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Here's what's been on my mind this week for the 3 Sunday Musings.
1.Tolerance can become a lethal, low dose poison
61% of American adults have reported undesired weight gain or loss since the coronavirus outbreak. That's according to a new American Psychological Association (APA) survey of more than 3,000 people released a year to the day since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
The average weight gain was 29 pounds. One in 10 even reported gaining more than 50 pounds.
Now look…I know it was a stressful year. But those amounts gained are astronomical.
As much as I'm an optimist, most of those people will never lose the weight they put on over the last year.
It's an uncomfortable but likely truth.
Why won't they lose it?
Tolerance and acceptance.
Tolerance can become a virus that lets you keep your body, but it takes your mind.
How does this even happen?
You begin to minimize things over time, create explanations and justifications for why things are the way they are. It slowly weens on you, like an anesthetic before surgery.
Remember: what you don't hate, you tolerate.
Look, I'm not saying these people should talk vile to themselves non-stop.
But if you're someone who has put on weight, you can't sugarcoat it.
You're going to get out of life what you accept. What you think you're worth is what you're going to get out of life.
It's only a few pounds. No…tighten your diet and get back on it.
The slight edge can go either direction.
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2.Almost everything in life revolves around pain and pleasure
Tony Robbins frequently talks about pain and pleasure being the driving forces for our life.
For example, I experienced enough pain over ten years ago to hit the weight room and clean up my diet. The pain of regret and what if led to me leaving the pursuit of medicine behind and continues to help when those days of wanting to quit come up.
While there's a percentage of people driven by pleasure, and that's their driving force, most people are driven by avoidance of pain.
What's this have to do with fitness?
Everything.
If you know "you should eat healthier," "you should get back to working out," "you should work on your sleep schedule," and "you should [insert whatever here" and you're not—the pain isn't significant enough yet.
Your pleasure-pain pendulum needs to be inspected. Here's an example with three sets of questions that could help. Let's say you want to improve your energy, lose 10 pounds, and show up in a higher-performing state.
1.Pain-associating questions:
- "What will this cost you?"
- "What has it cost you in the past?"
- "What does it cost the people you love?"
- "What does it cost you in (your various vehicle—work, family, etc.)?"
2.Questions that demonstrate inconsistency with what's important to them:
- "How does your mediocre health, body, and energy keep you from being close to your family?"
- "Is a leader of people so undisciplined as to need to sneak off to grab junk food or make excuses for his appearance?"
- "How can carrying extra weight make you feel good when you tell me that your confidence isn't good because you don't feel as good with your shirt off nor in your suit?"
3.Pleasure-associating questions:
- "If you change this now, how will your life be?"
- "What will you gain?"
- "What will it mean for the people you love?"
- "What will it give you?"
3. The ability to create the future is a superpower
Every day, it seems there are new "rules" popping up.
New stories are popping up, attempting to make you fearful, hesitant, and reactionary.
But your ability to create the future, a future that is to your likening instead of responding to circumstances, is an underappreciated superpower that's most needed right now.
Some people are waiting to be given the green light to start living life again.
To hell with the circumstances, and to hell with what other people are doing.
Have a fantastic Sunday!
Julian
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