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Our lives are full of habits. Unfortunately a great many of them are bad habits. One way to break these bad habits is to fill our lives with good habits. Most people decide one day that they need to make changes to their lives and then they go all out making big sweeping changes. This may work for them for the first few days, but then they get burned out. Pretty soon they are back to their old habits and nothing has changed. This is a very unproductive way to spend your time and energy.

The key is to change a little bit at a time. Say your goal is to get up an hour earlier every day. One day you start setting your alarm for an hour earlier and you keep this up for one week. Then because we are naturally resistant to change you go back to your old habit. A better way is to set your alarm one minute earlier every day. After two months you are getting up an hour earlier and you will not even notice the change. It may take longer, but with this approach you have a good chance for success.

This approach can work for just about anything. If you are exercising for a half an hour everyday and you want to increase that time to one hour then add a minute everyday. After one month you will have reached your goal with very little resistance from your body and mind. Changing slowly eliminates the greatest barrier we have to change: fear.

This method of change is gentle, but very powerful. Think of everything you can accomplish if you just continuously improve a little at a time. The change itself creates the momentum you need to keep going. Soon you will find yourself reaching your goals with almost no pain involved. What one minute change can you make to your life today?

We all have the same amount of time: All there is... and
that is 24 hours in each day. No one has more time than anyone else.
It all boils down to priorities (or lack of), not lack of time.

My suggestions are so simple they may
sound obvious, but they can mean the difference between
skipping meals and blowing off workouts or nailing your
diet and training 100%, day after day:

The answer: WRITE IT DOWN!

Write what down, you ask?"

Everything! Take the time to sit down and do some serious
"strategic planning" of your menus and your training program.

It's been said that action without planning is one of the
biggest causes of failure, and I believe that is 100% true -
especially when youre a super busy super achiever like
yourself.

The second you write things down, they begin to crystallize
right in front of you and become more real. Writing things
down sends unmistakable instructions to your subconscious
mind. Having a written plan gives you a sense of direction.
You know where you're going, how you're going to get there,
when you're going to arrive and that makes you feel certain,
calm, confident and motivated.

First, start with your goals.

It's important to have goals for multiple time frames,
including multi-year, 1 year, 12 weeks, weekly, and daily
goals. You should have goals in multiple categories,
includingweight, body composition (body fat% and lean mass),
and measurements.

You can also include fitness parameters such as calories burned,
intensity, duration, strength, density (amount of work per unit
of time), repetitions performed, and whatever else is relevant to you.

Once your goals are on paper, keep them in front of you
constantly. Carrying a goal card with you is one of the
simplest yet most powerful motivational tools (it's literally
my secret weapon... I learned it from my success mentor
Bob Proctor, who learned it from his mentor Earl Nightingale)

Second, write down your menu. Meal by meal, write down
your "target eating" for the day. Then crunch your numbers:
calories, protein, carbs and fat. An EXCEL spreadsheet
works beautifully, or use some type of menu planning software.

Wait... youre not done with your menus yet. Write a time
of day after each meal... and make those meal times become
habitual. Then print your menu and stick it on your refrigerator.

Third, write down your training routine. Put it all on
paper: your weekly schedule and routine, exercises, sets,
reps and so on.

Fourth, take your training routine and transfer each
workout one day at a time into your daily planner.
Schedule your workouts just like you would any business
or personal appointment.

In this day and age, your schedule will always fill up
with something else if you don't BLOCK OFF chunks of
time for the most important priorities in your life
- one of which is your health.

It's not enough to just have your workout "in your head."
There is a huge difference between saying "I am training
tomorrow, and writing, "I am training chest, shoulders,
triceps and abs tomorrow at 7:00 am sharp."

Anthony Robbins once said, "If you talk about it, it's
a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you
schedule it, it's real."

This is a really simple discipline, but very powerful.

When I train for competitions, I write out a full 12 to 16
weeks of training in advance on a calendar. Then as each
workout approaches, I transfer it one day at a time into
my appointment book. This keeps you so laser-focused
you can't help but succeed.

Make no mistake, strategic planning is work. It requires
quiet, focused time with a pen and paper (or computer),
and it requires some thought and analysis. Strategic
planning is the mental work and preparation that takes
place before the physical work.

Planning, goal setting and writing things down must become
a habit. It's a winning habit that will pay greater dividends
than perhaps anything else you ever do in your life.

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