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Think You’re Ready to Shed the Fat? You Might Be Wrong.

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Think You’re Ready to Shed the Fat? You Might Be Wrong.

Everyone who ever started a weight loss program thought they were ready to lose weight.  They came to terms with how much they disliked the body they were living in and they declared themselves ready to kick it to the curb and get healthy.  So why do so many of us fail?  Fact is, most of us dive into weight loss fueled by self-loathing and/or poor body image and not necessarily ready to actually lose the weight.Think of your body like your house.  Maybe at one time it was a showplace, meticulously cared for, and the talk of the neighborhood.  Or maybe it was always a bit of a fixer-upper.  Regardless, when you are ready to renovate your home you accept that it will take time, money, commitment, and a plan. 

You know that your dream house isn’t going to appear on the curb tomorrow.  So why don’t we treat our bodies the same way?You may think you’re ready to shed the fat that’s holding you back, but you might just be wrong.  And that might be why you keep failing.  So instead of jumping in with both feet, how about we take a look at some foundation issues.  As your Healthy Living Architect, I’ll walk you through it!

Here are 5 Foundational Commitments For Successful Weight Loss:

Owning it.  Are you ready to accept where you are and how you got here?  Can you get on a scale, take your measurements, and pose for your before shots?  Are you willing to take a full inventory of your house as it stands?  What is the best part of your body?  What needs work?  Before you can begin you really do have to embrace your power, set aside all the blaming and complaining, and push through your fears.  No one and nothing made you gain weight.  Your choices brought you to this place and better choices will take you someplace new.  Going all in.  Weight loss isn’t a one-off guys.  If you really want to discover your happiest, healthiest self, you are going to need to make a lifelong commitment to change.  We are not talking about a coat of paint.  We are talking about rebuilding the whole house and in order to keep it up you are going to need to learn new, permanent patterns of care taking.

If you truly feel you’re ready to go all in, click below to grab our free guide to set yourself up for success.Asking for help.  You would not hang a twelve foot sheet of drywall alone and you shouldn’t plan on redesigning your body alone either.  Look at your friends and family.  Who would be willing to lend a hand?  Who can you turn to when you cannot do the job alone?  This is important.  There are some people in your life who are naturally gifted and willing to share what they know to help you succeed, but you probably also know a few other people who make everything into a contest or who hoard their talents and never want to share. 

Learn the difference between these two and enlist the help of those who will encourage you to get the job done.

Sticking to it.  During every renovation project I’ve ever witnessed, at some point the homeowners were ready to throw in the towel and move into a hotel.  Everything seems to take longer and require more energy than they expected.  Weight loss can be like that too.  There will be days when you are ready to wallow in a 9”x13” pan of brownies, but if you want to succeed, you’re going to need to stick to the plans and commitments you’ve made.  You have to know that a hotel room or a pan of brownies is a temporary fix and stay focussed. Working hard.  Change doesn’t come easy.  If only we could click our heels together three times, say, “There’s no place like home!” and POOF, renovation complete, banging body ready to roll.  It just doesn’t work like that.  Remodeling your body is going to take real planning, sweat equity, and a willingness to do the dirty work.  You can absolutely build a beautiful, healthy house for your soul but you’ve got to be willing to put in the work. So are you really ready to lose the weight?  You can do this.  I can help. Reach out to me if you are ready!  All bodies have potential.  Regardless of their current state, there is room for improvement and the potential to create a comfortable, happy home.  You know it’s true, your body is your house.  Think about this … If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?

In Health, 

Coach Dave 

 

Learn How to Develop Extremely Successful Habits That Get You Results 

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What You Can Learn From Tom Brady

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Let’s be clear I am no Patriots Fan and I am aware there are going to be some who read this who will say he is a cheater and I can care less what they think. What I want to do is see how can I learn from high performers.

Mindset –

When Tom was in college he apparently met with a sports psychologist to help him get his mind right and become more mentally fit.

Tom expects to win and he visions himself as the best that has ever played the position. If you are going to play at a high level and be a peak performer you have to believe that you are the best. Not good but the Best. You have to see yourself as being the best at what you do!

When Tom takes the field he doesn’t just take the field to be good but to play as hard as he can and slaughter you then shake your hand after the game!

If there is one area to really takeaway from studying Tom mindset is it!

Discipline

Several years ago I was listening to a sports talk show and the guest they had on talked about how after one of Tom’s Super Bowl wins he invited him out to have drinks and celebrate. Tom declined and told him he starts his training for a repeat next year. I mean seriously who does that. Tom does! And it is probably one of the reasons he is now the oldest QB to ever win a Super Bowl.

Tom has a strict regime that he follows daily. It starts with getting to bed at 8:30 and up at 5:30. He avoids meat, eats healthy organic vegetables daily, and avoids alcohol.

Everything he does has a purpose and he sticks to the routine he has set for him. What happens to most of us is we get sidetracked by some other shiny object and think if we try this new thing thing we will see better results instead of sticking to the plan and routine.

Habits

In Brendon Burchard’s book “Big Performance Habits” he talks about high performers seek clarity and envision the future. I would say that Tom Brady has a high degree of clarity. As I have said he envisions himself winning the Super Bowl and sees himself performing at a high level. High performs have a clear vision as to what they want and live each day moving towards that vision.

Love or hate TB if you want to become a high performer you should spend time studying those that are successful and I would say if you have 6 Super Bowl rings you are pretty successful .

Coach Dave

 

Weekly Wrap and Celebrate Your Wins

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Today is the first Sunday of the month in February and as is usual custom it is Super Bowl Sunday here in the U.S. The Super Bowl hosts the two best teams from each division from the NFL It is the highest goal a professional football player can achieve if they win the big game. Now if you remember a few years ago there was a commercial ad that would run from Walt Disney having usually the MVP player of the game say after they won they would celebrate by going to Disney!

Today, I want to use the blog to journal some of my wins for the week and to also talk to you about celebrating your wins.

Do you celebrate your wins?

For the longest time I would set goals for myself and strive to do my best to reach them. Some of them I hit and some I failed miserably. Typically I would dwell on the ones that I failed at and never took the time to celebrate the ones I won. It wasn’t until I was working with a business coach that it was pointed out to me that acknowledging your wins and putting out a reward for accomplishing it helps to keep the momentum going and also change your mindset when you start to dwell on what is not going right.

So after this was pointed out I then changed my goal setting process. In the past I set a goal and that was it. When I reached it I moved on to the next goals, however, with my new process I set a goal and I have a reward for hitting it. It doesn’t t have to be anything big and crazy like buying a new car or buying something expensive like a new watch or phone but something that gives you some satisfaction. Most of the time for me when I hit my goal I give myself the reward of more education. I typically will buy a book that I have been wanting to get or maybe even a course to learn a new skill. The key though is to celebrate the achievement. You may want to go out and party on the town or maybe you do want to buy some new clothes. It doesn’t matter what you buy but what does matter is you celebrate your wins. Now, speaking of celebrating wins about a year ago I started to use Sundays as my day to recap the week and celebrate what good happened. Today is that day and I am going to share it with you and everyone else moving forward.

The week of Jan 28th – Feb 3rd.

My biggest win for the week was in the Physical category. Just so you know I separate my categories into physical, financial, spiritual, mindset and professional. Now, the reason I choose physical for my biggest win of the week is because back on Jan 3rd I hurt my back really bad and was debilitated for about 2 weeks. I have never felt so much pain and been unable to walk like that in my whole life. I was thankful for my good friend, who is a sports medicine doctor, who helped get me back functioning. On the last day of the month for the first time in almost a month I was able to run again. Nothing stellar but thankful to be able to run and get a good sweat on so that is why I am calling it my biggest win!

What was your biggest win for the week? Do you celebrate your wins? Share in comments or on FB.

Coach Dave

 

If you want to succeed get your mind right

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Get your mind right for success

If you were to climb inside my head sometimes you would be shocked to hear what is going on in there. I would say one of the big reasons people whether it be entrepreneurs or a person trying to lose weight fails is their mind isn’t right.

As you learned in yesterday’s post I told you I had accepted the “One Funnel Away Challenge” and one of the challenges was to find your voice and publish everyday. Well, one of the first pre-week mission assignments was to get your mind right and mentally prepare to succeed. I bought in and went through the lessons and can tell you I came out stronger mentally then when I first stated.

You see it has been almost 10 years since I have started on this journey to create an online business. It all started when I was fired  from my job back in 2010. After that event I had decided to never let anyone dictate my overall circumstances and have complete control over my livelihood and financial security. It was then that I embarked on the entrepreneur journey. And let me tell you it has been a journey but like I told my wife the other day I am like a bad who is playing at small little dive bars waiting to finally hit it big

So here is where I circle back and bring back the whole mindset to succeed statement. You see I’m not truly sure in the last ten years I deep down believed that I could succeed at this whole online stuff. Is my mind different know you ask? Well, over the last two years that has been a major area of focus for me and I do believe I have come to believe deep down that I will succeed at building an online business that creates the ideal lifestyle I want for me and my family.

Why has it changed? Great question and I’ll circle back to Russell and his “one funnel away challenge.” I have been following Russell for some time now and it wasn’t until recently he opened up about his entrepreneur journey and his failures. He got really raw and shared how he almost lost everything. I had no clue because all I ever saw was his success and never knew he almost lost it all.

He also goes on to share how he was able to keep his business alive by creating a sales funnel and sell to his list of customers. It was because of this sales funnel he was able to stay afloat and that is when he came up with the slogan you are only one funnel away… When I listened to that I thought to myself I don’t care how many times I have tried to create a success online business and failed because I am only one funnel away from making it. I truly believe that and that is why I have not quit!

How Do I Change My Mindset?

Well I can’t say that I am an expert and that I have “cured” my negative thoughts and thoughts of failure but after studying other successful entrepreneurs and reading on the conscious and subconscious parts to your mind I have come to practice a few things. Now this is not completely researched back and my description is just how I view it know but here it is.

First of all, this is not easy to do but you need to focus on training your subconscious. You see your subconscious mind acts the way it is has been taught through prior life experiences. This happens at a very young age and it believes what the mind tells it. That is why you hear experts talk about how important it is when you are raising kids to give them positive rewarding experiences and not always negative ones. Also, the subconcious mind doesn’t change easily and that is the part that is hard. Especially, if you have health with failure in your life and you constantly don’t believe change is possible.

So, after learning more about that I try and trick or train my subconscious to believe that I am a successful entrepreneur. I do this through affirmations and consistently writing my goals down daily. I learned this from Grant Cardone. If you have not read his book “The 10X Rule” put it on your reading list! Essentially, what he says to do and what I try to practice daily is writing my goals as they have already happened. For example, I write down daily that “I am part of the 2 comma club.” For those that don’t know what the 2 comma club is, it is the award that is given out to a person who uses Click Funnels and makes a million dollars with one sales funnel you have. I also write down that I have a 3 million dollars in net worth. I have other goals that I also write down for my health, family, spiritual but for the sake of this post I am sharing with you my financial goals.

The other method that I also use is to mediate and while mediating I visualize how I feel and act as I would be when my goals become reality. This is fairly new practice but I can tell you that when I go through this process I feel more energized and optimistic about my day.

The final piece to me changing my mindset and setting myself up for success is to stop having a scarcity mindset. I find myself always thinking that I don’t have enough money or that costs too much so I can’t do that. Now don’t take this to mean you don’t have discipline in your spending but more of getting rid of the mindset of I don’t have enough and scarcity. I try to think in terms of abundance and I have plenty.

So, what are things you do to change your mindset and set yourself up for success? Remember I want this to more of two way street and create engagement. Go on over to my Facebook page and leave me a comment on what you do to help get your mind right!

Coach Dave

Ultimate Transformation Program

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Ultimate Transformation Program Revealed

I was taken aback by all the comments and feedback that everyone left on my previous video. After reflecting and thinking about how I could use my “super power” I have decided to open up my “Ultimate Transformation Program” again. Watch the video to see if you might be a fit for the program!