I have a special gift for everyone today. I’m dead serious. No gimmick, no sales, no nothing. Just some good inspirational content.
I’m sitting here waiting for my return flight back from my friend Keith’s wedding that just took place in Key Largo Florida and I’m listening to an audiobook that has some phenomenal nuggets for ideas, inspiration, information and I just had to share them with you.
If you hadn’t been able to tell by now, I’m really into self improvement books as I’ve mentioned them several times in the past. You also have probably heard me reference one of my favorite authors and coaches many times recently – Steve Chandler.
Some how Steve always seems to say something that resonates with fitness or with me personally.
In his most recent audio book “Mindshift” Steve discusses the shift that needs to take place in the mind in order to kick your life into high gear and achieve everything you’ve always wanted to achieve. Whether it be in your own fitness, business, relationships, etc…
The part that I really wanted to share with you was the part where Steve discussed a peculiar but powerful method to light a fire under his own ass to lose 20 lbs.
Steve meets monthly with his mastermind group to exchange ideas and network with other business owners. At the beginning of his turn to share, he looked at all 20 members of the group, turned around and wrote his weight on the white board behind him. He then looked back at all of them and said, “If the next time we meet, I do not weigh 20lbs less than this number I put up on the board, I will put
$1000 in each one of your chairs prior to your arrival here the next time we meet”
WOW! I think that is the single biggest act of commitment to lose
weight that I have ever heard. Steve goes on to explain the psychology behind this bold undertaking.
He doesn’t want to shell out 20k(even as rich as he probably is, that’s a lot of money), he taps into his human ego because he doesn’t want to look like a failure in front of his most respected peers, and he wants to create a sense of urgency to get it done now, etc… He access all the shallow fears that we have as man and used them to create a positive response within himself.
He doesn’t want to come back and have them look at him like he still chubby. He doesn’t want to appear weak and show that he has no inner strength. he doesn’t want his desire to indulge in food to appear greater than his desire to his commitment.
I thought this was an amazing commitment strategy. This may not be the right strategy for everyone or the absolute way to do it. But it is another place within yourself that you can tap into to help yourself achieve your goals.
People commit to things they want to make a priority every day. Make your health a priority.
He explains this topic and many more way better than I will be able to so please listen for yourself (More on how you can do
this below).
So, how can you apply this to yourself? You could make this commitment to some of your peers with a much smaller dollar amount that suits your budget. You can make it a competition between friends, but best of all, this strategy doesn’t have to involve money.
You can commit to mow your friends lawn, watch their kids while they get away for a weekend, etc.. Be creative, come up with something that you really DO NOT want to do.
But most importantly, this is about not wanting to fail
Make your goal realistic. Even if it is 5lbs in one month.
The goal of this is to light a fire under your own ass. It’s putting your money(so to speak) where your mouth is. It’s creating something instead of waiting for it to happen. Its taking planned,decisive commitment.
Now if you hung in there with me until now, here’s the gift
that I want to give to you. Steve Chandler is an extremely
generous and selfless man. He actually gives away his new
audio book absolutely, 100% for free. It’s a free download.
I put it on my Ipod and listened to it in the car, on the plane,
on the beach, on my computer, etc… And so can you…
Click here to download Steve Chandler’s Mindshift for Free
And again, Steve’s site is www.ClubFearless.net if you’d like
to learn more about him and his other books. One of my
favorites to this day is “The Story Of You” which you can see
my review here…
Hope you enjoy it as much as I do,
Dennys Passeto
PS: If you have any friends or family that would appreciate
this audio, please share it with them.
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