Posted by Amir Lehrer on February 10, 2009
There are so many reality TV shows where you can watch other people do what you want to do. On the shows, people lose weight, get a job, start a business, become a top singer or model, find a spouse or countless other activities. You can waste precious hours each day watching other people live their dream or follow their heart. It doesn’t stop there, most people that watch reality TV, continue to watch the same shows season after season. You can literally sit on your couch for years watching other people live their lives while your life is passing before your eyes.
The Biggest Loser
My wife enjoys watching “the Biggest Loser” because it makes her feel good that people are doing something positive with their life. There are cases of people who have been on diabetes medication all their lives and now can all of a sudden get off the medication because they no longer need it. There are people who can hardly walk up the stairs to their houses and now can run up staircases at work. The show is inspirational and we should all take a lesson from it. The lesson I suggest taking is a little different from what most people would think at first. My favourite part of the show is when someone is kicked off and they show him or her 6 months later after having lost an additional 100 pounds. The most inspirational part is seeing what people can do on their own if they are determined, not what people can do while being pushed on public television.
The Lesson: Do It For Yourself
So take that lesson from the show. You are not on TV and you’re not competing for a prize. Everything you do is for yourself, your health and your happiness. So get off the couch and start doing what you want to do instead of watching others do it.
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Posted by Amir Lehrer on December 4, 2007
Picture this. You are 20 pounds overweight on December 20th, New Years is right around the corner. This is the perfect time to make a new years resolution. You are more than determined to get to your goal weight and you decide to start the moment that the ball drops in Time Square. You plan for the next 11 days how you plan to lose the weight. NO more eating after 8:00 PM, cut out 10% of your calories, drink less soda and alcohol and more water and finally start exercising like you’ve been wanting to for as long as you can remember.
Since you are extremely determined and organized, you whip out your laptop or a notebook and start making charts of what you need to do, how you are going to track yourself and set clear goals. You feel great about yourself and completely prepared for January 1st when your new lifestyle will start. You are going to be great!
Well, you still have a week and a half to go until you have to change your lifestyle so you might as well enjoy yourself while you can, after all, you won’t be able to indulge yourself for a long time.
A few large meals later, maybe some late night drinking, snacks in bed while watching a movie and holiday dinners, you look at the scale and are somewhat disappointed that you now have an extra 5 pounds to lose. You’re not as optimistic about your new years resolution at this point but you are still determined.
New Years Eve comes and you find yourself at a party with food and drinks going late into the night. You may choose to partake thinking that “the diet starts tomorrow” or you may hold back which can be the ultimate temptation. Whatever the case, the next morning is going to be very hard and keeping to your new program will get harder each day. The percentage of people that come to this point and stick to the program are (from my experiences) very low.
LUCKORTUNITY
The Luckortunity over here is to always start things right away. Never push things off because they will get harder and harder as time goes on. The greatest chance you have at succeeding is moving ahead at full force when the idea hits your head. A new idea, whether it’s your own or someone else’s, can give you a high that will give you the extra push to get things done. If you start on that note, you have a better chance of building momentum to keep going toward your goal.
My new year’s resolution for 2008 is to get lucky. Lucky in general, in everything I do in life, from business to social to family and everything in between. This post is the beginning of me keeping to my new year’s resolution. I know that it’s not January 1st yet but I figure a few things; first, if I start now, it will get me in motion so that by New Years I will already be well on my way and have enough inertia to keep going. Second, if I start now, it will be pretty pathetic of me to not even make it to New Years for my New Year’s resolution so I will be forced to keep it up. Lastly, starting early, working hard and being persistent are some of the keys to getting lucky.
I wrote on the Luckortunity (or introduction) page that there is a major difference between “chance” and “luck”. “Chance” is winning the lottery, something people can hope for but “luck” is something people can strive for. I am convinced that every single person in the world has the potential to be lucky on a regular basis. Through this blog, I am going to go through my own personal luck and give you tips on becoming lucky yourself.
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