A Reality Check. Action Precedes Motivation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                     Do the work and get the results. 

A quick post today.  This is a slide from one of our Weight Loss/ Accountability seminars.
Let it act as a reminder.

Make this a great day,
Robert J DeVito

A Daily Formula for Motivation and Inspiration

 

The IFS ACHIEVERS use this with great success.

I hope that it helps you too.

Create Better Habits  

To your health,

Robert DeVito

Creating an Honesty Covenant (Drop the B.S.)

 Honesty Covenant

Creating an Honesty Covenant with yourself and others will be essential to your success and mental well-being.  In reality, the scale/checkbook/relationships/happiness does not lie. 

Misleading yourself or others as to how well you are behaving but just not seeing the results is detrimental to success.  Beyond being in a Physiological Plateau, here are the reasons I see that people do not succeed:

·         You were not ready to commit to a new/different lifestyle.

·         You did not know how to get started, and stay on the right track.     

·         You lacked the proper information/education.

·         You wanted a quick fix.

Be honest with yourself and others. Misleading yourself with statements like "I am ok." or "I am eating pretty good" or "I can't seem to save money no matter what!" or "I cannot get along with my spouse no matter what!" or "I am too busy to exercise." are lies.  Look internally and decide if you are emotionally protecting yourself by not facing up to your actions and then list out the half-truths and absolute illusions that you feed your brain on a daily basis.

Ask for help when you need to and stay the course.

Figure out what issues/challenges you face and find long-term solutions.  If you are not changing, then there is an issue with one of the following: 

Food - Fitness – Focus

Have you been honest?

If not, how have you been deceiving yourself?

How can you course correct?

If you decide to live your life in this way, if you drop the stories and the B.S. from your life, you will move ahead and achieve at speeds that you never thought possible.  You will find a new level of self-respect and pride. We all deceive ourselves from time to time. You can break the habit if you choose to.

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Drop the B.S. and get real.

To your health,

Robert

IDENTIFYING YOUR OBSTACLES

Identify your Obstacles

This is a follow-up to our goal setting article from a few weeks back -

Setting Your Goals

This article will focus on aiding you in creating your Realistic, Progressive and Maintainable (c) Action Plan.
Identify your obstacles then modify your actions.

Identify your Problem Areas – 

What are your biggest Challenges?  Some eat too much at meals or at their desks, while others pack in extra calories while driving, snacking, or socializing.  Some want to help family members eat better – without them knowing it!  Others leave choosing foods and meals to the very last second when hunger has already taken control of your thoughts. Different problems require different solutions.  If you try to change everything at once, nothing will change.

Select Solutions – 

Select up to three – five small changes you think will most easily and effectively enable you to address only your most troubling challenge.  Be certain that these changes are R.P.M. (c)  changes.  Always choose something you know you can repeat.

Develop a Simple Plan – 

You need to be more focused than just thinking “I’m going to try to do better” and having a few vague changes in mind.  You need to select up to three specific daily changes you intend to make, and you need to commit to making these changes a part of your daily routine for the next 30 days.  It is only a month, and you chose the changes in part because you thought they would be easy for you.  Promise yourself you will try hard to adopt those changes for a least a month.

Execute Your Plan – 

It is important to make these changes each day.  There is power in consistency.  One way to do this is to keep a calendar or keep a record to mark your daily progress.  Tell your friends and family about the commitment you have made.  Do other things you believe will help keep you on track, like wearing a wristband or other reminder, posting signs for yourself, writing a food diary, or joining a group that is committed to making the same kind of changes you are.

Do this and you will be on your way to freedom from all of the frustration and confusion and on the path to being healthy and fit.

For those of you in need of more information, guidance and tips then here is a link to a free e-book download from My Dynamic Life.  Enjoy it and send us some feedback!

 

To your health,

Robert