Archive for Emotions
DO WHAT YOU KNOW: SUPERSIZE IT?
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“But why should these companies want to change? Their loyalty isn’t to you, it’s to the stockholders. The bottom line: They’re a business, no matter what they say. And by selling you unhealthy food, they make millions. And no company wants to stop doing that. If this ever-growing paradigm is going to shift, it’s up to you.” – Morgan Spurlock, Supersize Me
It’s up to you.
Guys, if you only take away one thing from Sam’s post yesterday let it be that. It’s up to you. I’ll say it again and again because it’s probably the most important thing we could ever beat into your head. If I can tell you anything from my experience as a personal trainer it’s that my clients that took PERSONAL responsibility for their actions – both good and bad – were the ones that saw the most progress, because they were the ones that were most aware of how those actions affected their goals.
DO WHAT YOU KNOW: IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU
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There’s a lot that could be taken from the last post on DNA-PK; which, to put it simply, taught us that in some people, the gene that is responsible for converting carbohydrates into fat is basically turned off – allowing them to eat pretty much what they want with out the added weight gain.
At first, I think a lot of people, myself included, had the initial reaction of frustration. We’ve all known people who eat as if there’s no tomorrow, yet they still look slim and lean and muscular. One of my best friends growing up once ate an entire cheesecake by himself yet still had a six pack at the pool the next day. Thinking about people like that – and I’m sure we all have at least one person like that in our lives – can lead us to feeling frustrated and overwhelmed. Or even worse, it can make you feel almost hopeless in your quest to get in shape, leading you to just throw in the towel.
Why should I work so hard to exercise and eat right if my body is just going to work against me?
THE POWER OF AN EMOTIONAL ‘CLICK’
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One of my favorite quotes that has stuck with me from studying NLP is “people are doing the best they can with the resources they have.” What does this mean? It simply means that human beings are rationale. Yet simultaneously we humans are literally RUN by our emotions.
Its important to understand the concept of CAUSE and EFFECT. In life, ANYTHING we do, even what we think, is a cause that will produce an effect. If I punch a wall, then I will hurt my hand. The effect would be a hurt hand, the cause is punching a wall. The RESULTS we produce in our life are EFFECTS of CAUSES set in motion! So here’s the challenge though, THERE IS A GAP BETWEEN MOST OF THE EFFECTS WE LIVE WITH and the CAUSES THAT PRODUCED THEM. Sometimes it TOUGH to trace back the cause of certain effects in our life. So what do most human-beings do? We dilute ourselves and pretend that effects in our life didn’t have a cause and it happened ‘just because’ or because of ‘luck’ or ‘genetics’ or whatever! We falsely attribute the cause.
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