Title: The Sad Truth About New Years resolutions
By line: By Tom Venuto, CSCS, NSCA-CPT
URL: www.BurnTheFat.com
Word count: 755 words
Jim Rohn once said, “I find it fascinating that most
people plan their vacations with better care than they
plan their lives. Perhaps it’s because escape is
easier than change.”
If the statistics from motivation experts and success
psychologists are correct (95% of the people in the world do NOT have written goals and fail, while 5% have
written goals and succeed), then Mr Rohn’s observation
really IS quite fascinating isn’t it?
If clear, scientifically-written goals are the key to
success, then why wouldn’t more people make the time
and effort to set goals? Beats me. Mystery of life.
Unfortunately for most people, the odds for success
are actually even lower, because out of the few people who
do set goals, most don’t take goal setting seriously and
they don’t do it scientifically.
At the beginning of every year, you see countless articles
about getting fit, losing fat, and nearly everyone talks
about “new years resolutions.”
And that’s the problem – you may think you are setting
real goals, but if you’re like most people, you’re probably
only making flimsy, wishy-washy, powerless “resolutions.”
Zig Ziglar once said that, “A goal casually set and lightly
taken will be freely abandonded at the first obstacle.”
You might want to go back and read that quote again,
maybe even write it down or print it out, because that
one hits the bullseye!
This truly explains why new years resolutions almost never
work, and why so few people can keep off the pounds after
they get rid of them.
Goal setting should not be casual or lightly taken. Goal
setting is an important and serious matter. This is not a
game – this is your life, and you only have one life to live.
Goal setting is so important, that I always teach goal
setting and mind dynamics first, and only THEN, do I teach
nutrition and training second.
In fact, I devoted the entire first chapter of my book,
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle (BFFM) to this subject of
goals and constructive “mind programming” for success
I don’t care how much you know about nutrition or exercise,
until specialized knowledge is linked with purpose, vision
and goals, the knowledge is useless and there can be no
intelligent accomplishment.
If you want to learn more about the real proven science
of achieving goals and getting the body you want, then
going to www.BurnTheFat.com and getting the Burn The Fat,
Feed The Muscle ebook may be the most important investmen’t
you make this entire year…
Why? Because you won’t just learn what fat burning foods to
eat or how to exercise for burning fat, you will also learn
how to set goals scientifically and how to harness the awesome
power of your mind to help you acheive your goals and to put
yourself in that elite group of the 5% who succeed.
As you start thinking about your goals for 2014 right Now,
I’d like to help you start the year off right by sharing
one very valuable and powerful tip:
*** Set realistic goals, without limits ***
I know that may sound contradictory. How can you set a
goal that is realistic and also has no limits?
Let me explain
As a fat loss coach, I sometimes have a dilemma…
One one hand, I want my clients and proteges to set goals
which are achievable and realistic. But on the other hand,
I hate to set limits on what someone can or cannot achieve.
I like to say that If youre going to question anything,
question your limits.
Here’s what I suggest to do when you set your goals
for 2014:
Set goals that are specific, measureable, ambitious, and
have a realistic time frame (deadline). But don’t stop there…
This year, turn your goals into NO LIMIT goals!
As the subconscious mind tends to take you literally and
at your own estimation, why put a definite cap on your goal
by stopping with a goal statement like, “I am losing 6% body
fat by April 15th?”
Why not say, “I am losing 6% body fat OR MORE by April 15th,” or,
“I am gaining AT LEAST 12 pound of lean muscle in the next
three months.”
When you say, “I will achieve X OR BETTER,” you can have a
realistic goal, but one without limits.
Make the time to set your goals, today! Take it seriously
and set your goals without limits.
Do it and this could be the best year of your life.
Train hard and expect success,
Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, 
CSCS
Fat Loss Coach
