If you have ever seen the film Boogie Nights, Mark Wahlberg shoots the final scene on his comeback from becoming a coke addict and is looking into the mirror practicing his scenes on completion, whips out his pride and joy and says to himself…
“I am a star. I’m a star, I’m a star, I’m a star. I am a big, bright, shining star. That’s right.”
…zips it back up and gets ready to roll.
While he made many a bloke want to be him for a minute and a lot of women want to be with him, that’s not what I’m talking about here.
What I am going to tell you a bit more about is a process called “Incantation” that you should make a habit in your life when you want to reach your fat loss goals and get in the right frame of mind and taking the necessary action that pulls you further towards your goal.
I’m not going to start comparing myself in any other way here!
Have you ever had a goal that really motivates you and is something that you really want, only to lose that feeling that you had at the start and feel less emotion towards and start to ignore it.
You go through highs and lows of wanting that goal. When you have those high moments, you become unstoppable and every move you make is in the right direction.
In those low moments, feelings of negativity creep in and the most energy you expend is flicking the buttons on the remote control.
These low moments start to creep in more and more becasue it is a lot easier to do nothing or do something that comes into conflict with your goals than make the effort and continue with making the changes and sacrifice that feel really easy when you’re on a high but impossible when you hit rock bottom.
End result is a total drop out in what you’re doing, less action being taken and acceptance that you can’t do it or that something else is more important.
Those feelings of empowerment and committment that you had at the start have disappeared until you decide to go through the same process again.
The thing is, change can be hard and you have to get into a habit of making the right decisions and taking the right action and it is your state of mind at the time that drives this and decides whether you are going to have a good day or one of those days that suck.
A lot of these ups and downs and a long term failure of not realising your goals comes down to not getting yourself in the right fram of mind and the focus necessary on a daily basis that then makes it a lot easier to take action and make the right decisions and be very productive when you are taking that action.
One daily habit that you should try is called incantation, defined in wikipedia as…
“An incantation or incantations are the words spoken during a ritual, either a hymn or prayer
invoking or praising a deity, or in magic, occultism, witchcraft with the intention of casting a spell
or an object or a person. The term derives from Latin incantare (tr.), meaning “to chant (a magical spell)
upon,” from in- “into, upon” and cantare “to sing”.”
I’m not suggesting any voodoo, spell dropping practices to start going on around the globe to get a six pack but this is what many a successful person will do to give them the confidence, self-belief and right type of attitude that goes a long way to getting in the right mindset and achieving.
Something to try is to write down some goals or affirmations that include your habits and goals like this for example…
“I will eat and drink correctly to burn fat and have more energy”
“I will not sabotage my progress with chocolate and alcohol”
“I will exercise like a champion 4 days a week”
“I will get to a size 10 by taking the right steps each day”
“I will succeed every day and take positive steps towards my end goal with each action I take”
“I am powerful beyond measure”
You see the difference. It doesn’t have to be goals all the time but statements that help you achieve them and get you in the correct mindset to achieve them.
Rather than stop short at writing them down and reading them to yourself in your head, say them out loud. I’m not saying to shout them out loud and ring bells at the same time but hearing them out loud rather than silent reading is a pretty powerful way of getting you ready for the day and can be the difference between skipping your workout that day, having the Mars bar and losing your focus and drive and gaining momentum each and every day.
Say them out loud to yourself and get yourself to believe and be inspired.
Try writing your incantations out and see how they work for you.
Speak to you again soon
Mike
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