No matter how good your fat loss plan is, if you can’t stick with it for the long haul, you will not get results. Even worse, you may get results only to see them vanish before your eyes.
The bad news here is that many people do not know how to optimize their long term motivation.
So here are some mind tricks to help you stick with it:
1. Keep your goals laser-specific: The more specific here the better. You see, vague goals lead to vague behavior. And if your behavior is vague you are less likely to get the body you so desperately want and need. So make things very specific in your mind’s eye.
2. Use a carrot, not a whip: If you self flagellate yourself into action, expect to burn out sooner rather than later. A whip may work in the short run, but over time it will break you. So always use a big fat carrot to motivate yourself. Always move towards a positive outcome.
3. Expect failure and embrace it: The faster you learn to embrace the failure the faster you will get results. You see, failure is a given in the weight loss game. The key here is to never stop moving forward no matter how many times you fail.
4. Don’t rely on your mind’s eye for positive visualization: Instead, print out pictures, print out quotes and do whatever it takes to make your environment automatically motivating. In this day and age, your mind has to deal with too many things. Make motivation and visualization as automatic as possible.
5. Pay attention to routines, not results: Although counterintuitive, if you obsess over results you are less likely to succeed. You see, obsessing over results is an emotional roller coaster ride. Focusing on routines, on the other hand, is much more fruitful.
6. Apply deadlines as much as possible: You have been conditioned by society to respond to deadlines since you were a child. So take advantage of this inborn conditioning and use deadlines on yourself. Even better, you will be forced to focus only on the most important elements.
The mind game is more important than the exercise game and dieting game. After all, once you lose motivation everything else will come apart!
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