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Happy New Year to you! Have you set New Year’s Resolutions for 2022, or done any goal setting? Would you like a way to ensure you stick to them? And did you know that most people give up with New Year’s Resolutions within a few weeks? Here is why New Year´s Resolutions rarely work and how to change this.
One of the greatest gems of advice I have learned from a leading authority in peak performance, Tony Robbins, is that we strange humans are motivated two key driving forces; pleasure and pain. To be more specific, we are motivated by the desire to gain pleasure or the need to avoid pain. Everything we do, every action we take and every decision we make is a result of one or both those two driving forces. Taking procrastination as an example, the reason we do that, is because we attach more pain to taking action, than we do pleasure of the outcome of completing the task. The pain of the process outweighs the pleasure of completing the task – at least, that’s what we’ve made up in our head subconsciously.
Let’s say you’re wanting to get into peak physical shape. Maybe you want to burn a few pounds of fat, or you’re experiencing an ongoing illness you know you can reverse, or maybe you want to avoid of come off medications – you know it’s possible, you’re just not doing it. When someone procrastinates about this (not you of course 🙂 ), it’s typically because they have subconsciously (or consciously), attached more pain to the actions required to create the result – such as moving more and cutting back on inflammatory foods. It might be that you perceive physical exercise as a chore and “going on a diet” as a pain in the backside. If you tell yourself you need to go on a diet, that’s immediately introducing pain into your life. You’ll regard “giving up” foods as a sacrifice and therefore that is a pain you have just introduced into your life. Therefore, procrastination wins.
A new fitness regime might be regarded as an introduction of pain into your life, rather than it being a means to bring total joy into your life. In short, this association is created when you haven’t focused enough on the pleasure of the outcome, and really importantly – why you want to achieve it, and instead focused on the (perceived) pain of the process. This can be applied to anything of course, not just health and fitness / healing. This can be applied to business, relationships, careers, finances – everything. I have some work to do…
When you get crystal clear on your vision of the health and body transformation you wish to create, and attach so much meaning in achieving it, and thus, get clear on your ´why,´ this is when you get results. Commitment happens. Magic happens. It’s almost not worth starting any kind of health and fitness/wellness/healing program, unless you do this fun and inspiring exercise – even mine!
In my online program and also private consulting, I have a powerful Vision-creating exercise that some clients have actually said is worth the entire investment of the program. I don’t allow anyone to move forward, until this is complete. I´m mean sometimes!
One of the most important things to do, is to consider what outcome you are looking to achieve and why you want to achieve it. Without a strong enough reason or ‘why’ for achieving any outcome, then you’ll struggle to commit to the action required. Clarity of your vision is key.
What’s also cool about getting clear on your vision and your reason for reaching it – all the pleasure it will bring to you in your life in all areas of your life, is that motivation can quickly turn into INSPIRATION. To me, motivation is more about kicking yourself to take action, (which tends not to last) whereas inspiration is as if you’re being pulled towards something greater. Maybe an upgraded version of you. Another little gem from Tony is that when we set goals, it’s not necessarily the attainment that is their success, it’s more about the transformation that occurs in us, that allows for the goals to be met.
GET CRYSTAL CLEAR ON YOUR ‘WHY’
One suggestion I have for you, in order to commit to your New Year’s Resolutions and your 2022 goals is: Get crystal clear on why you want to achieve the outcome, and use pain and pleasure to serve you. As well as attaching pleasure to the outcome, ask yourself what pain you’ll experience if you don’t change our commit. How will your life be then?
We tend to be more motivated by the need to avoid paid as it’s a survival mechanism within our brain, the reptilian brain. It’s designed to keep us safe, in our comfort zone, or rather, what it already knows, in our zone of familiarity. Sometimes our comfort zone, really isn’t that comfortable at all!
It’s ultimately about creating a VISION so inspiring that you’ll do whatever it takes to bring it into fruition.
I hope this helps. Happy New Year!
I’d like to invite you to book yourself in for a free strategy session here to take your fitness to the next level by focusing on addressing and reversing the root of almost every common illness and chronic disease. This has been the focus of my work for the last 6 years, since writing The Vitality Secret, which reveals the underlying cause of almost every chronic illness, chronic inflammation. I can help you in either a group coaching format or one to one format, to reduce inflammation and balance your body by addressing the Physical, Mental, Emotional and Energetic “Pillars of Vitality.”
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