Are you spending too much time thinking about your health and fitness goals instead of taking action towards them? No matter how hard and long you think about them, you will never accomplish your goals without action.....CONSISTENT ACTION! Consider that we are now in February and the gyms are starting to clear out as people begin to fall away from the motivation they had just 1 month earlier. One month is only scraping the surface of their goals, yet, why do so many people lose focus after such a short period of time?
My first response is that they don't want it bad enough, or in other words, DESIRE it. If someone has a strong enough desire to do or accomplish something, they will stop at nothing until they get there. I could give you story after story for examples of this.
Here is one...think about someone trying to quit smoking. They try pills, hypnosis, patches, gum, etc. They stop smoking and then start again...in the same day! AND, do it day after day. Most of them are "trying to quit." It's like someone trying to eat better...you DO or you DON'T! The apple or the donut. What about those people that quit cold turkey and never smoke again? What separates them from the others that I have mentioned? It is a DECISION that was birthed out of a DESIRE. The bottom line is that if someone only wants something and doesn't DESIRE something, there is a part of them that really doesn't want to change their behaviors.
So, with that said, people usually WANT to look better, feel better and be healthier. They talk about it, read about it, watch t.v. shows about it, join gyms, go on crazy DIEts, buy exercise equipment, take pills and think this is the answer. The truth is that none of those things are the answer! So many people are missing the TRUTH. The TRUTH doesn't cost anything monetarily, it doesn't involve piling more information into your brain, it's not tangible and it doesn't come and go like the wind. It is something that is locked up deep inside every person and is like a hidden treasure chest. Inside this treasure chest are not excuses for why you can't... (fill in the blank), external stimuli or wishful thinking. Inside the treasure chest you will find nuggets of gold like...I WILL accomplish my health and fitness goals and will stop at nothing to get there, I DESIRE to look and feel better and will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to make that happen, I WILL continue to PUSH until I get to the top of the mountain and my body IS a LIVING sacrifice and I WILL treat it like one.
It is these affirmations and revelations that come from deep within that will literally and figuratively shape who you are and who you will become. If you want the secret to weight loss and looking and feeling your best...YOU ALREADY HAVE THE ANSWER! Find that treasure chest and unlock it. The gold inside it may save your life!
~Clayton Halls
