Top 10 Strategies for Success
Use These Ideas to Meet Your Goals
-- By Mike Kramer
1. Start Small
Quite possibly the biggest mistake people make is pushing the accelerator
too soon. You can’t lose 20 pounds in a week. But you can lose one.
Taking small bites and chewing slowly have as much to do with goal
achievement as they do with your mom’s dinner table scolding.
2. Get It On Paper
Whether setting your first goals, tracking daily progress, or sharing
your deepest thoughts with a journal, writing things down crystallizes
your ideas, exposes underlying fears, and paints an accurate picture
of real life.
3. Focus On Everyday Habits
The building blocks of a healthy lifestyle are forged in the smallest
of actions you take every day and every week. Healthy choices can
become as natural as brushing your teeth or locking the front door.
Build one habit, one action at a time.
4. Always See Your Goal
Goals need attention. They need to be seen and heard and thought of
often if they ever hope to come true. So surround yourself with as
many reminders as possible.
5. Be Consistent
Imagine a plane taking off. In the beginning, a lot of energy is spent
to simply get moving down the runway. But as speed and momentum take
over, the plane is pulled forward and up into the sky, faster and
further by the second. Consistent action, no matter how small, has
more power than you ever imagined.
6. Never Stop Learning
A healthy lifestyle is a process—a journey more than a destination.
You can always learn more about nutrition, fitness, and even yourself
that can help you be just a little bit better tomorrow.
7. Come Out of Seclusion
Has anyone ever achieved anything of real value all alone? Probably
not many. Most receive some form of help from other people. Support,
information, a sense of shared experience, encouragement, advice,
and a well-timed pep talk are all invaluable as you set off on your
adventure.
8. Allow For Setbacks
Accept the fact right now that you will make mistakes, and that it
can be a positive thing. We are usually harder on ourselves that we
are on anyone else we know. Be your own #1 fan. That means being supportive
(instead of critical) when you stumble, and enjoying your wins (rather
than ignoring your accomplishments) when you succeed.
9. Trust Your Plan
You’ll have up weeks and down weeks, and frustrating weeks that make
no sense at all. The tools and strategies you’re learning will help
you build a plan that makes a healthier lifestyle almost inevitable.
If you consistently make the right choices and build healthy habits,
weight loss is literally just a matter of time.
10. Have Fun!!!
Who says getting healthy has to be a chore, a burden to be endured
or suffered through? Probably a very unhappy person, that’s who. This
is an exciting adventure of self-discovery and building a meaningful
life. Enjoy the ride!
