Last week we talked about getting clarity and that was about getting clearer on your goals and understanding why you want to achieve the goals that you have set and visualising how you will feel, what you will look like, where you will be hanging out etc when you have achieved them.
Today we are going to be talking about the appropriate actions that you need to be taking to achieve your goals, I generally talk about health, fitness and wellbeing goals but you can apply this to an other goals that you like. I also generally talk about losing weight, getting fit and toning up as well as they are common goals that a lot of my clients come to me wanting to achieve. So bear in mind those being your goals, and if they are not just change how I speak and the language I use to match your goals.
We are going to be talking about the actions you need to be taking. We are going to talk more generally to start off with and then I am going to talk a bit more specifically some of the actual nutrition goals you could be applying to help you achieve your goals.
So choosing the appropriate actions. You need to have decided by now the person you want to be. That was talking about getting clarity last week, thinking about who the person is that you are going to be when you have achieved your goals, where they are going to hang out etc. Things like that. Now in order to get what you want and to start to be the person you want to be you need to start doing the things they would do. So for example if your goal is to run 10k, that person, that runner would probably be going out for a run most days, if not every day it would be every other day and they would be training for running most days.
So in order to start achieving your 10k goal you need to start acting like the 10k runner. That sounds simple and I am sure you are fully aware that you need to start acting like that person but you need to start applying that to everything you do. So not just going out for the runs but you need to start thinking about the food that you eat. Is that what a 10k runner would eat? Also think about how much sleep you are getting. Would a 10k runner doing the time that you want to do, would they go to bed at midnight and get up at 6am and feel tired and not go out for their training session in the morning? Would that 10k runner also sleep in in the morning rather than get up to do your session? Things like that but specifically on the nutrition side of it, you might want to get some personal advice for Nutrition for runners so that you can start and eating and making the choices on what a 10k runner would make. Things like how to eat before an exercise session, what to eat after to recover in time for your next training session, things like that, you have to start thinking a little more specifically about your goal and how that person that you want to be would start acting.
The same applies for someone who wants to lose weight and tone up, so someone who is the weight that they want to be already, say that is 10 stone. A 10 stone person probably wouldn’t be slacking in going to the gym, they would be exercising 3 times a week, they would also be eating healthier choices 80% of the time and 20% of the time, perhaps one day off a week they might have some treat foods. They would be dressing confidently, they would be wearing clothes that they want to wear, shopping in shops that they want to shop in etc. So can you start seeing how in order to be the person that you want to be you have to start doing the things that that person you want to be would be doing? Start making actions that they would do and then you will have the results.
So it’s not ‘have the results, do the things they would do and start being that person’. It is in fact the other way round, you start being that person, you start doing the things that that person would do and then you have the end goal as a result. Hopefully that make sense. If you have any questions feel free to get in touch.
Your homework for this week is to start thinking about the things you have been doing recently, and are they appropriate actions for the person that you want to be, for the goal that you want to achieve? Were they appropriate actions for that? So list 10 recent actions whether that be what food you ate last night, what time you went to bed last night, what activities you did in your free time. Things like that. Think of 10 recent actions that will have affected your recent health, fitness and weight loss success and make a note as to whether you think they were appropriate actions for the person that you want to be and the goals you want to achieve.
The chances are they probably weren’t. If they were well done but if they weren’t then start thinking about what actions the person you want to be would have taken. Things like if you went to bed late last night and only had 4 hours sleep then the person that you want to be probably would have gone to bed earlier and had 6-8 hours sleep instead. So start thinking about the actions you need to take in order to achieve your goals and if you need any help then get in touch.