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Eat With Your Head Days 1 Through 6, Eat With Your Heart On Day 7

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28. Eat with your head days 1 thru 6, eat with your heart on day 7.

There are things we love to eat and then there are things we know we should eat. Unfortunately for most of us, the things we love to eat are bad for us and the things we know we should eat aren’t at the top of our list. If you need a Tool to help you with the Nutrition section of your form, try this. What you do is look at your week and find six days to eat the way you know you should. This will differ from person to person depending upon nutritional goals and needs. Then identify one day that you can eat whatever you like. I find for me that what works the best is having Sunday as my free day. But what I also do is change that day when I see something that’s coming up that could cause trouble. If I’m going to the State Fair on a Friday night, I know the hazards that will be there so I simply change that to my free day.

The reason this works well is it makes it simple to know what you should be eating that day and you avoid cheating. It also helps you avoid being bad by knowing you have a reward day coming up. What I also really like about doing this is that on my free day, since I had been eating so well all week, I found I didn’t really want to eat that much garbage on my free day. So I ended up not really pigging out like the free day would imply. This Tool really illustrates a perfect example of how the book’s system works. In the Nutritional section of S.A.N.E., you enter what your goals are for your nutritional intake. Then in the Tool section, you pick something like this to help implement it and make the goal become reality. So give it a try if this is an area of struggle for you and see if it helps out.

You Don’t Want It Bad Enough!

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81. You don’t want it bad enough!

For most of you, this should be the first Tool you ever choose. This Tool is maybe the best example of how the system works in the whole book. Many of you have had a goal that was never written down and never reached. Many have written down their goal and still failed to reach it. I believe goals have a greater chance of success when you have the proper Tools to help you reach them, and this one is a perfect start and a perfect example. The reason I love this one so much is that it has great power to keep you on track. Whenever you are about to do something that may sidetrack one of your goals in your S.A.N.E. system, simply say to yourself, “I don’t want it bad enough.” (This is a system in the book.) When you make this simple statement, it triggers a reaction in your brain to determine if you do want it bad enough.

This can be applied to many of the goals that you may have. If your goal is to read one book a week and you are watching TV instead, ask yourself, “Do I want it bad enough?” When your alarm goes off at 5:00 a.m. and you’re about to hit snooze, ask yourself how bad you want it. When you are cutting out dessert and you are tempted to have that bowl of ice cream, do you want it bad enough. Sometimes getting the right answers out of life requires asking the right questions.

You may find something else out, YOU DON’T WANT IT BAD ENOUGH. Then comes decision time. Do you take it off your goal list or tweak it to match what you do want? If you find out it is truly not that important to you right now, then take it off. This may be the reason you are missing some of your goals because they really aren’t goals you hope to achieve at this moment. If you do decide it is something you want, you will have constructed a mindset that will allow you to make better choices when presented with temptations. Asking yourself how bad you want it will determine how likely you are to achieve that goal. The things you want badly enough will compel you to do what is necessary to reach the top.

Clearly Define Your Enemy to Growth

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38. On the road of change there will be many tempting places to park; clearly define your enemy to growth.

In our blueprint we are setting goals for the next 21 days that we hope to achieve. We are doing so in this 21 day format because we now know that it takes 21 days to instill any habit. We also know we can lose any habit as well in 21 days. So along those lines we want to try to identify the pitfalls that we seem to run into that keep us from doing the things we need to be doing. We need to find the things that keep us from building. Knowing where we don’t want to go is just as important as knowing where we are headed.

So what are the landmines you encounter when trying to reach your goals? For many it is wasting time. We play on the internet too long or watch too much TV. One thing I find when trying to use this Tool is you can ask anyone and they know what their weaknesses are right away. And when they tell you what they are, they will get a little smile on their face because these weaknesses have been around for so long. They laugh because they know what these little buggers are.

If you are working on improving your nutritional intake, you already know the tempting places you like to park. Things like sweets, late night eating and fast food are just a few of the trouble areas we all have. If you are trying to improve your exercise habits, what are the stumbling blocks that keep these activities from happening? By identifying these markers, we can try to avoid them and eventually make them non-issues over the next 21 days. By knowing them we can make a choice to do our best to limit our exposure to these roadblocks to success. If you are a snacker, then don’t have treats in the house. If you struggle with drinking too much, avoid situations that may bring up that choice. If you find that you are not making it to the gym because once you sit on the couch you’re not getting up, bring your workout clothes to the office. The ride can be less bumpy if you just keep an eye out for the potholes. But you can’t avoid them unless you know what they look like.

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