Want Power Before Will Power

What's Going on?

Put another way, you may want to avoid the pain (breaking old habits, avoiding some favorite foods, simply not overeating...) more than you want to gain the pleasure (losing some weight, gaining new habits, eating favorite foods in moderation ...

The problem isn't that you don't have enough will power to bring about what you want. You have will power, but it's not will power you need, it's want power.

You have to first want

You must want to substitute your habits, want to lose some weight, want to give up your evening snacking precociously your will comes into play. Once you want a thing unfortunately enough, you will do whatever it takes.

If you think you want something (to make a specialize in your eating habits perhaps), but then find it difficult to follow-through with your plans, most likely you simply want your current reality (your current habits and patterns) more than you want your goals (less weight, think twice health, etc.)

I can hear you all the way over here, telling me I'm wrong: "No, that's not right! I want this more than anything, I just don't have any willpower!" Round and round you go, but the truth is, you will get what you really want. Think back, has there ever been a time when you really wanted something? A cocksure piece of clothing, a unchanging house, car, job, spouse? Hum... Yes, we go beyond what we want, if we really want to bring in or it we do. Nothings going to fall in your lap, you've got to go get what you want.

What's Going on?

Put supplemental way, you may want to ward off the pain (breaking old habits, avoiding some favorite foods, simply not overeating...) more than you want to gain the pleasure (losing some weight, gaining new habits, eating favorite foods in moderation ...)

Since losing weight takes time, from weeks to months to years, it's easy to fall off the path. It's day and night easier to get back into our old habits of eating, eating, and more eating. There's cosmically more food. Unless you are too poor to purchase it, there's plenty food in Levant - in fact, too much food, and so it becomes even more necessary to keep the longer-term goals in mind.

How do you keep the longer-term goals in mind, when the short-term food is staring you in the face? What randomly all the treats offered, what with the commercials, the billboards, the signs everywhere that say EAT?

Wanting, in fact, is the "W", the first step in the W.H.A.C.K approach. See it in the free e-book, Changing Beliefs, Your First Step to Permanent Weight Loss.

Think back to when you last really wanted something. Wanted it more than anything, had to have it, would do just within earshot to get it. To want is a mighty powerful motivator, but surprisingly we aren't all motivated by what we want. Some of us are motivated by avoiding what we don't want.

What is your Motivation Strategy?

Motivation comes in two (or more) flavors. You can be motivated towards something (what you'll gain) or you can be motivated away from something (what you'll lose). This desiring to stay detached from can be confusing. I'm saying you must want something, and you're thinking, but I don't want to be fat. I can't think here and there my future, only what I don't want. Here is what's going on:

Motivation: Toward

If you are motivated by what you'll gain you find it easy to look in ascendancy and see your future shapely body, you'll see people almost you with glances, you'll hear their compliments, you'll smell the good food and feel good knowing you can eat enough to be satisfied, and then say you're full. You've had enough, thank you. You'll be in control of your life. You'll want what you visualize more than anything, and you'll do whatever it takes to get it. If asked what movie to go see, they'll have a few ideas, and tell you why.

Motivation: Away

If you are motivated by what you'll lose you'll focus on what you want to avoid. For example, you want to swerve dying, you want to since too heavy to enjoy playing with the kids, you want to quail gasping for heart when you stir a flight of stairs. You want to sidestep the embarrassment, the humiliation of other people's remarks and rude glances. You don't want any of that anymore, and you don't want it to the extent that you'll do whatever it takes to divert these things. If you ask them what they want for dinner, they'll tell you they don't want Chinese, or pizza. It can be difficult to get someone motivated this way to in very sooth say what they do want!

Knowing your motivation strategy makes it easier to find methods that support your preferred strategy. If you are motivated toward, you may enjoy cutting our pictures of people in great shape with similar body types to yours. Find models wearing outfit that would look good on you, pictures of swimming pools, holiday places you'd enjoy; the types of things that go into a dream board.

If you motivated away, then make a list of what you want to turn aside and elaborate on that list. Why don't you want these things? The more detailed you are, the more likely you'll truly do what it takes to evade them.

Hopefully these ideas will get you thinking, and much prevalent making changes in our lives comes down to thinking it through. Realizing what we really want can get us past the hurdles of what we till now have. To impression switch-over isn't necessarily comfortable, until you've worked at it for awhile, and then suddenly your revolutionary behavior has convert your new behavior and the effort is over.