First of all, I want to say, "Thank you," for your patience with me over the last several weeks. I've been busy making plans for my coaching practice, as well as this web/membership site. Then Sunday morning I heard God laughing at me.
I woke up around 3 am (which is becoming an annoying habit) and as usual, I've been thinking about how to make the eBook about weight loss I wrote work around my plans. You see, it was never my intention to write that eBook. I was writing another one when the idea to write this eBook came to me. I started writing it immediately as a report. Then it became a short eBook - about weight loss, of all things. Which made sense considering I had lost 75 pounds from my top weight of at least 300 pounds. Still, it wasn't anything I was excited about doing.
I sent a few copies out to people I knew, three weeks ago, just to make sure what I wrote made sense. One woman, Melanie, took what she read in the earliest version and ran with it. In three weeks, she's dropped 15 pounds. She told me that she hasn't been able to do that in the last 10 years.
A few people who bought my eBook after I started a small marketing campaign, wrote to tell me their story as to why they wanted to lose weight. I can't begin to tell you how touched I was by what I read.
Anyway, like I said, I wake up and look over at my clock. It's 3 am. I start thinking … and suddenly everything starts to make sense. I see how my new eBook can be the foundation the I set for my coaching business. I could see, in my mind's eye, this site taking shape. Most importantly, I could see how I can help people achieve their weight loss goals - and how I can help them achieve any other goal they care to using the same technology.
I could also see I wasn't going to get back to sleep anytime soon, so I started working on making this vision I was given a reality. I could also hear God laughing with joy that I was finally getting it. I couldn't help but laugh too.
I finally made the time to read your whole ebook today. I had to read it in pieces since kids are always all around me but I really do think you are on to something, Anthony…not just about weight loss either. I want to use this technique for a lot of different things, such as anger, stress, depression, anxiety. It makes so much sense. I think I may have heard or read the same concept in different places before but it would always be something that sounded more like an infomercial. You worded it in a way that is simple and makes sense. I’m sitting here mentally smacking myself in the head “Duh! Of course! Train your brain, rehearse the right way to do things and of course the results have to be better!” The only hard part is going to be making that time to be alone for an hour a day. Some days just going to the bathroom alone is just about impossible. HAHA
I don’t spend as much time as I really should reading your site, not because I don’t want to, just trying not to have my nose in the computer so much these days, so maybe you really have been promoting this technique all a long and I didn’t know it. If not, I think you should consider making this bigger. Maybe write another book with a chapter about weight loss, another about depression, another about anger/negativity, etc., etc. giving us good questions to ask ourselves for those exercises and all that jazz.
So anyway, I pulled out a pretty little notebook that will be fun to journal in and wrote down my current weight (150 lbs) and my ideal (125 lbs) and then I am going to do the other exercises you talked about. I’ll try to let you know how it goes as I go along!
Thanks for everything, Anthony!
Andi! I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to hear from you! I’m so happy to hear that what you read makes sense. And I have to agree, the hour I recommend to do the mental rehearsals is difficult, but I have to tell you, it’s so well worth it. I tell people that they might have to wake up an hour earlier a day for a short period of time. What I don’t recommend is putting it off until the afternoon, evening or night. It’s been might experience that doing it in the morning not only warms up your brain circuits, but also allows for several “aha!” moments throughout the day.
I was actually writing another eBook, “Goal Setting for the Subconscious Mind,” and I was doing the exercises I wrote about, when I was literally inspired to write something about weight loss. And I’ve been toying with the idea of expanding the book in exactly the manner you talked about. The fact that you mentioned it is a “sacred sign” to me – a “green light” from God. Thank you for that!
I just want to quickly share something with you (and anyone else reading this). One woman who bought my eBook wrote to tell me that an unintended consequence of doing the program for less than a week was that she went from drinking three (3) pots of coffee a day, to one (1) pot of coffee a day. I wrote her back to ask if she really drank three pots of coffee, and didn’t just brew three pots a day. She wrote back to say that, yes, she drankthree pots a day! My hope is that she’ll cut down to one or two cups of coffee, but we’ll see! The cool thing was that she didn’t even realize she had cut down so much – her husband had to bring it to her attention!
Hopefully, some of the issues you’re having with anger, depression, etc. will ease as you do this program, and reach your weight loss goals. Please keep me updated!
You’re a rock star, girl!
Blessings,
Anthony