Living Life Now - Challenge

Creating Amazing Change in you Life

THE 42 DAY CHALLENGE In a few weeks the program will be introducing a 42 Day Challenge. It is designed to help you 'attain amazing change'. The theory is, that if you can work on a new behaviour for 42 days straight, it can become permanent. To participate you have to commit. And what a commitment it is! You agree to post a daily webcam video diary of yourself working towards your goal for all to see.

If you are overseas, you can participate too. The LIVING LIFE NOW programs will be available to view each week on their website. And you can post your video diary to the website from anywhere in the world.

As part of this 42 day Challenge, for those who choose to participate, George Gintalis is offering a big discount on four weekly evening classes during this period. They will be designed to help support you to move through your blocks to attain your goal. Also the segments on TV will be geared towards this too. So there will be more support there. There are many other coaches and presenters gearing up to help you too.

We will guide you with comprehensive life tips that will inspire you to move forward.

Creating life-long positive change.
Developing new reality-changing skills.
Becoming more effective decision makers.
Moving from mediocre to amazing.
Understanding, defining and creating success.
Learning to deal with discomfort and overcome fears.
Understanding and mastering motivation.
Understanding the concept of complete health.
Creating our 'best' body.
Real learning (not simply hearing).
Reconnecting with the creative, optimistic twelve year-old us.
Gaining clarity, certainty and perspective.
Learning to regain control.
Learning to overcome destructive habits

For the majority of us, getting in shape (and staying that way) is about balancing and addressing four key areas; Psychology, Exercise, Lifestyle and Diet. For some of us it’s largely a food thing (yes, that’s me with my hand in the air), for many it’s an attitude and motivation thing, and for others it’s all about their exercise habits, or lack of them.
Let’s explore each of the key areas, starting with psychology.

Go into the process with the best possible attitude. There is an undeniable relationship between attitude and outcome. Many people don’t want to hear that transforming their body is more about attitude, commitment and self control than it is about finding the right program, gym, diet, trainer or miracle-pill. Good attitude typically equals a good outcome. I have watched thousands of people sabotage themselves with a crappy attitude; they whinge, complain, blame, rationalise, justify, and procrastinate and then end up back where they started anyway (or worse). Conversely, I have watched thousands of people with limited genetic potential, time, money and resources create (and maintain) amazing results because they got their head where it needed to be.

Amazing results are about attitude and effort – not genetics.

Get in shape for life, not an event. Too many people spend their life getting in shape for summer, birthdays, weddings, school reunions and other significant social occasions. Like athletes, they peak for an event… and then get fat again. Sad really. Creating your best body is about the next few decades, not the next few weeks.

Make some tough decisions about you; your lifestyle, your habits, your diet and your exercise habits. You know these decisions; the one’s you keep avoiding, the one’s that make you uncomfortable. The decisions you should have made a long time ago; the scary but necessary ones.

Don’t start something that you can’t or won’t finish. Every day around Australia hundreds, maybe thousands of people start programs or routines which they will never maintain. They make decisions that they don’t follow through on. They join gyms but rarely go. They start running programs that last a week. They go on diets and then go off them. Some people spend their life getting on and off the body-transformation merry-go-round. Don’t be one of them. Start realistically and progress sensibly. Don’t try and undo twenty years of bad behaviour by next Tuesday.

Procrastination. Stop waiting for the right time; it never comes. “I’ll start next Monday, next week, next month, when the kids are at school, when it’s not so dark in the morning, when all the planets align, when Tasmania reconnects with the mainland. Sure you will. The only person you’re fooling is you.

Don’t make excuses or tell fibs! If you want to find a reasonnot to change, you’ll find one. Many people lie to themselves and others constantly; “it’s not my diet, it’s my genetics, it’s a time thing, a money thing, my sore ankle”. They don’t want to acknowledge that it’s a them thing because if they did, then they would have to do something about it. I regularly talk to morbidly obese people who apparently ‘eat hardly anything’. Liar, liar pants on fire.

Don’t lay blame. I’ll be brief. Australians make Australians fat – not junk food, soft drinks in schools, drive-thru restaurants, remote controls, lack of time, business lunches or clever marketing. Yes, there are many variables, hurdles and factors to be negotiated along the way, but unless someone’s making all your decisions for you or holding you down and force feeding you, the only person making you fat is you.

Stop looking for the magic pill. For most of us, the simple reality of getting-in-shape is a bit of sweat, a bit of discomfort, a bit of tiredness, a bit of inconvenience and the odd sore knee. The sooner we get that and accept it, the sooner we’ll get where we want to go. Look for the effective option not the easy one. By the way, easy or hard is largely about perception and attitude.

Nothing tastes as good as being in shape feels. Focus on what you’re gaining, not what you’re missing out on. Many people who change their eating habits sabotage themselves by constantly focusing on ‘how deprived’ they are and all the ‘good stuff’ they’re missing out on. That piece of chocolate or slice of cake might give you a few minutes of pleasure but it doesn’t change the fact that you live in fatter-than-desirable body twenty-four-seven. Stop being a sook and tough it out.

Motivation is temporary. For most people motivation is an emotional state; a feeling that comes and goes. We can’t rely on it to get us to our destination because it ain’t always there! If you experience motivational peaks and troughs you’re not a loser; you’re normal. Motivation is great when it’s there but when you don’t feel pumped to do that workout, do it anyway. Changing your body is more about self control and consistency than it is about being in the zone. It’s possible (necessary perhaps) to exercise even when you’re not motivated. I tell my clients “if you don’t feel like training, do it anyway. You might not love the process but you’ll love the results”. If we only exercise when we ‘feel’ like it, we’ll never be consistent and we’ll never create life-long change.