The power of dramatic change

Usually people do things in half measures. I have in all of my
articles talked about the things you can do to make a change and
most of them are not particularly hard. Take a look back now at
all of the changes that I have put forward. Are you comfortable
with each of these changes? Probably. But once all of these
changes are instituted you are looking at a whole new you, a new
outlook, a new body, a new way of looking at eating as well as
exercise. 

Most change in life that is really serious and permanent comes
from radical changes. When you make a break from the past and
change the way that you look at all things in your life you are
changing a paradigm and you never need look back. I have been in
points in my life in the past where I would look at some kind of
exercise or lifestyle change and would kind of chuckle saying
"No, I couldn't do that" and six months later I am at that point.

I would like to pop up some role models that you can look at to
see what is in fact possible. First lets look at Lance
Armstrong, as many of us know Lance Armstrong endured cancer and
came back to win the Tour De France seven times. Here are a few
things that make Lance Armstrong seem like a normal guy: he has
2 kids, and a failed marriage, part way through his first Tour
De France he considered quitting, he came from a trailer park in
Texas. Now let’s look at what it takes to do what he does. He
leads a team of seven riders that protect his position in the
race, he rides 3500 KM in 21 days and in the last Tour De France
he only won one stage but was so close to the lead in every
other stage that he was able to easily win overall. One more
person would be Bill Clinton, like him or not Bill Clinton cam
from a very poor family, a broken home, put himself through
university to become a lawyer which should have been tough
enough but this gave him a chance to become a politician and to
become the governor of Arkansas and finally to beat all the
"backwoods" stereotype attitudes from the rest of the country to
finally become president. Just so we could look at him again as
a real person, Bill Clinton committed infidelity within his
marriage and is now trying to rise up again as a great
international statesman.