When it comes to choosing, planning and sticking to a diet – we all have similar goals in mind. We want to eat healthier, we want to lose weight and we want to look and feel better about ourselves. Those are laudable goals, but they are also vague and don’t necessarily provide you with the tools to make your diet work for you. The following are some tips that work in business to help achieve the goals and we’re going to apply them to your dieting scheme.
First of all, assuming that you owner of the business knows best is one of the bigger mistakes in marketing. The same can be said for dieters. You don’t necessarily know what it is best, you are not unable to view yourself and your eating habits objectively. This can make it difficult to vet your dietary prospects properly.
When it comes to staying on target, you need to target yourself with a positive ad campaign that hits you several times a day. Whether it’s signing up with a diet service that sends you positive emails every day or you buy a calendar that features positive messages for each day of the week – reminding yourself in several small positive weighs will punch through the barrage and keeps your diet and your goals in the front of your mind.
Remember – the key here is a positive message. Negative self-talk serves no real purpose other than to make you feel bad about yourself and sabotage your efforts before you even get out of the gate. Can you imagine a business being successful if they spent most of their meetings discussing how badly their product tested? That it really wasn’t worth the money they were charging and it must be a cosmic joke that they were even talking about selling it to other people?
Yeah, me neither.
When you set a date for your diet to start, make sure you are ready to follow up on it. Don’t set a start date and then fail to follow through by adjusting your shopping and cooking habits. There’s no better way to build up resentment and set yourself up for failure by failing the follow through.
If you’re on a tight budget, think of yourself as the editor and the reader of your own personal magazine. Write letters to yourself, highlighting what you liked in the last week and what parts you thought could be better. Be constructive in the criticism; don’t just slam the whole thing – always begin and end on a good note.
Remember, you are in charge of you. You make the decisions and you have the control. A slip here or there is to be expected – not every page of every magazine is perfect – and there’s always room for improvement. It’s important to identify what you did right and remind yourself why it’s right and why you like it.
Have a great rest of your day!
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