue to do all of these things for you in the direction of your goals. Okay. And like, you need to remember that when you're talking to yourself, if you're constantly looking at everything as a sacrifice, you're always going to feel empty. You're always going to feel like, you know, you're doing all of these things for nothing.

14:05And that is just so far from the actual truth. Like if you're constantly like, Oh, I'm waking up at 5am and you're like just constantly in the state of like tonality of negative negativity towards your goals. You're always going to feel empty. You're gonna be like, why the fuck am I doing this? You're always going to feel like you're doing all of these things for nothing. And like the truth is you're doing all of these things for something for you. It's an investment in you. It's an investment in your confidence and investment in your body and investment in your health and investment in your relationships.

14:36All of the things like thinking like this is going, to be way more fulfilling when you know that you're getting up in the morning to do this work because it's going to get you this payoff later. And when you understand that, it becomes so much easier for you to do. So much easier for you to do, you guys. But like if you think, Oh, I'm going to miss this because I have to stay on this program. All you're focusing on is what you missed out on or like what you're giving up.

15:06And if you only focus on that, you're going to become obsessed with what you're giving up. And this is where you're going to break. This is where you're going to give up. This is why you constantly keep giving up because you're focused on the wrong shit. You're focused on the wrong crap. Oh, I have to stay on this program, so I can't eat that. No, man, you're just making a future investment into your future body and health by choosing better things to eat. Right? It's like, Oh, I missed out on going out on a night with my friends.

15:38You gave yourself the ability to have more clarity. Your body is not in a state of constant stress. Your body is fine to go for the next day to work out and to crush it. You have mental clarity, all of those things. So you're not missing out and like stop focusing on things that you, stop focusing on that. You know, like stop focusing on like, Oh my God, I'm giving up this or like I missed up on this or like I'm going to miss this. It's like you're focused on the wrong shit.

16:08That's what you're focused on. Right? And many like just starting off, they really struggle. Like you may struggle with this mentality and it's under, I understand that because you at this point in your journey, you may not have really accomplished that big goal or like that fat loss just yet to believe that the payoff is really coming. And that's why like I'm sharing with you guys the personal experience. I am on the other side of this. I have dealt with all of this controversy. I've dealt with being judged. I've dealt with being hated.

16:39I dealt with losing friends. I've dealt with opinion after opinion after opinion from both friends and family. People had all of these things. I'm like, yo, yo peeps, I'm gonna do this for me. I don't care what you think. And that's like what, that's the type of mentality you have to have. Right? You have to have it. But like I get it why it may be a struggle for you to mentally accept that at the beginning because you at this point in your journey, you haven't really accomplished that big goal yet. You haven't seen the payoff yet. But trust me, it's coming.

17:10Right? And that's why it's so important too to either have a coach that you're working with or like continue to listen to me here on this podcast as someone to look up to, to as already somebody who's already accomplished what you want. That guys alone, either having a coach or just continue to listen to me here is so unbelievably valuable. I am on the other side of things. I'm telling you guys what you need to be doing in terms of like standing up for yourself, believing in yourself, taking confidence in yourself, making the investment in yourself. Like this is all shit that I had to do.

17:42And like I get it's hard at the beginning, but I promise you there's a payoff. So like listening to everything I'm sharing here on all the podcasts, all the nutritional tips, all the workout tips, right? It's things that I've done. And that is so unbelievably valuable, especially because one, it's free. And two, you get to go and take the action of everything that I'm sharing with you here. And I hope you do. That is the main point of this podcast. I'm sharing with you guys tips, tricks, tactics, everything here, methodologies, everything. I just ask you to go and apply it, please, because that's,

18:12what's going to generate the results. And I want to give as many women as possible, the results that I have experienced for myself. And also the results that inside of warrior babe, 10,000 to women have experienced for themselves. Like guys, I'll tell you like myself, our warrior babe coaches, we are living, breathing, walking products of this lifestyle. Like one of our core values at warrior babe is to walk the talk, to be disciplined, to be aware of the, how you show up for yourself is a direct reflection, of how clients will show up for you. So if like the coaches on our team, if they aren't following this value,

18:44majority of the time they wouldn't or shouldn't even be on our team, right? Because you want what you're hearing that this coach has, right? And so if you do X, which is hearing what they're doing and listening to what they're doing, to me, what I'm telling you guys to do, you will get Y, which is the result that they have too, which is what you want in return. Okay? So like pay attention to what someone who has the results you want does and make the investments that they are making and trust that the payoff is coming your way.

19:16That's really the takeaway from this whole entire podcast. Like you're not sacrificing shit. You're making an investment into your future self. And guys, to wrap it all up, like with this shift mentally, you'll develop way more positive momentum at such a faster rate. Like if you just stay in your bubble and like, you know, all of the things that you're doing are positive outcomes to the results that you want to see are going to produce positive outcomes to the results that you want to see.

19:47Then like, you're going to have positive momentum along your journey and you're going to get results at such a faster rate. But by allowing people to pop that bubble and penetrate that bubble or penetrate that electric force around you, you're just going to delay and delay and delay and delay. You're going to have momentum and then it's going to stop. And you're going to have momentum and it's going to stop. And it's going to take you so much longer to get where you want to get to. So have confidence in yourself, believe in yourself,

20:17stay strong in your journey and just push out the negativity as much as you possibly can. And stay in alignment with knowing that everything that you are doing is an investment into your future self, into the body that you want to have and the continued confidence that you're going to build from doing that. All right, guys, I hope you enjoyed this one. I'll catch you next time. Real quick. The only ask I could ever have of you guys is to help spread the word so we can help more women lose body fat, build muscle, reach their goals and feel insanely confident.

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