How many of us wish that we were in better shape? How many of us actually are?
- Nearly everyone has some aspect of fitness that they wish to improve; lose weight, exercise more, build muscle, or whatever.
- Nearly everyone possesses the knowledge of how to eat and exercise to accomplish these goals.
So knowledge plus desire does not equal results. There must be something else out there that prevents us from employing this knowledge. What is that? How do we discover it? How do we eliminate it as an obstacle to employing the knowledge that we have of how to achieve our goals?
Now consider this : our taking action on the knowledge that we have so that we can obtain the desired outcome involves a mental calculation that we probably don’t even know we are making. In that calculation, we evaluate what something will “cost” us in some way vs. the benefit we can expect from it and then we decide whether to take the action or not. The “software” for making this calculation runs deep in the background processes of our mind. We are no more aware of this calculation in most cases than we are aware of our breathing or our heartbeat.
So if it's not working for you inspite of having the desire and knowledge, then we have to bring this calculation into our consciousness, examine it, see why the calculation is coming out to a “no” decision, then see if there are variables that we can alter in order to get to a “yes” decision. Better yet, we may even decide that “no” is the right decision and discard our desire for that thing. Either way, we have aligned our desired outcome with the actions we are taking.
Sounds simple. But, not so fast! It turns out there is another issue that occurs when we start examining this cost/benefit computation: there are variables at work that we have trouble recognizing. Hidden variables such as: looking good, feeling safe, being accepted by others, alignment with the past meanings....well you got to find your own.
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