Would you like some help in your quest for fitness? Happily, there are lots of ways to help you find success not only in fitness, but also in other areas of your life. Staying on the path to success is a matter of understanding some success principles and then implementing them in your life. Let's look at some of these.
Avoid the Age of Distraction. Was that your phone or was it mine? Let me answer that email, send that text, and just leave this quick voice mail, right after I check my Facebook. Sound familiar? We are sadly becoming a society of multi-taskers, and research shows it just doesn't work. And it actually ruins our health.
Check out this funny, but not so funny fact. A study was done on our ability to multitask and what happens to our brains during it. Conclusion: the IQ of people while they multitask drops 10 IQ points! No wonder people struggle to get things done at work, at home and with their fitness.
But that is not the whole of the interesting research on IQ and multitasking. There was also research done on people who were high. It turns out that when a person is high, they only drop about five points of their IQ! So multitasking is harder on focus than is getting high!
Multitasking doesn't work; it's much better to focus. We lose 28% of our productive energy when we try to do too much at once. How does this apply to your fitness? When you're at a session, be there. Don't be somewhere else, hanging onto your phone, as though the world won't be ok without you for 30-60 minutes. When you are at home, be present with your family, your nutrition, etc.--give it attention and focus versus mindlessly eating, or being distracted by TV.
It is important to understand that successful people are aware that there are things clamoring for their attention and they work hard to resist being distracted by them. They turn off the television, they don't spend their lives watching the news. They take breaks, clear their minds and keep pressing forward. You would do well to do the same.
Avoid the Age of Distraction. Was that your phone or was it mine? Let me answer that email, send that text, and just leave this quick voice mail, right after I check my Facebook. Sound familiar? We are sadly becoming a society of multi-taskers, and research shows it just doesn't work. And it actually ruins our health.
Check out this funny, but not so funny fact. A study was done on our ability to multitask and what happens to our brains during it. Conclusion: the IQ of people while they multitask drops 10 IQ points! No wonder people struggle to get things done at work, at home and with their fitness.
But that is not the whole of the interesting research on IQ and multitasking. There was also research done on people who were high. It turns out that when a person is high, they only drop about five points of their IQ! So multitasking is harder on focus than is getting high!
Multitasking doesn't work; it's much better to focus. We lose 28% of our productive energy when we try to do too much at once. How does this apply to your fitness? When you're at a session, be there. Don't be somewhere else, hanging onto your phone, as though the world won't be ok without you for 30-60 minutes. When you are at home, be present with your family, your nutrition, etc.--give it attention and focus versus mindlessly eating, or being distracted by TV.
It is important to understand that successful people are aware that there are things clamoring for their attention and they work hard to resist being distracted by them. They turn off the television, they don't spend their lives watching the news. They take breaks, clear their minds and keep pressing forward. You would do well to do the same.
About the Author:
Author Vito La Fata is a fitness expert who can give you help to lose weight. Visit his site for more tips on getting fit and healthy and on how to use weight lifting to lose weight.
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