Control your mind to achieve goals and get more done.
Here are a couple of tricks to help in staying motivated on your weight loss journey. In the early stages of any new endeavour, it’s easy to stay motivated. But what will you do when it gets tough Continue reading “9. STAYING MOTIVATED”
How do you start to change your limiting beliefs? If there is only one post in this series you take away and learn, it is this. We have known for thousands of years how to form new beliefs in ourselves and others. Continue reading “8. HOW TO CHANGE LIMITING BELIEFS”
We talked about beliefs in the last section, so how do you actually identify what your current beliefs are? Continue reading “7. IDENTIFY YOUR CURRENT BELIEFS”
Goal setting and weight loss are almost made for each other.
In this section I will share with you how all successful people achieve their goals, so you can adapt it to your weight loss plan. Continue reading “10. Goal Setting and Weight Loss”
These next questions will take a bit of self-analysis, and are designed to dig out any negative beliefs or inner conflict. Continue reading “11. Self-Analysis”
As we’ve discussed before it is better to spend time analysing what could go wrong before you start, this means identifying bad habits before they start. That way you can have a plan of what to do to overcome any hurdles. Think of any habits that pop into mind. For example do you finish off your children’s leftovers? I did but not anymore.
What other bad habits do you have around food? Do you always finish off your plate even if you are full? Or do you always pick up that chocolate bar when you fill up at the petrol station?
The food journal is a powerful tool in identifying your habits. As we’ve seen already, many of the day-to-day things we do are unconscious, but if we can shine the light of consciousness on them we can easily change them for the better. Continue reading “14. The Food Journal”
There is usually one habit which when changed makes all the other habits fall into place. With me it was actually getting up earlier! Continue reading “16. Find the Keystone Habit”
The turning point in my life happened when I finally started to address one habit at a time. I am a voracious reader and collected 100s of new habits to try. I must have spent about 10 years trying to change my life and habits all at once. Like the novice juggler, one ball is easy, two much harder and three? Well they just drop them all. Repeatedly.
Make a pact to change just one thing alone and don’t move on to the next one until you are ready. Another great reason to do one thing at a time is so you know what works and what doesn’t. Carry on doing what works and ditch what doesn’t work.
When does a habit become a habit? There is no one answer to this, simply put though is you have a new habit if you perform the activity without having to remind yourself to do it.
In popular self-help literature a lot of authors recommend doing something for 21 consecutive days, for it to be a habit. This comes from Maxwell Moltz and his book Pyscho-cybernetics. This is a good start and the way I do this is that I set myself a reminder for 21 consecutive days to perform a certain task. At the end of that time if I have done the 21 days, I am happy that I can move on to the next habit.
What would happen if you fail at the 21-day exercise. Try again. Start again from day one, but this time tweak something. If this doesn’t work tweak it again. You can now see that you cannot fail. Just keep trying and tweaking.