Mental Muscle: Building Muscle & Losing Fat

Take an Honest Look

Take a good, hard look in the mirror. You do not need callipers or scales to tell you that you are out of shape. You must truly accept your present condition as your responsibility and stop blaming outside forces beyond your control. You are in control. You just need to be shown how.

It is better to laugh at your situation than to cry. In fact, the more dissatisfied you can make yourself feel, the more motivation you can create to get into action. Just take one step at a time, and everything else will take care of itself. By the inch, it is a cinch. By the yard, it is hard.

Using Dissatisfaction as Motivation

Use pain and embarrassment to slingshot yourself into action. If you are dissatisfied with your present state, build the picture in your mind now of the person you want to be. You must believe it before you can have it. Most people think they have to see something first to believe it, but success requires that you visualise and believe it to be possible first.

The Power of Visualisation

Important Tip: In the mind, it is always now. The past is a memory, and the future is an idea in the imagination. Make sure your visualisation is in the now. See, feel, hear, smell, and taste it as if it were real. The subconscious cannot differentiate between reality and something vividly imagined. The more sensory rich you make your visualisations, the sooner they will be reflected back to you in life.

Program Recap

To summarize the steps covered so far:

• Establish and accept your present shape as your current reality.
• Make a conscious decision to change.
• Build a new image of the way you want to look.
• Make this image real in your mind, vivid, all encompassing, and in the now.