Having the inner drive and the inner belief that will motivate you to achieve your weight loss goal.
In this post I’m going to give you the FIVE essential key elements of self-motivation that will make you losing weight easilly ?
1) Sett your goal
First of all, you can only be motivated if you are looking to achieve something. Setting yourself a weight loss goal gives you something to aim for and something to be motivated by. Just ensure it's stretching, but not impossible. Also give yourself a relatively short timescale to achieve it in. Goals over the longer-term lose their sense of urgency.
2.)Your plan
Having a weight loss goal is great but you need to know how you're going to get there. Coming up with a plan of action gives you a sense of direction - how you're going to reach your goal. It's particularly useful to think about what has worked for you in the past. Make what has worked for you in the past the cornerstone of your plan.
3) Action
Take action, any action. It's hard to feel motivated by something, if you haven't even started it yet. As you start to take some action towards losing weight, however, it’s small I’m sure that you’ll feel your motivation grow exponentially.
4) Your engagement
When you're truly engaged in a task, you're not thinking about whether you should do it and you're not perceiving it as a duty or a chore. You're in full flow and you're just doing what you're doing because you want to be doing it, that’s it.
Some of you may be wondering right now how on earth you can be truly engaged in the process of losing weight, but you can be. For example, you could:
• Educate yourself on how your body works and on nutrition - it's a fascinating subject.
• Immerse yourself in recipe books and find delicious low GI recipes to try out.
• Find exercise you really enjoy and want to do more of.
• Track your progress - watching your progress can be really motivating.
5) Stay positive
Last but not least, stay positive. Nothing impacts intrinsic motivation more than negativity. Negativity leads to apathy; apathy leads to inaction; and inaction leads to disengagement.
Look for the positive in everything. It’s okay to make mistakes, but be sure you learn from your mistakes and remember there is NO SUCH THING AS FAILURE. You can only fail if you stop trying. If you keep on trying and keep motivated, you will eventually succeed.
Self-motivation or intrinsic has been scientifically proven to be much more motivating than extrinsic motivation.
So, set yourself a weight loss goal, work out how you're going to get there, take action (any action), engage yourself in the process and stay positive.
In this post I’m going to give you the FIVE essential key elements of self-motivation that will make you losing weight easilly ?
1) Sett your goal
First of all, you can only be motivated if you are looking to achieve something. Setting yourself a weight loss goal gives you something to aim for and something to be motivated by. Just ensure it's stretching, but not impossible. Also give yourself a relatively short timescale to achieve it in. Goals over the longer-term lose their sense of urgency.
2.)Your plan
Having a weight loss goal is great but you need to know how you're going to get there. Coming up with a plan of action gives you a sense of direction - how you're going to reach your goal. It's particularly useful to think about what has worked for you in the past. Make what has worked for you in the past the cornerstone of your plan.
3) Action
Take action, any action. It's hard to feel motivated by something, if you haven't even started it yet. As you start to take some action towards losing weight, however, it’s small I’m sure that you’ll feel your motivation grow exponentially.
4) Your engagement
When you're truly engaged in a task, you're not thinking about whether you should do it and you're not perceiving it as a duty or a chore. You're in full flow and you're just doing what you're doing because you want to be doing it, that’s it.
Some of you may be wondering right now how on earth you can be truly engaged in the process of losing weight, but you can be. For example, you could:
• Educate yourself on how your body works and on nutrition - it's a fascinating subject.
• Immerse yourself in recipe books and find delicious low GI recipes to try out.
• Find exercise you really enjoy and want to do more of.
• Track your progress - watching your progress can be really motivating.
5) Stay positive
Last but not least, stay positive. Nothing impacts intrinsic motivation more than negativity. Negativity leads to apathy; apathy leads to inaction; and inaction leads to disengagement.
Look for the positive in everything. It’s okay to make mistakes, but be sure you learn from your mistakes and remember there is NO SUCH THING AS FAILURE. You can only fail if you stop trying. If you keep on trying and keep motivated, you will eventually succeed.
Self-motivation or intrinsic has been scientifically proven to be much more motivating than extrinsic motivation.
So, set yourself a weight loss goal, work out how you're going to get there, take action (any action), engage yourself in the process and stay positive.
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