Category: Personal Development

How to Stay Motivated Week 2

Surround Yourself with Positivity!

Have you ever tried to do something and the people that you love laugh at you or remind you of all the times you have failed in the past??!?!?!?!?!?! Remember Colonel Sanders of KFC? Remember Thomas Edison? Take a look at the chart below and see how many times different people tried something before they were successful.

So to reach your goals and stay motivated you have to surround yourself with positivity. If your family only laughs at you, then join a facebook group or find a blog (like this one) where you can ask questions or get suggestions as to how to stay on target.

Don’t let the Negative Nellies control your life! I sometimes have allowed myself, in the past, to be bogged down because we’ve made a statement to a family member about losing weight and then when we don’t take any off, they just sit there and shake their head at us. Don’t give that person control over you.

You need to take control over yourself and be headstrong and willing to step up and eat different, or go for a walk, or exercise at the gym, or take ketone supplements. Ketone supplements can help to jump start your body into that lifestyle that you want. They are good for your brain, your joints and every other aspect of your body. And they taste good too!

So SURROUND YOURSELF WITH POSITIVITY! to help you stay Motivated.

Click the blue link above for more information on Pruvit Ketone supplements and how they work.

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How to Stay Motivated!

I’m going to be doing a series of posts over the next couple of weeks as our Monday post on “How to Stay Motivated” Each week we will go over one way of staying motivated.

So our first one is “Take It One Day At A Time”. I think as we get started on anything that we have as a goal in life – we jump forward and think about how we want it to end, but we sometimes forget the process.

So as we set that goal to lose weight, get better health or just plain take better care of ourselves, we need to remember to put down where you want to get to – Lose 50 lbs., Get rid of Joint Pain, Go to the Gym, etc. If you don’t sit down and write down the goal you want to get to then you won’t ever know if you have reached where you want to be.

  1. Write down goal you have in mind.
  2. Write a plan of action.
  3. Then Remember to Take One Day At a Time.

So, for instance you want to lose 50lbs by December 25, 2019 – now you have your goal.

Second step is to make a plan – Do a Low Carb or Keto Lifestyle. Now do your research on this lifestyle and figure out – are you going to do it with just food or are you going to add a supplement such as Pruvit Keto O/S. So now you have your plan written down and in your head.

Now the final step is all about Remembering to Take it One Day At a Time. We tend to forget how long it took us to get where we are weight wise or heath wise and we want it to go away over night. I can tell you though, if you have a plan, it will make things a whole lot easier.

I lost 27 lbs over three months and have kept it off for 2 years. I do a keto lifestyle (eating Keto 90% of the time) and I also take Pruvit Keto O/S. This assures that I will be putting my body into ketosis in under an hour instead of just having to rely on food to help me get there – which that process can take 3-10 days.

So remember – set a goal, write a plan of action and TAKE IT ONE DAY AT A TIME.

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Can’t!!!!!!

Is this word in your vocabulary? You need to take it out. Not only is it the most negative word in the dictionary, in my opinion, but it tells yourself that you cannot do something!!!!

From the time I was a little girl my dad used to tell me that CAN’T isn’t a word. Of course we all know that it is short for CANNOT. But guess what he wonders today why I am the way that I am. I think it all leads back to the fact that I was never allowed to believe that there was anything that I could not accomplish. So I have this one thing to say “Thanks DAD!!!!”

You helped me to see that if I set my mind to it – I could achieve it. There are lots of things in life that if we only believed that we could do it, we could achieve it. Whether it is living a low carb keto lifestyle or being happily married to your soul mate or having kids or whatever, you need to believe that you can accomplish and have whatever it is that you want.

Now I didn’t say you didn’t have to work for it. Sometimes things are sweeter when we do have to work for it. But believing in yourself is half the battle.

So go forth today, believing in yourself and knowing that you can do whatever you set your mind to.

CAN’T IS NOT A WORD!!!!!!!

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Surrounding Yourself with Positive People

Sometimes all it takes is staying away from negative Nellies and surrounding yourself with people that are positive. If your family isn’t on board because you’ve said a 100 times you were going to lose weight, then find some people who are on the same journey you are and surround yourself with their love and support.

Our families mean well and we aren’t going to kick them out of our lives, but they become skeptics or maybe they are just negative people to begin with. Love them for who they are and go find some new people to be around.

Stop filling your mind with bad news and drama from watching tv all the time and pursue some of your goals or take some time to meditate. I’ve become so addicted to walking every day that if I don’t get to walk after work, my evening just doesn’t seem to go right. Once you realize how listening to the news and bad tv make you feel and you get rid of it out of your life – you will be amazed at how much better you feel. There are only a couple of shows that I will allow myself to watch and one is American Ninja Warrior and the other is normally The Voice. Both are about celebrating someones talents.

Is there someone at work who is constantly bringing you down or putting you in a bad mood? Does he or she always have something negative to say about life or work? Stop letting them bring you down. You can’t control them, but you can control your reaction to them. Become a power source of positivity. Maybe you can even be a beacon for your co-worker for them to want to change their lives. Remember, like attracts like. Positive people attract positive people. I will say I have to practice this a lot. Sometimes I just have to get up from my desk and walk away and wrap my head back around my positive mood instead of letting their negativity rub off on me. Standing up and shaking your booty works as well. For me I can’t stand up and shake my booty without smiling so it takes that mood away and puts me in a better place. And yes it causes lots of reactions from people or sometimes I can just stand up and imagine I’m shaking my booty and it does the same thing for me.

This works in dealing with the people who tell you you will never lose the weight or will never get healthy as well. Know who you are and what you want and take control of the things that you have control over. Your decisions to eat healthy even when out with a crowd of people is one of the things you can control. You can also control your portion size. Don’t go back for seconds it doesn’t matter what. And allow yourself one bite of a desert and then know you have satiated the appetite and your desire. This isn’t too hard for me because since I’ve been off sugar for a little over two years – one bite is normally all I can have before I get a headache from the sugar.

For example, once a month I take my employees out for lunch. Someone different each month gets to pick what restaurant we are eating at. Everyone knows I do keto and low carb – so it’s amazing how many of them have started to pay attention to that when we go out. And sometimes I just decide that that is my cheat meal for the week. To be honest since I’ve maintained now for over 2 years I don’t watch quite as much as I used to. Plus remember I take a Ketone Supplement which puts me into ketosis in under an hour and lasts for 3-6 hours so I don’t have to be quite as strict.

Over the past two years, I have changed my whole way of life. If I’m in a group of people and negativity starts to happen I try to either walk away or change the subject. It isn’t easy to do. I’m still learning, but I have figured out that if I don’t participate I feel much better. And it gives me something to celebrate.

Last week we talked about enjoying the journey – so enjoy the journey from the beginning to the end. Celebrate each and every step along the way – every pound lost. Maybe your celebration is just to pat yourself on the back every time you lose a pound and say something like “Congratulations to ME”. But do enjoy every pound lost or every inch lost and know that you are starting to take control of your own life.

My daughter has been on her own weight loss journey over the past year. She has shared a few things with me about just going from shopping in plus size stores to regular stores and the feeling of excitement she has gotten from being able to do that. There is a process that she had to go through in her head to allow herself to look at that with joy. I will try to get her to give us an interview over the next couple of months. It has been an awesome journey.

So enjoy your week, Live Positively and Celebrate the little things!

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Be Happy with the Present

How many of you have actually reached the goal that you set for yourself and then realized that it’s not quite as glamorous or as exciting as you thought it would be. You hit that 25lb weight loss knowing or thinking that you would be happy and then you went right on to the next goal without taking any time to celebrate. Yes you have to set goals and yes it is great to meet them, but you have to take time to enjoy reaching them. Most of us get so caught up in the journey, that we forget that part of loving the destination is enjoying every step it takes to get there.

Having goals is absolutely crucial for success but learning to enjoy the journey by being happy with the present is even more important. I see on social media a lot of people who set unrealistic goals for themselves and then when they don’t meet it they think they should punish themselves. Now you’ve gone 10 steps backwards by the self doubt and recrimination that you allow to set in or the negatives that take over in your head. Remember for 95% of us that it took years to get that extra weight on our bodies. Nothing disappears over night.

Remember a couple weeks ago we talked about getting rid of the negatives and how important that is. Self doubt and self hate will sabotage any goal that you set whether it is for weight loss or self development. Stop with the self abuse. Go back and reread last weeks blog and learn to do the STOP technique every time a self doubt, self hate or negative thoughts come into play. You will be amazed at how easy it is to start to change your thought process and when you do you stop listening to the haters and the self hate coming from inside your head.

So you need to allow yourself to become mindful of what is happening on your journey and in this very moment and then you will start to see all the pieces fall into place. When you can master being in the present and getting ride of the negativity you will be able to find strength in any situation. When you can do that, you will have true power over your happiness and success, because remember, happiness in life is 90% showing up!!!!

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S.T.O.P. Technique

I was at a conference last week and listened to Joseph McClendon III. He is one of the most sought after Ultimate Performance Specialists in the industry. He is an expert in coaching business professionals to overcome behaviors and inner and outer obstacles that may impede their results and affect their bottom line.

One of the things that he taught us was the STOP Technique. The STOP technique isn’t necessarily designed to use with Food choices, but the more I thought about it the more it can help you. The S.T.O.P. Technique helps us turn any pain into an action signal. I use the STOP Technique when a negative thought arises. I don’t get too many of them, but I am still learning and working on myself along with you. Now I’m sure you must be wondering how this relates to Low Carb and Keto. Well I’m going to tell you. Every time we go out to eat or are faced with a temptation of eating the wrong things – this Technique can work.

So let’s say you are at a theme park and we all know what that food can be like. Mostly carbs and sugar and we need to make intelligent decisions as to what to eat. We can tempt ourselves into saying “oh one cheat day won’t hurt” but mainly that just turns into another and another and another. So the STOP Technique can come into play to help.

S – Say STOP! – (Pattern Interrupt) When you are tempted to eat the wrong thing then you can just say STOP. You want to interrupt the train of thought you are having of being tempted or telling yourself it won’t matter. You can say any emotionally charged word – STOP, YES, BOOM, CANCEL or whatever else you can think of. It is all to interrupt the path you are on.

T – Take a Deep Breath – (Physiology) So immediately after saying STOP or whatever word works best for you – Take a deep breath. My favorite thing is to take a deep breath while saying “WOOSAAA”. It is a stress reliever for me. Then if you are sitting you can jump up or if you are standing you can start walking. Walking in place works as well. Anything to change your thought process and get you back into your “Low Carb Keto Lifestyle Mood”.

O – Outcome – (Focus On What You Want) You know you don’t want to cheat with a whole meal or even with a few too many carbs just for that meal. So if you immediately focus on what you want then it will help put you back into the right frame of mind – so instead of selecting a chili dog with the bun and french fries – you go for chilli dog without the bun and a side salad or some fruit. Then pat yourself on the back for making a decent selection.

P – Praise Yourself – (Reward) So pat yourself on the back or shake your booty as a reward for making the right decision. It allows you to relate something exciting and rewarding to making decisions on food. Thus it takes the pain away. Stop punishing yourself for every little thing. (Go back and reread last weeks post about Negativity)

This technique is designed to take a negative thought that comes into your mind – acknowledge that you are having it, stand up, take a deep breath, put a smile on your face, pat yourself on the back and shake your booty to turn that negative into a positive. You may have to do it a couple of times to shake the negativity (temptation of picking the wrong meal choices) but get faster and faster. The next time you have a negative thought or can’t decide if you want to cheat or not. Give it a try. I guarantee that it works every time.

I like to use this technique when my mind drifts along and wants to think about how a situation may work out. Stop with that. Why worry because it will probably never even happen.

This technique can be used in all facets of your life – food choices, negative people, negative thoughts, reliving the past over and over again. Anything to interrupt the pattern of thought and put yourself back into a positive and happy mood.

If you have any questions please feel free to get hold of us. Thanks and have a great week.

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