Apparently there’s a new SpongBob SquarePants film out.
I say apparently, because I won’t be watching it.
As I do with Harry Potter, I have an irrational hatred of SpongBob.
I just want to punch his annoying, little face.
SpongeBob too 😉
Anyhoo, by all accounts, the focus of the film is a ‘secret recipe’ that SpongeBob is searching for.
‘The Krabby Patty Secret Formula’ Google tells me.
Sound’s a bit like KFC’s ‘Secret Sauce’.
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And it turns out that there never was a secret.
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Same with what we do here at RISE.
Sure, we have some advanced techniques you may not know about.
And we often have to clear up confusion over what actually makes healthy nutrition.
But the basics of what we do are widely known.
You can find them for free on yeah olde t’interweb.
And everyone knows they should be eating healthier and doing some exercise.
When people start with us, their lack of success hasn’t been because they didn’t know a secret.
It’s often because they were looking for one when there never was one.
Years spent trying the next ‘new thing’.
The new diet.
The new exercise regime.
Never sticking to something long enough to get the results they could.
Because they don’t look at analysing and changing the core thinking that underpins each attempt.
Because no one’s ever told them about that.
The way they chose to see and interpret things that is setting them up for failure.
Going at it with a mindset of ‘restriction’, ‘deprivation’, ‘hard work’, ‘willpower’ and so on.
Rather than concentrating on the benefits it brings about.
Rather than creating a lifestyle where those things ‘just happen’ instead of trying to shoe-horn more ‘stuff’ into an already hectic life.
Rather than seeing it as part of their lifestyle, instead of a short term ‘effort’.
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There is no secret.
You know what needs to be done.
If it’s not been happening, then have a look at the things above.
Question your beliefs and opinions with regards to exercise, food and so on.
Look at how people who have achieved what you want to achieve think.
Not what they do, but how they think.
Much love,
Jon ‘Upstairs for thinking, downstairs for dancing’ Hall and Matt ‘Not just a hat rack’ Nicholson
