Build Focus

The most important thing to turn motivation into discipline in your fitness journey ( you’ll find this applies in other aspects of your life) is to give yourself purpose.

Every step you take & how you feel about it starts at the mind and so ‘doing’ isn't necessarily the only focus we should look at when working towards discipline.

Building a mindset that works isn't just about getting the result but rather building the best environment for you to thrive, the environment inside your head and outside.

Environment inside - Mindset that impacts our habits

Environment outside - Surroundings that impact our habits

To elevate yourself and level up your life, you need to assess your environment & daily habits that impact how you make all the micro-decisions throughout your day.

Environment Inside 

The mindset almost always dictates the attitude you have approaching tasks, it dictates if you’ll half-ass your effort or if you’ll put in honest effort.

How we respond is depicted by what we believe to be true. Our brain finds evidence for what we believe – looking for a red car but expecting to remember how many blue cars you saw.

Not only are your results affected by your beliefs but the experience of your results.

With mindset we want to look at uncovering limiting beliefs - beliefs that impact us negatively. They’re there to protect us from pain and ‘death’.

When it comes to growth we need to have a look at those beliefs that are holding us back.

How to Shift Into Current Beliefs: 

1. Identify current beliefs

E.g. “Fat loss is impossible for me”

2. Identify if they’re healthy or unhealthy by asking yourself “is it ____?”

E.g. “Is it logical?” - No

        “Is it rigid?” - Yes

        “Is it constructive or do I sabotage when it comes to how I feel?” - I sabotage

        THEREFORE - Unhealthy Belief

  3. Reverse engineer our common patterns (ABC)

1. Activating/Triggering event - Can be in your head or something that did happen

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2. Current Belief - What you tell yourself as a result of that

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3. Consequences - “I have a tendency to…” The consequence of your belief (can turn into a vicious cycle*) 

Example:

Activating Event-

You overate at an event despite having been good all week

Belief-

“I’ll never lose weight because I want to enjoy events I go to & I can’t diet and lose weight”

Consequence-

I tend to feel defeated, starved of my favourite foods and bloated so I give up for now, tell myself I’ll start the following Monday cutting out the same foods I binged CONSEQUENTLY I feel restricted all week binge the following opportunity I get & hence reinforcing the belief

Healthier approach:

A – You overate at an event despite having stuck to your tracking all week

B – This event is an opportunity for me to reflect and learn how I choose to eat at events like these since I know I go to events with unplanned foods at least once a week.

C – Fuels desire to show up with more clarity and to improve, analyse your strategies and assess them, now you feel more secure when you go to events and hence don’t binge now

4. Choose our belief set, intentionally replacing old beliefs
   
   

5. It’ll take practice to shift the consequences which now may feel out of our control – you moving on autopilot. It will feel uncomfortable doing this and feelings will be the last thing to change.

See how by breaking the belief system, we’re stopping a terrible cycle that reinforces a belief that doesn’t benefit us and instead brings us down when you could allow for a learning opportunity to fuel you and allow for growth.

Environment Outside