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Issue: # 79
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February 6th 2010
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Greetings!
Good Morning!
How are you?
Firstly we are back to the old newsletter format! Thanks for the feedback on the colour scheme from last week, and I am now working on a totally new design which I shall start using in a few weeks.
I hope you had a great week this week. I had a strange week in that I had a week off but I had one of those weeks where things just went wrong for me. Silly things, like my Sky box blew up, I got stuck in a traffic jam for hours and I have a massive blister on my foot from a new pair of trainers!
But I always believe now that whatever comes my way that I can deal with it with a smile and a positive attitude, and while in the traffic jam I phoned Sky and convinced them to fix the box for nothing so in the end all is good!
This week's article is called 'Leopards can't change their spots' and is because I was in London yesterday working on a TV programme. The interviewer on camera was saying to me how hard it must be to maintain my weight, to which I disagreed, she then said to me that 'Leopard's can't change their spots'...and I replied that although they may not be able to change their spots they can choose not to overeat anymore.
Before I leave this week I just want to cover mountains and hills which I was talking about in the blog this week.
I was working with someone 1-2-1 on Tuesday who talked about their diet as like climbing a mountain and they were at the bottom of the mountain and the goal was right at the top.
As she talked about the journey in store for her, she was using her hands to show the uphill and difficult ascent she was going to have to take. She talked about it like it was literally Mount Everest, north face ascent!
But of course everything in life, in terms of how hard and how difficult, is merely your perception of how hard and difficult it is. I used to 'find it difficult' to get up in the morning but now I find it very easy as I have loads of fun things to get on with. Therefore, if you believe that getting slim and staying slim is either hard or impossible then you will go on to prove that to be true.
So instead of climbing a mountain, why not start on the top of the mountain, admire the view and then run down it with your arms flailing and laughing out loud.
To get slim and stay slim you have to enjoy the ride and then enjoy the stay! So time to take off the hiking boots and put on your running trainers...
Have an amazing week and cya Saturday
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Leopards Can't Change Their Spots
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Firstly, this is merely a belief that some people have. It is common to believe that once you have a certain personality trait or show certain behaviours that they are intrinsic in you and somehow go through to your core. You maybe can stop them for a while with willpower but ultimately you are who you are and will go back to being the real you.
Now I absolutely believe that the real you is always the real you and won't change at your core but I also don't believe for a second that the real you happens to enjoy dieting, overating, yoyoing and living the lifestyle of obsessing over food.
Overeating is not who you really are, overeating is a behaviour that you will have learnt in the past, probably in childhood/teenage years, that you will still be using today, therefore because it is a behaviour then you can just stop it!
My little boy is turning eleven in April and since he was five years old he has loved these little footballers called Microstars, He would sit for hours on his bedroom floor playing little matches and running leagues. Every Christmas and Birthday he wanted nothing but more Microstars and a green mat in his bedroom as a pitch.
But then just before Christmas he stopped playing with them. I noticed that they hadn't been out of the box for a few weeks and asked him why he wasn't playing with them anymore and he just said that he had moved on!
I thought it was a brilliant answer and since then he has been trying loads of other new hobbies.
Now, if I believe that people can't change then surely that means he would play with little footballers for the rest of his life?
Absolute rubbish!
So turning this to you...do you believe you really can change? That you can get off this diet wagon for good? The beliefs you have about yourself are the key to long term success and not the behaviours as they can be switched on and off at your pleasure.
You change things all of the time in your life from which supermarket you go to, to which route you to take to work, to which coffee you might order in Starbucks. The one thing that is absolutely certain in life is change!
I was reading an amazing book this week by Eckhart Tolle about living in the now. He talks about the real you and what an amazing person that is, but he also goes on to say that the only thing that is real is NOW...the past isn't real anymore as it doesn't exist anymore and the future isn't real as it hasn't happened yet. Therefore by enpowering yourself to live in the now, you are in control of yourself and your own destiny. As part of living in the now, I have chosen not to change my spots, but not to behave like a leopard at all!
Have an amazing week all of you
Mike ;-)
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