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The Proper Focus
by Dennis Buckley
The Performance Advantage
September 2007 volume 2
THE PROPER FOCUS
Many of us desire changes in our lives. We want to lose weight, become more active, start a business, improve a relationship or just get better or feel better about ourselves.
Let's take weight loss, a popular subject. The pants don't fit, you can't get into that dress, your belt ran out of holes, you realize that you need to lose weight. You take inventory and realize you have not been exercising, you have been eating too much, you have been watching too much TV and basically you weren't caring for yourself because you were careless.
You have available to you diets, counselors, programs, pills, lotions, trainers, doctors, retreats, all designed to help you lose weight.
You would have to agree that there is no lack of resources to help you with this subject. Then why do so few people actually lose the weight and keep it off? The answer, incorrect focus.
Most people were focusing on losing 30 pounds. They starve and sacrifice to get there and then for a brief moment, elation at achieving the goal. Then 4 months later they have gained 35 pounds! What happened?
Their focus was on losing weight. So, what is wrong with that? Nothing, except it is an external goal that when accomplished usually is followed by a period of elation/depression. Now what? We usually go back to the bad habits and the weight comes back. Then it is back on the diet or a different program and this yo-yo effect goes on and on with negative consequences.
In reality the focus should have been internal. We should have been working on the disciplines that would result in the external results. The goal should be shifted from losing 30 pounds to the day-to-day activities that would foster this result.
The internal things such as using your will power, reason, intelligence, intuition, memory, and perception daily to keep you on course is the focus that results in improved external circumstances. It is the actions we need to focus on, not the by-product.
So instead of a goal to lose 30 pounds by such and such a date, the focus should be: By such and such a date I want to have been daily eating correctly, exercising regularly by walking and lifting weights, getting proper rest, limiting my TV time, reduing alcohol consumption and taking my supplements daily.
By focusing on these actions and making them the focus of a new and better habit, the chances of long term change escalates. The best thing is you only have to do it one day at a time.
No more dreading I have 20 pounds more to go, or when can I eat regular food again. Each day will be a victory. Anyone can do this for one day. Just do it day after day after day until it becomes your normal day. I am sure you will find this to be more satisfying and more successful than the hit and miss method of outcome only achievement.
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