Lazy thoughts make lazy bodies

and lazy bodies don't do anything very much do they. They make excuses rather than do the work.
They blame the fact that they are tired when they're really just bored and can't be bothered.

Habits are our lazy buttons. It means we don't have to think, not if we do the same things in the same way at the same time every day.

Sure we know we are fooling ourselves, but the answer is why? Why do we become lazy? The answer will take some working out because it is different for everyone. Everyone has their own set of lazy buttons.

So this week will be a tough one for you because I need you to find some quiet time and I want you to name your lazy buttons. Write them down in a personal journal, where no one but you will see it. Name them, because you can't begin to deal with an issue unless you put a name to it.
That's why alcoholics anonymous works - it makes you say what you are.....
I wonder if weight watchers do the same - hello my name is....and i'm a foodaholic.

Ok, so once you begin to name your lazy buttons - i then want you to work out what the benefits of that lazy button behaviour is.

Lets take the example of over eating - you know that you are going to have to work harder at the gym if you eat that cheeseburger with the large helping of fries at lunch time, but you eat it anyway. The immediate pay off is of course, hunger satisfied and it probably tasted damn good too. But what of the deeper payoffs? If you carry a bit of excess weight around - what are your benefits for doing so?

1. I don't have money for new clothes (stop eating take away and put the money to one side, shop in op shop stores)
2. All my family are "big-boned" /It's genetic why should I be any different - (really? what on both sides of the family?)
3. People won't like me if I change - ahh - now we are getting somewhere!!
4. Well I was out one night and I felt really good about who i was and what i was wearing and then someone said something really horrible about my size and I decided that if they were right, well it didn't matter what I ate or wore anymore. I mean who am I to think I could be pretty/good looking.
5. I hate doing exercise, to be skinny you have to eat lettuce and do a million push ups, and I've never been any good at running or team sports.

Once you have found your real payoffs (ie., what are your lazy buttons stopping you from achieving) you can start to determine whether or not you are willing to maintain your behaviours or whether it is time to change those lazy buttons for some different ones.
(MMM1)