| No one enjoys hearing negative comments from | | | | Focus on your goals, see yourself already there and |
| others, especially if there is no constructive value to | | | | put in the action that is necessary. Working out and |
| them. So why put up with these comments when | | | | eating right require discipline. Discipline focuses your |
| they come from yourself. Negative thinking makes | | | | attention and draws you to your goal. Train yourself |
| you less attractive to the abundance around you and | | | | to every day do at least one thing that you don't |
| more attractive to all that you don't want. You | | | | want to do, that if you did it, would advance you |
| attract what you think about and focus on. | | | | closer to your goal. |
| The main reason why people fall far short of their | | | | 5. Get motivated |
| desires in life is self sabotage. Most of it happens at a | | | | Keep your purpose foremost in your mind for that |
| very subtle subconscious level. Many of those | | | | extra push toward achieving your goals. Keep the |
| negative thoughts that you get, even the little tiny | | | | negatives at bay when setbacks and procrastination |
| ones that last only milliseconds are part of your self | | | | arise by focusing on the end product rather than the |
| sabotage. | | | | process to get there. If you think about the cold |
| Deleting your automatic negative programming and | | | | early morning start rather than the good feeling of |
| replacing it with positives is a monumental task, but it | | | | completing your workout you won't get past first |
| can be accomplished in a number of ways. | | | | base. |
| You can change your body and even your whole life | | | | 6. Develop self-confidence |
| and make it what you want if you start by following | | | | Believe in your ability to achieve your goals. Don't |
| these guidelines to set yourself up for success: | | | | allow yourself the luxury of indulging in complaining, |
| 1. Recognize your potential | | | | expressing self-doubt or frustration. Visualize yourself |
| We can't all have a body like Arnold Schwarzenegger | | | | achieving the success your want. Do activities that |
| or Elle McPherson. With the right genetics and | | | | give you feelings of success and accomplishment. |
| self-determination you might come close if you're | | | | 7. Replace negatives with positives |
| prepared to do what it takes. But with a realistic | | | | This may be easier said than done but you've got to |
| assessment of your body, natural attributes and | | | | start to develop the positivity habit. Catch yourself |
| limitations you will be able to avoid the | | | | whenever you hear a negative thought and stop it. |
| disappointment from unrealistic expectations. Be | | | | Enlist the aid of a partner to help you. |
| careful not to sell yourself short though. | | | | 8. Avoid negative people and situations |
| 2. Define your purpose | | | | You wouldn't choose to breathe toxin-laden air or eat |
| The why's behind what you do will lend power to | | | | poisonous food would you? So why stay in the |
| your success potential. If your reasons for working | | | | presence of people and situations that are |
| out, dieting or training at something are strong | | | | emotionally toxic. Negativity is contagious... just as |
| enough they will pull you toward the outcome you | | | | positivity is. |
| desire. Keeping in mind the compelling reasons for | | | | 9. Accept what is |
| what you want will help keep the dream alive. If you | | | | Accepting things for the way they are does not |
| don't have compelling reasons you will drop the goal | | | | mean you have to like it or that it can't be changed. |
| when the going gets tough. | | | | Once you accept it you remove your subconscious |
| 3. Decide the goals you want | | | | resistance and you can actually proceed to change it. |
| Keep your long term goal in mind but focus on the | | | | Moaning and complaining keep you attached to that |
| little steps that achieve the short-term goals that | | | | very thing you are whining about and push away the |
| lead to your ultimate desired result. Make your | | | | very thing you say you want. |
| timeframe realistic and be patient with yourself. You | | | | Your thoughts create your reality. Negative thinking |
| can always make adjustments along the way. Remind | | | | will drag you down and obstruct your goals. Change |
| yourself that 'Rome wasn't built in a day'. | | | | your thinking and you change your world. |
| 4. Discipline yourself | | | | |