Achieving Goals Isn’t Just About The Goal Itself

A guy is riding a bicycle across the Mexican border into Texas with two big burlap bags in each hand. The border patrol stops him and asks what he has in the bags. He says, “Sand.” They say, “Yeah right, sand. We have to go through the bags.” So they go through the bags and sure enough, all they find is sand. So they let him ride his bike on into the United States.

A few days later he heads back across the border to Mexico, and a few days after that, here he comes again, riding a bike and carrying two big burlap bags. They stop him again and ask, “What’s in the bags?”  He replies, “Sand.” As before, they are doubtful. He says, “No really, it’s sand.” They don’t believe him, so they take the bags, dump them out and dig through the sand. All they find is sand. A few days later he goes back to Mexico.

This continues for weeks. It continues for months. It continues for years. Finally one day, he rides a bike up to the border with two bags. The border patrol stops him and says, “Look, we know you're up to something. We've gone through these bags that you claim contain only sand, and it looks like sand, but there's got to be something going on here. You're obviously smuggling something into this country. We won’t even press charges if you just tell us. It’s driving us crazy. What are you doing? What are you smuggling?” He looks at them with a sheepish little grin and says, with a chuckle in his voice, “Bicycles.”

What seems to be obvious isn’t always the answer. In that story they were positive he had something in those bags, but he was riding a different bicycle across the border every time. With regard to not meeting your goals, what seems like the obvious cause may not be the real cause it all.

We're sure if we try the next diet or exercise program we’re going to follow through and get what we want. But it's not just about what we're going to get. Achieving goals isn’t about just the goal itself.  Achieving your goal is about something other than the obvious.  IT’S NOT ABOUT THE FOOD!!

You have to “be” before you can “do”, and you have to “do” before you can “have”. We want permanent weight loss results we have to do certain things in order to have those successes, and we have to be a certain way in order to do the necessary things.  In order to lose weight permanently we need to change our minds.  I specialize in helping people change their minds. :>)

It’s Not About What You Think It’s About.

If you want to lose weight or get in better physical shape, the first step is to acknowledge that it’s not about the food. If it were about the food, we’d all be thin and healthy right now. But the obesity level in this country is climbing, so it’s not about the food. In the last 3 ½ years the average person has been on 10-20 diets. Count on your fingers with me as I go through these.

Have you cut back the total amount of calories you eat in a day in an effort to lose weight? Have you cut back carbohydrates, reduced your portion sizes, or have you avoided eating certain foods? Maybe you’ve stopped eating after a certain time at night, maybe you’ve added a certain type of food, maybe you bought something from an infomercial, or you ordered food to be sent right to your home. Many of us have tried one or more of these different methods, but have we met our goal of losing weight?

The food you eat is what you do, but success comes when we focus on who you are. When you’re a motivated individual with the desire to continually learn and grow, your weight WILL come off.

You can be a motivated individual pretty darn easily, as a matter of fact.  Discover what steals your motivation.  It also may not be what you think.  Never Ending Motivation specializes in showing you which culprit comes against your motivation and then equips you with practical tools for maintaining once and for good!  For more information and to receive our free e-book about Never Ending Motivation please visit http://www.neverendingmotivation.com

My favorite quote from Albert Einstein says, “The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over expecting different results.” If we're not getting the results we want, we need to change the action, otherwise we're going to get the same results we've always gotten. So if you haven’t lost the weight you want to lose yet… and you’re still trying diet and after diet… doesn’t it make sense to at least consider stopping the thought that it’s about the food?

With all my combined experience, I have realized that people lose and gain, lose and gain. Aren't you tired of losing and gaining, losing and gaining, losing and gaining? Aren’t you tired of setting out to achieve a goal and not achieving it, then setting out again to achieve that same goal again, and not achieving it again? Every time you sit down to write your goals, you write the same goals, yet you're not achieving them. We can change that if we identify what stopped us.

Before losing my weight I felt fat and I had low self-esteem.  I would have never worn a bathing suit prior to losing my weight.  Now that I have lost 52 lbs. I can finally wear a bathing suit. I have a lot more energy.  I am also a lot healthier. I have yet to even catch a cold!  I am down to one medication from originally taking three!  My family and friends notice how much more I can actually do with them. I can play ball, ride horses…I cannot believe how much more I can do now. 

I’ve gone from a size 20 to a size 10! I’ve lost over 97 inches with this program.  I can’t believe I was able to enjoy pizza, chicken, fish, potato soup, corn, meatloaf, taco salads, cheese, Doritos, and even macaroni and cheese (just to name a few of my favorites)!

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Having watched people lose and gain, I realized the reason had to be more than the seemingly obvious. There had to be more to it than just the food these people were eating. It had to be more than just one element.

I would see people so excited after enrolling in a new diet program or health club, and they'd be so sure that “this time” they were going to do it, “this time” they were going to achieve that goal. They set out with such great enthusiasm, but a few days later the excitement was gone and the goal was no longer being pursued.

Maybe this has happened to you; I know it’s happened to me. We look up and wonder, “What happened?” The motivation left. We have good intentions, and we have a good plan to follow to achieve our goals, but we don't realize what comes against the motivation that stops it dead in its tracks.  Just in case you’re not convinced that the secret to losing weight permanently isn’t about the food, read next week’s article:  Achieving Goals Isn’t Just About The Goal Itself.

Until next time, keep thin-king positively and powerfully!!!!!!!!!!!!