Focus Your Future Vision
"There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it."
If you ask most people, they know how to exercise and they know how to eat right. What most of these people lack is the ability to apply this knowledge to their own life.
If you are truly going to change yourself, you have to be willing to look inward and be totally honest about how you have lived up this point, how that has affected where you are, and what you will do to change all that. If we want real change it has to begin inside ourselves. Here are some questions to ask yourself ---
Have you made the decision to change? There is a big difference between deciding something and having reasons to actually do it. When you make a decision to change and you know your reasons, you will be able to harness the desire to make something happen.
What are your reasons for making the decision to change? It's one thing to say you want to lose 30 pounds of fat and get in shape; but, it's a whole other thing to have your doctor tell you you'll be dead in a year and never see your children's children if you don't lose 30 pounds immediately.
You will have to look deep inside yourself and find the real reasons why you want to change...those will be the things that push you on to success when you feel like sitting down and quitting.
When you look at yourself, do you honestly like what you see? It's important to really look, since we all "see" ourselves every day. After a while our internal image of ourselves gets out of sync with the reality of what we have become.
Here are a few more questions to help you identify your reasons:
How do you feel deep down inside?
How do you really feel about yourself?
Are you confident, energetic, and strong?
Do you often wonder if you're on the right path?
What are the pros and cons of continuing in the direction you're going?
Woud you like to create a brighter future?
When you can answer these questions, you will have a clear motivation for success.
Here are the steps to success:
We often have many myths about health, fitness, and exercise. Let's separate some of the myths from fact.
Myth: Aerobics is better for shaping up than weight training.
Fact: To transform your physique, you must train with weights.
Myth: Weight training is only for young athletes.
Fact: People of all ages should be weight training.
Myth: Muscles grow while you're working out.
Fact: Muscles grow while you're resting and recuperating.
Myth: A certain number of sets and reps gets the job done.
Fact: High-intensity effort produces the best results.
Myth: You need to drink water only when you are thirsty.
Fact: Your body needs more water than it's telling you.
The questions and myths/facts above come from the excellent training program called, "Body For Life" http://www.bodyforlife.com/ It is an excellent life transforming program that teaches you how to look inside yourself and find the reasons that will drive you to change, as well as laying out a structured program of food and fitness that will transform your body and your life.
This is the basis of the program I will be following which will be documented here in my Pilgrimage. Over the next couple days I will be posting details about how the food and exercise portions of the program work and then beginning Monday I will be documenting my progress through this lifestyle change.
I look forward to the change and the journey. I look forward to hearing from fellow travelers along the road. Let's join together and begin a revolution of health.
Your fellow pilgrim,
Larry
If you ask most people, they know how to exercise and they know how to eat right. What most of these people lack is the ability to apply this knowledge to their own life.
If you are truly going to change yourself, you have to be willing to look inward and be totally honest about how you have lived up this point, how that has affected where you are, and what you will do to change all that. If we want real change it has to begin inside ourselves. Here are some questions to ask yourself ---
Have you made the decision to change? There is a big difference between deciding something and having reasons to actually do it. When you make a decision to change and you know your reasons, you will be able to harness the desire to make something happen.
What are your reasons for making the decision to change? It's one thing to say you want to lose 30 pounds of fat and get in shape; but, it's a whole other thing to have your doctor tell you you'll be dead in a year and never see your children's children if you don't lose 30 pounds immediately.
You will have to look deep inside yourself and find the real reasons why you want to change...those will be the things that push you on to success when you feel like sitting down and quitting.
When you look at yourself, do you honestly like what you see? It's important to really look, since we all "see" ourselves every day. After a while our internal image of ourselves gets out of sync with the reality of what we have become.
Here are a few more questions to help you identify your reasons:
How do you feel deep down inside?
How do you really feel about yourself?
Are you confident, energetic, and strong?
Do you often wonder if you're on the right path?
What are the pros and cons of continuing in the direction you're going?
Woud you like to create a brighter future?
When you can answer these questions, you will have a clear motivation for success.
Here are the steps to success:
- Make the decision to change.
- Identify your reasons to change and write them down.
- Focus on your future vision.
- Dream of what you would like to achieve.
- Transform five of those dreams into goals by giving them a deadline, a way to measure them, and writing them down.
- Identify three unauthorized patterns of action that may hold you back and write them down.
- Identify three new patterns of action that will help you reach your goals and write them down.
- Read what you've written first thing in the morning and again at night each and every day.
We often have many myths about health, fitness, and exercise. Let's separate some of the myths from fact.
Myth: Aerobics is better for shaping up than weight training.
Fact: To transform your physique, you must train with weights.
Myth: Weight training is only for young athletes.
Fact: People of all ages should be weight training.
Myth: Muscles grow while you're working out.
Fact: Muscles grow while you're resting and recuperating.
Myth: A certain number of sets and reps gets the job done.
Fact: High-intensity effort produces the best results.
Myth: You need to drink water only when you are thirsty.
Fact: Your body needs more water than it's telling you.
The questions and myths/facts above come from the excellent training program called, "Body For Life" http://www.bodyforlife.com/ It is an excellent life transforming program that teaches you how to look inside yourself and find the reasons that will drive you to change, as well as laying out a structured program of food and fitness that will transform your body and your life.
This is the basis of the program I will be following which will be documented here in my Pilgrimage. Over the next couple days I will be posting details about how the food and exercise portions of the program work and then beginning Monday I will be documenting my progress through this lifestyle change.
I look forward to the change and the journey. I look forward to hearing from fellow travelers along the road. Let's join together and begin a revolution of health.
Your fellow pilgrim,
Larry
