I hope your are doing well and keeping a clear channel to your needs and goals in these exciting times. When times are slow we can do all the the things we wanted to do but never have time for, like achieving a fitness goal (I am training for the Walt Disney World Marathon in January, meeting with that person who said they had a great business opportunity (email Kevin, I think he has changed my life, see my new store, https://trainertroy.mychoices.biz/Retail/Home.aspx) to tell us about but we did not have the time to fit in, or take that continuing education class we have been putting off (just finishing Hot Yoga teacher training), or redesign your website (email Allison and she will whip your site into shape and look for the new Trainertroy.com coming soon). Now is the time for action, not non action. It is a time to clear our static (life's distraction) from our signal (or our true voice inside), get rid of all the stress and get strong in our wants and desires. Take action now to move ahead and keep focused on what you really want for yourself and now that we have the time make a plan of action to get there. See my article below on how to set and achieve a goal, it has worked for me and all my clients who were motivated enough to follow the plan.
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GET THAT GOAL ACHIEVED!!
Achieving a Goal (notice I did not say setting a goal, we want to achieve it!)
1 Set realistic goals. Expect about four weeks of initial discomfort as the mind adjusts to the new goal. Stick it out and work past the 30 day mark. The new tasks, habits or steps that once seemed so foreign are slowly becoming programmed into your subconscious. Sometimes in this first month we will want to set down or throw our hands up in the air, remember it is a forward motion and a reprogramming; it takes a long time to rewrite a new computer code. I call this the New Year's Resolution phase: my business booms every new year and those that stick with it for 30 days are more likely to stick with their new plans.
2 Take a positive approach. This is a vital key. I try to get this programmed ASAP: if I hear a client say "I am not good at balance..." I encourage them to say instead "I am improving my balance". Remember we are rewriting our previous programming with a new syntax. Most of what we are trying to change is not our fault; we are marketing so much misinformation all day long, especially as children. Our eating habits are programmed by the age of four by our environmental conditions. Then we run this program for 20 or 30 years until we decide to change it over night? It is science that our brain runs on electrical energy charging our thoughts into action and energy; we want that source to be clean energy.
3 Measure the goals you set. The second phase or Honeymoon phase as I call it is when we start to see results and are happy with our accomplishments. We begin to feel confident in moving toward our goal and feel powerful, perseverant and strong that we are doing what we said we wanted to do. We realize that we are doing something we never did before. I call this the Wow moment with my clients, it's when I hear: "Wow, Troy, I couldn't balance on one foot when I first met you and know I can balance and catch a ball..." This the second step when I see people either keep the momentum and then I know they are really going forward toward what they set out to do, or they convert back to old habits and excuses because it is comforting and familiar and I know they are not going to get there goal now. Surprisingly, the rate of those that continue is only about 20 percent on average.
4 Redefine your goals. Now that I accomplished this, I want to do this. What is it you want now that you're moving in a new direction? I ran one marathon and never thought I could even run, for twenty years I told myself and everyone else I could not run, my lungs could not handle it, not true! Now I run smart (expensive shoes, inserts, salt tablets, nutrition ECT) every week and have learned to love it. My initial goal was just to learn how to run right without hurting my body and did not even think I would make it to the marathon, then I was having success so I changed my goal to walking the full marathon, as I progressed I decided I would walk/ run the marathon, during the marathon my goal became just to live long enough to get to the finish line and now my goal is to run three more marathons before I turn 50.
5 Reward yourself. Every time you achieve a small success, move on to a larger version of your goal and as your progress reward yourself! Share your success with others who are positive and supportive, take a picture of what you have done, hang a certificate up where you can see it, tell yourself everyday what you have done. Stop and set down and contemplate how far you have come so far. Remember to keep it positive, if you skip a day do not criticize yourself, everyday is a fresh day. I say in Yoga class that if you fall out of a posture don't scold your body or get angry, just witness what happened without judgment and get back into the posture, or in this case the goal. After a month of a new eating program I introduce the idea of a 'free day' to my weight loss clients. A day of eating whatever food they want, no limits. The boost in calories heightens the metabolism for up to two days after getting us closer to their goals.
6 Keep reevaluating. I really believe in the Body Bug program because it keeps my clients accountable, it does not lie and the facts are in front of us as I look at the calories, fats, carbohydrates, protein on the chart in front of me. My favorite feature is a tab that lets me see what has happened in the last thirty days, it is so rewarding and educational to see how the hard work is paying off. I won't say keep a journal, because I find that hard for myself, but keep a record, a chart, a program, notebook, calendar with days marked off, whatever works for you that shows what you are doing.
7 Find tools that work. Make it easier on yourself, the no pain no gain saying is purely not true. Make it fun, find other people that are doing what you want to do and surround yourself with them, if you want to learn to swim you have to get to know swimmers, be around water, watch them swim, take a class in swimming, read a book, chart your swimming distance on an online program. We can't saw we want to swim and then complain that we have to get wet, or how bad we swim now, or how the swimming coach made us swim today. We have to learn to love getting in the water; it could be as simple as buying a suit in a color we like, or making a swim friend, or going for ice cream after the swim to reward ourselves. There are always many reasons to not do what we say we want so we have to make what we say we want to do fun. A big meal after a run does it for me.
8 Learn to visualize. It works, you have heard about it: see yourself doing it, Olympic trainers use it, The Secret made millions on it, Shakti Gwain wrote the first book on it; Creative Visualization. Plain and simple it works, see yourself doing it and it will happen. The catch is it may happen in a month or a year depending on how much action we take.
9 Something is better. Remember that something is better than nothing. I have said it a million times in my health career. Aesop had it right when the tortoise explained how he won the race against the hare, "slow and steady wins the race". Maybe your goal was to earn 100,000 dollars this year but you only earned 75,000, are your going to be mad that all your hard work got you that far, or are you going to implement what you learned again next year and improve on it to get closer to your goal next year? Keep moving forward.
10 Stress Kills. Learn stress management skills now. My next newsletter will share some tips with you, but in the meantime learn what you need to cope with this overwhelming world. We were not meant to live in this environment of constant over stimulation that overtaxes and destroys minds and bodies and we need to teach ourselves and our children how to deal with major killer. It kills people and it kills your goals.
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