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ATTITUDE
If you have tried every diet on the planet, every exercise program from
the latest fitness guru and repeatedly failed to achieve your weight loss goals you probably need a “check up from the neck
up.”
Successful weight loss doesn’t just happen. It took more than a few days to reach the point where you are at right now. Give yourself a break and expect it to take awhile before you see measurable results. Take a leap of faith and follow some basic principles.
Begin with your “self talk.”
This is the conversation that runs through your brain continuously. What kind of conversation do
you have with your self talk? What type of negative self talk has kept you from reaching your
goals in the past?
If you had a chance to do it over again, would you change the
dialogue? That’s a no-brainer isn’t it? Well, the
good news is that you can turn the tide of negative self talk beginning right now. It’s never too
late to begin and you start by reprogramming your self talk.
A good starting point is to begin with positive
affirmations. Positive affirmations spoken aloud with authority and belief, positively
affect your attitude, focuses your thinking and lead to a course of action that will help you become the person you want to be and have the
things that you want to have.
Begin by writing your affirmations on paper. You need to take some time for this exercise. You can begin
with something like, “I want to lose 25 pounds before Christmas.” That’s a worthy goal and
attainable, but we need to put some work into structuring the affirmation.
First of all, “I want” gives the impression that what you desire is
always in the future. In order to re-program your self talk, you need to trick your mind into
believing that you have already achieved success. This is how your subconscious mind
functions.
Your subconscious mind has no capacity for understanding the concept of
time. Everything is in the moment. . .here and now.
When you tell your subconscious mind that you “want” that is exactly what you will get. . .want. . .without ever achieving
fulfillment. Unless you change your mental tape recorder, you will achieve exactly what you are
telling your subconscious, that you “want to lose 25 pounds.” You will “want to lose 25 pounds”
for the rest of your days unless you change your self talk.
If your weight is 150 pounds and you desire is to weight 125 pounds, then
you need to “be” 125 pounds from the moment you make the decision to change your self talk.
What if you write your affirmation to read something like this: “I am
healthy and fit weighing 125 pounds.”
What are you telling your subconscious now? It’s extremely important that you phrase your affirmation as if you have already accomplished what you
desire. Work on writing it out until you have it precisely as you wish to
become.
It is extremely important that your affirmation is crystal clear because
what you affirm is exactly what your subconscious mind will bring you.
You needn’t limit yourself to one affirmation either. Write another one that reflects your new exercise program. “I enjoy my healthy new exercise program,” or, “I love the healthy foods I eat.”
Write and rewrite until you are absolutely certain that you have written
your goals “in the here and now” AND represent precisely what you desire. Only then do you begin
to speak it aloud and do so several times a day.
Remember to use the present
tense. “I acknowledge achievement in all my weight loss goals.” “I have the skill and talent to exercise every day.” “I am a
winner.” “I am grateful for all of my accomplishments no matter how small.”
At first you will feel awkward and uncomfortable and you may not feel or
believe what you are saying. It doesn’t matter, continue to speak them aloud with as much
conviction as you can muster. It’s taken a long time to train your subconscious to use negative
self talk. If you will persevere with speaking your affirmations aloud, firmly and confidently,
you will be amazed at how quickly you can turn your thoughts around.
You didn’t hop on a bicycle the first time and just take off down the
street. It took practice to train your body to balance on those two wheels. This will take some practice as well. Continue to repeat your
affirmations aloud, several times a day for the next 30 days and you will be amazed at how much you change your thinking and
attitude.
Let’s investigate how words
affect you in your everyday life. Take a trip down memory lane and recall some real life
experiences that made you happy, proud, successful or any combination of the three.
Spend some time recalling how you felt. Maybe you won a spelling bee as a child, or hit a home run. Who
was there? This will help you remember that you had those feelings once and you can achieve them
again. What words did others use while you were experiencing those feelings of joy and
happiness.
Recall those words and put them to work in your daily
conversations. They are words that are already proven to have a positive affect on your well
being. Recalling and including them in your day will trigger those feelings again because your
subconscious already has an association with those words and their results.
Above all, take action. If
you have become a slave of procrastination decide to rid your life of it once and for all. Yes,
you can create affirmations to help you there as well. “I have the attitude and skills to take
action today.” “I am winning in my life by turning my attitude into action.”
Do nothing and nothing gets done. Do something and many things are placed in motion.
Regardless of what you are doing in life, you need to take action. Do something every day
to put your plan in motion.
How is your attitude? What
are your first thoughts when you awake in the morning? You’ve got quite a lot to choose
from. Do you begin the day by dragging out of bed bemoaning the fact that you have to get
to work? Or, do you embrace the morning as another great opportunity to do great
things?
Put the universal law of reciprocity to work in your life every single
day. Did you know that as much as ninety nine percent of our conversation is
negative? There are some folks who can hardly wait to get their mouths open so they can “one
up” another persons current negative situation.
Hmmm, think back to that self talk. If what you hear every day is negative, it’s no wonder your self talk brings you down and prevents you from
being, doing and having everything you desire. Try this exercise. Make a decision today, right now, from this moment to spend the rest of the day contributing to conversation
in a positive way.
Impossible, you say? Not
so. Say that somebody complains about another rainy day. Your response might be, “yes, isn’t it great, see that beautiful rainbow!” Try and create the habit of saying something positive to everyone.
If you are learning to say something positive to everybody about
everything every time, you are disciplining your subconscious for positive results in everything that happens to you.
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