By this, I mean the none glamorous stuff, but the winning edge.
(The stuff that doesn’t get recognized until there’s a big physical change)
Your word to yourself based on your character and your hunger to develop with the succesful maintenance of health, fitness, and wellbeing management.
It’s a societal go-to, a pre-conditioning notion to perceive heath, fitness, and wellbeing success based on comparison with others and weight.
The very first thing too many people say is, ‘how much weight have you lost and how long did it take’ What diet’ etc?
Of course, managing a healthy weight is vital for physical and mental health, however, the true process of that management goes way deeper than ‘how much, how fast’…
That is a question from impatience.
Great things take the time that they take based on the context of the individual.
They take strategy, focus, and consistency.
Health, fitness, and wellbeing management is no exception.
It’s common for people to look at normal as ‘healthy’, and unhealthy as ‘normal’.
Then when the patterns of ‘normal‘ create weight gain, lethargy, low self-esteem, procrastination, and limiting beliefs, a motive is born to transform usually from a principally flawed process (diets, uncoached exercise, etc).
The best and fastest way to achieve life-changing results is by using the strategical universal principles as well the mental ones.
More often than not, both get overlooked due to impatience.
As well as the nutritional, exercise, hydration, sleep, stress reduction systems, there is a system in your head that directs all of that, and they are the key that dictates your altitude.
- Ownership.
- Action.
- Overcoming failure as a definitive.
- Dropping the excuse mentality.
- Stopping the association with ‘hope’, ‘wish’, and ‘try’ with goals.
- Goal setting (long, medium, short term, most crucially, daily).
- Planning.
- Scheduling.
- Focus on your path, not others.
- Developing a thicker skin and not following the societal crowd.
- Recoil from setbacks.
- Being prepared for setbacks.
- Daily motivation.
- Changing paradigms from fixed, uneducated (contextually), and stubborn to change, to open, knowledgeable, and stubborn not to quit and start next month.
- Self council to maintain a standard.
- Consistency with ALL of that.
(None of the above has a thing to do with nutrients, portions, biomechanics, or training splits)
With all of those, be prepared to welcome yoyoing and inconsistency…
Even with the right strategical principles, without the previous, it’s still not worth a sausage.
Your biggest momentum maker is you and your thoughts, it can also be your biggest downfall.
(It comes down to paradigms, patterns, thought networks, beliefs, motives)
Truth be told, the systems are really really simple, and it’s not through not being able to access the information that people fail, it’s about the psyche towards being open to accepting that information, and focusing on the development of the cognitive application to that knowledge to the context of the individual.
There isn’t a one size fits all, there’s no ‘one way’, our applications can look very different, but…here we go again, it’s a matter of principle.
I’ve been asked many times about the ‘best diet’, I’ve given the principles many times for the best way to manage the personal diet, and many times it falls on deaf ears because the process is longer than the patience that the person is willing to accept.
That’s a mindset, that’s ownership, that’s impatience, you can also say that’s ego.
Focus on cognitive development, forget about other people’s opinions and expectations, make your own intentions, run your own race, and identify many other metrics for progress other than weight loss alone, and the irony is, when you do that, use the universal principles (mentally and physically), weight loss, fat loss, sustainable health, fitness, and wellbeing management comes easier, bigger and better.
The invisible transformation, that’s where to put the focus, then I promise you, there’s no way that your body can’t change as a result, because it’s a matter of principle and law.
‘Quick fixes’ and ‘diets’, you can forget that unlesss your goal is to waste time…
If this sings to you, be pro-active, strike whilst the iron is hot, make a change, one small thing, throw the processed foods out, get the gym gear, go for a run or a walk, anything, anything that points to your new path.
It’s all about taking ownership and ACTION.
Smash it, contextually and sustainably 😉
All of the very best, and thank you for reading.
– Coach Paul
