Quote for the day…
Will power is only required when massive desire is lacking.
—Me
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Comments (14)
HaNiBaL said:
i have plenty of that JB…
and with you at the head things can´t go wrong… so keep up with the good work JB! ;)
Posted on Oct 24, 2005 07:14 PM
Tina said:
Hi Jon,
I just want to say you have a wicked sense of humor it’s a good thing. I have your M-Powering program so I already knew I enjoyed your personality, but this blog is even better. Great work hours, I would much rather go to bed at 1:00 or 2:00 every night myself. And of course you like football you live in God’s country (Texas) where they have the Cowboys. I also get Clark’s information way cool. Thanks for letting us peak in on your life. Tina
Posted on Oct 24, 2005 07:49 PM
Jon Benson said:
Hi Tina! Thanks for the thumbs-up. : ) M-Power is far more vast than any blog, but on a blog I have the freedom to be a bit more relaxed with the humor and lingo. Thanks so much for your support.
Posted on Oct 24, 2005 07:55 PM
Denise said:
Hey Jon,
Wanted to say I’m loving these blogs! I also thought you should know we share the same birthday, even the year *whoohoo* I too just had my 42nd bday and sadly I’ve also gained weight in the last 2 years. I was a lean mean 40 year old at 9 or 10% BF with abs a 20 year old would die for. *lol* I WAS working out 6 days a week, eating 6 meals a day and felt WONDERFUL! Now I’m at 26% BF and 20 lbs. over weight. My downfall started when my son got extremely sick, as a result I became very depressed and lost all focus then about a year later I was forced to change jobs and now work 12 hours a day 6 days a week and although I’ve kicked my depression (without drugs I might ad)I have no idea how to work out or eat right with this schedule. I was wondering if your m-power program might help me get back into the swing of things? Does it have a routene for someone such as myself that works all day? I leave the house at 7am and don’t get home untill 7:30 pm I might be able to manage the cooking for all week (no I won’t say the TRY word *lol*) if it won’t take hours n hours to figure out menus, I’m just not sure how to ad in the workouts. Any suggestions?
Thanks so much!
Posted on Oct 24, 2005 09:30 PM
Jon Benson said:
Denise;
I’ve answered you via email, but yeah, by all means: M-Power is a wonderful tool. It took years to build and hone, and I’m quite proud of the system. It’s helped thousands, and my goal is to see it expand to a vast market due to the low cost. For what you’d pay a trainer for a few sessions, you get a YEAR with me and an M-Power Trainer online for 90 days.
I’m really glad you’re enjoying the blog…I’ll keep writing if you keep reading and applying. : )
Posted on Oct 25, 2005 02:52 AM
Geoff said:
Hi Jon
I don’t usually go in for this sort of thing being mid-fifties and a bit dyed-in-the-wool. Oh…and English too! But your rant (sorry - your words) hit a bit of a nerve with me. My Oxford English dictionary defines will as “Faculty by which person decides or conceives himself as deciding upon and initiating action” Well thanks Jon, that was just the bit of motivation I needed and I’ve finally conceived and decided upon the action.
Cheers, Geoff
Posted on Oct 25, 2005 04:11 AM
Jon Benson said:
Geoff; We don’t kick those from the UK off the site, so you’re safe here mate! Thanks for the kind words…and ‘rant’ is cool by me. Plenty more verbal whupa where that came from, although the goal is not to hear myself talk. Write? Whatever..I’m going on 4 hours sleep. Bees knees!
Posted on Oct 25, 2005 09:05 AM
Jordan said:
Blogs are indeed far more relaxed, and more importantly, this comment feature is a great place for feedback and to better interact with people with the same goals as we have.
As for desire, well we may all think we want it, but as Jon has mentioned in his NLP talks, there’s much going on in our subconcious that may hold us back from what we conciously want, so we need to want it subconciously too. That’s often where there are such things as fear of success, fear of failure, often linked even though opposite.
Posted on Oct 25, 2005 11:40 AM
Phil Rutherford said:
I’d just like to add a couple of thoughts to Jon’s reply to Denise. I too put on a lot of weight after a lifetime of fitness and health. I blamed everyone and everything thing and while I ‘tried’ a lot of diets and exercise programs I never had sufficient ‘will do’ attitude to make any of them work. And I was working almost 24/7 so had no time for me.
It wasn’t until I realised that one day my job will be gone and I will still be there that I turned the corner. Now my job, while a fine thing for paying the bills, takes second place to my health and well-being, and this is my little rant to anyone who will listen.
I visited with a friend these last few days and he is in his early 50s. After a lifetime of hard work he is finally in a position to reap the rewards. His house is almost paid off, his kids have grown up fine and he has put money aside for their future. All of his bills are paid but, in doing so, he racked up one enormous debt - his heart is failing (he is having it operated on in two weeks), he has Type II Diabetes, ulcers have all but eaten his stomach away, and he has arthritis of his knees and back. He is one of the finest men I know, a great friend and true role model, but I am sad to see him wasting away at such a young age. Was his hard work worth it? He won’t say so but I suspect he regrets working so hard for everybody else and ignoring the most important person in his life - himself. I might be up to my ham hocks in debt but I have my health, the love of a family that I spend a lot of time with, and I have my future. That is far more than I can say for my friend.
Denise - in your position I would be looking very serious at my priorities. Jobs will always be there, my health won’t. Take my job away and I’ll always get another, but take my health away and that’s it.
Posted on Oct 26, 2005 08:29 PM
Elisa said:
Denise: I found it helpful to schedule workouts into the calendar like an appointment (I do this with my meals to so I remember to eat 5 per day). This way, I schedule the rest of my day (YES even my coaching clients) around it.
Gym/training time is sacred time to me. I consider it a priviledge and not just a “chore” on the to do list. To me it’s like making a spa appointment. Not sure what line of work you are in but I echo Phil’s point. You have to make time for you. Is there a compromise you could make at work that would allow you to focus on fitness if even for an hour?
Posted on Oct 26, 2005 08:55 PM
Jon Benson said:
Phil-
My mate from Down Under! Everyone, this man ROCKS. He’s on a great mission, and his body has followed his mind. Great thoughts, Phil, and please keep them coming.
Elisa-
Amen. Make an appointment with yourself. I know one guy who schedules the appointments a week ahead of time with various names: “Arthur Quads”, “Bill Back”, etc. It’s a code, but at first glance it looks like a ‘real’ appointment, so it’s easy for his mind to schedule it off! Kinda cool.
Posted on Oct 27, 2005 02:37 AM
Candice said:
Will power has been my main issue for 2 years now. After I had two kids, gained about 80 pounds, and started suffering low self-esteem for several reasons, I started down a new path. A path to success. In a little over a year I finished college, lost 60 pounds, and started a new positive attitude about myself. Then all of a sudden I got stuck. I started drifting back to some comfort eating, and some senseless eating (like eating for absolutely no reason). I still eat healthy food, I still exercise often, but I lose control enough to stop the weight loss. I have been trying to reinvent my approach lately. With MPOWER I think I am back on the right path, but I still feel like its a struggle between my goals and my sub-conscious selfish desires for sugar.
Candice
Posted on Oct 27, 2005 11:16 AM
Jon Benson said:
To Candice:
Will power is never an issue if you’re enjoying what you’re doing. It’s only an issue when you think something else would be ‘more’ enjoyable, and then it becomes an issue of where your Driving Point™ is focused (as you know from week 3, right?!) You have to reset these Driving Points, while using strategies like MSG removal and ditching the chemicals from your nutrition to kick that sugar habit. I did it, and I know you can as well. Still, it’s okay to enjoy sugar from time to time, just like any other food.
“Senseless eating” is a great way to phrase it, and I’d just encourage you to take a week or so and jot down why you’re eating each meal you eat. Literally. This is an amazing exercise. How many people think of ‘why’ they’re eating other than, “I’m hungry!”
How about:
1. “To fuel my next workout.”
2. “To recover from my last workout.”
3. “To give me three hours of steady energy!”
4. “To take one step closer to discarding that pound of fat this week.”
5. “To set an example for my children.”
I could go on, but I think this will help you reset and go forward.
Lastly, we all need to reset from time to time. Don’t feel bad about that, in fact don’t ‘feel’ anything. It’s not an issue of ‘feeling’, but of reason. Just see that the course is off and alter it. It’s not an indictment of character that you get off course! : ) Just make the necessary changes and learn from the deviations, cool?
Posted on Oct 27, 2005 12:38 PM
Cyn said:
I’m just starting the 10 in 10. My weakness is sugar. I eat organic and well except for my sweet tooth. I want to follow your guidelines to get to where I don’t crave sweets any more either. If you have any more specific advice I’d love to hear it.
Thanks,
Cyn
Posted on Dec 05, 2005 09:30 PM
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