Key to Staying Motivated: How do you feel about yourself?
This is a very important question… How do you feel about yourself?
The picture that we have of ourselves is often shaped by what the opinion of others has been about us. We have had opinions leveled about us from the minute we took our first breaths. Some of them have been good, some of them have been bad. Some of them have been bad but weren’t intended to be good.
Your no good…
Your lazy…
Your fat…
Your too skinny… (This one got me for many years. I’ll explain later in the post.)
Your a bad girl…
Your a bad boy…
Your no good for nothing…
You eat too much…
Do any of these sound familiar?
Until we take personal responsibility for how we feel about ourselves, we will continue to live by the limiting thoughts that others have labeled us with.
The best way to combat the negative image we have about ourselves is to become very conscious of the thoughts that are rolling around in our heads. Let me give you an example.
For most of my adult life, I have fluctuated from 180 to 240 pounds for about the last 25 years. I have gone on diets got down to the weight that I liked but not too long from there I would end up back to being heavy and out of shape again. People always found this very fascinating and I found it very frustrating.
Recently after both of my parents experienced some medical issues at the age of 65, I knew it was time for me to get back on the road to health again. After all I don’t want to have those experiences when I get older.
So I started out again and I found myself getting good results. One morning I was looking in the mirror and I was impressed by the results that I have accomplished to this point and this voice came into my head and said, “Be careful, you don’t want to get to skinny.”
I was fortunate enough to catch that little comment in my head. I started to think to myself, why would that thought even enter into my head.
And then I remembered back to when I was a kid and my grandmother and aunts used to tease me about being skinny. This used to aggravate the crap out of me.
This all happened when I was between 8 to 10 years old. And I didn’t let them down for most of my adult life.
I actually let their thoughts of me define me. I let an opinion of theirs turn into a habitual thought that has been in my head cautioning me not to “get too skinny”.
What is even more amazing about this is that, this thought came to me exactly at the weight that I would always lose steam and start to gain the weight back.
It was a yo-yo weight loss cycle that I had developed based on the opinions of others but if I had not been conscious of the thoughts that were going on in my head I would have been set to repeat the cycle.
I learned this technique of consciously listening to my subconscious thoughts in Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System.
I know now that I will not be going back to that unhealthy weight after discovering that and other thoughts that I discovered using the techniques in Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System.
I am grateful for that!
So how do you feel about yourself?
What thoughts or opinions of others have you let control any part of your life?
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: The Power of Daily Progress…
One of the best motivators when it comes to successful goal accomplishment is daily progress.
When you actually see your goal coming into reality everyday, it helps to keep you motivated to continue forward progress the next day. The key here is to make sure you are making forward progress everyday towards your goals.
If you are not making forward progress, you are actually going backwards because the time that has passed is gone forever and will never come back for you to use again.
And this is true for every goal you have.
It is important for you to have a well balanced list of goals. We wear many hats through out the day and it is important that we focus our efforts towards each goal in the proportion of their importance to us.
For example, my fitness goals are best worked on in the early morning between 4 AM and 6 AM. This is the time that I have set aside to work on my weight resistance and cardio workouts. As the day moves forward I am working on my career and financial goals by working on providing the best possible service to the customers I have.
While the day moves on I am still working on my fitness goals by eating a well balanced diet in between business calls. And my relationship goals with my family is open to whenever they need me during the day but with more of an emphasis in the morning when I return from the gym and in the evening after I make my business calls.
As far as my spiritual goals go, I am constantly in gratitude for the abilities that God has given me and I try to leverage those strengths to help as many people as I can everyday.
In the morning, I review my goals and I set up a list of specific things that I would like to accomplish everyday in every area of my life and work hard to reach those daily goals everyday.
This is a habit… a habit that if mastered will help anyone that applies it reach whatever goal they desire if they never give up!
Pay close attention to your habitual way of thinking and your habitual way of acting. These are the key to any future change that you are looking to accomplish.
I am thankful to Lee Milteer. She develop a system called The Habit Busting System.
With the use of this system, I have been able to lose 40 pounds over the last couple of months and not only that but I have found thinking habits that I have had from as early as 10 years old that created issues for me that kept me on yo-yo weight loss and weight gain for the better part of my adult life.
It is truly amazing.
If you struggle in any area of your life, it is because of habitual thinking that is working in your head. There are techniques in this program that can help you discover and replace those limiting thinking habits. Make sure to check it out today! Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System!
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: Get Going… NOW!
Are you living up to your God given responsibility?
Some of you may be saying, “John, What is my God given responsibility?”
Well here is my definition of what I feel our God given responsibility is in a couple of parts:
1. We are responsible to discover our unique skill and strengths – This is an area where we have a natural talent ability. A strength that when we are involved doing it, time slips away from us and we are engrossed.
2. We are responsible to use our strengths and skills to serve others profitably – This is where we find a way to use our strengths and unique skills to serve others in a manner that we make money to satisfy our need for food, shelter, clothing and what ever else we desire.
3. We are responsible to help those who CAN NOT help themselves – There is a very important distinction here. To help those who CAN NOT help themselves. Not to make slaves of those who think that they can not help themselves. When we enable those who are mentally and physically able to help themselves to become slaves to a system of welfare, we end up destroying their dignity.
My mentor, Jim Rohn, would always remind us of what the flight attendants would tell us before the plane took off and that would be “to put your mask on first. And then to help those around you.”
He also mentioned a great saying that a colleague of his would say and that was “I’ll take care of me for you, if you take care of you for me.”
It is our responsibility to make sure that we keep our skills up to date, to make sure that we have marketable skills that others will find valuable. And then find a way to make money to cover our basic needs and the needs of our family and then to help others.
When we do this as individuals, we make our whole society better.
What are you waiting for? Start NOW!
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: The Right Time to Start on Your Goals
I can’t believe it, it’s August 23rd and the summer is almost over…
In some states in the US, the kids are already back to school. I remember when I was a kid, it was always this time of the year that I would start to get a little anxious to get back to school. I mean the summer was great but I always seemed to be very bored towards the end of the summer.
I talk to my kids and ask them if they are looking forward to going back to school and the answer comes back a resounding… “YES!!!”
Then I started to think about that, “Why are the kids so thrilled about going back to school?”
The conclusion that I came to was that… when they go back to school, they will have more structure back in their lives. They will have new goals and objectives put forth by the new classes they will be taking.
Now don’t get me wrong, it won’t be long before they are looking forward to summer again but until then I am happy that they are looking forward to going back to school.
This is no different for us as adults…
When we have structure in our lives, we tend to be a little more motivated. When we are going for goals that we have set for ourselves, we tend to be a little more focused and feel a little better about ourselves.
September has always been a month of getting new things started for me but this year has been a little different for me.
Earlier this year, I set some pretty aggressive goals for myself in a time that I don’t normally set goals for myself. It was a real shock to my system.
But I realized this year that there is no good time to set goals.
The best time to set a goal is when that goal jumps into your mind. While the idea is hot in your mind.
When you set that goal and take action on it immediately, you increase your chances of making that goal a reality. And you build an unstoppable momentum.
Another thing that I realized is that working with your habits is huge when it comes to reaching your goals. If you don’t seriously look at and adjust your habitual nature the chances of your reaching your goals, go down in a dramatic fashion.
The habitual thoughts and actions that you have now, HAVE to change in order for you to reach these goals. In order for you become someone you have not been before requires you to become someone you have never been before.
The program that I have been using to make this happen for me is Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System. This program has done wonders for me and I haven’t slowed down one bit in this last session of goal setting.
The only change that I have made this time around is paying close attention to the habits that I have created in my life that have held me back from reaching these goals that I have set for myself and then changing my thinking and actions to become congruent with the goals that I desire.
So I am well on my way to reaching these goals and I have back up goals ready to go when I make these goals a reality and I am already working to change the habitual thinking and actions that I am going to need to have to reach the next set of goals.
I will keep you posted on the progress.
I hope you have found this post useful!
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: Your Influence, Your Reach and Your Example
When it comes to true success, you will find that in order to become successful will require that you have to work with people in a lot of different ways.
You will have to deal with customers, co-workers, suppliers, trainers, educators and the list goes on and on.
At some point if you end up running your own business, you may be coordinating the efforts of all these people in a manner to move your business forward in a harmonious manner.
This will require that you develop a level of influence.
Merriam Webster dictionary defines influence as “to effect the actions of humans”.
Influence is the ability to get others to take action.
This can be a positive thing but also a very negative thing depending on what type of influence you exert.
We are going to concentrate on the positives of influence, the ability to influence others in a manner that benefits everyone involved.
Here are a few ideas to consider when working your influence:
1. People will be influenced more by people who practice what they are trying influence – Let’s say for example you sell cars and you are selling Ford’s. Your customer will be far more likely to believe that you believe in your product if you yourself are driving a Ford. Doesn’t that make sense.
If you are going to buy a car, ask the car sales person what kind of car they are driving. If they are not driving the product they sell, find a sales person who is.
2. Unless you are dealing with a child, do not try to force someone to your way of thinking because you know that it is GOOD for them unless it is a matter of life or death – When you try to bend someones will to your way of thinking, this is the use of the will that should only be left to God.
Read this chapter of The Science of Getting Rich, it explains this very clearly http://the-science-of-getting-rich-blog.com/chapter-9-how-to-use-the-will
“A person convinced against their will is of the same opinion still.”
3. The best way to influence anyone is “walk the walk” – If you are trying to convince someone that they need to straighten out their lives financially and you are living pay check to pay check, you message will fall on deaf ears.
If you are trying to influence someone to get into better shape but your 50 pounds over weight, it is going to be a tough sell.
Being a person of influence is important in the success of everyone, you ability to influence others to take positive action will be paramount in your search for success.
Speaking of Influence, make sure to check out this site on influence, http://fcinf.com/v/cwwx and then sign up and see how influential you are. This is a very interesting project!
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: Working with The Success Principles
There are success principles that, when applied, work for everyone regardless of who you are or where you come from. The key here is to make sure that you are working with the success principles and not against them.
Note: This is a lot easier said then done but the people who are capable of bending themselves into applying the success principles described below can achieve great things with their lives.
1. Desire – This is the starting point of any successful endeavor. Your desire for something outside of your current position is where all success starts. This is a normal and natural thing. If we are capable of desiring something, we have the power within ourselves to coordinate our activities in a way that will bring about the thing we desire.
2. Price to be paid for the desire – Contrary to the current media culture that would like you to believe that there is a way of getting “Something for nothing”, there is a price to be paid for everything that you truly desire to get.
This is point where the plan has to be made for what you are going to do in return for what you desire.
Personal example: I have a desire to live my life in a healthy way and lose the unhealthy weight that I have put on over the last 20 years or so. It would have been very easy for me to look at the TV and find a way that I could lose weight with little effort but I know better then that.
My plan was to change the way I eat and increase my physical activity on a daily basis.
I bought an ebook called Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle and I set up a healthy diet plan and a work out plan.
3. Take Action on the Plan – There will never be a perfect time to start taking action on your desire and it is important to get going immediately on the actions that will move you towards your desire.
Back to my example: It took me about two weeks to pour over the information from the eBook that I bought but I knew that I had to get going on the plan as soon as possible.
So I started to go the gym and started doing cardio exercise for an hour everyday. I went to the store and started to buy whole grain foods, fish and chicken for protein and fruits and vegetables. And that is what I started to eat.
I did not have the perfect plan before I got started.
4. Seek advise from those who have done this before you – This is extremely important. There are people who have knowledge that will help us reach any possible desire we may have.
I chose two experts in the areas that I needed help with to help start moving towards my desire.
Tom Venuto wrote the the great eBook, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, and I know that it has helped many people reach their fitness goals.
The other thing I knew was that I needed to work on some the habitual ways of thinking and acting that has caused to be on a yo-yo diet cycle for the last 20 years, so I went to Lee Milteer and her Habit Busting System to help me with some of the thinking habits that had caused me to go up and down with weight.
I thank God that I did because when I got down to a weight that I had achieved before, I found a thought pattern that had been rattling around in my head that I am certain had caused me go up and down with the weight in the past.
Thanks to the Habit Busting System, I was able to become conscious of this thought and take action to change this limiting thought. It was such a great moment for me.
5. Adjust to the feedback – When you start to take action, you will start to get some feedback. This could come from a lot of different areas. Your thoughts, the thoughts of others. Your reluctance to get out of your comfort zone. People reluctant to your change. People want you to stay just the same so THEY don’t have to change.
If you are not moving towards your desire, you will have to take different action.
If you are moving towards your desire, keep going and continue to find ways to accelerate the progress.
This process can help with any area in your life that you desire change. But make sure that you only apply this to changes that you desire for yourself. When you try to apply this to others, it doesn’t work and ends up having a decreasing effect.
I hope you find this useful!
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: Letting Go of the Excuses that Keep Holding You Back…
We all have them… certain excuses that hold us back from making some sort of self improvement our lives.
When we truly take a look at these “excuses”, all it comes down to is a habitual way of thinking that we have embedded in our lives over a long period of time. A thought pattern that constantly repeats itself over and over in our heads.
Sometimes we consciously know that these thoughts are there and what is even more dangerous are the thoughts that we have in our heads that we are not consciously aware of. These are the thoughts that hold us back without us knowing about them. These are the thoughts that keep us repeating cycles of failure over and over again.
You can see results from these thoughts in people who:
1. Constantly have relationship problems – The relationship starts off great but always ends up the same way, all with different partners and always the same problem at the end of the relationship.
2. Move from job to job – It always ends with a dismissal or quitting because THEY just don’t get it.
3. Yo – Yo diet – These people will go on a diet but when they get to a certain weight, the weight seems to go back on. (I was in this group, not anymore after uncovering the limiting habitual thoughts that were keeping me in this cycle.)
4. Always get bad service, no matter WHERE they go – These are the people that things are just never right for them. They go to eat at a restaurant and their food is always late or it is never hot enough.
Everything that happens in our life is a result of our habitual thinking and the daily actions that we take. Even if things happen that are out of our control, for example an accident that we did not cause, death of a loved one, company closing, or a slew of others things that can happen, we have a habitual way of reacting or responding to these events that we can control.
The key here is be able to recognize undesirable patterns that are happening in our lives and then finding the thought patterns that are helping to create them and then changing these limiting thoughts with “new” empowering thoughts followed by “new” empowering actions.
When we do that we will start to see changes in that area of our life. It is simply using the cause and effect law of success.
The best program that I have come across that addresses habit change is Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System, it is a step by step process that can help you make the changes in your life that you are looking for.
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: Using the Knowledge of Others to Bridge the Gap…
We don’t have to “re-invent the wheel”.
Unless we are looking to accomplish something that has never been done in human history, there is probably someone who has done what we are looking to accomplish.
In the areas of fitness, money, relationships, business or spiritual, chances are someone is where we want to be in these areas and in order for us to enjoy the results they are, all we need to do is follow the same steps that they have and through the success law of cause and effect we will reach those same results.
The key here is to make sure that we seek out and implement the suggestions of those who have done what we are looking to achieve.
For me personally, over the last couple of months, I have set some pretty aggressive goals for myself in the area of health and fitness but I knew that I was not going to be able to achieve these goals with my present knowledge of the subject so I sought the advise from someone that I have come to trust in this area. His name is Tom Venuto and the information that I am using to accomplish this goal is at Burn The Fat.
By implementing the ideas from his program I have been able to shed 40 pounds while adding muscle mass.
Along with using the information from that program, I have also had to adjust some of the thinking and action habits that have been embedded into me for a lot of years.
I have been using Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System to help me in that area. Again another person whose expertise has been able to help me accomplish this aggressive goal.
So for this particular goal, I have been using expert knowledge from two sources while applying the cause and effect law of success and I am getting the results that I am looking for.
Here are a few action ideas that might help you bridge the gap:
1. Get clear about what you want in the areas of your life including health and fitness, business and career, relationships, financial and spiritual.
2. Find someone who has accomplished what it is you are looking to accomplish.
3. Implement the thoughts and actions that these people have and allow the law of cause and effect work.
4. Continue to work on uncovering the thoughts and actions that have been holding you back and create “new” thoughts and actions that will help you keep the improvements you have made, make sure to check out Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System , this is a great program for habit change.
I hope you find this useful!
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: Become an Inspiration to Others
When it comes to motivation, there is nothing more motivating then when someone says to you, “Because of what you said, wrote or did, I stepped out and took action and these are the positive results that I have accomplished.”
Doesn’t that make you want to take a more proactive stance and do more things that will have a positive effect on those around you.
I have been doing the LifetoSuccess.com website for around 8 years now, and I get emails from people all over the world, stating how they have been helped by a post that I have made and this only makes me want to get back on this blog and post some more.
I try to post once a day but sometimes I am compelled to post multiple times per day based on the emails that I get. I do write down the ideas that I get from the emails in order to make future posts.
This is by far one of the most motivating things that happens to me.
It is really inspiring when people close to you get inspired by your actions, especially those who are really close to you.
You may ask, “Why is that?”
I think the reason for that is that they see you, “warts and all”.
They know that you have tried to start a time management program a million times.
They know that you have started a new fitness program, 10000 times.
But when you nail it and you start to get serious and make those people true believers, you have really knocked the ball out of the park, especially if they start to make positive change in their lives based on your inspiration.
Here are a few questions to consider:
1. What positive change have you been putting off that if you did it would positively effect those around?
2. Besides yourself, who will benefit if you make these positive changes on your life?
This can be the “WHY” foundation for you to build on to make these positive changes in your life.
I hope this helps and I hope you have a great weekend!
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: Why fear and HOPE may be holding you back…
Some of you may be saying, “Come on, John. How can hope possibly hold you back?”
When you think of hope, what do you think of?
Do you think about the things that you “hope” to do?
or
Do you think of the things that you “hope” to change outside of yourself?
It all depends on what you are hoping for. If you are hoping that you can muster the courage to change the things you have control over, you are heading in the right direction.
If you are hoping for things to change that you have no control over, you giving up your personal power and I suggest that you are heading in the wrong direction.
There is no difference between hope directed in the wrong direction and fear, they both hold you back from taking the necessary action that you are required to take in order to make lasting and positive change in your life.
What are you afraid of?
For most fear comes into play when they think of what others will think of them when they step out to make a positive change in their lives.
You heard that right… fear only comes into play when you are held back because of what you think others will think of you if you step out and take positive bold action.
How many times have you heard?
“I heard that before.”
“Why do you try to do those things, you know it never works out for you.”
These statements often come from people that are close to us, well meaning family, friends and co-workers.
And we heed their advice and remain where we are.
The only way out of this habitual way of living is to step out boldly, working on what we truly desire and leaving the rest behind us. Not the people but the “old” thinking and action habits.
Believe me, anyone who truly wants the best for you will be there with you while you are moving forward towards your true desires. And not only that, but you will start to become an inspiration to them.
When you become serious about living your life successfully, they will start to take you for your word and look for ways to help you succeed on reaching your desire.
*Personal Note:
Since the beginning of June, I have made a personal commitment to change my fitness and eating habits. I did not make this decision lightly, you can read about it on the blog I started to track my fitness goals at http://www.burnthefatproof.com
Over my adult life, this is probably about the 6th or 7th time that I have ventured down this road. This is the last time for me.
It would have been easy for me to just “hope” that things would change and I was really nervous and fearful about how others would react when I started on this venture… AGAIN!
But I stepped out, and to this point I have lost 40 pounds and I feel awesome. I am up everyday early and to the gym before anyone else in the house gets up.
With the use of Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System, I have uncovered some under lying thinking habits that have been holding me back for years, I am talking 36 years to be exact. And I found that thinking pattern right at about the time that I would have normally gone back to my old habits. And now I am even more motivated to continue and maintain the healthy lifestyle that I now desire more then anything.
If you are finding yourself challenged in the area of health and fitness, I suggest that you get Tom Venuto’s, great book, Burn The Fat, Feed the Muscle. It has helped with both my mindset and setting up a sensible diet and exercise program that has helped me lose the 40 pounds.
And if that was not enough, I have several household members who are starting their own fitness program because of my inspiration.
It is a great feeling!
I hope this helps you!
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: Working within YOUR Circle of Influence
One of the major keys to staying motivated is to make sure that you are constantly working on things that you have complete control over, and all these things fall under your circle of influence.
Working within your circle of influence requires you to work on only two things:
1. What you think
and
2. What you do
These are the only two things that you have control over. When you come to realize this, you have truly set yourself free to accomplish whatever you want or desire.
This is a habitual way of thinking about your life.
The problem arises when we look for things outside of our circle of influence to change in order for us to be happy or to accomplish anything. This is when we relinquish power and become weaker as human beings.
Here are some of the thinking patterns that occur when the focus is on things outside of our circle of influence:
If only the government would…
If the unemployment rate was only better…
If our company would do this…
If only my wife/husband would…
Our job as responsible human beings is to fashion our lives around our desires while profitably and positively serving others. And in that order.
We start with our desire and then work out a plan to positively serve others in order to get what we truly desire.
Problems arise when we violate that pattern.
What are you going to work on today that involves you only working on things that you have control over.
I really hope you have had a chance to check out Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System, this is a program that will help you change some of the thinking habits and actions habits that may be holding you back in this area. It has worked wonders for me.
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: Results is the Name of the Game!
“Results is the Name of the Game.” – Jim Rohn
When it comes to being motivated and staying focused on your goals, it is the results that you achieve that count not the intention of getting there.
It is unclear of the origin of this quote but it goes like this, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
When it comes to achieving our goals the only thing that matters is the achievement of that goal, everything else is only commentary.
But here is a key that is vitally important here, the only person who needs to change their thinking and actions when it comes to achieving your goal is… YOU! The rest of the world can remain the same.
If your goal requires others to change in order for you to achieve your goal, you should scrap it immediately and start working on goals that require you to grow, no one else.
I wrote this post the other day, I hope you had a chance to read it http://www.lifetosuccess.com/2010/07/30/key-to-staying-motivated-not-relying-on-others-to-change-in-order-to-make-you-happy/
When your goal requires others to change, you are working against natural law and the results will be marginal at best.
In Wallace Wattles’ great book, The Science of Getting Rich, he explores this in great detail in the two chapters below:
http://the-science-of-getting-rich-blog.com/chapter-9-how-to-use-the-will/
http://the-science-of-getting-rich-blog.com/chapter-10-further-use-of-the-will/
Make sure to check out these two chapters from that great book.
When you start to work with yourself in this manner, you will be developing a great habit that will serve you for the rest of your life. If you have not already done so, make sure to check out, Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System. It is a great program that can help with the habitual thinking and acting change that you seek in your life.
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: How are you doing so far in the 2nd Half of 2010?
We’re one month down in the 2nd half of 2010, have you made any headway into your 2nd half goals?
Well if not… it is still not too late to get rolling but don’t put it off for another day. There is no better time to get going on the goals that are really important to you then right now.
If you don’t start now when will you start… tomorrow, this week, next month, next year… someday!
Everyday that you let slip away, is one less day that you will have to get to where you want to be.
Everyday that you do not do something that moves you forward towards your goal, it will only be harder to get going the next day.
Achieving your goals is all about… momentum! Making forward motion towards what you want for yourself.
And when you move forward towards your goal, your goal will start to move towards you. When you are doing activity that is not moving you towards your goal, you goal is getting further away from you.
This is a universal success principle that can not be changed and works for ANYONE who makes it work for them. There are no exceptions!
The only time this does not work is when you stop moving towards your goal.
Make sure that when you are setting your goals you are using the S.M.A.R.T. goals formula.
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
Key to Staying Motivated: Get Rid of the HIDDEN Excuses…
As we progress through life, we pick a lot of assumptions and prejudices along the way.
This is a natural thing that happens and some of these assumptions help us remain safe while others hold us back from the success we desire and deserve if we are willing to pay the price.
Some of the assumptions are so embedded in us that we do not even know that they are there. If these assumptions are holding us back, we may go to our grave and not even know they are there.
There are habits that we can develop that can break the assumptions that are holding us back.
Basically you have to develop a “new” habitual way of thinking to replace the old limiting habitual thought that is holding you back.
I will give you a personal example:
I am currently engaged in a fitness goal that I am proud to say, I am making great headway on. Anyway, I was looking in the mirror and the thought entered my mind, “Be careful, you don’t want to get too skinny.” I caught this thought that was rattling around in my head.
Now just some quick background, I have gotten to where I am right now in my fitness level but this has always been the point at which I would start to slide back into old habits and the waist line would start to expand again.
But this time I caught the thought that was constantly holding me back from getting to where I wanted to go in this area.
The thought that I caught was “Be careful, you don’t want to get too skinny.” and this thought was formed in my mind when I was 8 – 10 years old. At that age, I was constantly teased about being skinny, and I hated it. From that point till the day I caught that thought, I am convinced that I would have continued my yo-yo fitness level and would have probably ended up with some serious health issues when I got older.
But…
After catching that hidden thought that was rattling around in my head for 33 years, I am more motivated then ever to reach my fitness goal and to stay there until the good Lord calls me home.
I would not have caught that thought without the help of Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System. I am currently using this system to help me replace limiting thought and action habits that are holding me back from the goals I seek. I know that it can work for you as well, make sure to check it out!
I hope you find this useful!
As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
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