I’ve had a couple of conversations today, not for the first time with people who in their pursuit of their fitness goals will lose sight of what they are trying to achieve and start to get nowhere week after week after week.
I was speaking to one guy in particular who has a bunch of commitments with family and work and has been really keen to lose weight and lost a few pounds but then started to stagnate.
In this case there was one point above all others that highlighted his plight and that was having a focus on the goal like he did in the early days.
Back then, he did what was necessary, changing his diet and exercising on a regular basis each week.
Now though, it’s a different story. He was quite honest in saying that his environment has not changed much since he started; work is busy, maybe a bit more than usual but nothing that is making him work 12 hour days but the mindset to take action on a regular basis has.
Whereas before it was at the forefront, it is now at the back of his mind.
Motivation is good but could be better.
Some goals were reached but a lot more are far from completion.
The first thing I said to him is that you have to keep these goals at the forefront of your mind by reminding yourself about them on a daily basis.
You see, it is quite easy to lose sight of what you are trying to achieve when there are so many things going on in various parts of your life like you health, career, family and finances for example.
The problem usually comes when have no agenda as to how we are going to achieve them, what are the first steps we are going to take and what we have to focus more on in some days and periods to get things done.
My personal approach to this
Remind yourself of all your goals on a daily basis
Prioritise some more than others. Without this you can seriously get caught up in the little things that still need doing but 100% prevent you from making any headway into the goals that matter to you most and would make the biggest impact in your life.
Evaluate and measure your progress on a daily basis. You have chosen to take action on chosen goals each day but it makes no sense if you haven’t still achieved them. If you have not, be honest and explain to yourself why not. In many cases this will highlight a weakness that can be rectified as not all reasons are becasue of some emergency that could not wait.
Set big goals; ones that get you excited and emotional and are more likely to bring action.
Say your goals out loud to yourself. Personally, I can’t just read them to myself and believe in them. Sometimes you have to take more action and make yourself believe in them.
Start using these steps on a daily basis and I assure you that you can forget the times when days and weeks were lost to history and no further progress was made in your quest for rapid fat loss or fitness or the six pack.
You may have to put in a bit more work on a daily basis to make these principles work but I didn’t say they would just happen. While believing in something is important, thoughts alone will not bring your goals to reality.
Speak again real soon. I’ve been off the radar recently due to a big project happening soon but my goal is to write a post each day this week. Wonder if I’ll do it?
Laters
Mike
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