Pick your poison, Vacation, Family, Stress, School, Holiday, Sickness.
Seems to be one of these things that has so many people giving up on their hopes and dreams of having the body they want.
They do it for a while, but then get sucked back into what they have always done, Their Standard Issue.
Sound Familiar?
What if we could change what is… “Standard Issue” for you? Hmm…
Well you can, best step.
Time machine, go back to when your parent’s were raising you and hypnotize them into having health and fitness be a normal thing in your house hold. (Skip this step if that’s the case).
For most people though, parent’s exercising, planning meals, preparing meals on purpose are completely foreign to their kids.
So when they become adults and want to change, just liek their parents have talked about for years, you are already late. It doesn’t mean it’s harder.. it just that you are white belt, when you could have been a black belt.
Luckily, the second best time is today, and what better time than now to insure that you (and your kids) have an example of what health and fitness looks like, and to be familiar with it so much so, that without it… would be weird..
I don’t think there are many other ways to set up kids for success than that.
“So Chris… How do change my Standard Issue?”
These 3 Steps.
1) Routine is a lie, your process is how you win.
Winners win. We all know those people who can do just about everything pretty well. It might be, in part, talent, but it’s because they have the winning formula.
Consistency*time =results
The most consistent you are, and longer you work, the more often the outcome happens.
I bowled a near perfect game (280 Not to bragg.. 😉 ) which is Strike, 9 Spare (aka hit the pin) and then had strikes the rest of the game.
I didn’t do anything spectacular, I just did the same thing… every time…
THE SAME. Not similar, not close, not just about, not any other synonym that means kinda like.
THE
EXACT
SAME
THING
The more consistent you are, the faster the outcome becomes what you become, or the longer you do it.
“What if XYZ happens, It’s hard for me to keep it up when XYZ”
2) Your solutions answer similar questions.
If your health and fitness goals are dependent upon ideal circumstance you are screwed. Life is going to kick you in the face right when you want to lose weight. I can’t tell you how many times I have it, in fact, someone joined my program last week from California, and they might have the evacuate their house from fires.
Now what?
Most people, based on evidence and not judgement, simply push it out.
Or after a vacation, holiday, birthday, groundhog day, solar eclipse, new season of their favorite show…..
What does that tell your subconscious brain?
My Standard issue is when things become slightly outside of ideal I find something to blame for not sticking to my health and fitness.
Again, not being a D bag.. but is it not the case? Why else would people come up with that solution over.. and over.. and over again to different stimulus?
The brain creates a shortcut, subconciously, and then is reinforced with following the thought by staying consistent (we love consistency)
But… it doesn’t get us what we want. Boo.
To fix it, I call it Missy Elliot your excuse.
Put my THANG down, Flip it, and reverse it
I’m on vacation used to mean= eat whatever, deal with it later, “relax” and then come home adding 2-4 lbs of fat that’ll put you a month behind in reaching your goal, not to mention taking 2 weeks to “get back into the swing of things”
OR…
I’m on vacation= plan how to eat foods I want to while there, enjoy the amounts to stay consistent with my health goals, and come back already having my plan sorted, having not gained a single pound of fat along the way.
Sounds like a whole lot of work to that part of your brain saying it’s impossible, but it’s not much harder than looking up a few restaurants you and your family would eat at, looking over the menu, and deciding today, then shifting food around to make it work.
But if you have no idea how to do that, we teach that in my Trailblazer Fat Loss Program, TAP HERE if you’re interested in learning about it.
Finding a way vs not seeing a way.
You would run through a brick wall if it meant saying your family right? Your family needs saving from health and fitness problems that become inevitable when you don’t work on them.
But don’t get it twisted.. it can be hard, frustrating, emotional, angry… however…..
3) Your Frustration is a blessing
Question, if you found out your kid was failing 3 classes necessary classes to graduate during the last semester of senior year, how upset would you be on a scale of 1-10?
Would you feel the same if a kid who lived 1 mile away from your house?
OF COURSE NOT!
Because you care, and have love for your kid. You want them to be successful, and to grow up to be a happy, contributing member of society, to start a business or go to college.
You couldn’t care less about some random kid failing high school (btw me either so don’t feel bad)
Those emotions are what promote change and action.
Similar to the bumpers that pop up in the lane for kids, the feelings you don’t enjoy feeling, are signals to adjust.
They are NOT BAD like society at large would have you believe.
If you are feeling frustrated, that is because you care about the result, and want to be successful.
So when those type of feelings start to come about, there are a lot of things to take a look at on how to make best use of this feeling, but the first step always has to be this.
Being thankful that you care.
The next step is…
Are you unsure of what to do next?
Are you confused?
Are you hyperfocusing on things that might not matter?
Are you adding too much pressure onto yourself to be perfect?
I could go on and on, but the point is, frustration is a good feeling, because it means we care, and are heading into learning something new about ourselves, or about what we are trying to accomplish.
Get used to it, because it’s not going away when you are at the top, embrace that feeling.. or…
Keep living the same 6 months over and over again, waiting for change to happen out of thin air because you think about it, and become disappointed when no one has come to save you.
You got this! I believe in you