Just 7 days to Fat Loss

One of the biggest limitations that we tend to face when trying to reach our goals is the fact that we're not very good, many of us, at setting good targets. Now, it's fine to set a big goal and all the rest of it, but the catch is we have a very poor way of breaking it down in a way that makes it implementable and therefore achievable. So we will set a goal of, oh, over the next year I'm going to lose 40 pounds, or I'm going to earn $100,000 or $1 million or whatever it might be— pounds obviously if you're in the UK, or euros in Europe, and so on. The, the catch though for many of us is we set these huge targets and then that's what we aim for. And then 9 times out of 10, what we'll do is think, all right, well, I need to act in ways that are going to help me get that, which to a degree is true. But the catch is we don't have the capacity to consistently act in the ways that someone For example, if I earn 50 grand a year and I set my new target at $500,000 a year, I don't have the capacity to consistently operate at the level of somebody that earns $500,000 a year yet. So my plan would then be to, of course, develop those skills. But if I try to do it from day one and to act that way every single day, it's going to wear me out, it's going to burn me out, and therefore I'm going to end up giving up because it would just be like Holy shit, this is unattainable. This is unachievable for me. There's no way I could continue to do this. So what we need to do is, of course, have that big goal. So for example, we set a 12-month goal. New Year rolls around, we set a 12-month goal. By the end of the year, this is where I want to be. I want to be 30 pounds leaner. I want to have more money, a relationship, various things, whatever the goals might be, that's fine. But then we need to break it down. Now, most people will say, oh, well, you need to break it down into quarterly targets. and that can help because a quarterly target for most of us is gonna be far more achievable and feel far more realistic than a big 12-month goal. But for many, that's actually still not small enough yet. So we need to break it down even further. And what we ideally want is to break it down into first monthly missions. So it's a case of, right, I've got 12 months. What's, what is it I need to get done in this first month in order to start moving me towards that goal, in order to start laying a foundation that will allow me to perpetually move towards this goal? What are the first things that I need to do? So for example, my target might be, right, establish some new habits in diet, right? Establish some new habits in lead generation for the business, and so on. Now you will obviously have to specify exactly what those are based on the specific goal that you have. But if I only set targets for 4 weeks, it's going to be much easier for me to manage than setting goals that are 52 weeks out. So we set a 4-week goal or a 30-day goal because it's for the 1 month, and then we will break that down. We'll take that monthly mission and we will break it down into a weekly war. Now what I mean by that is we only then plan 7 days out. The reason we want to do this is because first we need to prove to ourselves that we can actually stick to what it is we say we're going to do, because many of us will get 2, 3, 4 days in and then give up because that's the kind of pattern that we tend to get hooked in. We will start, we'll go all in or all or nothing, and then what happens is 3, 4 days in, we find it's too much, it's too overwhelming, it's too stressful, and we tend to give up. But if we were to sit there and go, actually, could I do this for just 7 days? These are my targets, this is what I want to reach by the end of the month, these are the habits or the behaviors I need to partake in for the next 7 days. Could I do it for 7 days? And I would imagine there are very few of you watching this that could not do it for just 7 days. Now, of course, after this first 7 days, you've got to recommit to that 7 days, but it's much easier for us on a mental and emotional level, 9 times out of 10, to commit to 7 days at a time rather than a big 90-day plan or 180-day plan and so on, because it seems so big and so overwhelming that many of us cannot follow through consistently. Whereas if we just go, right, 7 days, 7 days, 7 days, 7 days, right, that's my first monthly target nailed. Let's set the next one, the next set of 7 days, 7 days, 7 days, and so on. Breaking it down into those 7-day targets often makes it much easier to manage on a mental level and therefore easier to implement on a physical level. So we want to break it down not only in terms of, right, here's the outcome I want but also we need to identify, well, here are the specific actions or habits or behaviors I need to engage in in order to make this outcome a reality by the time I get to the end of the month. So we take that monthly mission, we break it down into a weekly war, and then of course we have our daily action steps that are going to be required in order to get there. What we will often find at this point is it will require most likely far less than we think. Because when we look at the big goal, it seems like, holy shit, I'm going to need to do this, this, this, and this. But once we've broken it down into a monthly target, there's often going to need— or it is often going to need far less from us in order to become a reality. Because obviously that monthly target is so much smaller than the 12-month target. So therefore, again, mentally, emotionally, that makes it easier for me to commit to because now I believe it's achievable. Whereas the huge actions that might be required to reach a 12-month goal, they often seem unrealistic and unattainable. So therefore, we don't fully go all in. We, we kind of have this idea and this desire to, but we don't necessarily have the confidence to follow through. So when we break it down into a 7-day weekly war, then establish what the daily habits of that weekly war are going to be, then it's much easier for us to stick to. Because, for example, if my goal over the next year is to lose, say, 4 stone, 5 stone, something like that, that may be, say, 50, 60, 70 pounds of weight. Well, that's a lot. But if I break it down and go, well, in the first month, all I would need to lose in my first month is 10 pounds or 5 pounds. Well, in order for me to lose 5 or 10 pounds is, of course, that's going to require far less commitment, far less effort, energy than losing that total 70, if I, if I'm looking at it from that perspective. So all I might actually need to do is Remove some of the junk that I'm eating, maybe start walking every other day, or if I want to use a gym, of course I could do that and do a little bit of exercise 2 or 3 times in the week, and then maybe get to bed a bit earlier. Now, they don't sound too strenuous, too extreme, and that's because they aren't. So therefore, it's easier for us to commit to those simple small actions that will allow us— okay, well, the first week I lost 2 pounds, next week I lost 3 pounds, Third week I lost 4 pounds, or 1 pound, or whatever it might be, depending of course on the amount of action we take. That will determine the rate at which we lose. But in the early days, we don't have to do much, and we tend to get very good and very quick results just from small minor tweaks. And as again, focusing on that 7 days at a time so we can break that large, seemingly impossible goal down into small, manageable, and perfectly possible attainable targets. So if you have any questions on this, guys, or you want me to provide you with some, uh, some worksheets and things that you can use to actually break this down for yourself that I use with my clients, just comment below or reach out to me in the DMs and I can get those over to you. But as I say, the key here is basically just taking that big, seemingly impossible goal and breaking it down into smaller, more manageable chunks. Break it down at least into a monthly mission, but I would highly recommend you then take it into a weekly war, and then turn it into a daily action step that you can consistently tick off 7 days a week and just recommit every Sunday. Every Sunday, check in with yourself. How well did I do this week? What, what went well? What didn't go so well? What can I do next week to improve? And what did I learn about myself? That's what we need to do. Check in on a Sunday. What's going on for me right now? How can I continue to move forward? And what do I need to do new next week that will keep me moving forward at the pace that I'm currently moving. Thanks for watching, people. As always, if you have any questions, drop them below, and if not, I look forward to chatting with you all in my next video. Take it easy, people.