I Have Big Goals but Am Struggling to Achieve Them. How Can I Create a Stronger Mindset to Tackle My Goals?

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I have big goals, but I'm struggling to achieve them. How can I create a stronger mindset to tackle my goals? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times best selling author, celebrity nutrition expert and fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert. Marilyn from Facebook asks, I have big goals but I'm struggling to achieve them. How can I create a stronger mindset to tackle my goals? Hey, it's JJ and I've got my buddy Sean Wells with us today to answer this question. He is the world's leading nutritional biochemist and expert on health optimization. He's formulated over 500 supplements, foods, beverages and cosmeceuticals and patented 10 novel ingredients and now is known as the ingredientologist. That means the scientist of ingredients. Formerly, he was a chief clinical dietitian with over a decade of clinical experience and he's counseled thousands of people on innovative health solutions such as keto, paleo, fasting and supplements. He's also personally overcome various health issues including Epstein Barr virus, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, depression, insomnia, obesity and a pituitary tumor. As a world renowned thought leader and author on mitochondrial health, his expertise can help any health conscious individual to better manage stress, experience higher performance and gain energy through utilizing his practical research based solutions and his new book, it's called the Energy Formula. You want to grab that? He's also an action, sci, fi and fantasy nerd who loves Spartan races. All right, we'll be right back with the answer, so stay with me.

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I love, love, love this question so much of my book. The energy formula is about mindset and there's a whole chapter, the G in energy is growth. And I get into nootropics and some of those kind of mindset supplements, but I definitely get into mindset itself and talking about stoicism, the type of resilient thinking where the obstacle is the way. Instead of wishing for a life without obstacles, instead of wishing for a shortcut around the obstacles, cherishing the obstacle and knowing that is how we find our strength. That is how we get stronger. That's how we get better. Just like going to the gym. This is the gym for your brain. It's called allostatic load in the body. And the more resilient we are, the bigger our stress bucket or allostatic load can be. The more stress we can handle. And the more stress we can handle mentally, the more stress we can handle physically. Like pathogens and viruses and things like that, and vice versa. When we get better at physical stress, doing cold plunges and hot saunas and doing fasting, we get better at dealing with mental stress. So your body sees both the same. Those are allostatic load. Another thing that I would say that's really important is if your big goals are overwhelming, start making small goals. Start breaking them down into much simpler things. Start tracking things, journaling things, using an app if you want, using Google Keep or Evernote or something like that, and just tracking things and tracking your small wins with your small goals. That's really important. If the big goals just seem too big, then break it down. Start making it simple. If Your goal is, for example, to lose 50 pounds, which I don't think is a good goal. I think a good goal is to fit into a certain dress or feel great about your body or whatever. I think a shift like that's more important than getting caught up in a number. But two, I think breaking it down into smaller things like what's the dress size you want to get into for, you know, in X weeks? Like, those kinds of things. Like, and. Or, you know, lifting a certain amount of weight by X weeks, you know, being able to walk 2 miles by X weeks, you know, start getting like, your goals broken down to where instead of like one massive goal, you have 20 smaller goals. And then how good does that feel when you start checking off all these goals of like, wow, I can walk two miles. I'm in a smaller dress. I'm able to skip McDonald's, I'm able to skip the diet soda and have a Topo Chico. I don't know, something like that. Those are all mini wins, but big wins that add up. So that's what I'd recommend.

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