Adam Pedley

I imagine all of us, including me still has some bad habits that we live with day to day. So even though we know that we shouldn’t be doing certain things such as eating that chocolate or sitting in front of the tv, we keep doing it. Why do we keep doing this I have found to be a number of reasons, including the subsconscious mind and instant gratification.

The subconscious mind likes for things to be the same. It likes to continously tick over processing all your body functions. It doesn’t understand future or past events, it just lives in the now. So when you want to change something or say I am going to change something, it doesn’t have a clue what you are on about and doesn’t even want to give it a try.

The next thing that would normally get in your way is the want for instant gratification. You want that chocolate so you eat it. But then after an hour you are not really enjoying the consequences of the chocolate. You are feeling full, you are most likely experiencing the sugar crash.

With instant gratification you need to start making conscious decisions at a lot more points during your day. Your sub sconscious is liking the similarity and instant gratification is making eveything seem rather appealing.

At each point you are about to eat, or sit down or do a task, think, what benefit will this give me in later life. You might think oh well the chocolate will give me a bit of extra weight this week, so what. You need to start thinking further down the line.

In 20 years time what will my life look like if I eat this. Will I have diabetes, will I have heart complications, will I be highly prone to heat disease, will I be able to play around with my grand kids, will I even be alive for my grand kids?

You only have approximatley 4000 weeks on this Earth. Most reading this I imagine may be about a quarter to half way through. What are you going to do with the last 2000 weeks you have left. Make sure its 1000 weeks by eating badly, maybe extending it to 2500 to 3000 weeks being very healthly.

Yes, its going to be painful at points sitting their not eating that chocolate or other delicious meal. If you are a heavy coke or coffee drinker be prepared for withdrawal symptons. I will detail how I lost almost 40Kg in 6 months in a post shortly, but for now I will leave you with this thought.

In 40 years time are you going to be looking back on your life saying, I’m really glad I ate all that chocolate and drank all that coke and had all of those cigarrettes. Or are you going to be saying I am really grateful I made the right decisions and now I have an extra 20/30 years to live?

Remember that this decision can also be about wealth. If you make the right choices now, in later life you will be enjoying the benefits.