Part 2 of 2 parts

This post runs off the one below it so if you haven’t read part 1 already then do that now so you can get the most out of this post and understand the awesome power of counting what counts 1^st  Here are 8 things that have been really effective in helping my previous clients to make a committed decision, develop an empowering motivation and get into action on the things they know they need to – TO LOSE WEIGHT Note: These are also useful in adding Urgency, which is often the critical missing ingredient in people’s attempts to get motivated and inspired.  That is what the U Represents.

U Count the consequences

This is basically saying; what will happen if you don’t change. You can really utilize the ‘inevitable outcomes’ that you can for-see by thinking ahead – projecting forward in your mind 6 months, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years and even 10 years and imagining that you haven’t changed anything (which more than likely means your habits, your weight, your health have gotten worse) so ask yourself seriously because you can’t deny or avoid the consequences – where will you be then? Do you like what you see? And what if you could avoid those consequences by making a change NOW! So that you don’t have to look back and say “if only I had done something while I could – before it was too late. This leads nicely into the next universal counter which is …..  

Count the long term 

Those who are most successful no matter what their field or endeavour stay aware of and utilize the concept of ‘long term perspective and results versus instant gratification’. Essentially, as with most things, if there is a disconnect in that you are not really counting where your short term actions and choices are taking you in the long run – then you are likely to be heading for trouble. It may seemingly feel good to eat the cheesecake at the time but over time many pieces of cheesecake aren’t going to help you feel good are they. Often the short term fix is going to produce the opposite results in the long run. You are going to have to start counting the longer term before it’s too late! Count your future and the future of those that care about and need you. Count where your short term choices are taking you because it is inevitable that they will catch up with you. Note; by going through the infuser process in the book you will realize that your short term choices can’t be separated from the long term result you want because one leads to the other so they are intimately related.

U Count your health

This should go without saying because without your health you have NOTHING! – Go and ask someone who has lost their health or remember the last time you were sick or injured to fully grasp this. Will you wait until you’re really suffering and in danger or until there is no turning back no matter how much you want to, or will you act now?  Focus on health and a healthy lifestyle for you personally, one that enables you to live the life-style you want because what it comes back to is having a quality of life, or the health, mobility, energy and freedom to live the life you want to; unrestricted. So it should be a key focus (it’s synonymous with weight loss anyway) but a focus on health actually puts the focus in more productive, controllable and useful places plus it avoids many of the pitfalls that an excessive focus on losing weight brings. Note; this will likely be one of the things you say you value or count but may not be acting consistently in line with – so bring it up the counting scale NOW!  

You really should have done something about this alot earlier!

U Count the unseen internal issues

What if the visible fat on your body was really the last evidential sign  of changes that are going on internally? As with most things what      appears on the surface is usually evidence of things being worse  underneath. I once saw Anatomy of a fat person which was a T.V  documentary run by the chef Jaime Oliver. This Sounds a bit  gruesome but it makes a good point – on this  documentary they had  cut open a person that was overweight and  exposed what was  happening inside, crucial organs (liver, lungs, and  heart) squashed  and distorted undersized or oversized and smothered  in layers of  hideous looking yellow, jelly like thick fat. That’s only  part of the  visible story not to mention the unseen factors such as the  state of  their blood, the clogging and rampant bacteria thriving in an  acid  atmosphere – I’ll let your imagination fill in the rest and  conclude by  saying YOU NEED TO COUNT THE UNSEEN! ….

Especially if you are  beginning to notice signs that are seen!