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Habits, Emotions and Motivation: Key Factors to Changing Your Life and Losing Weight

November 27th, 2009 by admin | 0

Kevin Gianni asked: This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Donna Krech shares her examples from her life changing system.The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Donna Krech writer, speaker and “belief builder.”

Kevin: Right. Let’s get into that system, it [...]

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Donna Krech shares her story of going from broke and depressed to fit and successful.

The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Donna Krech writer, speaker and “belief builder.”

Kevin: This is going to be a lot of fun and I don’t like to waste any time, so let us get right into it. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about your story and why you are here on the phone now.

Donna: Here’s the situation. I have always been a pretty motivated person, as far as, if I saw something I wanted, I would have the inspiration or at least the aspiration to go after it, and I would get involved in success seminars or company training programs or, who knows, new fitness programs, weight loss programs, budgeting plans, whatever! And would be completely motivated about it and then would look up a few days later only to find that I wasn’t working on it anymore. Well, some time would pass, I would find the next thing and I would be totally jazzed and this time this is going to be it, this was going to be my wealth building planner, this was going to be the one that got my body ripped or whatever the case was, and I would look up a few days later and guess what? I wasn’t motivated again. I had just stopped and what we will talk about a little bit later on the call is I figured out how to figure out what was going on, what was zapping my motivation.

First of all, that the motivation was getting zapped and then what was zapping it and, more importantly, how to make it ongoing and never ending, but as far as the overall story goes, I was raised in a family with seven children. My father was an alcoholic. My mom was the breadwinner and she was in sales. Shocker! And I found myself in 1982 pushing a baby stroller in Midland, Texas. They weren’t paved roads, they were bumpy gravel and I am pushing my baby in the stroller and I am walking to a carryout to buy her milk and I can hear the change jingling in my pocket and I am sobbing, just sobbing out loud as I am pushing her because I know it’s the last money I have on earth, and I am wondering how I am going to feed her the next time she is hungry. That is probably the worst feeling anybody can ever have, and now the blessing of that feeling though is that it changed me. As I am sobbing not knowing what I am going to do, somewhere in the back of my mind, because I will tell you I don’t remember identifying it at that moment, but somewhere in the back of my mind I said, “This is not going to happen anymore.”

I will tell you that I wasn’t just penniless, I was also married, unfortunately, to someone who had a lot of addictions and those addictions went all the way to extremes. When I was depressed, when I put her to bed at 7:30 at night, I would go to bed at 7:30 at night and I know what that is like to be overweight. I was overweight, I was depressed, I had no money and as time moved on and I came back to Ohio and started with a part-time job, went to a fulltime job, went into management, went into sales, went into business ownership. With every level that I moved up, I found how to maintain motivation better, the sizes were dropping and I was making more and more money and I am still humbled and I do not know how many times I have said this to people, but I still find it all-inspiring when I can say to you out loud that by the age of 33, I was an American millionaire and today, I own multiple companies. We have about eight thriving companies.

Kevin: Wow! That’s fantastic. And, you know, I think a lot of the people who are listening can identify with the depression, some of the feelings of hopelessness that you had, and I think that even in terms of, not even in terms of just wealth, but in terms of their health, and what can you say to some of these people who are in that situation right now that maybe what…maybe give some examples of what you used to get yourself out of that.

Donna: Oh, boy! You know what, the very first step I took is I got around some people who are going to speak some life into me, and I got around some people, now certainly this call and the series of calls is a great place to start. Also, just getting around people who will speak life into you and that means going to where they are, so you and I both know that could mean a fitness club, it could be joining a personal development group, getting around family who is positive, maybe you’ve gotten away from them and kind of getting away from the negative forces in your life, that’s the first thing that I did and from there, we began to go through how to build motivation by defeating what I love to call the motivation assassinators because they’re out there and we’re not aware that they’re out there, but once we’re aware that they’re out there, Kevin, it’s literally magical because that’s how I changed everything. I began to build on the storehouses that keep motivation going and growing; and therefore, I never have to go get re-motivated again.

Kevin: OK.

Donna: Too often, we have to go get re-motivated, so when you understand how to build motivation on an ongoing basis, then the moment the motivation starts to dwindle, you can instantly identify what is going on and you can defeat the motivation assassinators and go right back into building again. So, I would say the overall answer, what I personally did was I started with my surroundings and I started with what was being spoken into me, that it might be building and improving your focus. What do you want? Why do you want it? It might mean learning how to change your belief, which we will talk about a little bit later, but it may be identifying that you’ve got some habits that need some altering or emotional reactions that need to be turned into emotional responses. Mine was surroundings. It could be time management. It could just be in this world we live in. We’re so doggone busy that we don’t realize that what you talked about was like depression. You don’t realize that you’re so doggone busy, it’s feeding the depression. These things are so intricately tied together that when you begin to build never-ending motivation and defeat the motivation assassinators, you start overcoming all kinds of other obstacles because things are so intricately “tied together,” so whether it’s weight loss, whether it’s fitness, which is the industry that I’ve been in and all our brick and mortar locations since 1982, it could also be success, making money, building relationships, which is the speaking and writing that I do. The stuff, the secret stuff that works is the same stuff no matter what the category.

Kevin: Yeah, that’s fantastic! Now, isn’t it hard to change your environment?

Donna: You know, it is one step at a time. We can be tied to people that…or the attitudes of those people because we think there’s a sense of security there. Somebody who has really applied the never-ending motivation concept, as a matter of fact, was involved in a relationship that was very unhealthy and, I mean, she had become completely unfit, she was making no money and she was in a company that had just unending income potential for the position that she was in. I mean, she just found herself so down and when she started studying never-ending motivation, she realized that her surroundings were the real thing that was bringing everything else down, and she just started taking a step and I’ll tell you quite frankly, she didn’t shift it all overnight. She identified it first, and then she took one little step of starting to add some more positives in her life. She did not just get rid of that negative overnight. She just began to add a piece of positives and she got involved in a personal development program. She got headed back to the gym again. She started pouring some good stuff in her mind for her sales position with work and started hanging around people that were already being successful and it just kind of began to happen, it began to build. She didn’t do it all at one time, so I think the hard part is not adding the good stuff, I think the hard part is letting go of the bad stuff.

Kevin: OK.

Donna: And so, we need to add something good realizing that you really don’t get rid of habits, you replace them, and so you replace the ones that aren’t so good with good ones. Well, the same thing is true with surroundings, as you begin to add more good into your life. There just isn’t room for the not so good anymore.

Kevin: Right. And in your opinion, how strong is the relationship between your health and the relationships and your interactions with people and other things around you?

Donna: Crucial. It’s crucial. I think that if you want to be ultimately fit and at at-a- goal weight and, you know, live until 120 years old of age, I think that you…law of attraction, you know, you want to talk about where you are as if you’re already there, and in that where-you-are statement is everything that you want including your health. Well, you need to be hanging around people who get that, who talk that way as well. You needn’t think about your goal everyday. The thing that is so inspiring to me and this is why I do what I do, you know, people have said, “Gosh, you’re on weight loss, you’re in fitness and there aren’t a lot of people that are in both,” and “Oh my Gosh! You’re in personal development too, Donna, you know, isn’t that complicated?” You know what, Kevin? To me, it’s a no-brainer. Those three match so intricately that whether you want my help with building your business, growing an empire, making more money or getting down to a size 4 if you’re a woman, I can do that because they’re all tied together so much. They just match. If I’m hanging around the people who get again, for example, law of attraction or if I am speaking that way, if I am focused on my goals, people who achieve fitness goals and who achieve money goals or success goals, think about it. They are of a disciplined mindset. If you have a disciplined mindset to achieve one goal, it just became about 300% easier to achieve another goal. So it’s just, it’s really a matter of which direction you put your attention at, but the character traits are the same no matter what the goal is. So, when you find somebody who has achieved a goal, I can take that person and literally help him achieve any goal they ever, ever wanted to achieve in their life because the disciplines and the attitudes and the beliefs, they are all foundational.

January 19th, 2008 by admin | 0

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This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at http://fountainofyouthworldsummit.com. In this excerpt, Donna Krech shares on weight loss and fitness. The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Donna Krech writer, speaker and “belief builder.”

Kevin: Right. And with weight loss and health, now does someone have to do a separate law of three, or does that come in or again as we were talking before, does it somehow just find its way into it? I mean, how does that fit into?

Donna: Same motivation assassinators, same never-ending motivation. It’s a little bit more specific obviously. If somebody is focusing on losing a certain amount of weight, then their law of three is going to be different. We’re going talk about what do they want, what types of things do they feel could come against it, what do they need to pay attention to, how do they need to change their thinking, what now is their law of three, going into the day, what are the top three most important things I need to pay attention to, to get me the results that matter to me.

Kevin: Right.

Donna: Well, when the person wants to lose weight or become more fit, those are pretty easy to come up with, and when you think about them everyday, the magical thing about our minds is they almost just kind of happen, but the biggest reason people don’t achieve goals or maintain motivation is they lose their focus. But you lose your focus because you are not thinking about it. We had a member named Connie, who had been involved in one of our brick and mortar locations around the country, and she had lost her weight. Well, unfortunately, you know, it’s good that you learn from what you lived through. In that particular location, they weren’t practicing coaching as much as they were practicing counseling and the difference is with coaching, I ask you questions that take you to your own answers and supply my expertise in the process. In counseling, I tell you what to do.

Kevin: OK.

Donna: Well, in this particular location, too much counseling was going on, and they were telling her what to do and consequently, she was focused on the food. Now, she was focused on the food plan, so she lost her weight, but because she was only focused on the food plan, Kevin, guess what happened after she lost her weight?

Kevin: There you go.

Donna: She gained it back again. Now, she got online and got involved in our coaching that we offer off of our online program and that coach really did begin to help her focus on a lifestyle that would keep the weight off, helped her change habits, helped her see that she actually had to believe that she would keep the weight off and that was part of why the weight had come back. The coach helped her identify the powerful why that we talked about so that she knew why she did not want to regain it, and not only did she lose the weight, listen to this, the woman has increased her income. She is building credible relationships. She started counting the victories that occurred in her life everyday again, but she hadn’t even been talked to about the law of three before, and she gained her weight back. Once we started talking to her about the things that really should be talked about in a weight loss coaching session, not only did she lose it, she has kept it off for years.

Kevin: Wow! That’s fantastic!

Donna: Yeah, we’re very proud.

Kevin: Tell me a little about counting victories. I think that’s a neat concept.

Donna: Well, the definition of victory is success in battle or war by the defeating of an enemy or an opponent. Now that definition tells me that there are three types of victories. There’s success in battle, OK. So, that means the little things are victories. The little things that I do well are victories. There’s success in war, which means the big goals are victories too, but then by the defeating of an enemy or an opponent means every time I don’t succumb to doing something that I know I shouldn’t do, that’s not going to help me get to my goal, that’s a victory too.

Kevin: OK.

Donna: So, we teach people to count all three types of victories. So, for example, if you go out to eat with your friends, and they’re all eating just everything that’s calorie laden and you really don’t want to do that, and you choose to have something really healthy like a chicken ****** and/or salad and/or baked potato, you just got probably four victories there because they might have had pizza and brownies and French fries.

Kevin: Right.

Donna: So, you did the little things, you won the battle, and you also didn’t do the things that would keep you from your goal, more victories and we literally keep friends posted of all the victories that are achieved everyday. Well, when we have people start being aware of their victories, they want to have more victories, and they realize they are not too tough to come by.

Kevin: It’s fantastic! So, when you continue to see victories, I mean, I would imagine that the chances of you succeeding quicker and faster is just that much…

Donna: Yeah! Just multiply it by factors we can’t even come up with because you’re not feeling beaten up by the battle.

Kevin: Yeah!

Donna: You are feeling victorious.

Kevin: Yeah! And do a lot of people, when you talk to them, they feel beaten up, don’t they?

Donna: Oh my! Oh my! That’s probably the number one thing. I am just…Here’s the classic line, “I am just tired!”

Kevin: Yeah! Donna: “I am tired and I’m weary and I feel beaten up. I just want some hope,” and the neat thing is we can give them hope in a very realistic, simple way because never-ending motivation works for everybody.

Kevin: Yeah! Now, finding the why is a challenge for a lot of people, I think, and what is the best way that someone, I mean, do they need someone else to help them find the why, or can they get down and there you’d really find out why they want to do something.

Donna: You know, I think what you can do on your own without any problem is really come to understand and appreciate that you need a why, and I’ll help you with that in a second. The finding your “why” may need a coach because you have to keep asking “why” over and over again.

Kevin: Yeah.

Donna: For example, if we take a 20 ft 2 x 4 and we lay it out on the floor, and we say to someone…let’s say it’s a 2 x 6, it is nice and wide, OK, we lay it on the floor and we say to somebody, “Can you step on the other end of that 2 x 6 and walk across there that 20 ft. and come over to me?” The person of course says, “Well yes, I can do that, good grief”. OK, let’s put that 2 x 6 up on two cement blocks and let’s secure them real firmly, so it’s not going to go anywhere, “Could you step up on the cement block and walk across the 2 x 6,” and the person says, “Yes, I am sure I could, we’re balancing things, no big deal, I just did it on the floor, I could do it again.” Then I say, “Let’s take that 20 ft 2 x 6, let’s suspend it between two 30- story buildings.”

Kevin: [laughs]

Donna: “Now, I’ll secure it real firmly so it’s not going anywhere. Can you walk across there?” And of course, you know, outside the fact that sometimes, I think they want to call me names. They go, “What are you, are you out of your mind? There’s no way, you are crazy. I can’t get cross that.” And then I say, now this is key Kevin, and if say, “OK. We’ve got the 20 ft 2 x 6 suspended between two 30-storey buildings. You are standing on one 30-storey building and on the other 30-storey building stands a person who you love more than anyone in this world, and the building is on fire, and the person that you love is about to be engulfed in flames in front of you. Can you get across there now?” And you better believe the entire room always says, “You better believe I’ll get across there. I’ll dangle, I’ll crawl, I’ll run, I don’t care at all what I have to do, I will get over there.” That in my case, that would be one of my babies. Now listen, my babies are 20 and 25 right now.

Kevin: Oh, yeah! [laughter]

Donna: That would be one of my babies. So, I have coined that “you’re burning baby.”

Kevin: OK.

Donna: You need to understand what your burning baby is? Why do you want what you want? Well you know what, with regard to weight loss and fitness, Kevin, people don’t want to wear a certain size. You might want to wear a certain size to go on a cruise. That’s not your ultimate burning baby. That’s a temporary why, and temporary why’s do work but what happened to you, you go on the cruise, you’re looking on the cruise and you come back and you follow back in the old lifestyle and you gain your weight back again, OK. The burning baby is a powerful “why”. The best time to get in shape is in the middle of the week for no reason or whatsoever, that is the best time to start. You do not say I will start on Monday, I will start in January. I will start because I am going on a cruise. You just start because now you are doing it for a powerful “why” reason. You know what, I don’t work out to maintain my size two and I wear a size two. I don’t work out because people tell me I look 20 years younger than I am, although, that is a really flattering thing. I work out because my energy goes to the roof because my mind is clear, and I can make great decisions quickly and my focus is acute, and my personality is nicer. I have more fun in life, and all these things I’m listing don’t have anything to do with my size.

Kevin: Yeah.

Donna: They are my burning babies. Same thing with business, we can do the same example with wanting to make X amount of dollars so you could put X amount of dollars in your retirement, is not a burning baby. Why do you want that retirement? And then again, I would say why do you want that? Now, we are getting into, you can identify why-oh-why as important on your own. You might need someone’s help with coaching you on finding your real “why”. It is not tough, it is just sometimes, it takes a two-way dialogue because the other person is needed to look at you, and after you give the extended version of what you want and why, I then look at the person and go, “OK, why?”

Kevin: Yeah, why do you want that again? [laughs].

Donna: And then when you take them to about three “whys”, they had a burning baby.

Kevin: Yeah.

Donna: And then you will achieve any goal you ever want to achieve because you have got your burning baby.

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