Why?

The other day I received an e-mail in my inbox from a colleague of mine Jim Libadie. In his newsletter he talked about having a big enough "Why." This was by far one of the best e-mails I have read not only because it made your really think about what you really want, the why of what you want but it challenged you. In his e-mail he brought up how people are always talking about self-sabotage, fear of failure and fear of success. Why do people talk about these things? Just like stated above its fear. Fear is the autobahn to the capital of nowhere.(thank you Tony Robbins for that) When you let fear keep you from being the best you can, you lose and you are losing to yourself. That to me is worse than losing to anyone one else because we have total control over it.

The second thing that comes into play is rationalization. Wikipedia explain rationalization as this.
"In psychology and logic, rationalization is the process of constructing a logical justification for a belief, decision, action or lack thereof that was originally arrived at through a different mental process. It is a defense mechanism in which unacceptable behaviors or feelings are explained in a rational or logical manner; this avoids the true explanation of the behavior or feeling in question."

So what does that mean? Basically plays into the fear factor that you will make up some justification to not do something based on fear of facing either tasks, feelings, or anything that you make up a story to not do something. This plays into health and fitness on a daily occurrence at a large scale. If you read my blog the other day about excuses...Yup you got it right that is rationalization. And excuses are the number one thing keeping you from where you are now to those 15 lbs you want to lose, that dress you want to see yourself in, those pants you used to wear. Where do excuses come from? Fear, and fear leads to rationalization and that leads to excuses and again your back in Nowhere villa and soon you will become mayor if you are not careful.

So I want to challenge you to challenge yourself just as Jim did with me. What is your reason "Why"? Why do you want to feel better, why do you want to lose those 15lbs, why do you want to look better for that special someone. You can even take it further and I advice you to as of why do you want a better job, why do you want to do whatever it may be. Once you find out and bring it into the open then take action on it. Do not lose to yourself because of fear and whatever justification you can come up with to not do it. Once you do this you will see how you can do anything you want with passion, love and relentless drive.

Please feel free to share your why in a comment after doing this, because it will make your drive to succeed greater than you ever.

Dedicated to your success,
Matt Holmes
www.BodySynergyTraining.com