Explaining Successes:
When was the last time you accomplished something great? Did you acknowledge your achievement, or did you just brush it of to luck? As it turns out, how we explain successes to ourselves has profound effect on our overall mood, and general feeling of wellbeing. There are three different ways we can explain successes to ourselves: permanent, pervasive, and personal. The first style of explanation, permanent, includes the use of statements such as, “I always try hard”, “I generally do succeed when I commit to something”, or, “I never give up.” Looking at these statements, you might notice a similarity: they all explain the success as a result of something that generally happens, that is, it is not an isolated occurrence. If you used words like this to explain your successes, you probably view successes as long lasting. Essentially, you tend to trust you’re your successes will continue, and allow yourself to experience the benefits that come with this feeling. You also see successes as a permanent feature in your life. On the other hand, if you tend to second guess your successes, and have trouble trusting that they will last, you most likely use words like “sometimes”, “occasionally”, or “once in a while”, are used to describe them. In this sense, the success is not seen as something that is a permanent feature in your life. Each time you experience a success, you may write it off to something other than yourself, and when you do, avoid registering it as any part of yourself. In terms of weight loss, the ability to accept our successes, and see them as long lasting is imperative. When we do, we will continue moving forward with our weight loss goals, trusting that we will be able to maintain this success well into our life. However, if we don’t see our weight loss as long lasting, we are going to sabotage ourselves as we don’t really think our success will last. Of course, when we sabotage ourselves, we make sure our success doesn’t last! So watch what you say to yourself the next time you step on the scale. Is it a permanent explanation? If not, change it. Instead of “I sometimes lose weight”, try, “I always lose weight when I give it my all.”
n the field of weight loss, few take the approach that Eric Viskovicz does. A lifetime in competitive sports, including at the college, coupled with a history of an eating disorder, and a 50 pound weight struggle has given Eric Viskovicz a unique insight into the mind of the person who struggles with weight, as well as the mind of the professional athlete. This erudite ability to capture exactly what it takes to be successful has lent itself well to Eric Viskovicz’s long history of training and coaching elite level athletes, as well as many well known public figures to success. He has worked with the Dodgers Basebell team, Bette Midler, Jessica Biel, Matt Grant, and even Olympic level athletes.
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