Eating junk food on a regular basis.
If you are new to the Ganifit blog you may not know about my backround. Until I was about 15-16 years old I mostly ate junk food every single day. I rarely drank any water (only sugary pop) and usually ate tons of processed foods.
At the time I didn't really notice what these foods were doing to my body, but I saw myself gaining some fat and I was not happy with how I looked. Although I wasn't severely overweight I still had a little gut and some man boobs. I was lucky enough to start to become conscious of what I was eating around the age of 16. Although my bad habits didn't change instantly, over time they got better (and still are as I learn more and more about nutrition).
From my personal experience I noticed no benefit from eating these foods except the instant gratification I got from the taste of these foods. I have multiple cavities from drinking so much pop, eating ice cream, and other sugary foods as a kid.
Now whenever I go and eat some kind of junk food, I notice I feel completely different from when I am eating food that fuels my body.
I feel tired and unmotivated (especially if I eat white bread or processed carbs. When I was eating processed carbs all the time, I never noticed how it really made me feel. It took me changing my eating habits to notice how eating a burger or pizza really makes me feel afterwards.
Although there are times I eat junk food, I keep it to a minimum because it dramatically will affect
my health and productivity if I eat junk everyday.
This is also the reason most people will eat lunch and come back to work more tired than before.
So if you want to level up in life, changing your eating habits to healthier eating habits is the first step. Not only will you be less at risk for major health problems, you will also have more energy to actually focus on improving your life!
Gossiping/judging others.
Judging others is one of the biggest things that holds so many people back in life when they are trying to get ahead. Most people are stuck in the trap of gossiping or judging others because almost everyone is always doing it, which makes it easy for you to get sucked into.
I am currently working to overcome judging others and I wanted to share a couple ways that can help you stop judging as well.
One of the easiest ways that I have found to instantly change how you view other human beings is to start to realize that they are human just like you. We all have faults and judging someone on their's doesn't change anything and you will end up feeling bad for it in the end.
When you start to see people as other humans just like you, you will realize that they are just doing the best they know how to in life. Also realizing that each person has a family can help as well (think of how you would feel if someone judged your parents). Would you want someone judging your family? Probably not, so why would you judge someone else when they have a family just like you?
Another great way to stop judging others is to realize that no one else has to be your image of perfect. I would often find myself judging someone for being overweight and thinking "why can't he or she just get into shape?"
Judging people for this reason made me realize that no one has to live the way I want them to live. Judging them is not going to change anything either, so start to see where this person is doing good in life, or just simply wish them the best. But don't go around judging someone just because they aren't how you want them to be.
Realize that you can only control yourself, not strangers, or even friends and family!
Living without any goals.
Without having anything to achieve or stand for in life you will constantly be bored, or even worse try to escape life in any way possible, through TV, video games, and even drugs in extreme cases. Having a goal or purpose in your life will give you a sense of accomplishment each day that you work toward them.
I remember when I was in school, I would always wait to come home and play video games for hours on end. Although sometime around the time I turned 16, I started to get more interested in building an online business. The only problem was that I never wrote down my goals for at least another year.
This resulted in me still playing video games on a regular basis, as well as getting information overload on different types of online businesses but never taking any action.
If I didn't set goals for myself I would still most likely be sitting on the couch playing video games for hours every single day.
By setting big goals, as well as monthly goals, and even daily goals, I give myself a roadmap of where I want to go. I give my life purpose.
By creating meaningful goals for yourself you will start to live a more worth while life and be on your way to taking your life to the next level!
Staying in a comfortable environment.
So many of us get comfortable where we are in life. We work 9-5, come home watch TV, eat some junk food and repeat. This becomes a normal process and what we get used to. The days start to blur together and you are never challenging yourself.
Chances are you are surrounding yourself with people that make the same amount of money as you (or even less). You never put yourself in situations where you are uncomfortable and thus never grow.
One of the biggest things in my life is getting to the gym and hitting a hard workout. I know when I go in there that I am going to be one of the smallest people there. This is a great challenge, I used to be insecure about having smaller muscles than others, but now I realize that I am being challenged. I can stay home and cry that I don't have big muscle or I can go to the gym and be around people that have bigger muscles than I do and get motivation from that. Yes it makes me uncomfortable, but I do it because it will help me grow.
What is it for you? What areas of life can you start to be the least experienced in the room and challenge yourself? If you can't get around people that challenge you, go on Youtube and search for people who are where you want to be and learn from them. Yes it'll be uncomfortable, but it'll be worth it!
Watching TV on a daily basis.
I want to start this section off by saying that watching TV isn't always bad. There is a time and a place for it and it can be a great way to relax.
Believe me, I used to be there, I would watch TV almost daily. I love TV but I realized that it won't help me get to where I want to go if I watch it all the time.
So how can you start this new habit of watching less TV so you can have more time to upgrade your life? This goes back to the section where I told you to have some big goals set for your life. Without big goals you will usually just do whatever is easiest since you have no motivation to accomplish any goals in the first place.
Or maybe you use TV as an escape. Maybe you are someone who likes to come home after a long day at the office and just watch TV till you go to sleep. You watch it to numb yourself and forget about your long day.
Although this may feel great in the moment, it will only dig you deeper into the trap. After a while a habit will be built to not have any ambition or goals.
To start out I would recommend that you keep track of how much you are currently watching TV for one week. Then replace one hour of TV per day with a goal that you truly want to accomplish. This way you are starting off slow and building a brand new habit that will help you get to the next level in your life!
Closing thoughts.
I truly hope that reading this gave you a TON of value and insight on how you can start to take your life to the next level. This is all stuff I had to learn so far along my journey (and even still am in some cases).
I believe that these will really help you start to transform your life if you practice all of these tips on a daily basis.
Thank you so much for reading, as always,
Make the best of today,
Brian
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