It’s easy to get caught up in excuses, and reasons as to why you’re not seeing yourself flourish. I have 7 solid reasons as to what’s hurting your progress, and what to do about it.
What’s the purpose of considering these things anyways, right? Well success comes from the daily habits you make every day, and even the smallest of details that may be you think aren’t hurting you are actually limiting you.
I’ll be the first to tell you that a lot of factors are up against you in your health and body, especially if you are a woman. Woman have so many more obstacles than men that society seem to think it’s acceptable to downgrade the limiting, stuff.
Here are the 7 things hurting your progress
1. Lack of Stress Management: stress can be perceived in different ways, and it’s important to manage it effectively because it can affect your ability to make progress. Stress is inevitable, and unavoidable; it is not something you ought to take lightly. I think starting with learning how you cope with it is the first step, and from there you can identify how your stress is manifested. Stress is manifested through hair loss, nail biting, disease presence, emotional instability, retail therapy AKA shopping too much, cleaning and organizing, working out, etc. It’s okay to be stressed - after all we need to stress ourselves to thrive in our work, health, relationships, and the like. Id suggest identifying a plan to manage stress more effective
Examples of stress management:
1. Journaling
2. Talking w a friend
3. Light walking
4. Meditation / stretching, yoga
5. Cleaning
6. Sauna / body work massage
7. Reading
8. Artsy / painting, drawing,
2. Arrogance: believe it or not, arrogance is probably the main reason you are not seeing results. Arrogance stems from a place of insecurity, and is manifested in different ways. Learn to let go of arrogance by first acknowledging that you are displaying arrogance in your health and fitness. One can usually tell someone is arrogant if the individual talks about all the things they know about yet they haven’t accomplished their goals and have stayed stagnant for a while. Id suggest finding some humility, and accepting the fact that you do not know everything and it’s OK to ask for help from someone if that means it’ll get you close to your goals. Asking for help actually shows strength and emotional maturity
3. Excuses: It always surprises me when I hear someone say, “I don’t have enough time.” It’s almost a insult to working professionals or any busy person because what you are indirectly implying is that you are somehow so much more special than others that you feel you deserve more. Well, that’s not how life is. Every one is given 24 hours, it’s how you use those 24 hours that makes the difference. I’d suggest starting with planning your week and days by the hour and coordinate with your spouse or work and see how you can fit 1 hr/day 4x week of training
How to time management:
1. Timing your training, start a watch and give yourself exactly 1 or 2 hours to be in the gym. Start at 3pm, and leave by 5 pm.
2. Have a calendar and mark off when you are doing XYZ
3. Delegate: stuck doing busy work? Outsource. Can’t outsource? Then establish how important that task is and figure out how to delegate as cheap labor, or how to be more efficient at it
4. Track your time: if you are spending 3 hours/night doing something that is not productive such as movies, or talking on the phone w a friend i.e then consider changing that amount of time to 1 hour/night or 1hr/week.
5. Sacrifice: if you want anything in life you will almost always have to sacrifice something
4. Not Eating Quality Food: I find it humorous when I hear someone complain how they aren’t seeing progress, and yet their diet sucks. You can not and will not be able to get away with eating junk. It’s very simple. Sure once in a while you have a bowl of sugar cereal, if you’ve been doing hours of hard training and sweating; if you are not working out or not pushing hard as in drenched in sweat mode then you should be feeding yourself quality nutrition. Those that workout hard and eat well will see results not only in aesthetics faster, but also in their digestion and internal health.
How to Diet
Order salmon if you eat out, and ask them to cook with olive oil and not vegetable oils
Stop eating vegetables oils: these are horrible
No granola bars
1 gallon of water/day
Walk after you eat for 10 minutes
5. Your Environment: believe it or not, your environment determines whether or not you will succeed. The bright side is you can control it almost immediately with headphones if you are not in a position to move out of that environment i.e. household, gym, etc.
a. You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with so if you think you will achieve wonderful things hanging out with losers, think again.
b. This is a basic science that you fly with the flock that you choose, but the good thing is that you get to decide who your flock is.
c. Use your headphones to listen to people who are smarter than you, have more money than you, listen to interviews or educational content that will level you up. You brain is a computer, and what you download from the sources you give it will determine how good of a computer you have
6. Self Sabotage: Stop sabotaging your progress and putting yourself down. Losing 1 lb is just as much of a success as losing 10 or 100. Remember that the daily habits along the way is what adds up
7. You are not working hard enough: Sort of a given, but it seems to be something people don’t understand…..you get what you put into your workouts. So in essence you ought to find the balance in not overdoing, but also not under doing it and doing just enough to trigger a response and change
Those are the 7 things hurting your progress, be sure to stay consistent at your choices and that will lead you to survive, thrive, or die.
Simplicity works.
Be well,
Yelena
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