What’s slowing you down from reaching your goal?

June 16th, 2017 by

What’s slowing you down? Some common area of struggles:

Motivation or should I say lack of it –
We have lots of post about it. It can’t be found looking at everyone else or asking someone to motivate you. No one can give it to you or truly spark it because that type of superficial motivation doesn’t last, it burns out like a candle. Some are searching for that type of motivation will find it doesn’t last.

True motivations, we all have it deep inside of us – The unwavering desire to get ‘there’ no matter the ‘stones in the road’. You just need to pull on it and sometimes dig a little deeper. Maybe it takes have a session with yourself and evaluate what you REALLY want. Write it down! Find or redefine your WHY? What got you started, where did that go?? Ya wanna but you do you REALLY wanna!! If you expect to carry yourself the full way.

Nutritional compliance
Physical Hunger VS Emotional/Boredom – Do these side track you? There are different types of hunger. People often confuse these.

True physical hunger is when your stomach is growling, you haven’t eaten in a quite some time and get satisfied eating a meal. It’s not something that starts as a thought or an emotion/reaction to something.

Whereas Emotional/Boredom which starts in your head and is usually carried out via eating. Typically, this is when we suddenly crave that cookie, ice cream or ‘insert your favorite guilty pleasure’. If this is the case then this needs some emotional/investigational work on your part (or the help of a qualified counsel) to help figure it out the cause.

Emotional/ boredom eating to relieve either of these doesn’t fix the issue, at least in the long run and your still left deal with the emotional /boredom that set you off with possibly a ‘side’ of guilt and remorse after indulging. This can be easily overcome by something else to do instead rather than continuing to ingrain the habit of feeding this mindset. Go for a walk, change the room/scenery, phone friend. There will be more satisfaction from that then the pint of ice cream you might find yourself diving into.

Meal Creativity
Use recipes, spices, styles, cooking methods an the GoFigure ap. There are SO many ways to prepare a meal. Look through the community, blogs. online

Lack of Support
It’s common that the ‘unit’ you’re surrounded in doesn’t support your goals or appreciate what you are trying to accomplish. Often, we hear that that people try to sabotage effects with either mental, or physical means. While you might not be able to gain their support, you can DEMAND they respect your boundaries. That can typically stop those sabotages in its steps. Find like-minded people and groups, like LBC that have the same goals as you, start an email or text chain or join a local gym. It’s well known that people do better and thrive with community/support system.

Excuses
Stop them! if this is you, sometimes, you just have to get out of your own way and stop making excuses and just do it! Do you need to meal prep or ‘find’ time to go to the gym. Try setting appointments with yourself. Stop allowing obstacles to build walls, create limits and allowing ‘Stinkin Thinkin’ to set in. You’ll get nowhere fast like that!

Progress is never linear, it’s building habits and taking steps; sometimes two steps forward and one back; but always moving forward. Just keep moving!! Today’s struggle is tomorrows strength!

Change Impossible to I’m Possible!