Often times the answer to creating the right motivation is found in the environments within which we surround ourselves. We will be going more into this in a later chapter. For now, look how you are setting yourself up in your environments. If you are trying to lose weight, do you meet with your friends at a pizza house every weekend or go drinking at bars? How might this behavior not be supporting you?
If you are trying to lose weight and decide to go social dancing every weekend, how might this help you win? If you are motivated more by competition, how can you use that character attribute to support your attainment of the jellybean? Can you set up a competition with another person to see who can lose the most pounds? The popularity of weight loss challenges on various TV shows reveals that the public awareness and the competition can be extremely effective for some.
Others would prefer to motivate themselves more privately by thinking about the benefits of continuing to live with their loved ones, and how better health would improve their lives.
It doesn’t matter how you motivate yourself as long as two things are present, a) it is complimentary to your personality, and b) the method you use has sustainability.

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