Success Is ALL About Motivation
Countless research studies have made it crystal clear
that the single most important factor in fitness success
is motivation. Of course, what you eat and how you exercise
are also central components of your success. Developing
an appropriate (for you) program of what to eat, when to
eat it, and how and when to exercise is absolutely essential.
But without the proper motivation, you just won't do what
you know you should do. And as we all sooner or later discover,
knowledge without action produces...nothing.
The crucial link that turns knowing into doing is motivation.
But the only motivation that counts is your own internal
motivation. If you only have external motivation pushing
you toward healthy behaviors (a dedicated fitness instructor,
a "rah-rah" one-day workshop, or a nagging spouse),
you're just not going to make it.
In fact, external motivation tends to create resentment
in us, which usually makes us want to "be bad."
That's why your motivation needs to be internally generated.
But there's one more piece to this puzzle, and it may be
the most important piece of all.
The Hidden Factor That Turns "Effort"
Into "Easy"
You see, we all have internal motivation -- of one kind
or another. But too many us have the kind that prevents
us from reaching our goals instead of helping us achieve
them. You know what I'm talking about...the kind of motivation
that makes us reach for that second helping of mashed potatoes,
or make the midnight raid on the fridge.
Everything we do (and don't do) in our lives is the result
of our own motivations. But some of our motivations are
self-supportive, while others are self-sabotaging. When
we have conflicting motivations, the stronger one always
wins. And when your self-sabotaging motivations are stronger,
you're going to end up doing things you'll later regret.
(Sound familiar?)
Why would any intelligent person let that happen? Why don't
we simply make ourselves do what we know is right? Because
intelligence isn't part of the equation! The real decisions
about what we will and won't do are being made at levels
we don't even know about, let alone have any conscious control
over.
Even if you're a genius, it won't help you -- because your
brilliant conscious mind isn't going to be invited to the
"summit table" where your real-world behaviors
are being decided on. You won't even be consulted.
The result is that your conscious desires, no matter how
healthy they may be, have no meaningful control over many
of your behaviors. That's why will power is really no power
at all. You can't overpower motivations you don't even know
are there!
What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You -- And May Be
Doing So Right Now!
The greatest problem that faces us, as far as our motivations
are is concerned, is that we're simply unaware of so many
of them. Now, this is hardly a new discovery. Freud pointed
it out more than a century ago.
But knowing about it doesn't make it any less of a problem.
In fact, it should make us realize that this is the one
problem we most need to be paying attention to.
Yet even as you read this, millions of us are operating
in the dark -- some because of unawareness, and some because
of denial. Either way, the result is the same. Instead of
dealing with the real issue -- our own motivations -- we
waste precious time and energy fiddling around with diet
and exercise, in the vain hope that some combination of
the two is going to get us where we want to go.
It's not! As long as you have self-sabotaging internal
motivations that are even a tiny bit stronger than your
healthy, conscious desire to be fit and at your ideal weight,
your fate is sealed. You will NOT reach your goals. Your
own motivations will short-circuit you. And every time you
try, your only reward will be struggle, stress, and -- ultimately
-- more failure.
Oh, you may lose a pound or two, or even a bunch of them.
But they won't stay off. Even worse, getting rid of them
will be like pulling teeth. It won't be easy, and it won't
be fun.
Working Smart Beats Working Hard Every Time
Imagine for just a moment how your life would be if, instead
of sabotaging your progress every step of the way, your
inner motivations were actually helping you get where you
want to go.
The struggle to do what's right would simply disappear
from your life, and the healthy actions that will make you
fit and trim would become be just as natural and just as
automatic as the ones that may now be keeping you overweight
and out of shape!
Automatic? We could learn to automatically do what's healthy?
Yes! In fact, just by making a few small changes where it
matters most, you can literally trade in your failure-producing
habits for success-producing ones.
If you're not currently achieving the kind of results you
know you want, you can be sure that faulty motivation is
at the root of your problem. But take heart. Success may
be closer than you think, and easier that you dared imagine!
Having The Right Motivation Automatically Gives
You The Winning Edge!
If your motivations were helping you instead of holding
you back, how long do you think it would take you to see
some real progress? Not very long!
You would automatically start to eat the right foods, in
the right amounts, at the right times -- which is what successful
people do. You'd automatically work the exercise you need
into your schedule -- instead of having to drag yourself
into it, kicking and screaming.
Would your food and exercise behaviors become perfect in
every way? Nope. You don't need to be perfect, or even close.
Successful people aren't perfect. They just do what works
more than they do what doesn't. It's really just that simple.
To make the shift from struggle to success, all you need
to do is to tilt the table a little bit in the right direction.
You don't need to make "night and day" changes.
You only need enough movement to shift the inner balance
of power in the right direction.
In the real world, the difference in strength between your
self-supportive motivations and a your self-sabotaging ones
may be very small. Just a little bit of well-placed effort,
applied for a short time, could make a life-changing difference.
The Good News: Your "Inner Self" Is VERY
Teachable!
Contrary to popular opinion, it doesn't take years of
therapy to get dramatic results. If you simply focus your
attention on what matters, you can make significant changes
in a very short time.
A huge safe can be unlocked with one little key. On the
other hand, bashing that safe with a hammer would take a
huge amount of energy and still wouldn't get you anywhere.
Sadly, most people still think that diet and exercise are
their keys to success. They are not! Until the real key
has done its job, they are just hammers!
Making the small but crucial power shift in your motivations
can be surprisingly easy. And it's infinitely easier than
waging the diet/exercise battle for the rest of your life.
Better still, you get permanent changes instead of temporary
patches.
But the best part is that every pound you lose is gone
for good!
Bottom Line: The Only Real Difference
Between Those Who Succeed
And Those Who Fail Is In Their Own Internal Motivation
Remember, winning at fitness and fat-loss is not about
intelligence. I'll bet that some of the most brilliant people
you know are out of shape. And it's not about will power.
Will power is really no power at all, because it relies
on your ability to consciously override what you can't even
see. Talk about wasted effort!
And it's not about genetics. People in the same family
vary tremendously in their fitness levels. Why? Because
getting in shape and staying there is all about our personal
motivation.
Once you understand that your motivation is the real key
to long-term fitness success, you're way ahead of all the
people who are still looking for that perfect diet or exercise
program.
Only after you have made the necessary changes in your
motivations is it time to focus on diet and exercise. And
then you'll discover that neither one of them is a struggle!
In fact, doing what's best for you will actually become
its own reward. More importantly, it will feel like a reward
-- which is why you'll keep doing it!
And that is the real secret of lasting success.
If you already know that counting calories, sweating buckets
at the gym, and denying yourself the foods you love is never
going to get you where you want to go, then you're ready
to put your attention where it will make a real difference:
on your own motivations.
How To Become A Success Story
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I sincerely hope this has been time well spent for you.
Life is simply too short not to understand how our own minds
and bodies work, or to be wasted on activities that can
never get you where you want to go.
I wish you total success in the coming year!
Sincerely, Dr. Frank B. Smoot, DD, MA
GHF's Success & Personal Growth Coach
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