The Goal-Getting Toolbox!
7 Power-Tools To Focus Your Mind and Ensure A Leaner, More Muscular Physique!

By Frank Sherrill

I firmly believe that at least 90% of my success is driven by a combination of mental and emotional factors. I have a fanatic passion about getting more muscular and staying lean. It is at the forefront of my mind every single second of every minute of each hour, every day.

For me, it has to be. In order to do this, I have collected various tools to keep a precision focus on my goals. I found that I had to do quite a bit of mental programming in order to be successful.

I had to stop thinking fat and teach myself how to think lean. In this article, I'd like to share some of the tools I have used.

My Bully Xtreme Goal Blasting Toolbox

Power Tool #1. The Goal Card

Read the first chapter of the Bully Xtreme Muscle-Up Manual. Follow the action steps that are outlined in it.

This stuff works!!

Read the The Muscle Builders Secret Weapon! Do You Know What It Is? article.

Print it out! Memorize it!

Write out your goal card, read every day, a couple of times a day!

This is the absolute "secret" to your fitness success!!

Power Tool # 2. Reduce Temptation

If one of your goals is to lose that gut or cut your body fat.

Then...

Throw all the bad food out; donate it to a local food pantry.
If there are other people in your house that still think they
need it, talk to them about how important it is to not
have that temptation and ask them to agree to consolidate
into the “Crap Cupboard”.

That cabinet no longer exists for you. The doors no longer work.

Never open it.

Tell your co-workers about your goals and let them know up front that you are re-engineering your nutrition. That way they won't feel bad when you decline their generous offers of “treats”.

This will also ease their curiosity at your ‘strange' feeding schedule.

Power Tool # 3. Share Your Intentions With Family And Friends

This was the hardest part for me. My girlfriend is an incredible cook. Her pastries are flaky and all her dishes rich and succulent. When she is stressed, she bakes.

She has a tremendous talent for baking. Whenever there's a bake sale at her church, people stand in line waiting for her to bring her confections and they are always the first to sell.

If you go over to her house for a meal, she will continually offer you additional helpings and it's hard to pick from the assortment of desserts she offers you. Mothering is what she does best.

One of the hardest things I've ever had to do was tell her to stop being a "food pusher!"

Share your long-term goals with family and friends. Join the Bully Xtreme Forum where other "like minded" people will support and encourage you!

It will make you more inclined to meet your goals.

You wouldn't want them to think you couldn't do it or not keep a promise to yourself. I have one very good friend to whom I send my progress chart every week.

If I miss a workout reminds me. I have a few friends who, to this day, call me at random to ask me if I am meeting my daily and weekly goals.

That is amazing motivation.

They hold me accountable to myself!

Power Tool # 4. Watch TV!

There are a few shows that I absolutely enjoy. I don't feel bad watching them because I put a TV and DVD player in front of my recumbent bike and a sign on the TV in the living room reminding me that I should be on my bike. I do the same thing while doing my Bully Xtreme Workout!

I also created DVDs of “goal physique” pictures and video along with a text crawl of my goals set to my favorite workout music – great inspiration for those AM cardio sessions!

This is an awesome way to pump yourself up!

Power Tool # 5. Advertise To Yourself

Get creative find new and innovative ways to have your goal cards "pop up."

Putting your goals and affirmations into a cell phone or blackberry is a great idea!

In fact, I thought about mentioning that in the article, because someone from the Bully Xtreme Forum emailed me that very same idea and since he used his cell phone so much, I thought it was brilliant.

The idea is simply to keep your goals in front of you and on your mind, "in focus," using spaced repetition, to literally "burn it" into your subconscious mind.

Also, have you heard of "virtual stickies" for your PC? Its a free piece of (exe) software that people use for "to do" lists, but why not use them for your goals and affirmations too? Take a look at:

Download it here:

http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/download.html

I also suggest if you have an mp3 player to record your goals/affirmations with some motivating music in the background and listen to that while you are working out or doing your cardio.

Why waste that time listening to radio or TV commercials listen to our own "SUCCESS COMMERCIAL."

Power Tool # 6. Watch Your Language!

I don't tell people that I've lost weight. Mentally we want to find what we lose. Losing something is passive, takes absolutely no effort and burning fat does!

The common language does not fit the event. I tell people that I'm getting leaner, burning fat, transforming my body. It's amazing the reactions these phrases get. Try them for yourself and see.

Power Tool # 7. Get Creative

I've shared favorites from my Goal-Getting Toolbox and hope some of them work for you. I'm always looking for new ‘power tools' so I'd love to hear from you if you have a secret tool!

Your friend and coach,

--Frank Sherrill

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Frank Sherrill is a former U.S. Army Ranger, martial arts expert and the
creator of the Bully Xtreme Portable Home Gym which offers up to 600
lbs of resistance and 82 muscle pumping exercises. Frank has written hundreds of articles. Learn how to build your body and turbo-charge your metabolism without drugs, using his little know secrets by visiting Bullworker Bully Xtreme. To receive Frank's free muscle building report and free monthly newsletter, visit www.bullyxtreme.net

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