“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~Albert Einstein

The last entry ending with a description of and homework for “capture.”  Did you do a capture around a goal and why it is important to you?  Here is my capture for why I intend to return to my optimal bodyweight by the end of this year:

  1. I am tired of being tired.
  2. I want the energy and vitality to really live my life again.
  3. I want to be able to jog again.
  4. I want to be able to play tennis again.
  5. I want to compete again in running road races.
  6. I want to look great in a swimsuit.
  7. I want to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
  8. I want to run with the bulls in Spain.
  9. I want to be around to play with my grandchildren.
  10. I want to feel attractive again.
  11. I want to feel great about my appearance on stage when I am working and performing.
  12. I want my family to be proud of me.
  13. I want to feel energized and strong.
  14. I want the energy to live my dreams.
  15. I want to feel how great it feels to be an athlete again.
  16. I want to buy a new elegant wardrobe at my ideal weight.
  17. I want to see the wonder in the eyes of people when they see me again.
  18. I want my mother to see me in shape again while she is still living.
  19. I don’t want to get diabetes and this runs in my family and being overweight makes it much worse.
  20. I want to live a long life and have the energy and health to really enjoy it.

That may be enough for this entry.  If you read those over, you will find that some of these are things that I want to move towards – positive motivation – and some of them are things that I want to move away from – negative motivation.  When I was first studying NLP they taught us both positive and negative motivation strategies.  The also taught us to create a compulsion – a place where you are simultaneously driven away from what you do not want and pulled towards what you do want.  Although I am not going to create a near phobic response More >