How Blast Past Your Fitness Barriers! - Part 3

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" How Blast Past Your Fitness Barriers! " - Part 3

Copyright 2006 Smoot

- Part Three -

Welcome to Part Three of this 6-part series. Today we'll

continue to explore the insider secrets of how to deal with

the inevitable roadblocks, bumps, and barriers on the road

to lifelong fitness success.

Last time we looked at Roadblocks 4-6 and how to blast them

out of your way. In today's article (Part 3) we'll look at

the next three in some detail. I'll cover the rest of them

as we move through this 6-part series.

Success Roadblock Number Seven: Severely Limiting (But

Unconscious) Self- Sabotaging Beliefs And Attitudes Are

Still In The Way

In Chapter 8 we laid out a step-by-step plan for creating

your own personal health and fitness Recipe For Success. As

you got into steps six through nine of that program, your

primary job was to evaluate whether your current plan was

working. If it's not, it's a safe bet that you still have

some " search and replace " work to do with your beliefs and

attitudes.

The bad news about beliefs and attitudes is that they are

very often hiding out in your subconscious, where you can't

really detect them. It's hard to conquer an enemy you can't

see.

The good news is, you don't have to identify and replace

all of your problem beliefs and behaviors. All you really

need to do is correct enough of them to tip the balance

scale in your favor.

You only need to achieve what I call a " critical mass " of

self-supportive beliefs and attitudes. Once you have that,

it's a simple matter of statistics. In any given

circumstance, you will now be more likely to make a healthy

decision and a healthy choice than an unhealthy one. Does

that make sense?

Success Roadblock Number Eight: An Inadequate Sense Of

Self-Worth

As you may have guessed, the previous roadblock related to

Success Factor One, and this one relates to another Success

Factor. Based on my own experience, I have never met a

coaching client who didn't have some self-worth /

self-esteem / deservability issues.

As resilient as we human beings are, most of us have still

been beaten up enough in childhood -- either physically,

psychologically, or perhaps both -- that our sense of value

as a person is nowhere near what it could or should be. And

that's truly tragic, because low self-esteem most often

keeps us from claiming or even acknowledging the good

things that are rightfully ours.

One reason I prefer to the term " deservability " over

" self-esteem " is because the psychological community has

tended to look upon the latter as a single, measurable

factor. Then they have traditionally tended to label people

as either having high self-esteem, low self-esteem, or

something in between.

The truth, however, is that we all have areas of good

self-esteem and not so good self-esteem. We all have what I

call " cavities " in our self-esteem.

It is the presence or absence of these cavities that

ultimately determines what we do and do not believe we

deserve in life -- even including good health, fitness, and

happiness. Until we fully understand the consequences of

having low deservability, we probably won't take any

serious steps to fix it, which means we probably won't end

up getting the good things that we should be getting and

enjoying in life.

Success Roadblock Number Nine: A Habitually Poor Self-Image

As with a low sense of deservability, a poor self-image is

almost invariably the product of our early childhood

experiences. What sets our self-image apart from our

self-esteem is that it is primarily a visual thing as

opposed to a psychological thing.

If you close your eyes and visualize yourself in the buff,

it's pretty hard to avoid discovering what your true

self-image is. And if visualizing yourself naked causes

negative feelings in you, then you can be sure you have

some work to do in this area.

This brings us to another pitfall to be especially careful

of. Almost without exception, people believe that they will

feel better about themselves when they look better. But

this is exactly backwards. The truth is, you will begin to

look better only when you feel better about yourself.

Now, obviously, if you woke up tomorrow morning perfectly

fit and trim and at your ideal weight, you'd feel pretty

good about that. But if you didn't also learn to feel good

about you, then you would almost certainly gain back your

weight and get sloppy again pretty soon.

On the other hand, once you develop a true, deep-down

affection and appreciation for who you are, then you will

naturally and automatically move in the direction of

healthier behaviors, with the inevitable result being a

healthier body and a happier life.

The roadblocks you've just read about were excerpted from

my new ebook, " Ultimate Fitness Secrets: Revealed! " To

learn how to blast all 20 roadblocks out of your way, and

discover the secrets of lifelong, struggle-free fitness,

bulletproof health, and low-stress living, please visit the

UltimateFitnessRevealed.com web site and get the whole

story!

Please stay tuned for Part Four!

Yours in total health,

" Dr. "

About the Author:

Dr. B. Smoot, MA, DD, is a professional fitness &

weight loss success coach, and the creator of several

highly-effective fitness and weight loss programs. For full

details please visit

http://www.UltimateFitnessSecretsRevealed.com ,

http://www.CoachSmoot.com , and

http://www.WeightLossGodsWay.com or email " Dr. " at

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