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09 May

Will Power and Education, Is There a Difference? Part 3

Last night I was stuck at the gym waiting for a tornado to pass through. Being that I have lived here my whole life, you get this feeling when something isn’t right where you live. It was late when I left for the gym and I remember looking at a wind chime on a neighbors porch when pulling out and thinking that ‘this was going to be one hell of a storm’, but at the time there was just barely a breeze.

See we have these things inside of us. Some call it faith, others esp, instinct, etc. All it means is that something inside lends to a belief of something just because. There can be a rhyme or reason, you could break it down to the fact that my body and senses have constantly charted a “norm” and last night there was no internal match for that chart. Who knows, all I know is that I just knew it was going to be one hell of a storm.

While I was stuck at the gym a question that had been posed to me by a friend was just repeating about “What is so wrong with how you market a product if it is a good product?”

It is a fair question, it deserves a proper response.

How many have really given a response to this, that didn’t just have to, with taste or that there are just better methods? Not many. Most of the best answers I have seen are behind closed doors because in truth this is a big game of networking right?

Back to the question though. “What is so wrong with it, even if it is a good product? ”

Currently in health and fitness there is one undeniable “truth” being told.

That fat loss is an opinion.

That the science is up for debate. That there ISN’T a difference between OPTimal and OPTional. We get told on a daily basis countless views of ONLY. This creates a distrust and confusion in the consumer that can lead to a panic.

Remember when I brought up the Nanny 911?

What happens when you have a child and one parent tells them no and the other tells them yes? It creates a instability of trust in that child because the adult leaders are at odds. What should be rule and “law” is all of a sudden debatable. The “truth” is now opinion. One parents opinion leads to yes, the others parents opinion leads to no.

The end result is a child that feels unsafe and challenging of one or both of those authorities. No matter who was right or wrong the damage of confusion has been done.

Now you might be thinking “This is a stupid analogy because everything has a opposing view” Yes, you are correct and I am getting to that.

In the moment of the yes or no mommy/daddy battle the child is going to try to get away with what they can because they are human, BUT they inside, by instinct know that one of the answers is more trustworthy, that one is better and giving the the truthful and correct answer. They go for the quick and easy fix but inside the perhaps calm and right parent has the respect.

Now what happens if that parent out of need to please the child or make the child happy starts to falter? What if they don’t want to be the “bad guy” and give in?

Well now the child feels like they can run the house, like they have the upper hand, like they are the ultimate deciders!

But like any child they will run into a problem and when they do they feel helpless because they don’t respect the parents who were supposed to have the help and answers. That trust is gone, the instinct has vanished, and now they are just going to act out.

Are you getting it yet?

Are you getting where I am going?

When the good guys, when the trustworthy and those filled with the knowledge start giving in to the easy way out or those with the misinformation because that brings the instant gratification, it creates a chaos and lost of trust.

What was once a truth becomes an opinion.

Those who once felt safe are now questioning.

Sometimes when we are lost we fall into the wrong hands or just self destruct. So having the high quality, having the trustworthy people to turn to to balance out the bad advice IS important to making our fitness and health kids feel safe. If we take that away, even with the best of intentions, it can be a dangerous game to play.

So judgment or no judgment, “hate” or no hate, we have to as professionals be careful because our “kids” are watching this messy divorce and since 60% of our country is considered obese, I say they are acting out because of it.

Fat Loss is NOT an Opinion.

In 3 days you will hear my final word on it.

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