MOORE — Overweight and obesity in the United States now affects two thirds of our population and the number one complaint I hear is being able to stay focused.
I thought that this was a perfect article for me to share. This is an article that was sent to me from Donna Krech, the president of Thin and Healthy’s Total Solution.
Focus gets assassinated when you find yourself being distracted. If you find yourself disoriented, scattered, or if you have no plan, your focus is going to get nailed in the process.
If your focus is gone, you will not be able to do what you need to do in order to see the goal attained. Remember, we must “be” before we can “do” and we must “do” before we can “have.”
If we want to have a certain benefit from a certain goal, we must do what we need to do in order to see that it takes place.
When we become the kind of person that sets goals, stays focused, believes the goal can be hit, manages time well, organizes details, maintains a positive outlook and thinks with a solution mindset — all examples of being — we end up exactly where we want to end up.
We’ve all learned that what we believe is what we become. It’s really that simple. When we believe life will go our way, it does. When we believe it won’t, it doesn’t.
Believe it and you’ll be blessed; don’t and you won’t.
I have learned in my years in the weight loss and fitness business that what you focus on can totally change what you believe. Focus controls everything. It’s amazing.
What’s even more amazing is that it takes only three steps to stay focused.
Today, we’ll talk about knowing what the goal is and the value of revisiting it at least weekly.
Is your goal in your conscious mind all the time? You see, when your goal is in your conscious mind all the time, you’ll stay focused on it. The way to put it in your conscious mind all the time is to sit down and write out five-year goals.
Why? Since your goal isn’t a one or two month thing. It’s probably something you want forever, right? I want to live for a long time and I want to pass on to my babies and my grandbabies a legacy of health, positive attitude, happiness, abundance and energy. That’s a lifetime thing.
Sit down and do a five-year goal sheet and from there a three-year, a one-year, a six-month, a three-month, a two-week and a one-week goal sheet.
Then, every single week, go back and look at those goals. It doesn’t take any time to look them over once a week and the effort is well worth it. That will keep them in your mind and keep you focused.
If you are focused on your goals in your conscious mind, you are much less likely to become distracted. Even without knowing it, you’ll begin to do, say and think things that will get you to that goal and you’ll stop doing things that will prevent the goal from becoming reality (distractions).
Motivation lives inside you. Writing out your goals and rereading them will help you keep tapping into that motivation.
When you focus on your goals, the distractions of life are less likely to take you down and keep you from reaching your goals.
When we’re focused, many times we don’t even see the distractions. If we do see the distractions, we don’t give them so much attention that they take from us the ability to keep focusing on the goal. It’s our goal to see the most when we’re focused.
The five-year plan, the three-year plan, or even just a one-year plan will help you maintain your focus.
Janet Gillis is an owner and weight loss coach with Thin and Healthy’s Total Solution, at Flex Fitness Center, 901 N. Moore Ave., 912-4995
