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Mindset is KEY to forming new habits and lifestyle changes. Bottom line.
Fellow weight loss vlogger Greg talks often on his YouTube channel about 'minding the big picture' and making sure that your mind is on board with your efforts when trying to lose weight. By keeping the overall goal in mind, your actions should then follow suit and guide your decisions day-to-day, meal-by meal. And (theoretically) each decision should get easier and more engrained in your daily efforts as you continue to make good choices. (It's no wonder he destroyed 80+ pounds in under a year with insight like that!)
And eventually, when you see progress from all your efforts, everything starts to seem more like fun and less like hard work!
That's what I'm looking forward to - seeing the gym as a place I look forward to going to rather than loathing since it seems like endless work. Each early morning wake-up is still a task, and some days I get side-tracked and distracted by Facebook and YouTube enough to where I don't even MAKE it to the gym! For some reason I allow myself to use pathetic and petty excuses to keep myself from doing the appropriate amount of sweating in the morning to get closer to my weight loss goals.
All in all, my mind is on board with the IDEA of losing weight, sweating and having to buy smaller clothes, but for some reason my mind and actions aren't rallying together and saying, 'Hey, why don't we do all the stuff we know we need to do to not feel like a bag of s#!*?"
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| Waking up at 5:30am is no fun... |
So for now, sure! If I have to view gym visits as business and hard work, so be it! It's something that NEEDS to get done day in and day out - just like a job. But once the clothes get looser and I can run more miles, I'll WANT to get to the gym to see how much more I can do!
It's all about your mindset. So as Matt Damon said in the movie Green Zone, (language warning -->) "Get your f'ing game face on!"
3 comments:
Hi Jordan!
I like this idea - thinking of it as business, a job, until it becomes the thing you do without the coaxing or that doesn't get knocked down the totem pole of daily activities, until it doesn't have a place at all.
Right now, I am in a similar (aka exact same) situation. My mind knows that I need to do this, but there's a mind-body disconnect wherein I don't follow through with what I KNOW to be the right thing.
But then, when it comes to going to work and doing my job to the best of my ability, each and every day, I don't call in sick needlessly, do I? It's something that is expected of me - both by myself and others - so it happens. It's "non-negotiable". I wouldn't think of shirking those responsibilities and commitments!
Maybe that's the thing - not wanting to disappoint others, wanting to do what is expected, or what have you - it just gets done. But when it comes to ourselves, and the level of value that we place on taking care of ourselves, our needs, etc., we fail to make those things a priority. *We* become negotiable, whereas we can come up with a laundry list of things that are NOT. And really, without our health being taken care of, how important are the other things? It's that whole idea of putting your oxygen mask on first (before helping others), when you're 30K feet in the air, in the midst of an emergency situation.
When our health and well-being becomes as much of a a priority as it should, when we value ourselves as much as we value the other things that are the "non-negotiables" in our lives, maybe it starts to get done with less of a fight?
So, maybe the question becomes, "How do we start seeing ourselves and our needs as non-negotiable priorities?"
Sorry... I tend to write blog posts (on YOUR blog) in responses to your posts, but the things you're saying are really making me reflect on my own thoughts, actions, etc.!
You know that the whole blogging community is behind you Jordan not to mention your followers on Youtube..YOU just need to get behind yourself. Make yourself & your health a priority...!!!
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