Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

I thought I would do a solo episode because I have a lot on my mind and I thought maybe other people have experienced this as well or you'll just think, no, that's just you.

That's really weird.

So hopefully people resonate with this.

But my question is, have you ever ruined something that you love by turning it into work

or setting targets or in some way putting too much pressure on it?

And maybe another way to look at this is giving yourself to higher expectations.

And so the theme of this podcast is not to ruin something that you love doing by putting too

much pressure on yourself. And I think this occurs in many areas of life. And I'm going to use some examples from my own life, because that's what I know.

And also my client.

So firstly, fat loss, because that's largely what people listen to this podcast for.

And a lot of my clients love exercise.

They enjoy eating well, and they tend to like being active and going out for walks and being in the fresh air.

Essentially, they enjoy all of the process goals that are required to lose body fat.

But as soon as you put targets on those, this can change. So you potentially start

resenting these behaviours or you start feeling like you have to do it as opposed to feeling that

you get to do something because you just simply enjoy it. You can do things just simply for the

enjoyment. They don't need to have an outcome to them.

And the targets aren't the problem here.

And I'm going to come on to explain this later and I hope that you'll get your head around that as well.

It's not the targets that are the problem.

It's the way that we're viewing

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