To control life you must be motivated, you must have a goal, you must have a plan and you must take action!
• Tips to stay motivated
1. Choose to work on goals that have value for you not somebody else.
2. You will achieve your goals only if you believe you can achieve them.
3. You choose whether or not to let negative beliefs and emotions stand in your way.
• Importance of a goal
A goal is a target towards you can direct your efforts. If you haven’t set a goal you will move in the wrong direction. You will waste time and effort. Your goal should be more specific than a general “I want to be slim’.
You need to know not only what you want, but also why you want it. I think that is the thing that most people find hard to figure out. It’s not your friends or your family that should be the reason. Think, dig, analyze. Find out WIIFY (what’s in it for you).
A goal set right will establish the deep, strong, almost blind faith that if you keep going things will work out right.
• Importance of a plan
Once you have set right your goal you will find it easy to make a plan for reaching it. So reach out for a sheet of paper and a pen and start writing down:
1. What is the body you’d like to have
2. How you plan to get it
3. What have you done in the past for your body
4. What are you presently doing for your body
5. What are the next steps you will take to reach your goal
Keep that document and re-read it from time to time to be sure you stay in the right way.
• How to take action
This is the hard part for all of us. We have our goals set, we’ve made our plan and then nothing. ”I could have done/been…” but…When you don’t take action nothing happens. Nothing will change until you make a change.
• Making choices
Now you should have realized what your problems are, set right your goal and written an action plan. You are happy with your self because you have finally made some great steps towards your dream. Get ready to face the reality of making choices. Making the right choices keeps you in your way. The problem is for a change to take place it should outweigh the resistance.
• Dealing with resistance
The natural and therefore the easiest way to act in such a situation is relying on old habits to tell you what to do. Words just slip from your mouth without even thinking “I guess I can…”, “It won’t hurt to…” Before you know it a day becomes a week and a month.Don’t let the old habits hold you back. Change them. One by one, step by step.
• How To Make Your Action Plan Work
There is a way to make your action plan work ….. and it is by making the right decision when you face a choice. Reality is you have to make choices almost every other minute. Don’t delude yourself that small choices don’t count. It’s the decision on small choices that makes big things happen.
The first step to making a right decision is asking (and answering) yourself:
1. What are the possibilities I can choose from?
2. What will be the result (effect) of every choice I make?
3. What is my decision upon those choices?
Analyzing the alternatives and consequences gives you a better chance to make the right decision and take control of the situation.
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Diets that work – millions fat people are turning every stone out there to find the ultimate diet that will work for them.
I bet you have tried a diet yourself that worked for you. At least in the beginning. You see – that is the only problem – all diets work in the beginning and then something happens. After the first 3-4-5 days you start to see some results, you get excited and then… Nothing… You are stuck. You quit and start stuffing yourself while looking around for the next idiot proof diet that works.
I have to tell you one thing – you are missing a piece of the puzzle. A diet itself probably won’t work for anybody. I’m sure you already know the facts, but anyway here is how it goes:
When you start eating less (that is what every diet is about, no matter what the pitch says) you start feeling hungry all the time. Starving, starving, starving… Until one day you quit and stuff yourself. Your body reacts by stocking fats on your buts, abdomen and legs to prepare for the next time you go crazy (on a diet). Guilty, guilty, guilty… “Oh God, please send me a diet that works”.
You keep wandering in this magic circle again and again.
Read on to discover the only way to make your diet work.
These are the four essential steps you must complete if you want to lose weight on a diet:
1. Find a diet that suits you taste, your lifestyle and your wallet – you need to enjoy the process. I mean don’t go after the Dukan Diet if you are a veggie, it won’t work for you.
2. Start exercising. And do not quit.
3. After you complete your diet plan have a week or so to introduce foods again. Don’t fall upon your favorite cookies. Let your body get used to the change. Anyway if your eating habits before the diet were far from healthy you should change them.
4. The last but believe me the single most important thing you need is weight loss motivation. The right kind of high, constant, powerful and hot weight loss motivation that will keep you moving, that will make you love yourself and get your friends and family talk about your success.
Why is weight loss motivation so vital when you are on a diet? Because it is the thing that makes things happen – as simple as that.
Find the right weight loss motivation, nourish it, keep it good, feed it every day and you will enjoy your way to your dream body. If you are deep motivated you stick to your diet plan, stay away from chocolate and soda, do your daily routines and feel satisfaction at the end of the day. A minute without weight loss motivation can cost you everything you have achieved.
If you can’t see the reason in what you are doing, your goals will stay as far as they are now.
Go find your diet and prepare for a change in your life because all diets work.
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