How To Change

I've had a chance to contemplate quite a lot these last weeks.

I have come to realise that in order to change you either need a big life event to jump start your efforts OR it needs to be drip fed to you.

Drip feed: Why? My logic is simple - My perceptions and beliefs have been created by the sum of all those tiny little experiences that I have had over my life time. Small, insignificant on their own, but unmovable together. So how change it? My dealing with it on the SMALL level.

By tiny little insights, events or experiences that contradict those tiny little perceptions. over a little time, then the foundations of the whole immovable sum of perceptions become weaker. The bond waekens. Suddenly it becomes easier to tackle bigger parts of the perceptions. The momentum builds as it becomes easier and easier to cancel out the effects of the "old" perceptions you need to change to succeed.

For me, the "MASSIVE ACTION" is counter productive. You don't need MASSIVE ACTION. All you need is targeted action. Tiny Targeted Action. Focus. And then just chip away at it.

Feel fat? ( I'm 18 stone - 115kg) focussing on loosing 6 stone is meaningless to me. So is focussing on loosing weight. Weightloss is not the issue. Health is. The things I no longer am able to do is an issue. The things I would like to do, but can't is an issue.

My targets then have to reflect that.

How do I measure health? Ability to walk stairs is one measure. But it isn't very accurate. An accurate measure is the pulse I have when I wake up in the morning. Or the CHANGE in heart rate from immediately after a 10 minutes of exercise at 60% of my max heart rate and the heartrate 5 minutes & 30 minutes later.
My heart rate when I stop should be above 111.
If after 5 minutes it is down to 95, the reduction is 16 beats.

If the reduction two weeks later is 32, then there is irrefutable evidence that I am getting fitter. So with that evidence, my perception that it is impossible for me to get fitter has to be adjusted. And it becomes easier for me to take on other goals.

And that concludes todays brain dump

Cheers,
Jon ( still progressing )

=Every Day In Every Way, I'm Getting Better And Better=