The first is your motivation and the second your confidence in terms of whether you think you will be able make the change you are looking for which in itself is usually impacted by your previous experiences.
For example, if you want to change the way you look and feel - and possibly what people say to you - by losing weight.
You may have attempted this many times before but ultimately you have always ended back at your starting weight or perhaps even heavier.
Your confidence is therefore low in this regard because previous experience tells you that you 'have failed' and as a result your motivation to change is also at a low.
So what do you do? Ignore the thing you want to change - your weight in this case - and continue to be dissatisfied and disrespectful of yourself?
Unwittingly, this impacts other areas of your life. For example, you wear clothes that are 'frumpy' and this negatively impacts your self-esteem.
This then impacts your work - perhaps how you communicate - such as holding back at meetings, not asserting yourself and so on.
The good news is that if you are reading this then you are demonstrating some real commitment to positive change.
More good news...
You can strengthen your commitment to change by strengthening your intent.
We know intent.
Think of a time when you said you were going to do something, such as, go to the gym, and this time you meant it and you did it.
And you can strengthen your intent so that this current change you want to make happens.
How?
By following a strategy put forward by leading life coach Anthony 'Tony' Robbins ('By standing on the shoulders of giants and success leaves clues') which has worked for others and I think includes the following 4 key criteria for success:
- Exploring in full what is driving this change you want to make and asking yourself questions including:
What will happen if I do make the change? What won't happen if I don't make the change? What will be so much better when I make the change? If I don't make the change what will be the impact on my personal, work and social life?
You know you are making progress when the prospect of not changing is so uncomfortable that you feel that you must and will change.
- Having a positive, specific and measurable goal that is realistic, sustainable and set over a practical time period. Aligned, if possible, with a key event that you want to achieve your goal by, such as, a key work or family event
- By imagining yourself having achieved your goals and seeing your success as a realistic possibility.
For example, it is February 2nd, 2012, the day of x work event and I have reached my target weight of 12 stone.
As I wake I feel fantastic because I am seeing people this evening that I haven't seen for some time and I know I will feel great when they say how healthy and well I look.
As I get dressed in front of the mirror I see a person who looks after themselves and I'm absolutely delighted to be wearing a fitted suit which flatters my physique. I give myself an approving smile as I stand tall and look confident...........
- There is an old adage that every journey begins with the first step. This is the biggest step the step of any decision.
My message here is to go at your own pace, taking a small step each day such as....
Day 1: Get a pedometer and track the number of steps I take
Day 2. Beat yesterday's steps by 300.
Many people try to do it all at once and end up failing. Aim to make changes that you can sustain and build into your life without having to do something that you will resent, such as, taking a formal gym programme
My first suggestion is do not nervous when you fail down because we can learn more lots of thinks from our failure.
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