Set a goal to fit your favorite jeans to be strong enough? How about losing weight and losing 15 pounds when you travel to Cancun for a beach holiday?
As a goal-setting lifelong student, I don't think this short-term goal is enough to produce any significant long-term changes in our behavior. However, there are ways to increase our chances of success in losing weight and overall physique goals.
Before we dive into some specific steps that will help you get started faster and longer, let's take a brief look at how your brain works and how it can help you lose weight and your ideal body goals.
I first learned about the Reticulated Activation System [RAS] at the Chiropractic School many years ago. RAS is like a filter in the brain. It filters out what it doesn't think is important. And, it will focus on the items in your important list.
Are you starting to see this as an important and very useful part of your ideal body and weight loss goal setting strategy? This is an example that might be helpful to you.
Let us say that you have set a goal to lose 20 pounds on your 3 month beach vacation. Later in the article, I will give you some good strategies to make this goal more focused and powerful. First, let's go back to RAS's work to help you lose weight and "beach vacation goals."
Once you have a goal and start thinking about it often, RAS will start working and draw attention to the various things related to your goals. For example, you might start to pay more attention to articles about weight loss and magazine sports. Or you may have just met someone who shares important tips on exercise and weight loss.
What seems to happen is that the stronger and more energetic your goal is, the more laser your RAS is. The more likely you are to strengthen your goals, the more your brain will create new loops or pathways for this new knowledge. Repetition and reinforcement are key.
Now that you've learned how to reconnect your brain to help you achieve your "new body goals," here are some strategies to help you get there and stay there for life.
1. Clear and specific goal setting. There is a goal of "slimming" or "deformation" that is too vague. Write down a succinct goal, pointing out how much weight you want to lose, what size jeans you want to wear, the size of the body you want and the ideal percentage of body fat.
Now, this becomes more specific and will give you a clearer focus on your goals. The more specific the better.
2. Do not limit yourself to short selling. When you set a goal to lose 20 pounds, set a goal "When I leave the beach, I will lose 20 pounds or more." So you will not limit yourself. This alone is a very powerful strategy.
3. Set the deadline for the target. If you want to make changes to help you create the ideal body, then you need short, medium and long term goals. The short-term goal will be your daily, weekly or even one-month goal. For daily goals, you can aim to increase your workout intensity or eliminate a food from your diet. A week's goal may lose one or even two pounds. In a month, you can have a goal to wear new jeans.
You should pay special attention to "new jeans." I deliberately wrote this article because it is vital to reward myself for achieving an important weight loss goal. I should mention that food rewards are not an ideal way to celebrate weight loss and fitness goals.
4. There are good reasons to support your goals. Finding the important driving force behind the goal will be a huge help. Some examples may include; it looks great in my new bikini or swim trunks, looks and feels great in the 80s and beyond, and looks sexy and attractive to my spouse or other important characters. Or how to set a good example for my child?
5. Turn your goals into a display campaign. I have saved the most powerful target setting technology for the last time. This method includes;
One. Defining written goals in a positive form [for example: I will lose 20 pounds or more in the next 6 months, so I look and feel great at the wedding].
Photo of your goal in the bay. A very effective technique is to find the picture of the ideal body you want from the magazine and cut it off. Then paste the head/face image onto the image of the model. Hey, new you.
C. Focus on where you often see them. You can place stickers or note cards on bathroom mirrors, refrigerators, car dashboards and bedside tables. Keep in mind that duplication and hardening are essential to all of these goal setting strategies.
There is no successful overnight weight loss, muscle building and creating the ideal body. But if it makes sense and important, everyone can achieve this. These technologies will help turn your goals into laser focus and greatly increase your chances of success.
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