What is a guiding factor in your effort to get lean? Your Habits
HABITS CAN BE A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD
You are where you are right now partly from the habits you have practiced. Habits can take you further from or closer to your goal. You need to start feeding the good habits and starving the bad ones. You will be pulled toward whatever habit you feed. When you start a new habit and continue practicing it, you train the clusters of neural connections in your brain to repeat that action, whether positive or negative. When you develop the paved roads in your brain for empowering positive habits, you will naturally change your body and your life.
We have been given the ability to create whatever habits we choose. We are not like animals that just live by instinct. We control, through repeated actions, what become our habits and what leads us to our results. Change your actions and you will change your habits.
HOW PEOPLE USUALLY THINK
People usually operate at a level of wanting more for less. They want more improvement in less time with the lowest possible effort or money. It is normal to want to be efficient; however, you do have to be realistic. Some individuals want to lose x amount of weight by working out only one time per week and not changing anything else. Irrational or irresponsible people want something for nothing. This gets many people in trouble with their health, finances, and relationships.
It’s no wonder that the advertisements promising wild results, such as 10 pounds of weight loss in 2 days and six-pack abs in few minutes a day actually get business.
NEW IDENTITY
A major part of evolving to the next best version of yourself is to choose a better identity (how you see yourself). There are many ways to change how you perceive yourself. One of the key approaches is to take the actions that your ideal self would take.
You must take the actions to get the results. Knowledge is powerless without action.
When you take the steps that a healthy, lean person takes, those actions make you feel leaner and healthier immediately. You will naturally start to associate with different people, read different material, and notice different things in life–all because you now have the mind-set of a lean and healthy person.
NO MORE SWEATING THE SMALL STUFF
When choosing what program to follow, consider going with a plan that covers the essentials and leaves out the minutia. It does not make sense to put energy into items that make a one percent difference and miss the components and strategies that give 99% of the results.
World Super Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion Jason Scott Johnson is the author of the newly released book, Re-Create Yourself: How to Get Lean and Stay Lean. He has also created a video fitness series, Turn Your Resolution into Reality. He is offering a free video download of the first DVD in the series to help people really start on the road to fitness and stay on it. To get your free video click here