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Mental Fitness Challenge: 90 days to change
I've recently read hundreds of examples of people taking on a 90-day challenge to improve physical fitness and I love it! What better way to get in shape than working with a community of like-minded people? With all the focus on a physical challenge, aren't people missing two other key aspects of fitness - the mental and spiritual sides? If people still want to challenge themselves, why not start a 90-day total mental fitness challenge? Work in all three areas of life by improving the physical, mental and spiritual sides...
Mental Fitness Challenge: 90 days to change
I've recently read hundreds of examples of people taking on a 90-day challenge to improve physical fitness and I love it! What better way to get in shape than working with a community of like-minded people? With all the focus on a physical challenge, aren't people missing two other key aspects of fitness - the mental and spiritual sides?
If people still want to challenge themselves, why not start a 90-day total mental fitness challenge? Work in all three areas of life by improving the physical, mental and spiritual sides. Just as flabby muscles need training to tone and strengthen, flabby thinking also needs to be trained. In fact, if anything, slack thinking can have more disastrous effects on a person's life than slack muscles. If a person invests energy for 90 days anyway, then this is a total transformation, not just a physical one.
A person's thought life changes when they begin to feed themselves on a steady diet of positive books, audios, and connection with others who do the same. In fact, I don't know of any other activity that can change a person's life as quickly as changing his associations. In other words, feathered birds flock together. My good friend, the late Charlie “Tremendous” Jones, always said, “Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today, except for two things: the books you read and the people you become close to.” It was eighteen years old when I first heard Charlie's words and followed his advice. It changed everything.
Fitness experts say that 85% of physical fitness is proper diet. I believe the same principle applies to mental and spiritual diets. Tell me the thought diet with which a person routinely feeds his mental and spiritual sides, and I can predict his five-year future quite accurately. Success is so predictable; however, it is not that simple.
Why not? Because while the right habits are easy to do, they are also easy not to do. Most people will choose the path of least resistance, meaning they will continue with their bad habits rather than change. However, the good news is that by collaborating with others in a 90-day challenge, a person can use the community to further their personal changes. Community is essentially the difference between good intentions and good outcomes. Many will give up on themselves, but fewer are willing to give up on others who count on them.
Fortunately, a person only needs three steps to change everything:
1. Develop a proper diet for the food and thoughts that enter his body and mind.
2. Commit yourself and others to following the new diet for 90 days.
3. Maintain connection with others who are committed to doing the same.
There it is. A recipe for success in every area of life. It has been said that a person changes when the pain of staying the same or the joy of changing becomes great enough. Eighteen years ago I took Charlie “Tremendous” Jones on his mental fitness challenge and it made all the difference for me. I share this with readers to encourage them in the three-step process for real change. Are you ready to take on the challenge of mental fitness?
Inspired by Ezine and Orrin Woodward