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I am amazed by how impatient we are when it comes to results for our health and fitness goals.
In fact, it’s scary how fast we expect results!
Here is the promise I make to my clients: If you stay consistent with your diet and exercise you will absolutely see and feel results! No question about it.
As we all know (but like to think otherwise) consistency is the key to any kind of success. Of course, it’s also tough to maintain.
That’s where MBT comes in.
We all know this though. Our rational mind doesn’t really believe losing 30 pounds in three days is realistic. (Of course not!)
However, our irrational mind likes to think so. In fact, it’s the same irrational mind that will fall victim to get rich quick schemes.
Get rich quick schemes don’t work!
For as long as there have been (and are) people who want to get rich there will be get rich quick schemes.
But here’s the thing: Get rich quick schemes (as well as diet schemes) exist because people want to believe they exist.
For as long as there are lazy people who want to believe in ‘too good to be true’ claims they’ll always be around.
[When I say diet schemes I mean anything that makes you think it’s too good to be true! Alert: If it feels that way in your gut it’s because it is too good to be true!]
Don’t you think if get rich quick schemes actually existed the seller (who was entrepreneurial enough to buy airtime to share his secret with the world for a small fee of 10 easy payments of $89.95) would instead just hire 1000’s of people at minimum wage to follow his very own ’step by step full proof method’ and become a billionaire himself?
Think about that? If it was that easy and it required so little work, and work that could be replicated over and over, he’d be able to hire anyone. And just have them follow his method.
But of course, he doesn’t.
There is no such thing as getting rich quick. Nor is there such a thing as losing 30 pounds in three days.
The only way to get rich quick or to lose weight or to accomplish anything worth accomplishing is slowly.
Like I tell my clients: Meal by meal. Workout by workout. Day by day.
Very unsexy but very true.
If you put together 9 ladies it still takes 9 months each to have a baby (and patience).
How come no one questions anything else that takes time and patience and effort? Law school, medical school, grad school, and on and on?
Ironically, without your health and fitness none of the above means anything.
Get in shape slowly.
Meal by meal, workout by workout, day by day!
[This happened to be yesterday’s Daily Inspiration.]
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Comments
03.06.09
Great post! People forget that anything worth having is often not easy to get.
The media is always featurign freak stories of overnight wealth but as usual, it leaves a key part of the story out. Some people may get a windfall but a lot of people who get rich fast (lotto, inheritance) lose it just as fast. A lot of people who lose weight fast tend to gain it back fast.
The length of time it takes to accomplish good results serves a purpose: it trains you how to maintain what you are trying to seek. For instance, people who get rich slower had more the time to learn the skills to manage money and keep themselves rich. Eliminate that learning period and the core problems and self-defeating habits will continue to exist.
03.07.09
I agree with Valerie,this is a great post!
"Some people may get a windfall but a lot of people who get rich fast (lotto, inheritance) lose it just as fast."
When I win the lottery,I won't be losing it "just as fast." Of course,I might have to temporarily leave the country, leaving care of my cats to my youngest son who,of course,would be handsomely compensated for this service.
In addition to providing care for my cats,youngest son would be instructed to tell curious people that "they are living it up in an undisclosed location in,I think they said,the Bahamas or could be Puerto Rico,not really sure.They left pretty fast after cashing their check for many millions."
Actually,we would be in the U.S. Virgin Islands,looking to buy a villa so that we could escape the cold Nebraska winters every year.:)
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
-Fast Eddie Felson (played by Paul Newman),Color of Money,1986.
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