For Weight Loss It's Want Power You Need Not Will Power by Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP

What is your Motivation Strategy?

Motivation comes in two (or more) flavors. You can be motivated

towards something (what you'll gain) or you can be motivated away

from something (what you'll lose). This desiring to avoid can be

confusing. I'm saying you must want something, and you're

thinking, but I don't want to be fat. I can't think about my

future, only what I don't want. Here is what's going on:

Motivation: Toward

If you are motivated by what you'll gain you find it easy to look

ahead and see your future shapely body, you'll see people around

you with admiring glances, you'll hear their compliments, you'll

smell the good food and feel good knowing you can eat enough to

be satisfied, and then say you're full. You've had enough, thank

you. You'll be in control of your life. You'll want what you

visualize more than anything, and you'll do whatever it takes to

get it. If asked what movie to go see, they'll have a few ideas,

and tell you why.

Motivation: Away

If you are motivated by what you'll lose you'll focus on what you

want to avoid. For example, you want to avoid dying, you want to

avoid being too heavy to enjoy playing with the kids, you want to

avoid gasping for breath when you climb a flight of stairs. You

want to avoid the embarrassment, the humiliation of other

people's remarks and rude glances. You don't want any of that

anymore, and you don't want it to the extent that you'll do

whatever it takes to avoid these things. If you ask them what

they want for dinner, they'll tell you they don't want Chinese,

or pizza. It can be difficult to get someone motivated this way

to actually say what they do want!

Knowing your motivation strategy makes it easier to find methods

that support your preferred strategy. If you are motivated

toward, you may enjoy cutting our pictures of people in great

shape with similar body types to yours. Find models wearing

clothes that would look good on you, pictures of swimming pools,

holiday places you'd enjoy; the types of things that go into a

dream board.

If you motivated away, then make a list of what you want to avoid

and elaborate on that list. Why don't you want these things? The

more detailed you are, the more likely you'll truly do what it

takes to avoid them.

Hopefully these ideas will get you thinking, and much about

making changes in our lives comes down to thinking it through.

Realizing what we really want can get us past the hurdles of what

we already have. To affect change isn't necessarily comfortable,

until you've worked at it for awhile, and then suddenly your

changed behavior has become your new behavior and the effort is

over.

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BIO:

Kathryn Martyn, Master NLP Practitioner, author of the free
e-book: Changing Beliefs, Your First Step to Permanent Weight
Loss, and owner of http://www.OneMoreBite-Weightloss.com

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