Tired of Making the Same New Year’s Resolution?

Posted on December 27, 2008
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The most recent Olympic games are now over for another four years; but no matter where you live on this planet, the odds are pretty good that you have managed to watch at least a part of the performance.

If you are an American, or an aspiring athlete of any nationality, you can only be inspired by Mark Phelps.

Using Phelps as an example, ask yourself: Did you see any hesitation to dive in and set yet another record? Do you think that there was any question in his mind as to his ultimate success?

The answer to both of those rhetoricals is a resounding NO – And why not?

Could be the unequaled coaching.

Could be any one or more of a lot of things; but, it could also be the seemingly endless number of defeats along the way. Mark Phelps first had to overcome the inborn fear of the water; then he had to learn to swim–to coordinate all the muscles in his body to propel himself forward.

Then came the endless “failures”. No matter what he did, there was always someone who could swim faster, farther than he could…and they made it look so easy.

And now, many years, many “failures” later, he is not only an Olympic success, his success is unequaled in Olympic history.

Using Phelps as an inspiration, become an Olympic Dieter; especially, and only, if you have “failed” often enough.

The opportunities for dieting failure are all around. Do a “google” for “diets” and you will be returned twenty-nine million, five hundred thousand (that’s 29,500,000) pages. Even if you have already tried half of them (at least it FEELS that way), you are still faced with the opportunity to fail another 15 million times. And that’s good; but a bit extreme.

To become a true “Olympic Dieter”, ten or fifteen failures will be enough to put you in the “semi-finals” at least. Of course, the longer you have been trying and the more times you have failed, the more qualified you’ve become.

You can’t have missed Slim Fast, Nutrisystem, and Jenny Craig. They do the most advertising; and that usually means they are the most successful and make the most money.

True “Olympic Dieters” however, measure success in weight, not dollars. You decide.

So go ahead. If one of those remaining 15,000,000 pages strikes your fancy, give it a shot. Just remember to call it another “training exercise”. For the purposes of this article…failures are good. Required, in fact.

My most recent “training exercise” involved $60 per month cups of “secret Oriental tea”( I don’t know if it was green, black or white–only that it was “not available in stores”).

The accompanying instructions advised that I should EAT LESS, EXERCISE MORE, AND DRINK TWO CUPS OF THE MAGIC TEA every day.

At this point in an “Olympic Dieter’s” training, the question arises: “And what happens if I eat less… exercise more…and DON’Tdrink the miracle tea?”

See how easy it is to get to the semi-finals? But, numerous failures were required to learn this most important lesson.

In case you missed it, losing weight is not magic – its just eat less and exercise more – nothing else – but you have toÂ decide to get serious!Â

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