In 1954, one man challenged beliefs around the world when he broke the record for running a mile in under 4 minutes.

Roger Bannister, a junior doctor, believed he could beat the record that experts swore was humanly impossible…and he did.

While that’s definitely impressive, what’s more remarkable is that in only 46 days, someone else beat Roger’s record. What had been accepted for hundreds of years now

had been surpassed twice in a month and a half.

Once people saw an example of what was possible, beliefs shifted. When their beliefs shifted, more people were able to do what they’d once dismissed.

What’s this have to do with your relationship with food?

What you believe shapes what you achieve

If you constantly reinforce to yourself that your behavior with food means that you’re weak, out of control or hopeless, this belief will continue to hold strong.

Even if you consciously want to change, the underlying belief programmed into your brain will eventually override your decisions. You’ll only have the strength of willpower to resist temptation because, eventually, you’ll prove yourself right.

f you want to change, you can choose to do what you’ve been doing…or you can learn from people that have ALREADY DONE what you want, and study exactly how they did it.

If someone is doing better than we are in any area of life, it’s simply because they have a better way of evaluating what

things mean and deciding what to do about it.

In other words, they believe something different than you do about themselves and food. They act on these beliefs, and get different results than you do because of it.

I’m willing to bet that, deep down, you know you’re capable of doing what you put your mind to.

But if you’re reading this, I’m guessing you’re frustrated that you haven’t been able to transform certain behaviors or habits that are making you unhappy.

In order to shift behaviors, the goal is to be able to evaluate things in a way that consistently guides you to make choices that produce the results you desire.

If you’re not getting the results you want, your evaluations aren’t serving you…said another way, your judgements and beliefs are

guiding you to make decisions and create results you don’t want.

Changing the way you evaluate things can be a complex process, because your evaluations are influenced by your mental and

emotional state, your past, your social network, your culture, your values…tons of stuff.

Let’s look at the primary factors that shape your evaluations. When you know what’s influencing you, you can start to let go of the

things that aren’t serving you.

1 Your mental and emotional state

When you’re triggered emotionally and feeling angry, lonely, orshameful, the way you evaluate your situation will be muchdifferent than if you’re feeling jubilant, proud or content.

If you decide to have a second scoop of ice cream when you’refeeling delighted and inspired, you’ll probably judge that behavioras a celebration or treat. If you have a second scoop when you’refeeling overwhelmed and rejected, it will seem like added proofthat you’re a loser that has no willpower. Same behavior, differentstate.

Because our state so powerfully affects our judgements andevaluations, the key is to make sure we make decisions about whatthings mean when we’re in a grounded, resourceful state of mind.

2 Your Habits

It’s highly likely that the way you evaluated something in the past isgoing to be the way you evaluate it in the present moment. We’recreatures of habit. If you judged your failure to get exercise for thelast 3 weeks as a sign that you’re lazy, when you have theopportunity to go for a hike this afternoon, you’re more likely skipit. It’s much easier to do what you’ve done before.

This can be good and bad: if you started getting up 30 minutesearly for the past 4 days to go for a walk, it will be easier to do itagain tomorrow.

When you are making a decision about what things mean, considerif you’re evaluating the way you always have mostly because it’swhat you already have decided in the past.

3 Your Values

We each value certain emotions more than others, and we’re alldifferent. Our values come from our culture, our past, our families,media, etc. One person may feel secure when they continue livingin the same house for many years while another person may feelstifled.

Our values shape every decision we make. Do you work for moneyor for freedom? Do you want flexibility in time more than a highersalary? Your values are tied into what you feel about something.Our feelings and emotions are driven by what we’re moving towardor away from—getting pleasure or avoiding pain. This is differentfor everyone because of what we emotionally link to pain orpleasure.

You’ll evaluate something based on your values.

4 Your Beliefs

Certainly, your beliefs are one of the most important factors thataffect your experience of life. What you believe is what you’ll lookfor. Subconsciously or consciously, we look to prove that what webelieve is right.

When you evaluate or judge yourself or a situation, notice if yourjudgement is coming from a belief.

5 Your Experience

There’s a huge filing cabinet that you carry around with youconstantly called your brain. This filing cabinet holds everyexperience you’ve ever had, and draws from these files to makedecisions about your present and future. In order to make anevaluation or decision about something, we have to havesomething to compare it to. Is it good or bad? Cheap or expensive?Beautiful or average?

If you grew up in an environment where you were taken advantageof, imagine how differently you feel towards people compared tosomeone who grew up feeling supported and loved?

Your experience, for better or worse, colors your decision-making.The more experiences you have, the more references from whichto draw on. You always have the opportunity to seek newreferences that can shift your beliefs, alter your values, build newhabits and refine your beliefs.

So the next time you start to evaluate your behaviors and make a judgement about yourself, consider whether your evaluation is accurate…or if it’s being influenced by one of the 5 factors mentioned above.

If your evaluation helps you to make decisions and act in a way that gets you the outcome you want, awesome. If your evaluation becomes a harsh judgement that reinforces a habit you feel you can’t break, it won’t work.

Look at the people who’ve achieve what you want to achieve in their life. Maybe they eat in a calm, relaxed way or find it fun to exercise daily. Whatever it is that they do that you aspire to, consider what decisions they’re making about

themselves and the way they live.

How could you look at yourself or your situation differently to get the same results they do?

I know you’re close.

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