Did you know that the day after labor day and January 2 are two of the most significant days of the year where people set goals?

It’s right.

As a matter of fact, around this time of year you’re almost certainly going to start keep thinking about how you want your life to be like when January comes around. You may kick off setting some goals. You might want to build a hard body with muscles of steel lose weight or get stronger. Doesn’t matter what you’re goal is really

To reach your entire fitness goals and all that, I’m going to share with you 3 simple steps:

Step #1 - A Specific Idea Of Your Goal

This is simply picturing what you want your life to be like when you achieve your goal. Form a mental picture of yourself achieving your goal and living it and make it as vivid as possible in your mind. For a good book on how to do this you should check out Maxwell Maltz’s New Psycho-Cybernetics.

Next you are to stay hopeful, whatever happens, and HAVE CONFIDENCE that you will reach your goal(s).

Here’s a quick visualization tip. I’ll use the example of wanting to get stronger and lifting more weight for your next exercise routine

1. Take a deep breath, calm down and close your eyes

2. Think about the last time you successfully lifted a weight

3. Be aware of all the feeling - the pleasure, the achievement, the fulfillment

4. When you’re doing this right you will be smiling at your achievement

5. Imagine yourself carrying out your subsequent lift with success and FEEL those same emotions

6. Go do your lift!

The athletic professionals picture this technique for success. Likewise you can make use of the similar process on almost any goal: growing stronger, going on a diet, giving up smoking, making money, whatsoever…

Step #2 - A Plan To Succeed

Once you have a clear picture of where you want to go, you need a plan to get there. Then it’s as simple as keeping the objective in mind while following the plan. As George Foreman said about success it comes down to “Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan”.

It was successful for Georgey and I believe it will be effective for you as well.

Step #3: People To Keep You Accountable

This is frequently an ignored step. You certainly need some people in your life to keep you responsible. I hear as much as diets go that Weight Watchers is most efficient at getting people to count the calories since every week you have to inform a new person how much weight you’ve lost. And if you don’t well you don’t want to be the guy who didn’t lose weight right?

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