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To lose weight – you must count what really counts TO YOU! – That’s it…

 Let me ask you a few relevant and important questions to give you some perspective on how counting what counts can revolutionize your quest to lose weight.…  

 Are you living your life in line with what matters most and what’s most important to you? (Or in other words are you counting what really counts)? 

 Do you know why you really, really want to lose weight and are you using that to empower and motivate yourself into full-on consistent and joyful daily action?   

 Is what you are currently counting (and therefore acting on) going to take you to the outcomes you want? – is it delivering you the results, body, health and quality of life you desire? 

 What aren’t you currently counting that you should be?  

(If you don’t know the answer to this one you need to find that out)

 If you were to zoom out and look at your life from a distance could you genuinely say and feel that you are doing what’s best for you, your future and what’s best for those that you care about? – If not then you need to bring the difference into focus, you need to count what counts before it is too late! 

If you are ever going to get to losing weight (and keeping it off) you are going to have to start counting the things that will lead you there! That’s it, that’s the bottom line.   

For example; do you count your health? – does that count to you?   Do you count your future?   You might say that these things count (are important) to you yet are you demonstrating that in your day to day choices and actions?

If you’re not doing it then you don’t really count it – because you are counting the fish and chips or the taste of the cheesecake more than your health, and your future and effectively even your loved ones.   We are constantly counting and discounting (not counting) one thing over another.  At the time that you are eating the pizza you certainly aren’t counting your desire to lose weight are you?  It’s slipped away – but what if there was a way to keep that to the fore, so it ruled and you felt good about that.

What if I told you you could capitalize on this inherent phenomenon of counting one thing over another to lose weight in a way that gave it a feeling of ease and certainty.

The power to move and to change lies in the areas of your life (the gaps) where you are not acting in line with your own values or in line with the outcomes you want.   It’s the gap between what’s important to you and what you are doing

It’s easy to harness and bring that into alignment because the seed is already there, there is discomfort or a sense of incompleteness or incongruence. 

So it’s these areas; where your actions aren’t lining up with what you count, where something that is important to you is being neglected, where the outcomes you are creating aren’t what you want, or where you have certain desires and results that you have not yet made real in your life – that’s the stuff we want to change and use to get you into action to lose weight.

These are the SEEDS that once you know how to capitalize on and leverage will get you moving.

The crux of the matter

So this is the crux of the matter – If you are overweight, unhealthy and dissatisfied with your life it is likely that you are counting many things that don’t truly count (that don’t and won’t ultimately matter to you) When you do that you are also simultaneously and by implication NOT counting many of the more important things that ultimately do or will count. 

But you can reverse this and use that very same principle to GET WHAT YOU WANT.

“What do YOU need to start counting in order to start taking action and producing the results you want” (Put that in the context of losing weight or whatever your personal goal is) in the next blog post i’m going to give you some proven effective things to count from which you can devise your own too.

This is the theme of my new book and it uses the idea of counting what counts along with practical tools and techniques that harness this power and get you to a place where what you count facilitates you getting the results you want.

In a nutshell you want to be able to get the things that will move you to easy weight loss operating as high level values – so you act on them without trying or even having to think about it. So as you can probably sense – this goes way beyond motivation and enters into the realm of what i call a strategic alignment.

One of the paradigm shifts needed is a move from the old idea of motivation to the new concept of a strategic alignment which you’ll learn more about soon.  The reason we are spending a bit of time on so called “motivation” in this way is because it’s the first, necesary step in this process – get this right and the rest of the journey is easier, more certain and built to last.

Within the book there are also 24 ‘universal counters’ that are proven effective things to count that have made the difference for clients.

In the next post – I’ll share 7 of these with you.  I’ve selected these few because they also have an element of URGENCY within them which is something else you need to get into action.  It’s one of a host of powerful ‘motivation boosters’ you’ll find in the book too. 

 Here is the link to the book if you want all the peices of the puzzle now >>COUNT WHAT COUNTS BEFORE ITS TOO LATE<<