How To Blast Past Your Fitness Roadblocks! - Part One

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How To Blast Past Your Fitness Roadblocks! - Part One

Copyright 2006 Smoot

- Part One -

Sure, you'd love to get fit, stay fit, and have it all be a

piece of cake. But in real life, the cake often seems a

lot more appealing than the fitness.

The truth is, when you set out to go from not-so-fit to

" Wow, I love my body like this! " you're going to bump into

a few obstacles along the way. With that reality in mind,

here's a look at the Top 20 Roadblocks To Fitness Success,

and how to keep them from kicking you to the curb.

In today's article (Part 1) we'll look at the first three

in some detail. I'll cover the rest as we move through his

6-part series.

Success Roadblock Number One: Attacking Symptoms While

Ignoring Root Causes

I have listed this as Roadblock Number One for a very good

reason. Just as the American " health care " system has

degenerated into having a near-total focus on eliminating

symptoms without ever correcting -- or even acknowledging

-- the real, root cause of a problem, so it is in the areas

of fitness, health, and happiness.

You want instant happiness? That's been the pharmaceutical

companies' top money-maker for decades. To their way of

thinking, getting you hooked on a chemical crutch is just a

smart business decision. That way you'll become their bread

and butter -- a " repeat buyer. "

And just as there's a pill for every little problem with

your health (courtesy of your friendly neighborhood

pharmaceutical mega-corporation), you can also find a

" quick-fix " remedy for your every fitness problems.

There's every imaginable kind of device that promises you

the sun, moon, and stars. You want instant weight loss?

Saturday morning TV will give you a ton of " solutions. " Of

course, none of them work. But that doesn't seem to slow

down sales very much.

Am I overstating the case? Not really. You see, here in

America we are absolutely obsessed with quick fixes and

easy solutions. And we'll spend every dime we have to get

them.

The tragic irony is that doing what actually works is not

only less expensive and much healthier, it's also quicker.

Because when you make your changes where it counts -- in

your own motivations -- then doing the healthy thing

becomes automatic, and you're now set for a struggle-free

lifetime of real fitness, great health, and the kind of

happiness that no pill can provide.

That's why the major focus of this book is on making

changes where it counts, by identifying your self

-sabotaging beliefs and attitudes, and replacing them with

self supportive ones. And if you will focus on doing that

first and foremost, these other 19 roadblocks will become

little more than speed bumps that you can step over easily

whenever you come to one.

Success Roadblock Number Two: Problems With Goals –

(Unrealistic, Lame, Extreme, Vague)

If you don't know where you want to go, how do you expect

to get there? And if you don't know where you want to go,

any road will get you there. That's why a large part of

success involves three basic things:

First you have to be clear about where you are. Second, you

have to be clear about where you want to go. And third, you

need some kind of a realistic plan for getting there. If

you've been following the guidelines laid out for you in

this book, you're off to a very good start.

Just keep in mind that setting goals is a process of

continual refinement. You don't need to get it perfect from

the start. You just need to have a reasonably good sense of

where you want to go, and then be willing to continuously

refine your goals as you go.

Success Roadblock Number Three: A Fuzzy/ Unfocused /

Inconsistent Vision

A goal is something you put in writing -- ideally with as

much clarity and specificity as possible -- and a vision is

something you see in your mind's eye. It is a picture, an

image, of what your life will look and feel like when you

reach your goals. Many experts believe that clear vision is

the single most powerful factor in propelling you toward

your goals.

That's because our brains relate more naturally to pictures

than to words. Way back before people could communicate

through the spoken or written word, they could almost

certainly form images in their minds. And it's been

demonstrated time and again that a clear mental image of

what you want to experience is an extremely powerful tool

for helping you get there.

The problem for most people is that they don't spend very

much time focused on what they want, but instead dwell on

what they have and don't want. Creating a clear vision and

keeping that vision in front of your mind's eye also gives

your ego something to attach itself to, which helps

transform it from being your worst enemy into being a

powerful ally on the journey to success.

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 Two!

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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