Often when one wants to lose weight they focus on how to eat right and exercise more. While both are necessary to lose weight, they are the outer game of weight loss. There is a whole other aspect which is the inner game of weight loss. This aspect is often neglected and I believe it’s the reason most people never lose weight and keep it off.

If you take the average overweight person and magically make the extra 20-30 pounds he’s carrying disappear guess what will happen? Over the next year or two he will most probably gain back all that weight. How come? Because he still has bad eating habits and inconsistent exercising habits. So how do you replace bad habits with healthy ones? This is where inner game comes in.

The inner game has to do with building discipline. A practical example is exercising when you don’t feel like it. Understand that you wont always feel like going to the gym, so when you don’t feel like it just do it anyways push through it. The same with healthy eating. Often you wont feel like eating healthy foods yet you must do it anyways. After practicing exercising and eating healthy it will become habitual and will feel natural.

What is the meaning of life?  Isn’t that the ulitmate question?  Well let me ask you what if I knew the meaning and told you, would it make your life any better? any simpler?  would it make you any happier?  I don’t know but I’m guessing probably not.  The meaning of life doesn’t really change anything about the way life is.  It might give you a sense of purpose but that’s about it.  And if all you want is purpose it’s simple really.  Just take some meditation time out and do some deep thinking, decide what you want to do with you life, and that will be your purpose.  Often one’s purose revolves around either growing in a certain way as a human being or giving something to others or both.  Here is an example “I would like to keep evolving as a human being so I can offer others a lot of value”.

What is compassion?  The best definition I found is “a deep awareness of and sympathy for another’s suffering”.  Now compassion doesn’t always require suffering.  Compassion could be just a deep understanding.

The biggest inhibitor of compassion is ego.  Often we are so stuck in our own heads, in our own world, worrying aobut our own problems and issues that we never stop and sympathize with others.  Once you become aware of your ego having compassion for others will start taking care of itself.

There are a lot of benifits in having compassion for others.  For one you’ll develop much deeper more satisfying relationships and friendships.  Others will love to be around you because you’ll make them feel understood.  You’ll find out about a lot of opportunities through those kinds of social interactions.  How can you be more compassionate today?

The biggest inhibitor of creativity is fear of failure.  Often we don’t even let our creativity flow because we are scared of sounding foolish, or trying and failing.  When we suppress our creativity due to fear, our creativity goes away altogether.  Fear is a prerequisite to success.  To become successful at anything you must repeatedly fail at it at first.  Often failure is the best way to learn.  However we often want success without any failure which is kind of impossible.  So how are you going to let your creativity flow?

A broke genius is simply someone who has great ideas all the time yet is always broke.  The most common way one becomes a broke genious is by not implementing the ideas they have.  Simply being lazy, thinking it will be too much work, or doubting one’s self will leave them a broke genius.

Whenever I’m around people I always hear them coming up with business ideas yet very rarely do I ever see them implement the ideas or at least try them out.  Is it because the ideas are stupid?  No in fact many are great.  I think is because ideas are one thing and doing the actual work is a whole other thing.  Many people look at a successful business owner and say he’s a genious, that was a great business idea blah blah blah.  Often they say that because they never started a business themselves.  If they did they’d know that even if you have a great idea you have to work your butt off to make it work.  So what idea are you going to implement?  Please share in the comments.