To get what you want the first thing to do is making sure of setting realistic (and believable) goals. In other words, you should put your basket far enough that it trills and excites you, but not so far that you won’t believe that you can hit it. If don’t do that, you will find out that your mind will fight against your best intentions and make impossible for you to move forward anything tangible. Your mind wants to protect you, as its primary focus is your survival, and its practical sense doesn’t want you to spend so many energies running after a mirage, so it will convince you to find countless reasons to stay comfortable exactly where you are.
So, one of the main reasons many people fail to experience the extremely fulfilling sensation to get want they want is that they set themselves up for failure from the very beginning: they set unrealistic goals – either following wrong advice or unrealistic models – and look for immediate gratification within a short-term time frame, rather than choosing incremental and sustainable small changes in their lifestyle.
The mindset beneath this approach is typically short-term oriented, looking for immediate gratifications, temporary solutions and fast shortcuts (think about all the advertising claiming dazzling weight loss over a couple of weeks or so, with you paying the price to have to turn your life upside down).
According to some statistics, on average, after just three months people give up their purposes and come back to their old habits as they can’t cope with hitting plateaus and staying motivated, with achievements starting to creep back. As the body gets used to the routine (food or exercise) and settles itself, many feel that the regime is no longer working out and often they give up altogether. Likewise, as they begin to see positive changes in the first weeks or months, they get so excited and pleased with it that they relax and consequently the routine slowly fades away. However, as the inertial effect of the habit is still in place, a lag phase occurs and for a while people still get the results. At this stage, they think they are fine and don’t really need to set up such a tight discipline. So, they loosen it up a bit, and then a bit more, so then, eventually, they give up and in a short time they get back to where they first started if not even in a worst situation.
Do you relate to this? I’ll see you in the next post where we will be talking about how to commit to what you want.
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