How Blast Past Your Fitness Barriers! - Part 2

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" How Blast Past Your Fitness Barriers! " - Part 2

Copyright 2006 Smoot

Yes, as much as we'd like the road to fitness to be

straight, smooth, and uninterrupted, it's a fact of like

that you're going to bump into a few obstacles along the

way.

Last time we looked at Roadblocks 1-3 and how to blast them

out of your way on the road to success. In today's article

(Part 2) we'll look at the next three in some detail. I'll

cover the rest as we move through his 6-part series.

Success Roadblock Number Four: Inadequate Motivation – You

Don't Have Clear & Compelling Reasons To Succeed

As a success coach, I can tell you that very few people

understand the necessity for having compelling reasons to

power them toward their goals. If you don't have

sufficiently strong motivations to overcome the inertia of

the status quo, then you're either going to stay right

where you are or end up right back where you are. It's

really just that simple.

So what you need are two kinds of motivations. First, you

need strong and compelling reasons why it's critically

important for you to succeed. You need to be clear about

the " cost-benefit equation " How will you benefit from

achieving your goals? How will your life improve?

Second, you need strong and compelling reasons why it is

utterly unacceptable for you to fail. Together, these

opposing motivations will provide you with both the " push "

and " pull " we talked about in Chapter 8 -- a truly powerful

combination!

Success Roadblock Number Five: Rationalizing Your

Self-Defeating Behaviors

If there's one thing we're all really good at, it is

rationalizing our own self-defeating behaviors. I think

this is something we learn from birth, or perhaps even in

the womb, since all of us seem to suffer from it one way or

another.

You can call it denial or whatever else you want, but the

fact is that we seem to like to plod along from one day to

the next in a blissful state of ignorance about our

problems, and particularly about our health problems.

Actually, considering the state of contemporary " health

care, " this is completely understandable. As I never tire

of pointing out, our medical / pharmaceutical / food

processing industry is much more focused on illness than on

health. And we, the public, can't help but pick up the

money " vibe " behind everything they do.

Not that there aren't thousands of sincerely dedicated

health care providers out there, but any objective observer

would have to say that contemporary medicine is all about

getting rid of the symptom, because they simply don't have

either the time, the will, or the skill to solve problems

at its root.

That's why it becomes our job to " repossess " the

responsibility for our own health-care, to come out of

denial, to be wide awake about the problem, and to actively

pursue and find our own solutions. If we'll leave it up to

the health-care industry, we'll have no one to blame but

ourselves when we fail.

Success Roadblock Number Six: Arguing For Your Own

Limitations

If this is a concept you're not familiar with, I can tell

you it's a mighty important one. In a way, it is closely

aligned with Success Factor Number One -- the belief that

you can and will succeed. [Details about the ebook that

explains the four Success Factors are at the end of this

article.]

You can tell when you're arguing for your own limitations

when you hear yourself starting sentences with, " I have

never been able to… " or " This sort of thing just runs in my

family, " or " I don't see how I could ever… " or, the most

popular one of all, " Yes, but… "

Arguing on behalf of your own limiting beliefs is the

surest way to make sure they stay intact and in place, and

continue to sabotage you forever.

It's safe to say that you have been arguing for a lot of

your own limiting beliefs for as long as you have been able

to argue. Can you think of any personal beliefs that fall

into that category?

Several places in this book I have suggested that you start

a Success Journal. Keeping this journal is a mandatory part

of the success process. I've also talked about the

importance of recognizing the negativity in your own

internal dialogue. That's why I suggest keeping a

Negativity Journal, where you will start to zero in on the

specific wording that your negative, self-sabotaging

beliefs and attitudes feed into your mind.

Being able to actually see your negative inner dialogue in

print will make a huge difference in your consciousness

awareness, and that is the first step toward eliminating

any self-sabotaging behavior.

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 Three!

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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