Mental Strength Tip #129: Body Weight and Personal Success

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

Exceeding your human potential, achieving personal success and reaching your personal goals starts with a mental strength mindset of empowering beliefs that will instill the feeling of empowerment.

Reaching your personal goals, achieving personal success and exceeding your human potential starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive action.

This is one in a series of virtual personal coaching and mental strength tips to help kick-start your week.  It is intended to create self-empowerment and inspire you to take action so that you can reach your personal goals and personal success.

I take one mental strength tips and run though a brief overview of it, then ask some very direct coaching questions.  The intention of this virtual personal coaching session is for you to write and answer these questions in your success journal and then reflect on them to gain insight on yourself, your dreams and what’s holding you back.

These series of posts are for YOU!

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Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To get you to think about the role your body weight plays in your health, success and life.

Let’s Get Started:

There’s ample evidence to suggest a link between body weight and financial success. A study of business school graduates by Harvard Medical School found that men who were at least 20 percent above their “desirable” weights made $4,000 less per year compared with their leaner colleagues, and the earnings gap widened over the years.

In another study, researchers analyzed income and attractiveness and found that men and women rated as unattractive suffered a 10 and 5 percent income deficit, respectively, compared with those of average looks. Those rated as attractive, on the other hand, enjoyed a 5 and 4 percent premium, respectively.

Of course, beauty is at least somewhat in the eye of the beholder, but the authors of the income and attractiveness study note there is broad consensus about what is attractive in our culture today, and among the qualities is leanness.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• Does body weight impact your thinking?
• Does body weight impact your personal success?
• Does body weight impact your happiness?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Body Weight

• Body weight has nothing to do with success or happiness.
• Big is beautiful.
• We should just accept our fate if we’re overweight.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Body Weight

• Being overweight is a hindrance to living a full life.
• Being overweight is painful.
• Maintaining a thin and healthy physique has significant benefits.

Outrageous Questions:

• If your body was more muscular and leaner could you be more successful?
• Are you satisfied with your current body weight?
• What beliefs would you have to change in order to maintain a lean mean success machine physique?

Reflective Questions:

• How does your body weight impact your relationships?
• Does your body weight increase your energy or consume it?
• Psychologically speaking, which is more painful: sticking to a healthy nutrition and exercise program or being overweight?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Amidst the concern over medical complications associated with weight gain and obesity, new research suggests carrying extra weight is also linked to anxiety and depression.

If you’re depressed or suffer from anxiety how can you go after your dreams?

Final Thought

The obese are absent from work more often than people of healthy weight. The most obese men take 5.9 more sick days a year; the most obese women, 9.4 days more. Obesity-related absenteeism costs employers as much as $6.4 billion a year, health economists led by Eric Finkelstein of Duke University calculated. Don’t think being overweight affects your personal success…think again!

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Oh yea…if you want to see a great documentary about how being overweight can affect your life and success check out “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.”