By: How I Lost 30 Pounds in 30 Days Without Diet

How I Lost 30 Pounds in 30 Days Without Diet — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:49:00 +0000

Thanks for posting about this, I would love to read more about this topic.

By: Hobosic

Hobosic — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:56:15 +0000

Super post, Need to mark it on Digg
Hobosic

By: George Tsoukalas

George Tsoukalas — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:43:54 +0000

It sounds like you are talking about procrastination. It is how we are focusing on what needs to be done. How we focus on something is a stimulus and we have conditioned ways of responding based on our neuro-associations. If someone needs to take action on something that needs to be done, but they are associating a lot of pain to taking action they will not take action until the meaning associated to taking action changes. What does this mean? Let’s take an example that most of us can relate to. How often do people wait until the last day to write their term paper? Why? They get more pleasure from not writing their term paper and taking action on other pleasurable things like watching TV, going out with friends etc. They will procrastinate until the end. Now when the deadline comes up, they now know that not completing their term paper will be more painful than not. The meaning of what they associate to writing the term paper changes and thus they finally take action and cram to complete. Now, if we associated a lot of pain from the get go to not writing the term paper because 1) we would not get as good of a grade, 2) we hate to worry that it would not be done 3) we would miss out on some events that were coming up…if we strongly feel that taking action to do something now can help us get immediate pleasure and stop a lot of pain – we will take action. Using these powerful feelings of pain and pleasure intelligently can motivate you to take action on positive things as well as help you stop taking actions that may be having a negative impact on you.

By: kathy

kathy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:23:45 +0000

Why is it then that even though we know just what we need to do, but can’t motivate ourselves to take that step?

By: Jon Padilla

Jon Padilla — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:23:35 +0000

Very true. In addition to what you’ve posted, I find that when I am in a good, consistent routine of exercise and consciousness of my diet, my self image gets better. And as a result I can carry that energy/enthusiasm into the other area of my life.

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