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Creating these motivation cards will help propel you to your fitness goals. Whether you want to lose weight, build lean muscle mass, train for an athletic event,
or improve your sports performance, creating motivational cards will not only improve your chances you will achieve your goal, they will shorten the time
it takes for you to get the results you want.
Creating these Motivation Cards Will Help Propel You to Your Fitness Goals.
Everyone on a diet plan or an exercise program experiences problems with motivation, drops in enthusiasm, and problems staying disciplined when working toward their diet and fitness goals If you have trouble sticking with a diet for one day here and there or can’t motivate yourself to get to the fitness club on a particular day, that is not much of a crime. It happens to everyone. The real problem is when that demotivation and lack of discipline lasts for a week or a month. If that happens, then you run the risk of dropping your diet or fitness goals for good.
Whenever you quit a diet plan or stop exercising, it all starts with one day when you lose the discipline. And that is what we are trying to avoid. You want to stick with your diet plan or your fitness goal until you’ve reached it.
Here is a technique to help you stay motivated, stay inspired, and stay disciplined on the road to your diet and fitness goals, or even your sports performance goals.
We highly recommend that you create some motivational statements on 3 x 5” index cards that you can review whenever you feel you are having trouble getting motivated or are having trouble staying disciplined.
We recommend 10 index cards. More than that takes the simplicity out of this highly effective system.
On each of the 10 index cards, write a statement that will help remind you of your diet or fitness
goal. The idea is to reinforce the importance of the goal in your mind, and keep you inspired, keep you
motivated, and keep you disciplined. The statement represents how you will feel and what your reality will be
when you've reached your fitness goal. You have not yet reached the goal when you create these motivational
statements. But the motivation statements on these cards will help propel you toward making the fitness goal a reality.
Here are some examples of motivational statements for the index cards for various diet and fitness goals (and some sports performance goals):
-- I feel proud of myself for having lost those 20 pounds.
-- Now that I have lost those 20 pounds, I can fit into my new swimsuit at the beach.
-- I excited about having made the varsity soccer team.
-- I feel immense pride as I put on my University of XXX football uniform.
-- My cholesterol levels are XX (fill in the numbers).
-- I love shopping for new clothes now that I am a size 4 again.
-- I feel exhilarated now that I have completed the 10k race. I can do more than I ever thought I could.
-- My scale reads 125 lbs. for the first time in 15 years when I stand on it.
-- At my 25 year high school reunion, my old friends hardly recognized me now that I have lost 40 pounds.
-- I can run the 40 yard dash in X:XX time.
-- I can hear my name called on the loudspeaker at the football game (you have made the football team).
-- My blood pressure is now xx / xx (fill in the numbers).
Review the goal motivational fitness cards in the morning, around noon, and just before bedtime. Also, review them when you sense you are struggling with motivation or discipline with your fitness goals.
For example, if you goal is to lose 20 pounds, a few of your motivational statements might be:
-- I feel proud of myself for having lost those 20 pounds.
-- Now that I have lost those 20 pounds, I can fit into my new swimsuit at the beach.
You want to create several motivational statements (up to 10) that attack your goal from your different senses – what you will see (when you reach your fitness goal), what you will hear, what you will smell, what you will feel.
For example, if you goal is to lose 20 pounds, a few of your motivational statements might be:
-- I feel proud of myself for having lost those 20 pounds.
-- Now that I have lost those 20 pounds, I can fit into my new swimsuit at the beach.
-- I can hear my friends compliment me on my weight loss.
Be sure to feel the positive emotions of reaching your goal whenever you read the motivational cards.
The idea is to tap into the positive emotions that you will feel once you have reached your fitness goal. There are many scientific reasons for why this works – we’ll mention a couple here.
With these fitness motivational cards, you are creating cognitive dissonance. Let’s say you are a female and you weigh 150 pounds. Your goal is to lose 30 pounds, and get back to your ideal body weight. Your current reality is that you weigh 150 pounds. But, when you review your motivational card statement and you visualize yourself weighing 120 pounds, you are setting up cognitive dissonance in your mind. Your mind will work to help your motivational goal statement become a reality.
-- Keep the motivational cards positive. Don’t try to motivate yourself with a negative statement.
-- Keep your motivational cards focused on the goal what you want to accomplish.
The cards can be taken with you and you can review them as needed. No one else has to see the cards. They are your own personal diet or fitness goals.
We highly recommend that you do this! Usually what stops us from reaching our fitness goals is our own minds. This exercise will help you push through those mental blocks that get in your way.
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