“Change Your BluePrint - Change Your Life” Anthony Robbins
Had the absolute pleasure of seeing Anthony Robbins live for the second time in 12 months yesterday, along with Richard Branson, W. Mitchell (if you ever get the chance to hear him speak do not pass it by), and Jack Canfield, all of which were amazing speakers, only brought down by one other who did a shameful promotion of a stock screening software.
The defining moment of the day came when Robbins said the following, “Change your blueprint, change your life.” I of course heard this as, “Change your blueprint, change your life golf game.” Its a simple yet profound concept. If you can figure out what motivates you to do the things you are most proud of and apply that to the things you need to improve on, you can effectively change the blueprint of why you do things, making yourself more successful. For example, if you can figure out that what motivates you to play a round of golf rather than practicing is the fact that you like to see if you can break your previous score, then you can figure out that if you apply a scoring system to your practice, you will be encouraged to do it more often.
From the same seminar, if you use Jack Canfields approach, and make a habit of practicing everyday for 30 days straight to from a habit, it will become a part of your blueprint that will be hard to break. Simply by changing your motivations and then putting them in to place for a sustainable period of time, you will be able to move beyond your current level of success to one closer to where you want to be.
Next time I will talk about the fundamental flaw of personal training and why people have so much trouble continuing a workout program based on the current methodology used by most trainers.
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October 18th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
That whole 30 days to form a habit thing confounds me. I worked out and dieted every day for nearly 6 months and neither one became a habit for me. I went back to eating poorly and being lazy after I reached a goal. I’m sure gurus would say it was my mindset, that I considered the diet and exercise temporary instead of permanent while I was doing it and therefore the ‘habit’ didn’t materialize. But still, if you recite the first line of the Gettysburg Address every day for six months, are you likely to forget the words? Repetition should have counted for something.
October 20th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
I think you did in fact create a habit, working out for 6 months and eating right is something few people are successful at. Great Job!
From what I see the problem lies in the fact that you set a goal, reached it, and then failed to set a new goal. This happens quite frequently to people who become successful. They hit a peak and then falter (look at celebrities). However, the most successful people never stop once they reach a goal, they push forward to yet another one. I believe that if once you reached your desired level of fitness you had set a goal to run a marathon or something like that, you would have continued on with your program. After that you could set a goal to beat your marathon time and so on. Your habit would continue because it would continue to have purpose.