This is the first post in a series of posts on analysis of my earlier mistakes. Here we talk about the mistakes in my early physical growth.

You can read the entire text at once, or you may choose one of the mistakes, whatever you want.

Mistake No. 1 – Impatience

Mistake: I was impatient, I always talked to myself: “When will I make a body as I want?” and “I can not to wait more… I want it now…” I wanted a change of the body immediately.

What was wrong? After I set the goal that inspired me, I gave this goal too much power. Its purpose was to inspire me, to focus my actions towards this goal, as I would at the present time work on achieving that goal. But I wanted change to happen immediately. What does it mean? This means that I did not realize two things:

• Any change requires time. You have to understand it, if you want to succeed in anything. Change is the basis of growth. In this case, change in the structure of your body, changes in diet and changes in level of physical activity.

• Means that I mixed the present moment, with a future moment. In the future time, change happened. At present it is not. My body is in present moment. Instead I accepted that fact, I tended to change immediately.

What was the result of this mistake? The purpose of the goal was to inspire me. Instead, I felt disappointment. I felt overloaded, because the change has not yet happened, and I wanted to happen now. I felt negative emotions. That blocked me. I stopped every effort to create a body what I need. I stopped my progress.

What to do? You can do two things:

• Realize that every change, particularly changes in the physical body, requires time. This awareness will help you to remove the impatience.

• Each time you exercise and eat healthy, concentrate on the current effort, not the end result. Congratulate yourself for every lift of weight, or eaten something healthy. At that time, do not concentrate on the future goal. By paying attention to this moment, you do not allow yourself to regretted because your goal is not achieved immediately. Instead, you only work in order to get this one step, such as lift weights.

Why? Whatever you want it or not, change requires time. You can choose to be frustrated because of that or not. If you are frustrated because of that, that certainly can not help you, or you can be patient and let time pass (which will happen anyway) to have progress.

Mistake No. 2 – More reading than working

Mistake: More time I invested in reading about a healthy diet, exercise, etc. then I have work on building the body.

What was wrong? If you invest all the time in learning about something, then in doing that, you will not have results in the physical world. It gives you a false sense that you did something, but real change on body does not happen.

What was the result of this mistake? Very simply, I did not eat healthy food, and I did not exercise. I have not changed. I did not advance. I just read.

What to do?
Whenever you start to read instead of working on your goal, ask yourself the following: “Will this make the progress my body?” Realize that just what you do will give you results.

Why? Because reading will not help you to make changes on the body. Useful ideas may help, but only if they are applied.
If you constantly read, and not work on the realization of these ideas (experiment), you will not get the results for which you read in the first place.

Mistake No. 3 – Expect perfection from yourself

Mistake: I expected that each of my exercise, and every choice in food is perfectly in line with the general goal. When it was not, I was very disappointed.

What was wrong? Standard of perfectionist is that all must be perfect. This means that everything must be in accordance with the expectation of that person. If you expect perfection from yourself, you would expect to lift weights and eat without any errors. You also would expect to progress without any stagnation. But it is in most cases, impossible. Imperfections are something normal, especially if we talk about our body. We will not always have the perfect level of rest, nor a perfect choice of food, neither perfect conditions or perfect progress. If you wait until everything is perfectly in order and you were perfect, then you will wait a lot…
I do not say that it is good or bad to give your best. Expect a lot, increase the standards, this may help to reach greater results. But to feel that every detail must be perfect is pointless.

What was the result of this mistake? If something was imperfectly done, I would feel guilty. Since I did not want to feel guilty, I quickly gave up any action toward physical goals.

What to do? Simply, do not expect perfection. Work on goal, but when you do not raise the maximum weights, or not eat how much you planned that day, or run as you predict, do not hit yourself. Not everything has to be perfect, but you can always try again.

Mistake No. 4 – I have not recorded my results

Mistake: I exercise and eat as I wanted, but I have not recorded what I did. When I started to record my progress was greatly increased.

What was wrong? By not recording the results I had no idea how I am and if I am progressing. I just did not have awareness of my progress on exercise and nutrition. . When I had a diary of exercise and diet, I was provided the focus, I am constantly reminded what to do.

What was the result of this mistake? Constantly I lost awareness of my progress, resulting in a week to exercise more, and next week to exercise less, and then again more… I just did not know in which direction my progress is going. This resulted in reduced results of exercise. It’s the same with eating, with no “food journal” I often just forget to eat as I planned.

What to do? Simply have a diary.You can do this simply with paper and pencil, or with the help of free blogging platforms, or by using notepad… It’s your choice. Just record what you have done, and some thoughts, self-criticism, etc.

Why? With the diary of food and exercise I knew exactly what I ate yesterday and what will I eat today. I could not forget the plans and objectives, as well as to what I have achieved so far, because everything was recorded.

Mistake No. 5 – Bite more than you can

Mistake: I started running several years ago. The second time I went to run, I went a huge distance. This resulted by injury.

What was wrong? Enthusiasm made me do more than my current abilities allow. As a beginner I was thrilled that I run. Rather than start with smaller and go to greater distances, I bite more than I can eat.

What was the result of this mistake? In the next two weeks I could not run.

What to do? When you start, know that you are a beginner. Especially if you have never before exercise. Start with a lighter training, and go to what suits you.

Mistake No. 6 – Too little knowledge

Mistake: It is in contradiction with mistake No. 2 but a period of time I exercise without the knowledge of the exercise. Also I ate without the knowledge of nutrition. When I found out information about exercise and diet, my results have increased by applying a few simple ideas.

What was wrong? I did not know what I’m doing. I did something I thought was good exercise but it did not give any results. I ate food that was full of fat, and I expected good results. I just did not have enough information about what will bring me the results that I want and what will not.

What was the result of this mistake? I did things that did not gave result I wanted. I had unrealistic expectations. Since I have not seen progress, and I knew that I do something, I felt disappointed.

What to do? Find a few ideas on exercise and nutrition that you can apply to yourself and get great results. Test these ideas in a few months and see the results. Experiment.

Mistake No. 7 – I did not love my body

Mistake: I hated some parts of my body. I did not like the my arms, legs, abdomen, chest, back… I had a very critical attitude towards the parts of my body.

What was wrong? I did not accept the appearance of my body. Although some people are motivated by that (the fact that they do not like their body) to exercise and healthy food, this is not my case. When I did not like my body, I had no motivation to exercise. Simply, all the time for exercise I am spend on regret and concern for the look of my body. If I exercise, all negative emotions would be involved, and I could not train properly.

What was the result of this mistake? I did not exercise. I did not eat healthy. I only hated my body and felt negative ..

What to do? If you had the same problem as me, love your body, whatever it is, it is beautiful. Realize that there is no beautiful and ugly bodies. There are just different bodies. Realize that your body constantly changes. You can control that change or not. You select to control change and build the body that you want.
There is a negative and positive pressure. Negative is when you hate your body, and positive is when you to urge yourself to follow your choice and build the body that you want.

Why? This will give you a good emotion and mood for exercise. You will not be loaded, but you will go with the will to exercise.

Mistake No. 8 – When I exercise I did not concentrate on what I do

Mistake: When I exercise I did not concentrate on what I do, but something else, like how I will look like, or on my conversation with someone before that exercise, or what I’ll do after….

What was wrong? My attention was not at the same place as where my body was. Because of that, I was not completely but partially involved in the exercise.

What was the result of this mistake? I have not achieved the best results. I did not fully enjoyed in the training.

What to do? When you exercise, you see that moments like the only thing that is happening, which is true. When you exercise do not think of nothing else.

Why? This will give you a much, much better results of exercise, and you’ll enjoy more in the exercise.

Conclusion

Success in physical growth is very important for our overall success. This analysis of the mistakes helped me realize something I did not before. I hope you have fun reading, bye bye…

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