Tuesday, I spoke to a group of individuals who are
preparing for a ten week Olympic experience of their own. The Summer Team
Challenge! I spoke about EXCELLENCE...what it really takes to be EXCELLENT!
Because after all...excellence is what we are after in these Olympic summer
games!
Excellence can be a scary word. Its like urgency
and perfection and superior and exceptional. Don’t
get me wrong, we all want excellence…we're just not sure that
we’ve got what it takes to be excellent. We don’t know if we’re made of
that kind of stuff.
Well, I’m here to give you some great news about
being an EXCELLENT Olympian in this Summer Team Challenge!
EXCELLENCE IS ACTUALLY MUNDANE
Oh, what great news huh? Some of you are
thinking…"well, that’s not very exciting!" True…but here’s
what’s exciting about that statement. We all have a little mundane in us! We all don’t know if we
have the excellence it takes to get the job done…but we all would agree that
we all have some mundane in us!
Excellence is actually mundane!
Let me explain that!!!
Excellence is accomplished through deliberate
actions, ordinary in themselves, performed consistently and carefully, made
into habits, compounded together, added up over time.
Since Excellence is mundane, it is within reach
of everyone, all the time. Please don't confuse this with success. In competitive
athletics success is mutually exclusive...there are winners and losers…one team
finishes first and another one last. But Excellence is some thing that EVEYONE
of us can have!!! Every one of us!
So let’s break this down and look at what it’s going
to take to be excellence for this Summer Team Challenge!
Excellence is accomplished through deliberate
actions, ordinary in themselves, performed consistently and carefully, made
into habits, compounded together, added up over time.
The great thing about
the program at The Healthy Weigh is that we have done the deliberate planning
for you. We have thought out, planned out, predetermined, and calculated what
it will take nutritionally for you to have EXCELLENT results on this
program! To be deliberate about something, you’ve got to have a marked plan of
attack. With our program, there is no guessing, no changing, no wondering…you
can be VERY deliberate about your actions. When you make a decision…action follows.
A true decision means cutting yourself off from any other possibility…that is
deliberate living. We’ve got the plan…now be deliberate about following it!
Excellence is
accomplished through deliberate actions
ordinary in themselves
Everyone is doing those ordinary actions, there
are no real secrets. I’ve loved watching the clients who have been
EXCELLENT at the team challenge! They’ve lost 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 pounds
in one team challenge! Everyone wants to know how they did it.
We’ve actually had people leave the challenge because they knew that those
people must be doing something secretive to lose that much weight. The truth is
(and you could ask all of those excellent people) what they did to be excellent
was very ordinary. They didn’t have to make up anything new…figure out a secret
plan, create a new program. They just did what was predetermined by their coach
for them to do! That’s how you win the gold medal. When you ask ANY of these
clients how they did it…how they lost so much weight…how they were so
excellent, they all humbly say with kind of a mundane feel to their answer…”I
just followed the program.”
Excellence is accomplished through deliberate
actions, ordinary in themselves…
performed consistently (done
on a regular basis)
You’ve got all the
tools, you KNOW what needs to be done, you know that each week…you must grocery shop, have all the appropriate foods around, plan ahead, prepare
food in advance and always have a plan of attack…you do that, for a while...
consistently and you are EXCELLENT!!!
And then, you’re too tired to drop by the store.
You don't have the appropriate foods handy. You don’t prepare your food in
advance and you leave the house without a plan and you wonder why you can't
follow the program. Going to the store, preparing food ahead, taking a
cooler full of your healthy food when you leave the house…I’m sorry, but that
is just plain old mundane!!! It’s not the actions of a superior person…it is
the deliberate actions very ordinary in themselves performed consistently that
bring about EXCELLENCE!
Sometimes when I’m at the store and it’s late and
my feet hurt and I’m getting what I need to eat healthy I think about you. I
wonder, is this how my clients feel when they say “I’m too tired, I can’t do
it. I don’t have the stamina?” Doing the right thing over and over again
is pretty downright mundane! Aren’t you glad! It’s not the actions of the super
elite or the highly motivated, incredible, disciplined person…that accomplishes
excellent weight loss, it’s just what you do day in and day out.
Excellence is accomplished through deliberate
actions, ordinary in themselves, performed consistently.
and carefully
Carefully is a big key
in being EXCELLENT!!! Around The Healthy Weigh it's about being careful
how you think…being careful who you hang out with…being careful what you do
with your time…being careful about following the program as it’s
written…weighing and measuring your food, drinking all your water and
eating everything, every day that you are supposed to eat. Not "kind of doing" the program or using it as a guideline, or feeling like you were on the program
because of all the things you said NO to…but really following this scientific,
stellar nutritional plan! Following the program with high standards! Being
careful!
Excellence is accomplished through deliberate
actions, ordinary in themselves, performed consistently and carefully
made into habits
So much of what we do
every day…most of what we do everyday is based on the habits that we have
formed over the years of our lifetime. It is so important that for the next ten
weeks you do things differently…that you coach your psychological self and your
physical self to do things differently. You can and you will during this 10
weeks over ride some of the bad or unhealthy habits you have with a new set of
patterns. The old patterns will be there in the background, but we believe that
you will be creating new patterns , new habits that can change many areas of
your life. Focusing on weight loss is just the beginning of changing unhealthy
habits in many areas of your life into healthy ones. Very mundane…doing new
things every day, in a new way repeating that new behavior every day…won’t be
so outstanding but it will bring EXCELLENCE to your life!
Habits can, will and must be transformed at The
Healthy weigh! Because...
Excellence is accomplished through deliberate
actions, ordinary in themselves, performed consistently and carefully, made
into habits
compounded together
Understand this, when you harness all these elements together, change begins to
happen…permanently happen. You add your changed thinking to your changed
behavior which causes you to feel different and believe things about yourself
that you have never believed before! Your beliefs will ALWAYS dictate how
you think act and feel. A little mundane…but powerful! One plus one does
not equal two when you begin to think differently…it multiplies and brings
about change that you can’t compute!
Because Excellence is accomplished through
deliberate actions, ordinary in themselves, performed consistently and
carefully, made into habits compounded together
added up over time
You know what happens when you add it up over
time…you lose weight, you live a different life, your priorities change, you live longer, you add healthy
years to your life, your relationships change, your confidence
grows, your insecurities leave, you accomplish what you were made for…you
experience EXCELLENCE!!
Because excellence is accomplished through
deliberate actions, ordinary in themselves, performed consistently and
carefully, made into habits compounded together added up over time!
Every one of you have the ability to have an
EXCELLENT Summer games. You DO have what it takes to be excellent!!! All of
you!
Excellence...how mundane!
Always Encouraging you,
Letha
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