The ugly truth behind my weight loss success.
🚀Sunday 3-2-1: Stealing from Disney, 10x your productivity & defaulting to lifetime habits vs. one-time habits.
Hey — It’s Dean.
Here’s the menu for this week’s newsletter.
3 ideas from me.
2 ideas from others.
1 recommendation.
Let’s do this my friend.
1/ Lifetime habits.
For a great month, invest in one month habits.
For a great year, invest in one year habits.
For a great life, invest in lifetime habits.
Takeaway — Think lifetime habits, NOT one-time habits.
2/ 10X your productivity.
Eating should be a deliberate act. It’s something you should decide in advance, rather than letting it happen by chance.
So steal this tip.
Schedule your meals into your calendar and plan your work day around them.
Then watch your productivity soar.
Takeaway — For productivity that’s unreal, plan your work around your meals.
3/ The ugly truth about my weight loss “success.”
Here’s what my weight loss journey has looked like over the past 1038 days.
And here are 5 things you might find helpful and reassuring.
It has taken me 2 years and 5 months to return to my initial success I had in January 2020.
My initial weight increase was not from making poor eating choices, but from overeating healthy foods.
I could not figure out why my weight increased during that second phase.
By keeping daily data, I was able to go back and study results from 2 years ago to uncover 2 key mistakes I made. Correcting those 2 mistakes has unlocked my success.
My “Eating for Weight Loss” system saved me.
Takeaway — Losing weight is hard. Keeping it off is exponentially harder.
1/ From Atomic Habits author James Clear.
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
Your Takeaway — Systems are your saviour.
2/ From Disney.
“Disney has a trash can every 30 feet at its theme parks.”
By using visual triggers Disney has tremendous success getting patrons to do what they want — throwing their garbage away to keep their grounds immaculate.
Takeaway — Visual triggers act as habit triggers. Design your environment to capitalize on this.
A system app.
Notion.
While I have some good systems in place for my Successful Body protocol, my systems suck in other areas of my life I am looking to fix.
So I have invested in Notion to help me fix this problem.
I’m super early in this process, but I will share more as I go and grow.
Takeaway — What James said above.
That’s it for this week my friend.
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