Are you ready? I am.
I’m excited about the year to come and all it can bring. For my friends out there who have struck up some "New Year’s Resolutions" I wanted to share an excerpt from my recent newsletter with some tips and encouragement for staying the course this year.
I hope you had a great 2008.
At our house, we’re finishing the packing and getting ready for a
fun road trip down to Florida to celebrate the New Year. I’m
personally sore in the arms from a few boxing matches on my
daughter’s new Wii … as a personal trainer, it is tough to
believe it and hard to admit it but video games CAN really help
promote fitness. I am amazed at the level of intensity you can
generate with the console provided you play the right games and do
them standing up … now we are seriously considering Wii Fit
because workouts don’t work out unless you do them, and one way to
make sure you get them done is to make them fun.
As we go into 2009, I know a lot of you have goals to start a new
program on January 1st. For some of you (and it is my prayer for
most of you) this will be a turning point that will truly transform
your life forever. Unfortunately, many of you are not going to make
it past the first week and statistics don’t favor the large
majority of people getting past March with their New Year’s
Resolutions.
Why such a high failure rate? Why is it so tough to form new,
healthy habits and reap the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle?
I’m not sharing this from a soap box because I live with the same
challenges you all do. My career takes time away, I have a family I
am devoted to, and lots of activities that make it difficult to
schedule that consistent time to train. Stress causes me to want to
reach for the "trigger foods" that are fatty and loaded with salt,
rather than giving my body more of the fruits, vegetables, and
whole foods it needs and deserves.
However, I can say that nearly ten years after I made the decision
to shed weight and focus on fitness, I’m still my healthiest ever.
I may fluctuate and put a little bit of that midsection fat back
on, but I also have limits and never have let myself go back to 44"
slacks at nearly 250 pounds. I consistently eat healthy and
exercise. It wasn’t always this way and it wasn’t always this easy
to maintain focus, but my passion for discovering the keys to
success is why I developed Lose Fat, Not Faith.
So I’m happy and excited to share one last note in 2008 and provide
you with a set of tools to empower you to become one of the
successful few who sticks with their plan and achieves their goals
in 2009, not just in January or first quarter but really next year
and with a conviction to keep those newly found habits for life.
The first thing to read is how to make your goals stick (and why
people tend to lose sight of the bigger picture).
Make Your Goals Stick
http://articles.losefatnotfaith.com/index.php?itemid=31
As part of that article you’ll find a reference to an audio that I
encourage you to listen to because it talks about the importance of
The Decision. You may think you are making a choice but the depth
of that choice and the weight you place upon it will have a major
impact on whether or not you follow through.
The Decision
http://articles.losefatnotfaith.com/index.php?itemid=385&catid=23
If you are the type of person who needs to be pushed and prodded
… if perhaps you’ve have a long, frustrating pattern of setting
goals but then failing to achieve them, perhaps you need to get
fired up with my open letter that I wrote a friend in a similar
situation many years ago.
Open Letter to those at the Edge of the Abyss
http://articles.losefatnotfaith.com/index.php?itemid=525&catid=8
Perhaps you need some inspiration and want to tap into something
bigger than who you are to help you find success. If so, you are
pursuing something I believe we are called to in this life:
greatness. Our definitions of greatness may vary, but it’s the
pursuit I believe that shapes us and our dreams.
The Pursuit of Greatness
http://articles.losefatnotfaith.com/index.php?itemid=8&catid=8
Be sure to read and reread your copy of 10 Fat Mistakes so you
don’t make the same mistakes yourself. Then add your list of
weapons in the fight against obesity:
Weight Loss Success Secrets:
http://articles.losefatnotfaith.com/index.php?itemid=125&catid=4
And Seven Keys to Permanent Weight Loss Success:
http://articles.losefatnotfaith.com/index.php?itemid=12&catid=4
I know it’s a lot to read, but it’s all there for you to empower
you on your journey.
Please tuck this email away to refer to down the road.
It is my prayer this day that the next success story is YOURS.
I achieved more than I imagined possible, and it’s all chronicled
in the video …
The Power of Losing Fat, Not Faith
http://articles.losefatnotfaith.com/index.php?itemid=162&catid=23
That power is everyone’s to tap into, receive, and use to transform
the world.
Wishing you health, success, abundance, and many returns in the
year to come,
