Do these thoughts ever cross your mind?

- If I can’t give this 100% of my time and attention, then it’s not going to work.

- I am completely overwhelmed, I need to stop until I have more time.

-If I can’t be perfect, why bother?

When you start a plan to get fit, do you feel like you are either all-in or all-out?

That there’s no middle ground?

If so, you’ve fallen into the trap of all-or-nothing thinking.

And the single biggest roadblock in your way is…your mindset.

Let me walk you through a brief example.

It’s Monday morning, and today is the first day of your new diet.

Your expectations are high, and so is motivation.

You are fired up and ready to charge into this!

Day 1 is a breeze.

You wake up before the sun to crack eggs, pack lunch, and tie your laces before jogging a few miles.

At the end of the day, you think, “Wow, today actually felt pretty easy!”

As Day 2 comes to a close you realize that today was even better than yesterday.

At lunch, your friends ordered burgers and fries, but you stuck to leafy greens and protein.

There are no two ways about it.

You are on fire!

Two weeks in and you are still going strong.

In fact, we could describe things up to this point as, well…perfect!

But that’s when you hit a snag.

Your business was going smooth, then two new projects land in your lap.

Any time you had to focus on your health is gone!

Now, there’s no time to eat lunch, let alone go to the gym.

And the thought running through your mind is, “It is impossible to keep this diet going. I’ll start again when I can give it my full attention.”

But what if you could change that?

What would be possible if your health wasn’t dependent on your business, life, or you being perfect?

All-or-nothing thinking is when you see things in absolutes.

It’s either black or white, right or wrong, on or off.

There is no in-between and no shades of gray.

A client once told me, “I have a work trip coming up, and I always eat terrible away from home. I need to put this program on pause until I get back and can focus.”

This is a perfect example of thinking in absolutes.

Notice they said they “always” eat terrible.

Another client said, “If I can’t devote 100% of my time and attention to getting fit, then I just can’t stick to it.”

The key is to re-wire your mind from thinking in absolutes to thinking in progression.

Once you are able to do that, you’ll never fall off the band wagon of dieting and exercising again.

You lose all the weight you want once and for all, and you keep it off forever.