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I’d say that nearly 100% of people that have lost significant amounts
of weight and have kept it off have used this little trick. People
start to cheer them on and every time they see them, they will ask,
‘How much more have you lost?’
I use weight as an example because the physical visual is very easy
to comprehend.
Now, if they used will power and didn’t tell anyone
about their journey, you could be sure that they would have failed.
The brain doesn’t form habit around will-power based activities. The
brain can only form habit around things it finds easy and pleasurable
to do. So yes, you will need a little will power but that also means
that you will have to rob it from other areas of your life.
Trying to become a best-selling author and lose 50 pounds at the same
time?
Good luck, unless you are writing a best-selling book about
your journey in real time (which would actually be pretty smart now
that I think about it).
Ok, so now that you have some understanding of the biggest myth of
the mind; the myth of pushing through everything you don’t enjoy
doing and hoping that success finds you on the other side of that
rainbow, let’s move onto my new views on goals and goal setting.
I was recently exposed to an outside the box thought, one of the
first that I have heard in quite some time and by that, I mean an
idea that I have never heard anywhere else.
In the book, ‘How to Fail at Almost Anything and Still Win Big’ by
Scott Adams (this will be this month’s book of the month), he talks
about goals and they are the wrong way to go.
Goals leave us in an almost perpetual state of feeling like a
failure, IF you set them like most people set them or if you even set
goals at all.
We are never quite there when it comes to goals, so that will leave a
feeling of: still haven’t made it or, man, I still have a long way to
go’.
Who wants to have our numero uno environment, your brain,
having thoughts of failure constantly?