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There are a number of reasons why many of us fail to take control of our health.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everything from time, lack of quality information, and motivation play a roll in our success or failure.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s another set of lesser-known reasons why you aren\u2019t as healthy as you\u2019d like: the thoughts in your head.<\/p>\n

Below I\u2019ve profiled the top seven bad mental habits I see over and over, and how you can fix them.<\/p>\n

#1 The belief that success is left to a special few<\/b><\/p>\n

Some people seem to have this concept that people who end up really successful, healthy, and happy, are just the lucky few.<\/p>\n

When you ask them how Mozart, Tiger woods, or top sports athletes are born, they\u2019ll tell you something like \u201cOh it\u2019s just their genetics, they were born that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Say you have the goal of wanting to go from 50 pounds overweight, to fitness model.\u00a0 There are numerous dramatic stories like this on the internet.<\/p>\n

But what if your mind is constantly telling you \u201cOh those people are just unique. They are the 1{54c12dad2cc2b53ae830e39915b1a3e70288dbcbbeb8bbf8395437c5dc3c512c} who have willpower and discipline like no other human being.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chances are you won\u2019t even do anything, right? You won\u2019t get started.<\/p>\n

Now what if I told you that I met someone who achieved the goal you want to achieve. And what if that person told me \u201cNope, I wasn\u2019t born special, I just learned what I had to do, and spent 1-2 hours every day for two years doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suddenly your mind expands and you begin to wonder: \u201cHmm, if an ordinary person can do it, maybe I can too.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, there have been numerous books on the subject, such as Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers From Everyone Else <\/i>and The Talent Code<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The conclusions of both books?<\/p>\n

In the vast majority of cases, talent is created and forged every day, not born.\u00a0 This is as true for Mozart as it is for Tiger woods.<\/p>\n

My point is this: it\u2019s important to know <\/i>that the people who succeed at changing their health, building a business, or improving their personal life are not special <\/i>\u2013 they just take committed action.<\/p>\n

#2 Thinking that your life, and thus your success, health and relationships are all outside of your control<\/b><\/p>\n

One of my favorite quotes of all time comes from The Alchemist<\/i> and goes something along the lines of this:<\/p>\n

The greatest lie in the world is that, at some point, your life is run by factors out of your control.<\/i><\/p>\n

You can always change.<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s sort of like another saying: you can\u2019t control what happens to you in life, but you can control your response.<\/p>\n

This is extremely apparent today, where people are losing their jobs left and right. The vast majority of people end up complaining and saying, \u201cThere was nothing I could do.\u201d\u00a0 Really? Nothing?<\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t have been pro-actively meeting people, or bringing new ideas to the table, or taking on larger responsibilities to make yourself more indispensible?<\/p>\n

The same is true of your health:\u00a0 some people act as if they are powerless to the food industry, or can\u2019t fight their genetics.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, heart disease and cancer run in my family.\u201d\u00a0 And apparently that\u2019s all the justification we need to go eat junk food every day.<\/p>\n

There are two ways to look at your health.<\/p>\n

The first sounds a lot like this: \u201cOh, everything causes Cancer these days! Forget it, I\u2019m just going to eat what I want.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second sounds like this: \u201cMy health is a priority and I\u2019m going to do whatever it takes to figure out how to get healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

You could read hours worth of success stories, of people who successfully reversed their genetic predispositions to obesity, heart disease, or cancer.<\/p>\n

Just look at Jack Lalanne \u2013 one of the most famous health icons of the 21st<\/sup> century. Lalanne\u2019s dad died young from a heart attack, but Lalanne lived to be 96 years old \u2013 and if you saw videos of him in his 90\u2019s, he looked to be about 75.<\/p>\n

The more you believe that you are incapable of change, the less likely you are actually going to take the action you need to improve your life.<\/p>\n

#3 Thinking that sticking to a diet is all a matter of willpower <\/b><\/p>\n

This whole laziness \/ willpower thing has unfortunately become the default belief in the health industry.<\/p>\n

People that are unhealthy or overweight are viewed as lacking \u201cwillpower,\u201d and those who are healthy are viewed as having lots of it.<\/p>\n

I think that laziness is mostly a myth. It\u2019s not that you can\u2019t stick to a diet because you\u2019re lazy, it\u2019s because you have bad habits<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Habits happen automatically. That\u2019s why we feel powerless against them.<\/p>\n

One of the most important things I tell clients when I work with them is that it\u2019s not a matter of willpower \u2013 it\u2019s a matter of turning small changes into big habits<\/i>.<\/p>\n

For any of you who have tried fighting sweet cravings, you know that willpower is a weak soldier to fight the battle.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty much impossible, and there\u2019s a good body of research showing that sugar cravings function a lot like drug addictions and even affect the same receptors in the brain.<\/p>\n

Would you ever tell a drug addict to just \u201cfight\u201d the cravings?<\/p>\n

No, of course not!\u00a0 That\u2019s why I challenge you to not view dieting as a willpower game \u2013 you will almost inevitably lose.<\/p>\n

Instead, imagine if you picked one bad habit \u2013 and spent 30 days re-wiring yourself. Imagine what your health and life would look like after 12 of those (one year)?<\/p>\n

#4 Trusting some new health expert on blind faith, rather than testing out the advice<\/b><\/p>\n

It seems like every year there\u2019s a new M.D. proposing some huge diet solution that will help save humanity.<\/p>\n

Right now it\u2019s the Wheat Belly <\/i>diet.\u00a0 Diets aside, there are obviously some really good ones, and some really bad ones. But there are very few that endure and last.<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, the health industry is filled with people who think they\u2019ve \u201ccracked the code\u201d and at which point, the know-it-all hat comes on.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine recently lost 50 pounds doing nutrisystem \u2013 so he began preaching the gospel of nutrisystem (despite the fact that a year later, he regained <\/i>60 pounds).<\/p>\n

People seem to forget that there is one system that really<\/span> works for everyone: experimentation.<\/b><\/p>\n

Ignore the M.D. credential on most diet books. Ignore the rave reviews. Ignore all the junk and advertising.<\/p>\n

If Dr. Zee has a new program that\u2019s supposed to help people with arthritis, and you\u2019ve got arthritis, try it and see what happens long term!<\/p>\n

If Dr. Zoo has a \u201crevolutionary, break-through\u201d program for combating sugar cravings, just try it out before you begin preaching the gospel.<\/p>\n

If Dr. Zed has a newly scientifically verified program for combating allergies\u2026 just try It out and see if it works for you!<\/p>\n

If Dr. Zoy has a program guaranteed to make you healthier \u2013 get a blood test before and after and see the proof.<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, I used to believe that there really was one universal human diet.\u00a0 But after having worked with so many people, I\u2019ve realized that people respond very differently to the exact same foods, diets, or programs.<\/p>\n

So, start experimenting! Don\u2019t put your faith in the latest fad, or even someone with credentials. People still have beliefs and opinions \u2013 regardless of the M.D. next to their name.\u00a0 Trust results.<\/p>\n

This is closely tied in to the next point: the belief that there\u2019s one silver bullet that will fix your health problems.<\/p>\n

#5 Believing that there\u2019s that one simple tip or trick that will change it all<\/b><\/p>\n

This bad habit capitalizes on human nature: the belief that just around the corner<\/i> there\u2019s another book, class, or person who will introduce you to a secret technique that will fix it all.<\/p>\n

There never is, but we always hope there is. That\u2019s why every two months there is some new magic bullet in whatever industry you\u2019re in. \u201cRevolutionary new method for\u2026\u201d please!<\/p>\n

As long as I live I\u2019ll never understand humanity\u2019s obsession with silver bullets \u2013 even when most of us know<\/i> they don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

We still have that little bit of hope in the back of our minds – \u00a0\u201cmaybe there\u2019s a faster way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe there\u2019s a way I can still eat chocolate cake all day and lose weight.\u201d (Weight loss silver bullet).<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe there\u2019s a way I can not work but earn income.\u201d (Income silver bullet).<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe there\u2019s a way I can sleep only 5 hours a night but still be as productive as before\u201d (Productivity silver bullet).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m probably telling you something you already know, but it bears reminding: there is almost never that silver bullet that will solve all your problems, in a straight shot, with no effort, just for $19.95.<\/p>\n

If you spent 20 years not taking care of your health, you can\u2019t reverse that in 2 weeks.<\/p>\n

#6 Not taking responsibility for your own life<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b>\u201cMy personal trainer didn\u2019t give me good information.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy family eats unhealthy so it\u2019s impossible for me to eat healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy job hours are long, so I can\u2019t find a way to exercise at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Look at the blame in all of these extremely common statements.\u00a0 The blame is on someone\/something else.<\/p>\n

My trainer.<\/p>\n

My family.<\/p>\n

My job.<\/p>\n

Guess what? You have very limited control of all of these things.<\/i><\/p>\n

Just focus on what you can <\/i>control \u2013 and that\u2019s YOU.<\/p>\n

The constant excuses is one of the major reasons why people fail to improve their health.<\/p>\n

Their \u201cproof\u201d usually starts with \u201cYeah, but\u2026”<\/p>\n

But what?\u00a0 It\u2019s YOUR health<\/b>. Only you are responsible for it. No one else is going to take care of it for you.<\/p>\n

Just the other day I was talking with a family member who wants to get healthier.\u00a0 She talked about being excited, but then the little blame game started showing up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t have that much time, and it\u2019s tough because I work far away, and I\u2019m a live-in nurse so I have to eat what\u2019s at the house I work at.\u201d<\/p>\n

Little did she know that one of her friends works 80 hours a week, sleeps five hours a night, and has less than an hour of personal time each day \u2013 and still manages to eat healthy and find time to exercise.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no one\u2019s responsibility but your own – and when you lose your health, you can\u2019t do much else.<\/p>\n

#7 Thinking there\u2019s a perfect time to start<\/b><\/p>\n

The Internet has given rise to a scary malady: the \u201cI just need a little bit more information\u201d disease.<\/p>\n

When we want to start eating healthy, we hop on Google and type in \u201cwhat foods do I eat to lose weight?\u201d\u00a0 We read for an hour or two, gather some data, and right about when we should get started, we say \u201cMaaaaaybe I should read a little more, just in case.\u201d<\/p>\n

So we read for another few hours, maybe purchase a book on Amazon, and then eventually days and weeks elapse as we continue to read, collect information, and formulate our epic plan.<\/p>\n

And then nothing happens.<\/b><\/p>\n

Three months later we are still planning, reading, and consuming.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s part of the problem with 21st<\/sup> century life \u2013 we have insane <\/i>access to all the information that has ever existed on earth \u2013 at our fingertips. Scary, but also amazing.<\/p>\n

This is all the long way of saying this: You could easily spend all day researching, collecting information, and reading \u201cjust one more book.\u201d<\/p>\n

But ultimately, you only see results by what you do, <\/i>and not by what you read<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I think you already know what you need to do \u2013 but while you\u2019re on your path, make sure to avoid these 7 psychological habits that may try to divert you from succeeding.<\/p>\n

Alexander runs Modern Health Monk,<\/a> which helps people reverse health problems caused by 21st century life. Check out his free 8-part weight loss mini course<\/a>, or other free courses and reports on longevity and fixing back pain.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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