The Three D's of Success

Ok, this week i've had to do more coaching than in week's past. So i figured i'd share with everyone my mentality on eating healthy.

There are and there will always be things that you cannot control, which will make eating healthy somewhat challenging at times. We all go through our busy days, our bad days and our days where nothing goes our way and we just feel like shit. We feel like we aren't making progress or that the progress is coming too slowly.

But with all of that, there are things that we CAN control and we need to focus on them. They are the 3 D's of success.

1. Determination - we can control our determination. no one can take this away from us. if we are determined to succeed, to lose weight, to lose body fat, to eat healthy and to maintain a better lifestyle...we must become and REMAIN determined. Even through the bad times, our determination cannot waiver. Challenges will always come your way. busy days or bad days will always be in abundance. that's the pendulum of life. expect it. but our determination must remain constant through it all. so when we do get knocked off of our horse or if we do feel like quitting or cheating, we have our determination that says. "I WILL NOT QUIT...I WILL NOT CHEAT...I WILL NOT GO BACKWARDS".  You control your determination.


2. Discipline - deciding to stay the course is something that we choose to do. we all have friends that will want to go out and eat fast food and drink. we all have long days at work and find it easier to just pick up something on the way. we all crave that sugar from chocolate and that margarita from our favorite watering hole. WE ALL DO. but the successful ones find a way to remain disciplined and keep themselves out of harms way somehow. if you have to find an accountability partner to keep you disciplined, then do that. find someone who supports what you are trying to do and call them when you feel weak and let them talk you back on track. if you are in a negative circle of friends and they encourage you to eat poorly or will let you eat what u should not....change your circle of friends while you are trying to accomplish your goal. discipline is a series of choices that we make or dont make. You control your discipline.

3. Decision Making - our choices are OURS and no one else's. Your friends are not to blame for you drinking. Your friends or your kids or your spouse are not to blame for you eating sweets. No one makes you pull into taco bell but you. Just like your decision to start eating healthy was all yours, your decision to backslide or not to is all yours. we must get away from ALL excuses and understand that we are in the drivers seat with regards to what we do and what we don't do.  You control your decision making.


I hope this helps you stay accountable to yourself so that you will remain focused and on pace for your success.