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Where would you really like to see progress? What do you really want to

accomplish?

Take that goal and break it down. What exact steps do you need to take to

achieve it? What are the mile markers you need to set out to identify your

progress?

If you want to lose weight, think about how you’ll need to change your diet,

get more exercise and generally adopt more healthful, nurturing habits. Go

through the daily kind of actions you’ll need to practice. Get it in reality.

Don’t stop there. Consider the changes in mindset you’ll need to make during

and after your quest to become more fit. You have to be relentless in the

pursuit of your goal, particularly when those automatic past-based

conversations start to become louder in your head.

Once you’ve faced your problems head on, how will your sense of self

change? When you’re the fit and healthy person you want to be, how will

your beliefs about yourself be different? What will that life look like? I

would warn against the idea that you’ll suddenly be awesome. Your future is

not the answer to your present.

As we’ve discussed, subconscious thoughts are deeply ingrained in your

psyche, so it can take a lot of thinking, imagination, and commitment to

transform these invisible yet powerful thoughts into ones that better align

with your stated goals. As with every page here, make the time to take your

time.

If you look at the problem areas you came up with before, you might be able

to connect to an emotionally charged event somewhere in your life that

helped set them in your mind, perhaps in the form of infidelity in a

relationship, childhood bullying, parents that never quite lived up to your

wants and needs, public embarrassment, or major career failures.

But the more you think about your future and what you really want to

accomplish, the deeper those thought processes will work their ways into our

mind and take hold. Remember, when you explore and discover what it is

you’ve really been winning at, it’s not about fighting against or resisting

those thoughts and actions but rather changing direction and setting yourself

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