Our results are a direct result of our rituals
The things we do as a ritual, or habit, dictate our long-term results.
If you change your behaviours, you will eventually change your results. But, that doesn’t mean it’s going to happen quickly.
Sometimes things will take time to materialise. Keep persevering and taking the right steps and eventually you will get the corresponding results.
On the flip side if you keep taking the ‘wrong’ steps, the negative steps, eventually your results will go in that direction too.
For example, someone might be losing weight, but they start to eat cake every day and getting a Chinese take away on their way home every evening, sooner of later they will start putting the weight back on.
Behaviours dictate those results
When I was 22 years old I got a phone call one night that had me rush to Southampton General Hospital. My dad was, aged just 50, was seriously ill.
Just one week later he lost his life to bone cancer, something that when I’d married my first wife just six weeks prior, we didn’t even know he had.
At that point in time I decided I was going to go out and chase my dreams. I was going to make things happen for me. But it didn’t end up as I expected it to.
Sure I had plenty of material things, but I wasn’t enjoying them. No matter how many shiny new things I got, they couldn’t replace something that was missing inside of me.
None of the things I acquired ever gave me the thing that I really needed and over time my health suffered.
I became obese, sick, depressed and addicted.
Here’s the interesting thing… watching my own children I saw how history was likely to repeat itself. I started to see how I might not even live to see my 40th birthday and I realised that I needed to make changes in my life.
I didn’t just realise I needed to change, I STARTED to take action.
I believe you haven’t truly made a decision to do something, until you start giving it your focus
My decision was to reclaim my health, to stop waiting for doctors to fix me and to get myself well. I’m not gonna give you the whole transformation story here, but to cut the long story cut short, I reinvented myself.
I went on a quest to rediscover my health. I studied like mad. I got qualified in various different things and I went from not being able to walk up stairs without getting out of breath to completing ultra marathons.
My first ultra marathon was 107 miles. I figured what the hell, if you’re going to do this, go big and see what you are truly capable of.
If there is something you are passionate about, you’ve got to do it. You’ve got to be persistent with it.
You’ve gotta be consistent with your actions and you’ve got to be prepared to let it take time.
Some things just take time to make happen.
If you get nine women pregnant you don’t get a baby in a month
