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Change Your Thinking – Change Your Shape –
Daily Motivation Tips – What is the point anyway?
Whenever you are using the will power method and you end up in a battle over whether to do / not do something you will often ask yourself “what is the point?” It is a great question, “Why are you doing this?” Everyone tries to achieve a goal to receive some perceived benefits. The benefits that your goal brings compared to the negatives of doing what it takes to get results will result in how much action you take.
While writing my book “Change your thinking, Change your shape” one thing that stood out to me was that anyone who was in amazing shape thought it was vitally important! It is pretty obviously really, why would you chase something you do not think is important? The people who I have met in the best shape not only thought it was important but they reacted to it by being a blur of positive activity.
Many people fail because they do not see a large enough benefit in the rewards at the end or too many negatives in the actions needed to get them there. Other people do think their health and fitness is really important, but just not as important as another one of life’s goals, e.g. work, family etc, and thus it always gets crowded out.
For some people they think their health and fitness is vitally important yet manage to get little done. They will obsess all day about their weight, their look, their clothes yet still eat some junk food at the end of it. They manage to somehow channel no energy into doing the actions to get results or an equal amount into a sabotaging behaviour. They are in an endless cycle of chasing their tails, which unlike watching a dog do it, is neither cute nor funny!
When this happens you can almost be assured there are conflicts with success and achievement of your goal. If your goal is that important and there were no benefits to failing or keeping your negative behaviours you would simply stop doing them.
Whoever you are, look to clarify your goals further using the exercise below.
- What goal are you trying to achieve?
- What do you hope will be better in your life by achieving it?
- List five specific benefits that achieving your goal will bring?
- Does your goal inspire you to achieve it because of the things you will receive or push you desperately to achieve so you no longer have your current problems?
- What negatives come from achieving your goal or from the actions needed to succeed?
- Spend some time thinking about the benefits of achieving your goal, what inspires you, how would things be better. Take time to increase the importance of your goal within your life.
- Take not of the above but remember that the importance of your goal can work both with enhancing your willpower and also within your beleifs. However, long term success is based on your beleif system not your willpower. So focus on the lifelong benefits of success and not just looking good next month on the beach.
Helping you Change your thinking and change your shape…
Ben Wilson
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