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What is the most important factor that determines your body weight, fitness level and your overall quality of health?
1) Good diet and nutrition;
2) Regular exercise;
3) Avoiding sweets and junk food;
4) Your attitudes, and beliefs about health and fitness.
If you picked attitudes, and beliefs, as the number one factor, you are right.
More than any other factor, your attitude determines not just your health and fitness level, your attitudes and beliefs determine where you go in life and what you accomplish when you get there.
Your attitude about health, bodyweight, relationships, finances and everything is shaped primarily by thoughts and ideas you let inside your mind, and by conscious and unconscious beliefs and associations, many of which you may have held since childhood.
How can an unconscious belief affect your body weight? Easy!
If you received sweets as a special treat or a reward when you were a child, you may have an unconscious association that connects eating sweets with feeling good and being rewarded.
As an adult, you know sweets aren’t healthy, but at the same time you, (like everyone), crave recognition and reward, so, thanks to the unconscious association between sweets and pleasurable feelings that is driving your behavior, you ignore the facts and reach for the candy.
You create the circumstances of your life, primarily by using the tool of thought, which is yours to use AT your will and AS you will.
You Can’t Not Use Your Mind
Every minute of every day, you make choices and take actions based on your thoughts, ideas, and conscious and unconscious beliefs and associations. And everyday your actions, or lack of action, set your course and weave the tapestry of your future.
By choosing your thoughts and holding success-images in your mind, you develop new awareness and begin to see opportunity, which if acted on, will move you toward achieving the vision you hold in your mind.
3 Steps To Develop A Positive Attitude And Get What You Want
1) Decide what’s important and why.
One of my weight loss clients has struggled for years to lose weight and keep it off. She was good at losing but not good at keeping it off… until now. This time she’ll keep the weight off for life, not because of some new diet… but because her attitude changed for good. She recently had a child and decided she wanted to; 1) set a healthy example and; 2) be able to run and play with her new son for many years to come… and not be the overweight, out of breath Mom who can’t keep up.
Knowing what you want and WHY is very important because when the why is strong enough, the HOW always shows up. Decide what’s important and why.
2) Decide what you want and be specific:
It’s easy to know exactly what you don’t want and be a little fuzzy about what you do want.
I don’t want tuna casserole for dinner. I don’t want this lousy job. I don’t want to argue with the kids. I don’t want all those bills. I don’t want to be overweight. The list goes on.
We are often experts at what we don’t want, but the KEY TO SUCCESS is to know what you DO WANT.
For example, wild-caught salmon for dinner; a job you love; kids who can’t wait to see you and who always pay attention to what you say; to earn WAY more than you spend every month; to be in a relationship that’s better than anything you ever dreamed of, to drive a brand new candy-apple-red Corvette, and so on.
By knowing and focusing on what you want, you give your mind a goal and you mind will direct you toward that goal and you will begin to see ways to get what you want.
If you focus on being overweight, you’re doomed to stay that way. But if you focus on health and fitness instead, before you know it, you’ll look and feel better than ever… not because of magic, but because when you focus on what you want, you will begin to take steps to get it.
3) Stay focused, listen to your inner-voice, and take action when it seems appropriate.
If there’s magic in the universe, it happens at the point of action.
Once you decide what’s important and decide what you want and why you want it, you’ll have a flood of ideas on what you can do to get it, and you must act on those ideas.
If your goal is a lean-healthy body, and you notice an article about weight loss, let that be a sign… read the article and see if it has actionable information. Be open and receptive. By deciding what you want, you are essentially asking you mind to lead you toward it. Be receptive, take action and you will make real progress.
It is impossible to overstate the importance of attitude.
To improve your results in ANY area of life, start by examining your attitudes and beliefs because your attitudes and beliefs are a big part of why you are where you are today, and your attitude and beliefs will play a big part in bringing you to where you will be in the future.
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Written by Dr. Russell J. Martino, Ph.DThe Voice Of Health
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