By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
www.UnstoppableFatLoss.com
What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that my buddy Scott did with me from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.
Scott: …Right. I think that the key point is just being aware, like you said. You hear yourself saying these things, and you see that you’re doing them. As you become aware of them, and say what can I do about it? What am I going to do to make me overcome this hurdle, and go in a positive direction this time? What can I do if it is bad genetics, what can I do to overcome my genetics? My family’s overweight. It’s almost like when some people say, ‘I want to be the first one in my family to go to college.’ I’m going to be the first one in my family to be thin for once. Think those thoughts rather than just thinking ‘I’m going to be like everyone else’ and settle for what they’ve had to settle for the rest of their lives. It’s definitely being aware of it, it’s a huge thing. Deciding I’m not going to settle for this, I’ve got to snap out of it and move on.
Kyle: Right. Awareness is such a good thing, and you can come to awareness in a lot of different ways, education. One thing to combat bad genetics, you go and you learn… One seminar that I attended, there was a nutritional genius there, his name was Thomas Inkerdon. A very, very smart guy with a PHD in nutrition, he also competes in strongman events. He’s just a genius. Anyway, he put up a graph during a PowerPoint presentation, and he called it the ‘Pie Graph of Hope’ for people that say they have bad genetics. All the research shows that only about 18% of your overall total results are due to genetics.
And so everything else is totally within your control, and so people that say they have bad genetics, it’s a cop out, and there are so many things that you can do between your diet and your training, your nutrition and your mindset that can totally change your psyche by becoming aware. That one little factoid there might be the awareness that you need to say, ‘You know what, maybe I can change my body, my genetics aren’t going to hold me back.’
Scott: That’s a big deal. I mean, 82% is in your control.
Kyle: Yeah!
Scott: That’s crazy! If you put up excuses for anything, think there’s any obstacle in your way, obviously it’s you.
Wow, that’s pretty remarkable! But that’s a very good point, education, and going to these types of things. If you just pick up that one tidbit of information, whether it’s a book or a conference or audio, one little piece of information can transform your life. That is awesome!
The big thing is, we hear all this stuff… Applying the information is another thing. Educating yourself and reading is good. More than half of the people don’t even get through the entire book, let alone read the entire thing and take action on it.
Do you have any kind of strategy, like when you set aside a certain amount of money to educate yourself. Do you say I’m going to read this chapter and start taking action? Or if you read a book and an idea jumps out at you, are you able to put that book down right now, and even though you know there are going to be some great secrets later on in the book, I want to apply something right now! Do you ever catch yourself doing something like that?
Kyle: I think that’s really solid. I was at a seminar this past weekend in Washington D.C. and down the side of my notes (I take diligent notes while I’m at seminars), and down the right side of my notes, I always put a column and I write ‘Action Items’ at the top of that right column. I’ll write down any notes that come to mind, or key points that I think are helpful when I’m attending these seminars, or listening to a teleseminar like this one, or listening to a presenter talk, or reading a book about training mindset, nutrition, or even business ? whatever it is.
But any time I find something that is a nugget that I can take away and there’s action steps, that will immediately give me better results, I will write that action step down.
By the end of that conference, I’m going to compile all those notes and put those action steps all into my folder, my inbox, and eventually process those and figure out how I’m going to implement those action steps into my daily, weekly, business or training. There’s just so many takeaways. But the key is, if you only educate but you never do anything with that information, you’re not going to make any progress, really.
So Scott hit on a great point: you’ve got to implement it. And so there’s a lot of things that I do. I think habits are a great thing. I train my mindset and I train my body every day, and there’s certain things that I do for my business every day. And so one of the things I always do is, I always start off my day remembering what it is that I want. Most people cannot even tell you what they want. I can say without a shadow of a doubt the top five things that I want out of life right now. By becoming ultra?clear on those things out front and spending a lot of time thinking about what it is that I truly want out of life, I can write those down, and I repeat those to myself every day.
Why? Because it’s programming. It’s the programming that I want. It’s overcoming some of the negative programming that comes at me every day from television, from people in my life that aren’t necessarily sharing the same ideals and goals and values that I have. And they’re there, and they’ll always be there, and so that’s why it’s even more vitally important that you constantly program your mind with calls like this, with audios and hanging out with people that are like?minded and have similar goals and values to you, so that you can stay on track and stay focused. That’s the first thing I do every day; I read to myself, out loud, what my major targets are. And once I’ve read those major targets, I take a look at my day and figure out, OK, what can I do to bring me closer to achieving these major targets today? And I don’t go to bed until I’ve done something to make some progress toward every single one of those.
Scott: That’s right. And it can be small; you don’t have to take big steps every single day. One little action towards it is a big deal.
Kyle: Right. And those little actions add up, you know. That’s the thing most people fail, is they try to do a big action: major diet, major exercise program for the first two weeks of the new year, and then they fall flat on their face because they haven’t overcome their negative programming, their self?image hasn’t changed a bit, and they haven’t done enough work on their mindset and their brain to keep that going. Because determination and willpower are really, really poor ways to try to change anything. That’s the way most people try to do it, and so I totally recommend not trying to will yourself through a diet or training program. I encourage people to study how your brain works and learn how to use your imagination, and imagine the physique that you want, and imagine the life that you want, and then every day try to live up to that imagination, try to live up to that vision that you hold.
Scott: Have fun with it.
Kyle: Yeah, have a lot of fun with it.
Scott: It’s a lot of fun! And the big thing that hits home with me, it’s creating something that’s more than just a wish, and more than just a dream. Even if it is just writing something down that you want, that’s a much bigger step than someone who just says, "I wish I had six?pack abs." If you’re actually writing down, "I want six?pack abs," and you cut out a picture of six?pack abs. And you’re like, "OK, what step can I do today that’s going to bring me closer to six pack abs?" That’s way better than someone going, "Man! I just can’t wait. I really want to have six pack abs."
If you’re just saying to yourself, "I want to have six pack abs,’ it’s just a small part of the puzzle. But, here you are really laying out an action plan, and having fun with it at the same time. Like, actually taking one little step towards it makes it exciting. And if you’re doing those little things that you do, they really add up.
This interview was an excerpt from the MP3 audio interview program, Unstoppable Fat Loss
About Scott Tousignant:
Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC is a personal trainer and motivation coach from Ontario, Canada. After graduating from the University of Windsor’s Human Kinetics Program with honors in movement science, Scott began his career with an intense interest in physiology and biomechanics, but quickly developed a love for sport psychology.
His interest in the power of the mind led him to create Unstoppable Fat loss, (UFL) an audio interview MP3 interview series. UFL is different because it’s not about what to eat or how to train. It’s about goals, mind, motivation, vision, persistence, emotions, passion, overcoming obstacles and even how fitness and health fit into your life purpose. The interviews include fitness professionals and “regular folks” who have overcome some very big problems. To learn more Click Here.
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