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Where do you find your confidence?

When you hit that alarm clock first thing in the morning, do you dread getting out of bed? Are you already in panic mode because you are running late? Do you look in the mirror and think “I need to drop this weight!”?

Where do you find your confidence?

Now that you are running late, do you now take your frustrations out on your spouse and children? Do you throw a couple of bowls of sweetened cereal or Pop-tarts in front of them? And then do you, yourself, skipping breakfast, grab the last Pepsi and a box of cookies to eat on your way to the office? Do you send your children off to school filled with your frustrations of being rushed and having eaten poorly?

Where do you find your confidence?

Do you stress out at your job? If you stay at home and care for younger children, do you let them stress you out? Do you think the fact that you had an awful breakfast and got an awful start to your day has anything to do with this stress you are feeling? Do you ever dream of a different life, or one without all this stress?

Where do you find your confidence?

When you get home, are you so full of anguish and despair at how your day went that instead of preparing a healthy meal for your family, you pick up some high-fat takeout? Do you then eat the leftovers that your kids didn’t eat while helping them with their homework and getting them ready for bed? Do you stay up late parked in front of the television after the house is quiet and scarf down the last few scoops of ice cream hidden in the back of the freezer? Do you do all this just so you can repeat the torment the next day?

Where do you find your confidence?

Let’s find some confidence.

Try this.

Clean out your kitchen. Throw out all the crap. Buy fresh fruits and foods that don’t come in a box. Have your meals laid out a week in advance, listed, with ingredients all purchased for the week ahead. Pre-cut your fruits and veggies and have them all stored and ready to go for the week.

Set that alarm an hour earlier tomorrow. Get up out of bed the first time. Put on your workout clothes. Look at yourself in the mirror and say “Today, I’m going to change my life. Today I’m going to be the influence in the lives of others. Today will be better than yesterday.”

Check your e-mail, start the coffee, and do the workout.

Scoop up some fresh fruit for your kids. Fill their plates with fresh foods…eggs, whole grains, oatmeal…do the same for you. Make the family a Shakeology, reveling in the fact that you just ensured that they get one decent meal this day. Send them off to school knowing that Mom is calm, Mom is happy, Mom is confident.

Have you found a little confidence yet?

Arrive at the office with your head held high, your lunch sack full of healthy foods, and dinner already prepared in your head. Don’t let anyone bring you down, because you, yourself, can control that with a single thought…a thought of confidence.

Arrive home with a different attitude. Prepare that healthy meal and serve it to your family. What? They won’t eat it? Well, then, I guess they won’t eat. Don’t fret. Eventually they will. And they will learn to appreciate it.

Send your kids off to bed, do a few chores, and go to bed yourself, knowing the following day, you are going to be happy to do the same thing. Why? Because you are so full of confidence now that tomorrow is going to be a better day, that you can’t wait to get up in the morning and do it all again.

This is how you find your confidence. Granted, everyone’s day will not follow this exact schedule, and granted, there are those bumps that you always hit along the way, but confidence will get you through it. Confidence grows as you grow.

This is where you'll find your confidence.