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I mentioned yesterday that people will have a variety of reasons for not getting started with us.

All perfectly valid and true.

But often underpinned, at least somewhat, by one central thought.

“I don’t trust myself”

I get that there are cheaper alternatives to what we do out there.

Budget gyms where you just rent access to equipment.

Free YouTube workouts that don’t get done.

Diet clubs that give you a meal plan to follow and weigh / check in with you once a week.

What we do costs a little more………….

Because it is an awful lot more.

But, ultimately, it’s still about the cost of a cup of coffee a day.

I’d wager 95% of people who don’t start with us because of cost spend considerably more on other none essential stuff that won’t bring a tiny fraction of the benefits to their lives.

Which is fine.

Their money to do with as they wish.

But, if investing in our programme made it 100% certain they would end up with the body they like the look and feel of, I’m pretty sure they’d go for it.

Maybe make financial adjustments elsewhere if they knew it would definitely happen and it was impossible for it to not.

I’d like to think that, after all these years, we’ve proved we’ll keep up our end of the deal.

So, does it then boil down to not trusting themselves to “do it”?

If they knew they’d do it and we’d keep our end of the deal, would it not be a no-brainer?

It’s completely understandable.

By the time people get to us they’ve normally tried a number of approaches over the years.

And, as they’re not where they’d like to be, it’s tempting to think of those experiences as “failures”.

And to think this could just be another one.

We don’t trust ourselves to “do it”.

But, as we’ve mentioned before, “success” and “failure” are entirely labels of our own creation.

We’ve set some definition of what it should look like.

The amount we do, the results we get.

And, when it didn’t look like that, we feel we’ve failed.

That we need to ‘start again’ at some point.

And that level of not really trusting ourselves builds over time.

One of the biggest ‘shifts’ that leads to long term success…………..

Is that average forward progress is enough.

Two steps forward, one step back is fine.

It doesn’t need to be ‘perfect’ or nothing.

We can gradually challenge our habits and thought processes.

Take steps in the direction that we want to go in.

Allow flexibility within that approach that enables us to live a life we want to live.

If we’re not going in the direction we like, to make tactical adjustments rather than wholesale changes experience has taught us we’ll struggle to maintain.

If we’ve been walking slowly backwards for years, walking slowly forwards is an amazing change.

We may gradually speed up over time, on average.

But straight from walking backwards to sprinting forwards probably isn’t the answer.

So, whatever your current situation, what are the easiest to do, but still worthwhile, adjustments you can make that will ‘course correct’ somewhat?

Much love,

Jon ‘Pilot’ Hall