Posts written by Michael J. Mahony

If you waste your time redirecting at every whim you will not achieve good results.  If you fail to focus on the goal and do whatever it takes to attract it to yourself, you won't achive good results.  I guarantee that many of you are guilty of continually redirecting your nutritional plans.  You are not patient enough to wait for the results that inevitably come.  Because you continually redirect you are continually complaining about a lack of results.  Stop redirecting yourself.  Stick the course.  Be a champion and trust that what you are doing is going to work.  Stop the complaints.  Complaining doesn't bring about results, doing the job does.  You have to be consistent with your training.  You need to eat the things you know you're supposed to eat, especially when you don't want to eat right.  You have to stay focused on bringing the prize to you.

Do you think that the Olympic swimmers currently competing for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Swim team continually redirected their efforts just because they weren't getting faster at a quick enough pace?  Do you think these swimmers were continually changing up their training because they weren't getting faster?  I personally believe they have gotten to where they are by not continually redirecting themselves.  They stick to a plan that they trust in.  They stick to a plan that they are sure will work.  if adjustments are needed they are minor adjustments at best.

Life is one of those things that you just need to shut up and do it.  Just like your workout plan and your diet plan–you have to just shut up and do it.  You can talk all day long about what your going to do, but you have to actually execute the plan before anything will happen.  Life and planning go hand in hand.  You get nowhere just talking about it.  Both issues require execution.

I've noticed over the past 8 months that the execution is really the entire story.  We all tend to think that our system isn't working when we don't get the results we are seeking.  Perhaps, if we were honestly reviewing the situation, we'd realize that we were not working the plan at all?  Perhaps we'd realize that we've let the plan slip? 

At the same time, when it comes to your training and diet, you should never give up.  Everything you do is in your own control.  You can make changes where necessary.  You can eat more or eat less.  You can workout harder.  You can shape the outcome that you will get by your own actions.  When this is the case, never give up. 

Giving up is a permanent thing.  In a relationship, if one of the parties gives up, the relationship is over.  In a work situation, when the employee or the boss gives up, the employee is likely not long for their job.  It is likely that the act of giving up will lead to permanent consequences.

If you give up on your training and diet, the best you can do is the body you have now.  However, it is likely to be worse than that.  You are likely to gain more weight and get more out of shape by giving up.  It could even become a permanent problem (death) if you're not careful.

What can work for your dating life can work in many other areas of your life.  I recently had a co-worker who's girlfriend of several years broke up with him.  Apparently he wasn't the nicest guy when they got into arguments.  He would say things that he didn't really mean, but things that were extremely hurtful.  He told me some comments that I cannot publish here for fear of children reading them.  Apparently she had finally had enough one day and told him she couldn't date him any longer.  She was still interested in having him as her friend, just not her boyfriend.  He was quite upset and was asking me for advice.  I asked him if he knew where he'd gone wrong and he said he did.  I told him to tell his ex where he had gone wrong and to ask for her forgiveness.  I then told him to be patient.  I told him to act the way he did when they first got together, but to be sincere.  I told him to have patience.  If he changed his behavior and was able to show her, she'd likely come back to him.  It took 3 months, but recently they got back together.

Patience in physique transformation is essential.  I personally do not believe that most people transform in a 12 week period.  I think it takes longer than that and requires alot of hard work and patience.  You can't expect results too fast.  You have to be happy with the small victories.  Use patience to your advantage here.  If you are patient you will not be upset when the results don't just roll in. 

Most people lack patience.  They jump from one diet program to another diet program because they feel like they are gaining fat or that they are not getting results.  They don't have the patience to stick to the plan they set for themselves.