Hey everyone, Benkuba Radio, how on earth are you doing today?

Right, we're going to be talking about motivation and habits and bad things that happen to us in our life and the reason why I want to talk about

this is I was at a personal development event at the weekend the Super Self Summit

which is run by Tommy gentlemen and I was invited along as a speaker, and I opened

up the day speaking about the science of fat loss, which very, very quickly moved away

from that topic scientifically and started to talk about all the

environmental factors that affect the reality of the goals that people have and why they can't achieve them. So we all know that we

need to eat less to move to lose weight. That is absolutely obvious and the thing that

holds most people back is the interactions that people have with their food environment,

the stories that are going around in your head.

It's very rarely actually the diet factor and of course it is a factor don't get me wrong there

is a lot of misinformation out there in the health and fitness world but when you

were at an event like this these words of motivation and inspiration come up an awful lot and quite often people are looking for motivation and

most of the speakers over the weekend talked about not looking for motivation, not having this kind of like

desire to find something that's going to fire you up and it's very much about getting in touch

with what you want to achieve, why you want to achieve it,

and starting to instill those habits and starting to reflect and see the benefits of those habits.

Because what happens when you start to change is you don't always see

the immediate benefits but what it does is it compounds over time to give you an

incredible benefit. So you know I when I started my fat loss

journey for example I lost loads of weight it was all good, I was motivated and then my motivation waned and you could say that there was points of my journey that I was not directly motivated and it's usually because we're not getting the result we want.

Right, I'm not losing weight now I'm no longer motivated, now I'm going to discontinue

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