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.

Have you watched Throwndown with BobFlay on the Food Network channel?

Credit: Food Network Website

Watch it! Bob Flay sneaked show his secret of success on national television. You have to observe Bob Flay keenly.

What I have observed of how Bob Flay success beating his competitors. Sometime Bob Flay lose but he lose magnificently in short time. His work is impeccable. If we use what he done and we replicate. Then we will see more success coming our way.

First thing first. Bob Flay is an experienced chef. He have the basic skills he need to masater. We can’t start as an expert when we have no fundamental. Always start with fundamental first before you pou move on to higher level. If you don’t start with basics and you are asking for diaster.

The Throwndown with Bob Flay is a television show on Food Network channel show where Bob Flay is handed a mission that he will have a cook-off with a person who is an expert in certain culinary dish. Bob Flay will surprise this person on the television show when this person thought he is doing a cooking show.

What I have observe of Bob Flay’s strategy in beating the competitors. Those strategy are well executed and is done in same steps every time.

Do Your Homework

Bob Flay will study his competitors. He will take notes in what is the main ingredients in this culinary dish. He detects and start planning around the given situation.

Positioning

Positioning is a marketing term. It was introduced by Al Ries and Jack Trout in their book, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. Positioning is a plan on how your product can stand out in the targeted market.

Bob Flay will take this culinary dish and experiment with different ingredients to make it a wow factor. Bob Flay’s dish will compete against the same genre dish and he wants to stand out.

Partnership

Bob Flay doesn’t work alone. Bob Flay have aides who help him with cooking. Bob Flay would often ask his aides for opinions on the dishes. His aides will provide feedback. Bob Flay encourages criticism. This is how he make his culinary dish a top-notch. Bob Flay knows that he may fall in love with his work and become defensive. His aides have credible opinions and often represents the larger population. Bob Flay must pass the aide test in order to gain the vote from larger population.

King Solomon has preached that in order to be successful you must have someone in your life who you can take on as a partner who may consult you and give honest feedback.

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. -Proverb 15:22

Confidence Factor

On the competition day, Bob Flay does have advantage. He have short frame to prepare the best culinary dish. Bob Flay joins at the scene and surprise the competitor when they don’t know they are going to compete. But, it is a fair competition since this competitor have being doing this culinary dish creation all his life and is always ready. They do win sometime.

The bottom line is that you must always be ready. Have a competitive advantage which put other competitors in unadvantage situation. I means that you will have to work hard everyday and trying be a better person than you was yesterday. You will never want to caught yourself saying, “I wish I was ready.” Once it happen and there is going back. You will not be able to rewrite the history. You have short life on Earth. From every awakening minutes, move and do what will put you ahead of the pack. And, the rest is easy to dominate.

Be ready give you leverage. You are at the most ready and there will be an opportunity for you to become better because you have master the fundamentals. It will be easy for you to climb the rung of the ladder.

Likeability Factor

You will never see Bob Flay talk down his competitors. You will see him joking and enjoy competition in the most civil manner. Think about it. His reputation is on the line. If an amateur cook beat the renowned professional chef. Then, what is Bob Flay. Bob Flay carry tremendous pressure. Yet, he stay cool.

The people will see how calm and cool Bob Flay is. This portray his confidence. People feel good about Bob Flay. The people will vote for competitior who made them feel good. They feel good because they receive the positive energy.

In the end, who win and who lose, Bob Flay and the competitor are on the good note. Through the competition, the competitor also feel good yet nervous trying to beat the professional chef.

You don’t always see people desire to associate with negativism. The show was fill with archetype of good versus bad. There is people rooting for hometown hero which is the amateur cook and the big bad guy is the Bob Flay who is claiming that he is the best chef in the whole world. This is the storyline people enjoy. In midst of good versus bad, two cooks compete aspirationaly. The whole game become fun and the audience enjoy so much.

It was Bob Flay that command the positive energy in the room. It doesn’t matter if he win or lose. Bob Flay dominate the energy of people in the room. Maybe, it did give him edge in voting over the best culinary dish.

Now, we can see how Bob Flay smokes the competitor and acquire skills and knowledge n short time.

The steps Bob Flay repeat it again and again.

Prelude: Master the fundmaental skills.
Step 1: Do your homework studying the competitior.
Step 2: Positioning: Discover what will put you over the edge
Step 3: Partnership. They help you guide your journey by minimize risks and giving bold honesty.
Step 4: Confidence Factor: Always be ready and sharpening your saw.
Step 5: Likeability Factor: People loves to be around someone who make them feel good.

This is an intriguing quote said by Desiderius Erasmus.  Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch Humanist who studies the theology of Christ and inspires the Reformation through the new theological system.  Although he promotes the reformers, his critics were rejected by Pope, married a Protestant Reformer and he held his commitment to the Catholic notion of free will.

The man with gold makes the rules.

This quote, “In the Country of the Blind, the One-eye Man is King.  My interpretation of this quote is, a man who has one or more skills than other is considered superior or has an unfair advantage competitive.  This doesn’t restrict to one perspective.  This quote also reflects the Monarchy thinking.  This can be interpreted in words of Charles Darwin’s “The Survival of Fittest”.  For this quote has left me an impression of have and have-not.

Power Corrupts

Have-not and have is an entity of two different groups of people with certain character.  The people who are labeled as have are the one that power.  They have the advantage of financial, education, and, ownership.  For the have-not is the opposite of have.  The have-not is powerless and often experienced the frustration of hitting the glass-ceiling.  Easy put, the have-not may perceived the have who carrying the wish lamp so that they can rub to conjure the Genie.  Then the Genie will open by saying, “Your wish is my command.”  This is where the have-not often asks, “How do they do that?”  “What do they have that I don’t have?” “Why me, not them?”

I have my affinity for the have-not.  I am going to take the have-not’s side which will be the blinds’ court.  I am going to reveal how the have-not can beat the have.  It is the time for the blinds to peg the stake in One-eye King’s courtyard.