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Monday, July 23, 2007
Don’t Compare Yourself to Others
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Weight loss and achieving optimal fitness and health can be very challenging. Even with the help of someone such as a personal fitness trainer, most of the responsibility lies on you to reach the goals you want to achieve.
Clement Stone once said, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” By applying this ideology, you are more likely to reach your weight loss and fitness goals. As Clement Stone understood, failure or the perception of failure can be a road block.
Often times, I see this road block occur when you begin to compare your achievements against someone else. Here you are, weight training, doing cardiovascular exercise and eating right and you lose a couple of pounds in six weeks time. Then your friend goes to one of those diet centers and loses 20 pounds in 3 weeks.
The only problem with this, is that you are not trying to lose weight. What you’re trying to do is improve your overall health, increase your fitness level, and decrease body fat. As I have said a million times, “weight is nothing more than the force of gravity pulling you toward earth.” There is no diet that can improve strength, bone density, flexibility, etc.
When you are doing the right things and find yourself where you are comparing your success against others, just remember the story about the tortoise and the hare. At first, it may seem like you are not making that much ground. However, by the end of the race you are the winner. Don’t be concerned about others, just know that you’re going to get there.
Have you found yourself at a “mental roadblock?” If so, please share as to what you did to get through it and ultimately reach your goal?
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