What are your goals? What happens when you reach them? Who even recognized your success? Love yourself! How do you reward yourself? Rewards create a greater sense of accomplishment. They help you acquire the feeling that you are doing something you want to do, not just what you’re forcing yourself to do. Even the smallest of rewards when you reach your goals can work wonders as you move from benchmark to benchmark, goal to goal, pound to pound, and size to size success to success whatever they may be.
Develop for yourself a good reward system. Make the rewards meaningful to you. As a reward, a new pair of shoes may not hold as much motivation for some as a simple night alone with a book. Then again, for others, like me for instance, it might. A new pair of shoes, a new hat, a new purse, and especially a new dress does my soul well. Sometimes, though, the best rewards are those you can’t buy.
Plan to celebrate your long-term weight loss goal. Figure out now how you’re going to celebrate reaching your big weight loss goal. Involve other people in your celebration. Create a celebration that you can anticipate and then keep it within sight all the time.
Everyone likes a pat on the back every once in a while. Moreover, there is no better time to give yourself a pat on the back than when you have accomplished a weight loss goal. Rewards help you to challenge yourself and to improve even more. They even help to ease any reluctance you are still holding onto in the back of your mind regarding your success.
Most people approach weight loss from a position of agony. Our reluctance and our own fear constantly cause us to feel blighted, some of us berate ourselves and accept nothing but perfection. No matter how much progress is made some of us have practiced pulling our own spirits down that we miss the mark for success. Attitudes such as these display and very often speak of fear, guilt, doubt, and shame. For some of us, we beat ourselves up, we are our own worse critic. This is learned behavior and probably stems from an external source. Someone either in our past or who surrounds us currently have beat us up so much that they don’t need to anymore. We have taken over their work.
Sound familiar? If this rings a bell, it is definitely time for a change of mind. You are in charge of your life. You have choices. You can choose success and good health or, whatever the negative outcomes bring. Instead of focusing on the pounds you have not lost yet, celebrate those you have lost. For people used to beating themselves up, being a self-critic may seem like the best way to get motivated. However, consider this for a moment. If you attempted to motivate an employee like that, how long do you think they’d stick around? If you attempt to motivate your children, your neice and nephew, your friend, your husband, or your wife in this manner, how many times will you experience their loving smile? How long will you enjoy the benefits of their presence? How successful would they really be?
Therefore, instead of finding things to criticize in yourself, look at your positive aspects. Look at your success thus far, be grateful about them. Go further and show your gratitude to God, who is our help and our strength. Then begin to reward yourself regularly for your accomplishments for reaching a short-term weight loss goal. Learn to pat yourself on the back and give yourself a word of encouragement. Let your encouragement and your motivation come from within. Instead of focusing on what you do wrong, or waiting for others to encourage you, try paying more attention to what you do right. This positive approach to living will ensure your continued success in your shedding of extra pounds as well as other aspects of your life. You are in charge of our own destiny. Decide what you want, where you want to go, seek God’s counsel, ask for his help, and go for it. “Faith without works is dead.” Let there be no pity party within you!
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