3 Mindsets All Fit People Have (To Stay Motivated)

when it com time to get fit many of us look at all the physical things we see about people we look at their build we look at what they eat we look at some of their workout habits we look at all this other stuff except maybe the one thing that matters which is the invisible their habits of thinking now today's video we're going to be talking about the three inner invisible mindsets that all fit people [Music] have [Music] what's up guys Alex Hine here author of Master to the day now quick heads up I've actually put together a bonus little ebook five daily habits to help you lose your next 20 to 30 PBS which also goes into some of this inner mindset stuff so you can click that link right there below or in the description to get that and that'll be sent right over to you with a free email course to get started now the very first mindset that fit people have is if I can't then I must you know there's a lot of this whole mindset that I can't find the time I can't do this or get fit because I fail every time I try I can't I can't I can't but what fit and successful people do is they figure it out so this idea of I can't therefore I must is that if I think I don't have the time to work out then it's even more important to find the time to work out I had a friend once and he was telling me that he really wanted to get f and he really needed to get fit because he was seriously overweight and every time we would talk about trying to figure this out where to put it in his schedule how he could get himself to do that with everything else going on in his life he would always say he didn't have time so he didn't have time he didn't have time he didn't have time and over a couple weeks and a couple months one day I decided to actually see what he was doing after work and I found that he would go home from work at 6:00 and I thought he was busy he had all this stuff going on what I found out was he was watching Netflix from 7:00 until almost midnight for 5 hours so he didn't have time was obviously code for something else so the Paradox is that if you think you cannot if you think you don't have time if you think you always fail so why bother trying then it's really important that you prove to yourself you can by doing the opposite and finding the time because that means it's even more important the second inner mindset of fit people is just 1% more so anytime you're going after something try thinking just one more one of the big things I did when I first got into weightlifting and I wasn't happy with the results I was getting was I told myself just one more rep in the weight room right if you do 10 bicep curls try doing 11 if you do 20 leg presses try doing 21 or 22 or 23 if you're plateauing and you're not getting the results you want the first thing would be just try a little bit more push it just a little bit harder but what's amazing is that you could apply this to any anything in life can't write your book just today write one more word trying to improve your relationship or have more friends maybe you just push it a little bit and say one more thank you or one more please or you do one more nice thing for a person are you trying to be calmer and more spiritually evolved and cultivated then maybe that means just one more minute of meditation maybe you did 20 and that seemed like a long time but today just do 21 because yeah it's going to be a little bit harder but that 1% that just one more that's where all of the growth is that's the Paradox you can do 20 minutes you can do all this but this is where the growth happens whether it's lifting weights whether it's pushing it with a new habit or some other thing you're trying to work on now the third mindset shift in fit people is the idea of I am I've told you a little bit about Dr Maxwell maltz who was a surgeon that realized that no matter how much he altered certain men and women's faces and their physical looks presumably for more confidence some people never never became more confident and he couldn't figure out why these people never became more confident when he fixed the ugly nose that the woman thought that's why she didn't feel good fixed the disfigured scar on the guy's face from his car accident why were they not getting better it was because their self-identity the inner belief about how they saw themselves was stronger than the physical proof of how they looked and with fit people and successful people you often see a very strong change in identity so I am not a person that drink soda anymore as a result that's my identity so I can go to a full party with hundreds of people all my family everyone offering soda to each other and I will never have it not even once it's like being being a crackhead not being a crackhead anymore or being a smoker and now I'm a non-smoker as a result any kind of peer pressure in those domains does not affect you or will not affect me so the third big mindset is to change your self identity of I am a person who is working on getting fitter I am a person who doesn't eat white flour or sugar anymore whatever it is if you change the identity first then often the outside and the habits will quickly follow suit so I hope that helps guys some little food for thought here today now before you go I want you to leave a comment there below let me know for you what is another inner mindset you would add to this list hey guys it's Alex did you like this video if so so there are really two ways you can stay in touch with me the first thing is to go over click the monk And subscribe so you get the next video right when it's out I'm releasing at least three videos per week but often a lot more next thing is come on over and check out my book master the day it's called Master the day eat move and live better with the power of daily habits and it's all about the tiny Daily Success habits that I learned interviewing people that lost over 100 lounds they kept it off years later in a healthy way the success habits 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