I’m incredibly curious, I believe that successful strategies
are only ever a few minor tweaks away. After years of being stuck in a
ballooning body (peaking at 99kg/ a size 20), I now find joy and
excitement in contemplating what small adjustments could easily shift me
toward my goals.
Of course it wasn’t always
this way for me. I would ignore my failures, and suppress any awareness
of my mistakes and be trapped and tricked into perpetuate them over and
over again. Yes, I was ‘insane’… I did the same thing over and over and
yet expected a different result – every time... Now after receiving the
body, life, husband, family, business and career of my dreams… I have an
insatiable appetite for uncovering the slight adjustments that make all
the difference to helping myself and others to achieve our goals.
There
are two ways that we all motivate ourselves. One burns us out and
leaves us falling short of the mark… and the other is enduring and
sustainable… After 8yrs of experience in weight-loss, having helped
hundreds of others to lose weight, having shifted 30kg myself and having
stayed slim for over 6 years… I’ve been blessed to identify a trend
that is replayed over and over by countless thousands...
It’s
trying to make change for others. Trying to take action or make change
for your partner, children, lover, parent, Doctor etc. External
motivation is changing for someone else. It starts out feeling pretty
good… we get heaps done, fly around like a rocket, accomplish some fast
wins… start feeling really proud of ourselves and then THUD, you wind up
crashing and burning… You come down in a heap, and no matter how you
fight it you can’t overcome the fatigue and exhaustion. External
Motivation is simply unsustainable!
Motivation
simply means ‘why we do what we do’. It’s a powerful feeling. It
prompts us to take action, it’s the feeling that we really want to do
something or make change. But we need to remember that there are two
styles of motivation. External motivation, which is hot and fiery and Internal
motivation; which is feeling prompted to take action for your own
self-interest. It’s about doing something because you care about you;
because you want yourself to be happy, because you know how much
calmer/joyous/simple or enriched your life will be if you choose to take
this action/ make change.
Seems pretty simple
right… Try to do it for others and your steam will run out fast… You’ll
lack sufficient follow through to create any lasting results. Or do it
for yourself and stay consistent, and sure enough in time the results
show up and you enjoy the process so much that you still keep going.
Obviously right now, your probably realizing that internal motivation is the holy grail of lasting change.
So
ask yourself right now, what do I truly want most right now? Disregard
any supposed limitation… If you could receive anything you truly desired
what would it be? Write it down/ say it out loud now:
My deepest desire is: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Great,
well done. Now I want you to write down the 3 most powerful internal
(you-focused) reasons why you want this (Reasons why it will directly
benefit you personally):
1)
2)
3)
Now,
how are you feeling? Can you feel that surge of power and energy
inside, the light that has gone on, you have a sense of purpose and
intention. This is what we are made for; to acknowledge our deepest
desires, and to know why we truly want them, and then to go out and do
whatever needs to be done to receive it/them/that.
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