I have read hundreds of examples recently where population have taken a 90 day challenge to heighten the bodily fitness and I love it! What best way to get in bodily shape than partner with a community of like-minded individuals? However, with all the focus on a bodily challenge, aren't population missing out on two other key aspects of fitness - the thinking and spiritual sides?
If population are going to challenge themselves anyway, why not initiate a 90 day total thinking fitness challenge? Work on all three areas of life by enhancing one's physical, mental, and spiritual sides. For example, just as flabby muscles must be worked out in order to tone and strengthen, so too does flabby thinking. In fact, if anything, flabby thinking can have more disastrous effects in a person's life than flabby muscles. Therefore, if a person is investing energy for 90 days anyway, then make it a total transformation, not just a bodily one.
A person's understanding life changes when he begins to feed on a steady diet of unavoidable books, audios, and association with others who do the same. Indeed, I know of no other performance than can turn a person's life as fast as changing his associations. Birds of a feather, in other words, do flock together. My good friend, the late Charlie "Tremendous" Jones, used to say, "Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today except for two things: the books you read and the population you get close to" It was eighteen years when I first heard Charlie's words and took his advice. It changed everything.
Fitness experts say that 85% of bodily fitness is in proper dieting. I believe the same principle holds true for thinking and spiritual dieting as well. Tell me the understanding diet a person routinely feeds his thinking and spiritual sides and I can fairly accurately predict his five year future. Success is that predictable; however, it isn't that easy.
Why not? Because the right habits, although easy to do, are also easy not to do. Left to themselves, most population will choose the path of least resistance, which means chronic in their bad habits rather than changing. The good news, however, is that straight through associating with others in a 90 day challenge, a person can leverage the community to help drive his personal change. In essence, community is the unlikeness in the middle of good intentions and good results. Many will give up on themselves, but fewer are willing to give up on others who are counting on them.
Fortunately, it only takes three steps for a person to turn everything:
1. Create a proper diet for the food and thoughts entering his body and mind.
2. Make commitments to himself and others to succeed the new diet for 90 days.
3. Avow association with others who have committed to do the same thing.
There it is. A recipe for success in any area of life. It's been said that a person changes when the pain of staying the same or the joy of changing becomes big enough. Eighteen years ago, I took Charlie "Tremendous" Jones up on his thinking fitness challenge and it has made all the unlikeness for me. I share this with the readers to encourage them in the three step process for real change. Are you ready to take the thinking fitness challenge?
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