Welcome to Part Three of this 5-part series. Today we'll continue to explore the insider secrets of how to deal with the inevitable roadblocks, bumps, and barriers on the road to lifelong fitness success.
Last time we looked at Roadblocks 5-8 and how to blast them out of your way. In today's article (Part 3) we'll look at the next four in some detail. I'll cover the rest of them as we move through this 5-part series.
Success Roadblock Number Nine:
A Habitually Poor Self-Image
As with a low sense of deservability, a poor self-image is almost invariably the product of our early childhood experiences. What sets our self-image apart from our self-esteem is that it is primarily a visual thing as opposed to a psychological thing.
If you close your eyes and visualize yourself in the buff, it's pretty hard to avoid discovering what your true self-image is. And if visualizing yourself naked causes negative feelings in you, then you can be sure you have some work to do in this area.
This brings us to another pitfall to be especially careful of. Almost without exception, people believe that they will feel better about themselves when they look better. But this is exactly backwards. The truth is, you will begin to look better only when you feel better about yourself.
Now, obviously, if you woke up tomorrow morning perfectly fit and trim and at your ideal weight, you'd feel pretty good about that. But if you didn't also learn to feel good about you, then you would almost certainly gain back your weight and get sloppy again pretty soon.
On the other hand, once you develop a true, deep-down affection and appreciation for who you are, then you will naturally and automatically move in the direction of healthier behaviors, with the inevitable result being a healthier body and a happier life.
Success Roadblock Number Ten:
Never Learned To Take Responsibility / Still Equating It With Blame
Success Factor Four, personal responsibility, maybe the most misunderstood factor of all. From early in life we are taught to equate responsibility with either blame or credit. If we do something other people approve of, we expect to get credit. And if we do something that other people don't approve of, we expect to get blamed.
But to really understand personal responsibility, we need to step outside of the narrow blame/credit concept and see responsibility for what it truly is: the simple reality that nothing that happens in our own experience can happen without us. And, as such, we are ultimately responsible for all of it.
Does this mean we are responsible for what happens in the world around us? Sometimes we are. Sometimes we're not. But what we are always responsible for is our own personal experience of what happens, both in the world around us, and in the inner world within us.
The reason that the concept of personal responsibility is so crucial is that as long as we believe or pretend that someone or something outside us is responsible for our problem, we have given away the very power we need to have in order to solve our problem.
So, taking responsibility for our current situation -- even though we may not have created the situation per se -- gives us the power we need to make it different, to change it into what we want it to be.
Success Roadblock Number Eleven:
Poor Understanding Of Healthy Eating – What It Is, And Why To Even Bother
Another major roadblock for overweight Americans is a poor knowledge of food and nutrition. And yet again, this is understandable. It's not acceptable, but it sure is understandable. If the only source of information we've been exposed to is the same bunch of people who stand to profit most from what we do, then we shouldn't be the least bit surprised if the buying "choices" we end up with have a lot more to do with their profits than our health.
This is yet another reason why you must get educated, why you must be very suspicious of everything you hear from the medical / pharmaceutical / health-care industry, and why you must ultimately take total responsibility for your health. Few things you can do will make a greater daily difference in your health and energy than the food you put into your body every day.
You may have heard about the experience of one person who decided to eat nothing but fast food for a month just to see what happened. He focused on the "super-size" meals so commonly available at every fast food restaurant. It didn't take long before his weight started to increase dramatically, and his health started to decrease precipitously.
Yet as powerful a statement as that makes, the fast food industry is doing more business than ever. I never, ever eat fast food. Not any more, at least. The combination of knowing what that stuff actually is, and having too much respect for my own body, has pretty much made it impossible for me to eat anything fast food restaurants offer.
May I invite you to do the same?
Success Roadblock Number Twelve:
Poor Food Combining / Poor Digestion / Eating
The Wrong Foods At The Wrong Times
Back in Chapter 5 we spent some time talking about this idea of what to eat, when to eat it, and what to eat it with. But I know from decades of experience -- not only with clients, but also with myself -- that changing your eating habits is easier said than done.
That's why it's so important to understand what happens when we eat unhealthy food or combine our food in unhealthy ways. I invite you to review carefully the section on food combining, especially if you find yourself suffering from indigestion/heartburn, low energy, constipation, or allergies.
And by all means, think seriously about the colon cleanse. I should make it clear that I'm not talking about getting a "colonic irrigation," though there is a time and place for those as well. I'm talking about a "from-the-top-down" internal cleansing.
I won't scare you with horror stories about the things people have discovered "hiding" in their own bodies as a result of doing a colon cleanse, because it might gross you out. But then again, maybe I should try to scare you, because getting your colon clean might just the most important thing you do this decade.
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The roadblocks you've just read about were excerpted from my new ebook, "Ultimate Fitness Secrets: Revealed!" To learn how to blast all 20 roadblocks out of your way, and discover the secrets of lifelong, struggle-free fitness, bulletproof health, and low-stress living, just click here now and get the whole story!
Yours in total health, "
"Dr. Frank"
