A good response this week from many of you on your training efforts and many of you are now developing fresh confidence levels to reach your goals.
The secret i developed a long time ago was that if i show up here enough times, if i show up training enough times, i show up and shop for good nutritious food enough times, if i keep on believing in what i do every day and i use that mantra for all areas of my life, i will be successful.
People ask all the time how they can be more successful, how they can be healthier, how they can become fitter etc etc, and the answer doesn’t change a whole lot!
There is a book you can read for free online called Think and grow rich published in 1936 by napolean hill that i recommend as essential reading. Google “think and grow rich” and follow the links, no catches and i repeat, its all free!
Its not what you think though, its not about money as you may guess, its about fulfillment and getting what you want out of life, rather than life making you a prisoner in your own body and mind, afraid to take risks and not being able to try anything.
This book encourages you do read just one chapter every day and more or less guarantees success should you follow the advice from real life case studies. You dont need any magic power to read it or do what the book says, it promises anyone that they can achieve anything they put their minds to, and everyone i know has read it has found the promise to be true.
The main message from the book is for you to find the strategies to become successful in your chosen areas, then perform those strategies each day until you become a master and do these things automatically. When this happens, you become successful without making much effort because your life and daily actions will have changed so much over a short period of time.
The very most important thing i took out of it was the consistency bit, meaning as long as i showed up every day and approached all my tasks with real effort and dedication, good things would naturally happen.
We go over it all the time on here and try and work out in your head how much more successful you would have been if you were more consistent with your food, your training, your sleeping and your positive attitude. How much would that have made a difference to your results and the way you feel?
Go on and be honest, how much more would you get out of yourself if day in day out, your performance in every thing you did was higher? Interesting thought and this is the message you ought to get to really improve big time once again!
Spot on Keri, I wish I had listened to you ages ago, when youn were talking about losing weight for special occasions, that job interview, and so on. I have a job interview on Friday, and everything I tried on today looked awful. This blog has been goin a year, and I have been FAILING for a year, I am sorry now. Never mind tomorrow is a new day, have been on track for 2 weeks now and it is getting easier. It is slower cos I cant train like I used to, twice a day for 6 days with 1 day off, wish I knew how I did that.
you havent failed jean, you have a RESULT. That result may only be 5-6 out of 10 which doesnt bring great results. You know that if you train 4-5 times per week, you will be getting at least 8 out of 10 for the year if you keep that habit up for a year. Plus you will get much better long term results.
You used to train like that in the past because your body was trained to do it, now its not but IS getting there again so keep on going jean, no negative thoughts, no putting yourself down, no thinking you cant do this.
Open your mind to the possibilities and things will become far less scary and much more achievable.
“Showing up is always the hardest thing to do” i wonder sometimes how the hell i keep doing this on my own all the time.Then think of all the clothes i want to wear 🙂
Know where your coming from Cyril, I too have Sooo many clothes I want to get into, 2011 will be my year. Must admit it was easier to go running when my friend Jenny was coming with me, but cycling alone doesn’t bother me as I dont find it that hard to go and do it, its the aches and pains I had when I was jogging every other day, to go cycling the day after a jog was painful. But am taking Keri’s advise and not doing so much, and it is alot better now, better to take longer to get there than not wanting or feeling like doing anything at all. Keep up the good work. Best regards Jeannie. x
nowt done today. when i’ve done the shopping and by the time i get back put away everything its time to do food for everyone.Doesn’t help the 3 of them come home at diff times Arrrrrrrrrrrr 🙂 but been dying to do Shepherds/cottage pie for yonks but couldn’t believe how easy it was?turkey mince 5 diff veg topped with golden Smash 🙂 THEY LOVE IT HERE……no rubbish in it apart from the tiny amount of marge with the smash.They can have chunk either on Friday/Saturday.Egg and chips is on the menu here tomorrow :-)i’m hoping they will go off it,cos i have?by the time we’ve had fish,cassole,stews and pasta earlier in the week.I’m right off it?Ker what the HELL HAVE YOU DONE TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Jeany.”. But am taking Keri’s advise and not doing so much”he certainly knows his onions 🙂 got really peved off with the amont of time i was spending on the TG till i cut down the reps but did higher level ones instead.Much better results to.The little steps tip helped to cos i was only doing about 20mins if that on the bike now i smash it everytime i’m on the bike 🙂
u have changed greatly cyril and well done!!
what about this for a cop out.haven’t doen anything today so said to Liz i’ve done the food i didn’t feel like anything so thought i’d finnish up the washing up and belt down the pool for a swim(which i’ve been trying to do for ages)but slit my bloody finger open!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! still aint stop bleeding.Only a nick but couldn’t stop the BLODDY THING FROM BLEEDING.I dont know, when i’m going to get anywhere near the bloody pool lol,lol,lol,lol.
as annoying as cutting yourself shaving and doesnt stop cyril, you will get there……eventually!!!lol