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It is a crucial time during January and February for the health clubs to generating high revenue of the year. It is time of year people decide to change their lifestyle by getting in shape. They are frustrated with how they look. They want to look beautiful and sexy. Men will want to be able to take their t-shirt off at a beach or for the ladies to strutting in her two-piece bikini.
January 1 is a popular date people putting their resolution list together. To tell you the truth, they fails.
Why do they fail?
They wallowed in their own self-pity and feel so ashamed. They devise a escape plan by putting together a resolution list. There are 17 items on the resolution list starting with lose 35 pounds, quitting smoking, and going to work 15 minutes earlier and forth on…
They are overwhelming themselves and they believe they can accomplish this with their sheer force. I salute for those who made it. You are my role model.
I read a book long time ago and it stick with me forever. The author suggested that we pick four things we want to improve. When you identified four items. You start with you feel you want to focus fully. Focus on the first item for 90 days. Just 1 thing at time.
You are not distracting with stress yourselves to improve 17 things at same time. Doing one at time will help you feeling you are accomplish something. It is a rush when you succeed. Success breeds success. It take about 21 days to develop into a habit. 90 days is to lock your habit so that you feel so naturally just like you breathe the air involuntarily. If you even forget just like you got in bed and didn’t brush your teeth. Your body’s mechanism kick in and you self-correct and brush your teeth. It is all automatic. It is what 90 days of working on your habit is all about.
When your first period of 90 days has passed and then you can move on to second one for other 90 days. That give you 360 days to work on four goals you identified. Then you have 5 days of reviewing period when you accomplish 4 goals. You are ready to tackle second set.
Remember, the tortoise won the race against the hare. The tortoise was slow but patience with eye on the prize. The hare is boasted with ego and took his eye off the prize…and the rest is history.
I wish you a many success.
P.S. Don’t get discourage if you didn’t make 21 days. It is what 90 days are for to give you some buffer zone to give it other try.
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