Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes
My clients hear me say this all the time.
Often we say we want to create change in our lives and change our bodies but also want to keep doing what we have been doing because it is easy and because it is what we know.
Unfortunately you can't have both.
If you want change you in your body and your life you need to create new behaviour.
New behaviour creates new habits and new habits (so long as they are good ones!) will get you from where you are now to where you want to be.
Sometimes it takes a while for the penny to drop for my clients and I am guessing it is the same for a lot of other people.
I can write a program based on my clients goals knowing that if they follow the plan they will lose the weight, gain the fitness they want and need.
Then I read progress reports and find that they walked instead of doing intervals or used breakfast bars or protein bars instead of real food or did a pump class instead of my resistance program.
These are old habits they are trying to force into the new program.
They are trying to hang onto the old habits because it is easy.
The problem with this is that things get muddled and before you know it you are doing the same old stuff once again and getting the same result you always got.
To create change you need to shake things up and do things differently no matter how uncomfortable it feels.
You must be willing to make some sacrifices and one of those sacrifices is letting go of the "go to" habits that allow you to easily fall back into old habits.
If you have read my previous post on A Brain Based Approach to Change you know that the brain doesn't like change and we need to work very hard to make it happen.
When we muddy the waters and compromise the changes we are making by reverting back to old habits it strengthens the brains desire to go back to what it knows.
So... what is my point??
If you are trying to create a new body or lifestyle you must act consciously and behave differently to how you do now.
Creating change is a very conscious and deliberate thing, it doesn't and won't happen on it's own so if you are about to or have been trying to create change make it your Big Project - don't half do it, use charts, hang inspiring pictures or articles, blog every day - do whatever it takes to shake things up so your main focus is the change you wish to create.
Create change and change will occur.
Good luck and please send me your thoughts.
Mx
Often we say we want to create change in our lives and change our bodies but also want to keep doing what we have been doing because it is easy and because it is what we know.
Unfortunately you can't have both.
If you want change you in your body and your life you need to create new behaviour.
New behaviour creates new habits and new habits (so long as they are good ones!) will get you from where you are now to where you want to be.
Sometimes it takes a while for the penny to drop for my clients and I am guessing it is the same for a lot of other people.
I can write a program based on my clients goals knowing that if they follow the plan they will lose the weight, gain the fitness they want and need.
Then I read progress reports and find that they walked instead of doing intervals or used breakfast bars or protein bars instead of real food or did a pump class instead of my resistance program.
These are old habits they are trying to force into the new program.
They are trying to hang onto the old habits because it is easy.
The problem with this is that things get muddled and before you know it you are doing the same old stuff once again and getting the same result you always got.
To create change you need to shake things up and do things differently no matter how uncomfortable it feels.
You must be willing to make some sacrifices and one of those sacrifices is letting go of the "go to" habits that allow you to easily fall back into old habits.
If you have read my previous post on A Brain Based Approach to Change you know that the brain doesn't like change and we need to work very hard to make it happen.
When we muddy the waters and compromise the changes we are making by reverting back to old habits it strengthens the brains desire to go back to what it knows.
So... what is my point??
If you are trying to create a new body or lifestyle you must act consciously and behave differently to how you do now.
Creating change is a very conscious and deliberate thing, it doesn't and won't happen on it's own so if you are about to or have been trying to create change make it your Big Project - don't half do it, use charts, hang inspiring pictures or articles, blog every day - do whatever it takes to shake things up so your main focus is the change you wish to create.
Create change and change will occur.
Good luck and please send me your thoughts.
Mx
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