Make Your Goal Bigger Than Your Problem.
There’s really not much more than this to say about this week’s midweek motivation, it’s good, simple, and effective advice.
The reason people tend NOT to change is that it’s easier to stay the same than it is to change something.
And yet it’s only by changing something that you can bring about a different result.
And when I think about it now, the overriding influence for me to seriously lose weight all those years ago was a negative one, I never wanted to be as fat as I was then.
In simple terms the driving force behind every single one of my decisions from there on in was, “does this help me get thinner, or fatter?”
In essence I made my goal (“I never want to be this fat again”) bigger than my problem (“I really want to eat that”).
What’s your most basic motivation for wanting to lose weight?
How can you use this to most effectively get you to change?
What question can you ask yourself on a regular basis that will drill this into you?
Next week I’ll give you an exercise so that you can put more of this theory into practice.