Want To Lose More Weight?

Shoot! It’s already halfway through the year. Do you remember this past holiday, when you said that this year was going to be your year and you were finally going to lose more weight and get into your best shape?

So are you in shape? Did you accomplish any/all of your goals? Did you lose more weight? If you did I’d love to hear from you.

Have you kept your New Year's resolutions to lose more weight this year?

Most use the ending of an old, and beginning of a new year to reflect on what they’ve done, and what they still want to do in this world. New Year’s resolutions are a fertile time.

Topping most people’s resolutions are changing how their bodies look or simply to lose more weight. They want to get in shape and promise themselves they will do it this year. Yet the vast majority of people that start a new diet and exercise program fail.

If this has happened to you in the past here’s a sobering thought. Most people don’t understand that their outside reflection almost precisely mirrors their inner condition too.

Why is this sobering?

Just take a look at the diseases, deaths, and overweight statistics in this country. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to make the connection between how you look, and when and how you’ll die.

If you’re overweight — even moderately, you’ve increased your chances of contracting diseases most think are attributable to old age, but are in fact directly caused by overeating and a lack of exercise.

Do you feel your health declining? Do you feel different than you did 10 years ago? Do you know this is a signal from your body that you are slowly dying? Of course we all die, but, having a choice, wouldn’t you rather live a robust, invigorated life, full of vim and vigor to the end? Or one riddled with disease? Decrepitude marked by your every step.

This choice, of course, is yours.

She no longer cares to lose more weight, but now has to use a wheelchair because she didn't take care of herself while younger.

I created these lessons to help combat the powerful forces within – urging us to eat more and exercise less.

These are urges we can’t help…or ignore. Evolution has deemed them necessary for our survival. The key is working with, not fighting tooth and nail against them. This month’s lesson 4 shows you one more synergistic way you can work with the inherent strengths you have.

Over the last week I’ve given you three lessons on how to make it easier to get and stay in shape. This post brings lesson 4.

HERE’S A RECAP OF YOUR LESSONS SO FAR:

Lesson 1: You Must Have a Powerful and Meaningful Reason To Want To Change

Lesson #2: You Need to Make a Decision to Change

Lesson #3: Create a Sense of Urgency

****(Remember, the greatest effect from these lessons will be their combined synergy)*******

LESSON #4: WRITE DOWN YOUR GOALS, DRAFT A CONTRACT WITH YOURSELF, THEN SIGN AND DATE IT

In order to permanently succeed with your body transformation you must find your “supreme objective” and make all other elements in your life conform around it. Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single over-riding objective, and make all othe considerations bend to that one objective”

To lose more weight, write down on paper what you are going to commit to.

And it’s not enough to just say the reason(s) out loud either, they must be written down.

As a contract between no one else but you and the good Lord these words will form a powerful force that will not only propel you forward on the journey you’re about to embark, but keep you glued to the wheel of your ship (your body) through the worst of storms.

I know, this sounds a little corny. In fact, I’ve had many people tell me they read this technique but never applied it because they thought it was mumbo-jumbo — feel-good, sound-good instructions without bite. It was only when they finally applied it, after failed attempts at changing their body, did they realize it worked like crazy.

Why does it work? What you’ve done by drafting this contract is you created a bonded instrument between your moral and physical self.

BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING it does is remind you, everyday, of your promise. This is why you must place the contract in a conspicuous place where you have to read it. Drafting a contract but not reading it every day is the same as never having drafted it in the first place. The bathroom mirror, or your nightstand (where I kept mine) are good places.

In 1998 I won a National body transformation contest. While speaking with one of the executives of the company that sponsored the contest, I was told something that, at first, was a revelation to me. They told me that out of 20,000+ contestants that entered that year, only 7% finished their 12-week program. Most had dropped out by the half way point or way before.

At first this was a surprise to me. I asked myself how could so many people give up and fail to finish? I couldn’t understand nor comprehend it because there wasn’t one moment during my program that I even remotely considered the a possibility of giving up. My reason was too powerful (Lesson 1), I made a decision to change (Lesson 2), I had a deadline to meet (Lesson 3), and I reviewed my goals and contract every single day – no lie (Lesson 4).

But then I remembered the year before. I had entered the previous year’s contest and had dropped out too…just like 93% of the contestants did the year I won. And I didn’t do any of these lessons I’m revealing to you now.

Because I failed the year before I knew I’d be in the same boat again unless I put all the advantages I could on my side. I studied the principles common to successful people. Then I tailored them to maximize success for me. This principle is one of the 20 I came up with.

Would I have been as successful had I not utilized this particular principle? I doubt it. Reading my goals every night had a profoundly positive effect on my mind. After I started my program I honestly didn’t think I would win, yet I knew I would be successful at transforming my body.

Which group do you want to be a part of, the successful 7%, or the defeated 93%? You’ve heard it said before that the power to succeed lies in your hands. But this ethereal statement is never backed up with the “how-to’s” of success.

By following these principles you can harness an internal support system that will help you transcend problems or obstacles you will encounter along your path to a new body. And there will never be a doubt that you WILL ccomplish your goals.

Take Charge!

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