The 60-Year-Old Start-Up: Rebooting Life from Fat to Fit
Tony Woodall
Are You Walking the Right Path? ?? I guide Leaders to reclaim their leadership power ??and passion ????to create the path to a fulfilling life in 90 Days. .???? Camino Walker & Talker ????
Ever dreamt of a life you truly deserve?
The journey starts with one step.
Let me guide you.
You want to transform your life. You have already decided what you want it to look like. Now you’re sitting there wondering where to start.
From Fat to Fit
2018 was a milestone year for me. It would be the start of the 3rd chapter of my life as many often call it. I turned sixty years old. I don’t care about being sixty. I didn’t feel sixty. I didn’t act sixty. Well, not what I believed sixty to be or what people I knew who were sixty say they felt or acted. I believe you are as young as you feel. In my heart and in my mind, I felt closer to thirty.
I had been overweight for three decades?and had hit the scales at 300 pounds after concentrating on one of my career goals. I didn’t take care of myself and my body and health suffered. 300 pounds on a short guy is a lot. It affected my ability to do many things I enjoyed or wanted to do.
In 2018, I decided to change. I wanted to look and feel physically like I did mentally. So, I followed the advice I give my clients and made a commitment to change my body and my life.
Make a Commitment
The 8th Step in my book, 9 Steps to Successful Goal Achievement, is Make a Commitment. Step 8 is the step where you truly decide you are going to take the action you need to achieve your goal, your dream.
Whether a personal development goal, a business goal or objective, after you define The What, the Why and the How?you must make the commitment to take action and do what it takes to achieve your goal. You’re asking, “What does he mean by a commitment.” When I talk about a commitment, I mean an agreement, a contract. When you take out a mortgage for a home you sign a contract, what in the industry is called a Promissory Note. In this note, you agree to do something in exchange for the money to buy your home.
Today, I want you to create a Promissory Note with yourself.
The other part of the commitment is to find an accountability partner. You want to tell a trusted friend or a coach to tell about this transformation. You want to find someone that will hold you accountable to your goal. Someone you trust to be honest with you and tell you the truth when you offer up excuses instead of action.
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Create your Personal Promissory Note
Today you are going to make a commitment to transform your life. You are going to create a contract with yourself, your personal promissory note.?
You have just made a commitment to yourself. Congratulations. Remember, your signature, your word, is your bond. You must commit to yourself. You must hold yourself accountable. But let’s take your commitment to the next level, pull the high-performance lever. Don’t just hold yourself accountable. Find an accountability partner.
Find an Accountability Partner
I want you to be successful. You can do it by making the commitment. However, you won’t often hold yourself accountable. You will need help. Find someone you trust. A trusted friend, an adviser, a mentor or a hire a coach.
You want to find a person that will hold you accountable to your commitment. As Dr. Gail Matthews at Dominican University in San Rafael, CA found, you are 42% more likely to achieve your goals if you write them down (we just did that), you make a commitment (we just did that), and you have an accountability partner (do that now). They along with yourself will start tracking and keeping up with your progress to keep you on target.
You and your team are now committed to you and your successful high-performance goal achievement. You are on your way to transforming your life to what you want it to be.? Transformation of your life is possible if you make the commitment to make it happen.
I am a Leadership Coach, OKR Coach, Motivational Speaker, Camino Walker and Talker. I don't just Talk the Talk, I Walked the Walk. I've walked the Camino Frances Route over 500 miles from the French Border to the Atlantic Ocean. I've walked the Portuguese Camino from Porto, Portugal to Santiago de Compostela and to Finisterre, the Ends of the Earth. I've walked over 1000 miles on Caminos.
I am the author of 9 Steps to Successful Goal Achievement - The How-To Guide to Goal Setting Success. www.GoalGettingBook.com
Inspiring!!! ?? Fantastic!
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11 个月Tony Woodall, I loved the signing of the dated notes .. an Amazing strategy to get many senses committed to success, bravo.
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11 个月Go Tony!!
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11 个月You’re an inspiration Tony!!