5 Ultimate Essential Foundation Rules of LASTING Progress

5 Tips for Understanding the Changing Rules of Life

Life is busy, whether currently great, bad or somewhere in between. When you ask someone how they have been, they generally answer busy (or maybe just good) as a standard response.

The trouble with keeping yourself busy all the time is that it is unsustainable no one can 'hustle' 24/7 without negative consequences of some sort, one of these is a period of overwhelm.

The stagnation seeps in, the unease that life is not what you thought it would be and the discomfort builds and builds until you resolve to change in a flurry and a hurry.

There is a significant flaw in this approach that ultimately leads to the loop above. So in this article, we are going to address it with these Five rules. 



All too often people try to make change without addressing essential foundations and as a result quickly find they fall back again and again…

1. Get clarity on what life could be

Initially, you might think of "getting clear" as setting a goal such as get out of pain and move freely.

That's part of the picture, but it's not all I want you to see.

One of the most crucial things you need to get clear on is what does life look like when you achieve your goal…

How do you look?

• How do you feel?
• How do you perform at work?
• What is your attitude?
• What is your self-esteem?
• What is your workout & nutritional strategy? 

Often, we focus on the scale; the reality is you want something more...

It may be to feel great in your skin, have confidence, feel secure, have lots of energy and remarkable love life. All that with no annoying aches & pains, especially as you mature. I enjoy being healthy and the effects of working out regularly. I know that when I recalibrate, I feel great and I do better.

What do you want beyond that base level?

To help you gain that clarity, here are some additional questions that might help you. Which can then use to turn your vision into reality

One of the most crucial things you need to get clear on is what does life look like when you achieve your goal…

• What will you trade-off to make it real?
• Personally and professionally, what is truly important to you?
• What outcome are you dedicated to achieving?
  

For me, the most important thing is my health. Without it, I'm pretty worthless to those who count on me (my family, Recalibrate team, business peers and clients) without it. Plus, with poor health, I don't enjoy life as much.

What about you?

It would be very cool to read your answers! ('leave a comment' and let me know)

Oh, and one more thing…

People around you such as colleagues, close friends & family are going to doubt you... they're going to try to kill YOUR vision (even if they don't mean to).

DON'T LET THEM.

You may also try some things, and they won't go quite as planned. So what!

Earl Nightingale defined success as "the progressive realization of a worthy ideal." If you're working on it and moving towards it, you're successful.

2. Work smart then hard

There are always things out there touting success without actually doing any work.

Life doesn't work that way.

Even when with leverage there is still an effort that is required (with massively multiplied results), anything worth having requires work and is appreciated more.

It is natural for people to want to find a loophole and marketers will, of course, be all too happy to try to sell it.

Not willing to work at it? Then there is a good chance you don't want it or don't need it enough.

"paralysis by analysis" does not work either. That's where you spend so much time 'researching' that you never actually get around to implementation.

I've also heard, "I'll start your program when I get in a little bit better shape/when I have more time/when I am financially better off ."

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So, be ready to work. Better yet, get EXCITED to work. :-)

You know things you can take action on right now, don't you? (drink more water, eat more veggies, get more steps into your day). Here's why it's important:

Taking action consistently and continuously builds momentum. Action breeds action…You feel better about yourself and your ability to succeed... so it becomes easier to keep moving towards success...

If you want to start feeling unstoppable, do something that moves you towards your goals. NOW! (I'll wait here)

If you took that step, did you feel what happened in your mind - you build self-confidence and move from thinking to doing. You're making progress...no matter how small that progress compounds

As you do this, your identity changes to that of a "doer", and the decisive action starts to become habit…

Once it becomes a habit, it leads to action.

And, the only way to achieving LASTING progress is through consistent and continuous action!

You have more potential than you can probably imagine (I see this all the time with clients). Still, the potential remains untapped unless fed by the best beliefs, attitudes, and resources, then followed up by consistent action.

Tony Robbins has a Success Cycle that describes this well.

Here's the framework:

• You perceive your level of potential, based off that; you initiate action.
• The action yields a result.
• The result you achieve enforces or reinforces the belief of your potential.
• Improvement anywhere in the cycle will create growth in all parts.

Problem is we can often have a limited belief about our potential and therefore don't take action (CONSISTENTLY OR CONTINUOUSLY) to change the results positively.

So, start taking action now. You'll begin to get more of the results you want, which in turn will foster momentum in the cycle.

When you take action, you gain self-confidence, which when confronted with negativity or even temporary defeat, you can withstand it and not get permanently derailed. You learn resilience and staying on target.

Begin now by investing time in daily practices that move you towards your goal of lasting progress. Plan your day/week, and schedule time to fill your bucket, love, work, cook, eat, train, sleep. On building a healthier life, mind, body and business that you want!

So far, we have covered:

Rule #1: Get Clear

Rule #2: WORK!

Now, let's talk about a SIMPLE - but not always EASY - rule#3…

3. Embrace Simplicity

If you want to achieve your goal and have LASTING progress = success, then you need to simplify things.

If you make things complicated, you won't consistently execute; you'll get frustrated, burnt out and ultimately quit… Have you ever done that before?

Sure, you need to make educated decisions and follow a well-designed program one that ensures progress made without overburdening you.

It's the same regardless if it's life or business -You always have a choice.

You can choose to struggle with a list too big for any reasonable human to bear. Or you can tighten your focus and do a few things extraordinarily well.

Sure, the human body is very complex; people far smarter than me, have studied it six ways from Sunday. However, success comes down to consistently doing a few simple things well.

We teach our clients to focus on three things:

• Be Effective & Efficient in their Strategy
• Align a Realistic & Simple Nutritional Approach
• Engage in the village around you

Of course, each of these has complexities along the way. With years of learning, practice, implementation, adjustment and optimisation to figure what works best for different people. However, that's precisely why our clients entrust us. We help take away excess load, which, in return, enables their clear progress. You can start by asking yourself:

• Did I get in enough of the right movement today?
• Did I eat real, unprocessed, whole-foods with protein, veggies and good fats?
• Did I drink enough water today?
• Did I engage in a positive, goal supported environment that helps me feel great about how I'm living?
• Simultaneously, was I able to give meaningful support to someone else?
  

Constant overwhelm stops you from being the best you that you can be. That's why I wrote this because I want to help you Recalibrate to do and feel GREAT!

Now if these lessons help you do that, awesome. However, if you are suffering from Information overload and these lessons are not helpful to you, then I want you to unsubscribe!

I know it seems a bit odd, but the reality is you can't more really follow than a few "experts" at a time. If you are always jumping from one program to the next, you will never get a great result from any of them.

If you want clear progress, then pick an expert in a field that resonates with you. Follow one program that makes sense and feels right in your gut...then stick with it!

At the same time, consider pausing the other information-oriented categories you already have covered. Simplify your life and focus on a few key things that are most important to you. By the way, your health & happiness should be at the TOP of your list always. Especially, if you want to be a great provider/supporter to those you love - you're not useful to them when you're not present, sick, tired, unhealthy or dead.

So, put all that other noise on hold for a while.

• Dial down the additional noise.
• De-prioritise mindless unproductive garbage and see how you feel after a week.
• Unsubscribe from email lists - yes even this one. If I'm not providing you with the information you need to achieve your goals, then unsubscribe from this newsletter/blog.
  

Identify what success looks like to you and come up with a plan to achieve it - COMMIT to it. You can refine it along the way. Then it's time to focus on execution.

Simplicity will lead to Clarity, which will lead to the ability to take rapid, decisive, consistent action.

Anything else will slow or even kill your progress!

Please keep it simple and recalibrate to do and feel great!

4. lazily Eating “What the Kids Like”

Now who has lived life boldly has had an average experience.

Extraordinary achievements go hand in hand with being consistently bold.

You have to be willing to get productively uncomfortable and challenge the norms.

I remember back when I did my first and only modelling competition.

The thought of stepping on stage in front of a crowd of people in my underwear was terrifying. At this point in my life, I was socially awkward and metaphorically packing my pants; I had to be practically naked on stage! Plus, when I first committed to doing the competition, I was a good deal older than most of the others in their early 20's

But, I knew that being uncomfortable in this way was going to be productive. My goal was not to launch my career in that industry. It was to take on a challenge that meant I had to step up and be bold, and that would help me progress in ways I did want.

Signing up for that competition and then actually showing up on the day was a series of BOLD choices for me.

Sometimes when making those choices, you're going to miss. However, you will have progressed and will have more knowledge of and skill for next time.

So, Rule #4 for CLEAR progress is BE BOLD!

Commit yourself to your goal and live a life of achieving it.

Yeah, you may get some weird looks and maybe some non-supportive comments from those in proximity to you - people do that because they are not ready to be BOLD themselves!

Now, the secret to being bold goes back to RULE #1: Get Clear.

Getting clear is CRITICAL because when you have an intrinsic mission. It's significant to you, and you'll be committed to finding a strategy to defeat any obstacle you'll inevitably encounter along your way.

The rewards of being consistently bold FAR outweigh the regression that occurs from playing it safe.

When you're crystal clear and take action on that clarity, everything else opens up.

You develop the drive and the ability to recalibrate to conquer the obstacles in your way like - obstacles/naysayers/setbacks that you'll inevitably encounter along your way.

5. How you do one thing is how you do everything

We all have circles of control and influence, and every single choice or action made within these has resonance with other areas of your life.

When using "How I do one thing is how I do everything" as a filter, it is easier to see how the choices you used to write off as unimportant or irrelevant. In actuality move you TOWARDS or AWAY FROM your goal…

One of my clients Steve, was proud of the fact they never wasted food; in fact, their motto was "I waste nothing".

But when it came to their productive time during the day they hadn't carried that motto across, until they used the "How I do one thing" filter.

That formed the basis of a simple but powerful new perspective on their day and increased productivity leading to faster progress was the result.

We're all a product of our choices. So, what are yours, and how do they shape your day? At Recalibrate, we recognise the importance of this. So every Sunday, we do a reflection post in our VIP group.

Our present life is a product of the choices we have made in our circles of control and influence.

Are you building the life you want?

If you are going backwards or feel stuck, it's a reflection of the control and influence choices you've been making perhaps like the examples below:

Trying to draw from a regularly empty bucket

• Approaching life with complacency
• Investing in everyone but yourself
• Consumption things that not aligned with the results you want
• Perpetuating dysfunctional relationships
  
• Too much to do too much of the time
• Not allowing yourself to pause, reflect and recover
  

Every day we have the option to proactively navigate the day or wake up and react to what comes our way.

Outputs are shaped by our inputs regardless if it's eating, moving, reading, watching, listening or talking.

We continuously decide how we're going to be present and engage (or avoid engagement) with every relationship in our lives.

We continuously decide if we're going to take specific actions to move toward our goal or put them off until yet another day.

In truth, we decide whether we believe we deserve success or if it is even possible.

Our self-talk is often the first domino for many of the choices we'll make, and reflected in the company we keep and the conversations we have.

We decide whom we spend time with and to whom we listen.

I'll tell you, without a doubt, that it can dramatically help or hinder your mindset.

The choices you make as a result of that mindset and the progress you get, whether it be positive or negative.

You don't get to pick which decisions matter, which choices will be valuable in the long run.

You never know how you treat someone (even yourself) will impact you or your life.

You never know when the video you watch or the email you read will be the catalyst that helps change everything.

I've seen people's lives harmed or even ended by a poor choice. :(

I've seen people's lives forever improved by a, seemingly simple choice, too. :)

Everything we choose in our circles of control and influence affects us in some way.

Sometimes we can't see it ourselves; we don't realise how powerful an effect it's having and how it's moving us toward or away from our goals. We need someone else on our team to look in and help us gain a clear perspective.

Whether immediately visible or not HOW WE DO ONE THING IS HOW WE DO EVERYTHING.

Here are the 5 Rules to CLEAR progress:

• I Get Clarity
• I Work Smart, then Hard
• I Embrace Simplicity
• I am Bold, and I will be Extraordinary
• How I do one thing is how I do everything

They're not tactical.

They're not magic bullets or quick fixes.

They're the foundation of ANY success.

Implement them, practice them, and virtually any goal you set out to achieve they will help it ultimately be yours!

I'd love to hear how these five rules have helped.

PS, whenever you're ready, here are two ways I can help you:

1. Click here to join my Fitness group and connect with a community of people who like you, want to learn how to succeed with more ease with support and accountability.
   
2. Join the Pain-Free Strength Strategy. This strategy is how you can work with me for less pain and more power in 12 weeks. Click here to book a call to see if we're a good fit and how we may work together
   

For more information, talk to Recalibrate for personal training in Melbourne today on 0408 077 093

Talk Soon,
Gaz