As I’m sitting here nursing my body back to health; I had an inguinal hernia operation last week and not only am I recuperating from that, but now have the added double-whammy of what feels like a pinched nerve in the lower left hand side of my back. I already had a condition called Spondylolisthesis (def: a condition in which a bone (vertebra) in the lower part of the spine slips forward and onto a bone below it), and have been nursing that for over 25 years now.

Here's a photo of my hernia scar

I’ve lived with it, and have managed to continue to exercise all these years without problem (in fact, I believe exercise has helped me by strengthening my lower back muscles).

However, I now have a new found appreciation for those that suffer from lower back pain as this has basically immobilized me like nothing else has in my entire life. At this moment I can barely roll out of bed without excruciating pain.

HOWEVER, I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS PAIN and will document for those of you that also suffer what I did to alleviate it (notice I didn’t say “if” I alleviate the pain…). I have already set in place a powerful “strategy” to get rid of my back pain and start exercising again.

Which leads me to what I want to talk to you about today. Please read this quote from Brian Tracy first (famous self-help guru):

“The strangest secret of success is you become what you think about – most of the time. Successful people think and plan better than unsuccessful people. That’s all.” – Brian Tracy

As the title of this post imples, “POWERFUL FAT LOSS” is what this blog post is all about…

HOWEVER… you won’t find a single “tactic” here to help you achieve powerful fat loss results…

Instead, you’ll find key “strategies” that will make powerful fat loss happen for you NOT JUST for the next 4 weeks, or the next 12… Instead, these strategies will help you permanently achieve powerful fat loss results (and actually, anything else you desire to accomplish on this earth).

There is a HUGE difference between “tactics” and “strategies”… with strategy being defined by Wikipedia as: “A strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal.” A tactic is defined as : “The science that deals with securing objectives set by strategy.”

Notice that “strategy” comes first, then tactics. Without a proper strategy in place, the tactics will be meaningless.

By the way, a tactic, in terms of our powerful fat loss subject today, is something like, “do 3 sets of 5 exercises in the bench press.”

As you can see, if your overall strategy is to lose 25 pounds by Feb 28, 2010, then simply just performing “tactics” will not get you there. There has to be an overall strategy combined with sub-strategies, a “plan”, that you will follow in order to achieve your particular goal.

Strategy is the “big picture” goal of what you want to accomplish, and tactics are the things you’re going to do to reach that goal.

What most people do is they just start performing “tactics” or “tips” without a general overall sense of direction or milestones their strategy would have mapped out for them (if they had one).

This is like getting in the car without planning how you’re going to go the, say, 1,000 mile trip you’ve planned. You just start driving. Your tactics are known (put the car in drive, push down on the accelerator, start steering…). Yet there is no direction for how to get you where you want to go… no “strategy”.

Most people know it’s ludicrous to plan a trip this way, because there really isn’t a plan in place. In fact, most people are meticulously detailed whenever they plan this kind of trip. Mapping out routes, figuring out the shortest and easiest way to get to their destination, and then following this plan until they reach their goal… no matter the obstacles in the way (unexpected car troubles, bathroom breaks, pulled over by police, etc.).

If you haven’t noticed, the kind of planning you did above for a road trip can be used for achieving ANY kind of goal (read the last sentence above to see what I mean).

Yet when people go on this “trip” of trying to lose fat, they just “push down on the accelerator and start driving”. No wonder most people meander off course and never reach their powerful fat loss goal (heck, they didn’t even have one in the first place).

So how and what do you do to set a powerful fat loss strategy? Check out my P.S. below for a way to jump start your 2010 with a powerful fat loss strategy that should permanently give you powerful fat loss results. It’s free, and it’s my gift to you.

My next blog post will talk about the biggest problem that even the best laid strategies can’t tackle, unless you do something about it first. It is THE #1 thing you must get solved before you even begin to start thinking about putting any kind of powerful fat loss strategy into place. Look for this post in the next couple of days.

Even the best strategy will be meaningless unless you have this problem solved. So go to my P.S. below, download my “BLUEPRINTS TO POWERFUL FAT LOSS” report now (it’s free), and start reading and planning. The final piece to the powerful fat loss puzzle will come in a few days.

Have a Happy and Safe New Year!

Harry Johnson Jr.

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