Is YOUR "Inner Voice" Holding You Back?

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Success is built into us. We all want to be successful in our life whether it be personally or professionally yet why is it that some people have more drive and success than others?

Why is it that some people achieve their ideal body shape, live in the house of their dreams or simply earn more money over others?

I’ve studied plenty of people who are successful in their individual fields and I can give you a thousand secrets and formulas as to what makes up success but to be honest it all comes down to one thing, and one thing alone and it’s really simple (although not always easy!).

The ability to block out your inner voice.

Let me explain what I mean…

This is the voice in your head that likes to keep you in your comfort zone. The voice that thinks it’s looking out for you when in fact it’s holding you back from achieving success.

Sometimes the voice is loud, sometimes it’s quiet and sometimes it can be downright stubborn! It doesn’t like change and digs it's heels in at the very thought of anything new. It tries to trick you into thinking that you’re happy with your current circumstances but deep down you know you’re not, you want more.

Only last week one of my private clients had to overcome his own inner voice. We were doing a tough session. We’d done a gruelling hour of supersets and interval training throughout the workout and were finishing with a 5-minute steep hill run.

This was the perfect opportunity for his inner voice to present it self. It sensed a struggle. It wanted him to stop, to give up. He was tired and he was breathing heavy. He nearly quit, his inner voice had almost convinced him but after some encouragement from me and a little shouting in his ear (ok a lot!) he dug deep, blocked his inner voice and finished the hill run.

This is a classic example of the mind wanting to give up before the body. The fact that he finished the hill was all the proof we needed.

His inner voice tried to trick him into stopping.

The inner voice disguises itself and it can present itself anytime, anyplace, anywhere. It will kick in whenever you want to move forwards in your life.

I’m sure there’s been a situation in your life where your inner voice has held YOU back? Maybe it’s been during a workout, it could have stopped you from that career change or even booking that exotic holiday you’ve always promised yourself.

Remember, your inner voice wants you to stay in your comfort zone. It doesn’t want you to evolve. To progress.

Learning to block your inner voice has to be the single most important factor when it comes to success. If you lack the ability to dig deep, come out of your comfort zone and overcome difficult obstacles in your life, then it won’t matter where you are or what you’re doing you’ll always let your inner voice win and you will break. You will never evolve into the person you want to be.

If you refuse to quit and succeed in blocking out your inner voice, you can achieve anything you want.

Anything.

Sam Winkworth
CPT, SPN

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What Were You Doing 77 Days Ago?

Hi

What were you doing 77 days ago?

I know, funny question, but there is a point, you see, today is day 76 of 2009 which means that 77 days ago you were celebrating New Year’s Eve and, like most people, you were setting up your New Year’s Resolutions and goals.

And look, here we are at day 76 already.

Time goes by pretty quick, huh?

But I’m not just mailing you to act as some kind of timekeeper or clockwatcher, rather I wanted to share with you something that I’ve been thinking about a lot this week.

You see, it recently dawned on me that, we’re already approaching the end of the first quarter of 2009 and that many of the goals I’d set for myself this year haven’t even been started. In truth, many of them haven’t even been thought about.

It’s not like they’re not important to me. They are, many of them would REALLY change my life for the better if I could bring them to life but, well, I just haven’t seemed to get around to them.

I bet you’re the same right?

I bet you have a huge list of things that you KNOW would absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt change your life for the better, yet you haven’t taken a single, solitary action on them, right?

Weird isn’t it?

For instance in my own life I know that these goals are important to me:

1. To have some kind of break, holiday or adventure every 12 weeks.

As much as I love running my own personal training company I tend to be extremely busy most of the time and rarely have time to "switch off" from it, so I made a promise to myself at the start of 2009 to schedule in more holidays. Infact schedule one in every 12 weeks.

There are soo many places in the world I want to visit (Grand Canyon, Great Wall Of China, Garden Of Gods, A Carribean Cruise, Adventures in Krabbi Jungle in Thailand) but haven't even done ANY of them yet!

2. To continue to develop my knowledge base by reading a book every week.

When I think back to when I was a young lad growing up, I used to ALWAYS be reading. There was nothing I liked better than to read. It made me happy. Nowadays it feels like I never have time to read.

I'd like to get back to reading one book a week.

3. Earn Extra Income

Yep, I make no bones about this goal. I want to make money, and lots of it too! For the pure and simple fact that I (and my family)can have a good quality of life and experience the things that I may not be able to if I didn't have money.

4. To Squat 200kgs fo 5 reps and increase my muscle mass!

I love challenging myself whether it be professionally or personally. This goes for my fitness goals too. I'm squatting 140kgs at the moment and I want to get up to 200kgs. I also want to add an extra half a stone of lean muscle mass to my physique too.

Challenging myself is an important part of my life. It helps me to stay focused.

5. Write my new e-book.

I've planned it for ages and even written a bunch but I'm still behind schedule if I'm to get it done this year.

I have plenty more....: )

Most likely you’ve got a bunch like this too haven’t you?

For example, what financial goals did you set for yourself on New Year’s Eve?

What about your health goals? I KNOW you had a bunch of those!

How about adventures? We all want to travel more and experience more and I bet you had set some goals in this department, right?

Not to mention relationships, education, family and career goals.

I bet you had a bunch, yet where are you with them?

That’s not a rhetorical question,I mean it. Where are you with these goals?

Did you achieve them as you said you would?

More to the point, did you even START them?

I know that I didn’t even BEGIN many of the goals I set at the start of the year. I know they’re important to me, I know they’ll change my life in more positive ways than I can even begin to tell you but for some strange reason, I haven’t even begun to chase them yet.

Like I said, weird.

So look, I’ve got this mad, crazy idea.

I want to help you achieve YOUR goals over the course of this year and I want you to keep ME on track. Sound like a fair deal?

It starts today.

Tell me what your most important, most pressing goals are and I’ll tell you mine and (hopefully) together we can see 2009 through in great style.

Of course, you could simply ignore this and pass it off as silly but, well, that’ll just mean that the next 76 days are just like the first, and the ones after that, and the ones after that.

I need help to bring my goals to life.

So do you.

So let’s do this!

Sam Winkworth
www.evolutionfitnessandnutrition.com

P.S – I got my idea for this email from my friend Dax Moy, Author of The MAGIC Hundred. I’m glad he kicked me in the butt today : )