If you lost my email a few weeks ago, Steve asked me to write a little more focused gym and nutritional content for the uprising.
And since then, I have received a ton of e -mail from people around the same thing: lack of belief they can actually Make the change work this time! Sure you can report:
“Greater challenge – losing confidence in the process and myself.”
“Taking a problem to believe that consistent will really help and be afraid that no matter what I do I will fail.”
“I’m afraid to fail, I try not to fail, but everything looks so scary, I know all the words about the” right “mentality, but I just can’t find the will/energy/desire to go and do anything after work.”
These fears are very, very normal. (Although this does not make them less successful to face!)
Well, what do we do when we feel stuck and scared how unbearable All this feel?
💡 The most important thing
While each story is different, there is one thing I have noticed that it really helps you have more chances of success:
Rush early – and then protecting this dynamic.
The first wins make it easier for the rest of the trip.
And surely, an early victory may seem to see the scale moving or becoming stronger in the gym.
But these things are results that come weeks or even months Later, after “thing” consistently. This is not useful when we feel uncertain and overwhelmed.
So I like to start watching and celebrating the effort.
By selecting 1-2 repetitive actions that you can practice each day:
Each action is a victory, which is a small sign of progress.
And if we can recognize and celebrate every action, it begins to create proof that “I am the type of person who can do this, even when it is difficult.”
And this little hope?
It can be enough to continue the hard parts.
👨🔬 Example of real life
Let’s take my customer Ben, for example. It was exactly the same boat when we started working together.
- Super busy work schedule with one hour moving every way
- 4 little kids at home
- Had a recent terrorism that made him realize that it was time to make a change
- I’m not sure where to start and really afraid this would be another attempt that tried and failed
So we talked about all these things open – The real restrictions on his time and energy, the fear that this would not work and his hope for a future where he felt better and the suitability did not feel so hard to get stuck.
And then we chose some things we thought could be a good place to get started.
✅ 10 minutes walk during lunch break
✅ A list of orders in restaurants around his work-so he would always have a good choice even in a bite
✅ push-up from the bench every time he brushing his teeth.
And while these actions can look Small, they had oversized impact. They allowed us to build consistency and first excess the obstacles, then we could worry about optimizing the results later.
And that’s where the real magic happens – not only in physical change, but in the mentality:
“I am the kind of person who appears.”
“I can trust myself to follow.”
“I know how to get back along the way when life happens.”
Please Any of our most successful customersAnd they will say that the biggest change was not only in their bodies.
Their biggest change was actually in how they thinking About fitness, habits and who believed they could be done.
🕳️ the trap
When we start with the optimization attempt, doing everything “perfect” from Get-Go, it can feel like drowning and not being able to continue.
This simply reinforces the belief that we are not able to make changes. That we are just one of the people who “these things don’t work”.
This is the exact trap we are trying to avoid!
Of course, the starting point of everyone is different. You may be able to go right to a multi -day training routine, or more aggressive diet changes.
The point is not to force yourself to take less than you are in a position – it is to make sure you balance “provocative” with “feasible” so you can build faith in yourself and the process.
Fast forward two years and Ben’s routine looks very different from where we started.
- Now makes a 4x/week training force in the morning before work
- It goes in times where it monitors its calories and macros, and others where we follow a more relaxed approach with general emphasis on taking many proteins, fruits and vegetables every day
- Gives priority to sleep and takes over 8,000 steps each day
While Ben has gotten stronger, he lost more than 30 pounds and saw the blood indicators improve – it all started with the most important thing: the momentum.
🎬 Where do I start?
So where does she leave you today? Here’s how I’ll get close to it.
✅ Recognize the real challenges and restrictions on your time and energy.
This is not an “Rah-Rh” approach to ignore all the hard things. Recognize that it is okay and normal to feel that way. (Steve really wrote about the “Notice and name” meaning here.)
✅ Start with practice – not perfection.
Focus on a recurring action (such as a short endurance session or protein in two meals), not just the result you want. Think of it as practice. You won’t be perfect. You will make mistakes. And that is all part of it.
✅ Create visual proof of your effort.
In the coaching program, customers control the tasks every day and we can see visible progress of their efforts.
If you don’t have a coach we like to use something we call the Jar of awesome:
Pour a marble (or napkins, or coin) into a jar every time you do something aligned with your goals.
It’s a way to see Your consistency and progress, even before the mirror or scale reflects it.
✅ Celebrate the Little Wins.
Did you walk today?
Did he eat carefully?
Did you skip the spiral spiral after a difficult day?
This is a victory worth recognizing. The procedure drives in the result.
If you feel stuck now, or even desperate, let’s see if we can turn the script.
We will start small. We will celebrate the effort.
And we will build this momentum together.
You have that.
And if you want help to choose your first “quick win”, just shoot me a message and I will help you find it.
– Matt coach
