It’s essential to take time for YOU.
There is an acronym for when you’re most inclined to engage in bad habits.
It’s called “HALT.”
Whatever “bad” habit you have is most inclined to be activated when you are: [Read more…]
Getting Past What Holds You Back with Baby Boomer Weight Loss Expert Scott 'Q' Marcus
There is an acronym for when you’re most inclined to engage in bad habits.
Whatever “bad” habit you have is most inclined to be activated when you are: [Read more…]
Everything is Jim Dandy until you unsuspectingly enter it and find yourself condemned to spend eternity held in place in its “your-flight-has-been-canceled; please-see-the-attendant” inextricable goo.
I was to conduct a communication workshop for a Seattle agency on Monday, having reserved a flight for the previous Saturday, allowing me to attend a concert when I arrived. Sunday’s itinerary would consist of roaming the Emerald City and I would return home Monday evening, after leading the seminar.
It was going to be a good trip.
The operative word is “was.”
Two hours before take-off, a text message informed me that my flight was canceled due to our oft-times, unrelenting fog. Rebooked for a later flight, I was ominously primed,
“There’s no guarantee it will go either. Hope for the best.”
After doing my part — hoping — and impatiently waiting through three more hours of delays, only to be canceled again, re-booked again was I for an evening flight, with arrival in the wee hours of the next morning. I’d obviously miss the concert but could still salvage my Sunday; this of course contingent on this latest itinerary actually falling into place, unlikely since the obstinate grey murkiness that blanketed the runway seemed fused to the blacktop.
There are too many bills to pay and not enough income. Too many job seekers and not enough jobs. Too many mouths to feed and not enough food in the fridge.
Essentially, our lives can feel completely out of whack at times and the first thing to go to waste is our sleep patterns.
Without healthy sleep habits it’s almost impossible to lead a healthy overall life. If you find yourself laying awake at night, here are a few tips to help you catch the Zzz’s you need and get your health back on track. [Read more…]
If you were going to say, “try again,” you would have been right by conventional standards.
However, I’m not a conventional guy.
No, I don’t just think you should try again if your first attempt is a flop; you should take your failure as a victory. It implies that you’re challenging yourself. In place of the old adage, I’d say a more accurate and motivational iteration would be:
If at first you don’t succeed, you know that you’re after something worth accomplishing.
The path to success is paved with a lot of face-first tumbles; a healthy serving of embarrassment; a dollop of stress and, most importantly—the base that holds the recipe together— a generous scoop of persistence.
But when it comes to getting in shape, developing persistence is no small task; it requires a bit of persistence in and of itself. In order to get yourself motivated to follow through, you need to ask yourself a few honest, hard-hitting questions.
Before you endeavor to work your butt off achieving something, ask yourself if what you’re working toward is going to improve your life enough to be worth the effort you’ll have to exert.
For instance, if you’re dieting to lose weight, but you only have five pounds to lose, is it worth the temporary uprooting of your entire metabolic and dietary cycles? Probably not. Upping you game at the gym while maintaining your same healthy, steady diet is a lower-risk, slower reward option, but wiser in this low-stake situation.
However, if you’re trying to shake off twenty pounds, a total overhaul of what you put in, and how you treat, your body is definitely called for. And won’t be a walk in the park, either.
It’s a matter of choosing the battles you force yourself to fight. Sagacious selection will make it that much easier to motivate yourself to stay standing.
A program called The Diet Solution Program Review cites most peoples’ main reason for failing to lose weight or get in shape as one simple thing:
Look, it takes weeks for you to notice physical changes once you’ve started working out; it takes those closest to you months, and people with whom you’re distantly acquainted and see infrequently can take months to notice… and may not notice at all.
The lack of reinforcement—from the mirror and your peers—makes giving up seem a lot more appealing than persevering.
And that brings me to my next point.
I think it’s important to preface this by saying that anyone who endeavors to adhere to a healthy diet and exercise regime does it at least partially for the physical payoff.
That being said, you should never embark on journey to change your body for the sole purpose of looking different.
Persistence is nearly impossible to come by when the goal you’re working toward is misaligned with reality. For instance—if you’re working out to get chiseled abs, you’ll probably give up after two months of core boot camp when your stomach doesn’t look anything like the picture from Men’s Health (or Women’s Health).
Getting fit means constantly being accountable, which means you have to consistently persist with yourself. The most successful fitness stories typically happen because someone had a deeper reason to get fit beyond just “looking good”.
Finally, what’s stopping you from getting into the shape you desire? Really—take a look at the roadblocks, and be honest with yourself.
How many are imagined?
Your mind wants what’s best for you, but it’s also programmed to avoid discomfort and disappointment. As such, it’ll trick you into thinking that exercise is too difficult, or dieting too restricting, to actually stick to.
We’re what’s in the way of our own persistence. If you want to succeed, you need to stop out of your own path and set yourself on the track to success. Practice being you’re number one fan, searching for positive reinforcement in even the most challenging situations, and tell the little voice that says, “You can’t,” to find someone else’s subconscious to bring down.
About The Author: Dr. Mike Tremba has found every excuse imaginable to not exercise. Through a great deal of motivation found through others, and in places like the review of Truth About Abs, Dr. Mike has been blessed to develop the persistence to eat well, lose weight, and expand his world while helping others expand theirs. He lives in Mobile, Alabama with his wonderful wife Shari, where he continually challenges himself to better the lives of others.
Even though we live in a society where more things are automated than ever before, it seems that the amount of responsibility that most people feel is weighing them down is only increasing. If you are stressed out, if you that stress is taking over your life, there is a good chance that you are not making the best possible decisions.
While there is a thin line between a moderate amount of stress (which can provide you with great results) and an oppressive and unproductive level of stress, it is important to balance the line for yourself. The best way to avoid this ‘consuming’ form of stress is by keeping your stress at a manageable level. If you want to learn how to manage your daily stress level, just follow these four steps. [Read more…]