My 16 year old daughter put on quite a lot of weight over the course of lockdowns, then last June she came to me to ask for help to lose weight. The things that I've learned from you over time helped me so much to advise her how to go about it. She now takes a long walk daily and has lost 35lbs over the last 8 months. She's gone slow and steady and I think I've taught her amazing things that she can hopefully carry through life and stay away from diet fads. And a whole lot of that is down to you - thank you! 🙌🏼
I have started referring to my workouts as "practice". I grew up playing sports, I never skipped practice! It's crazy how this one word has totally shifted my mindset. Love your content, another great video!
I've just started watching your videos and I am already so pumped about all the information you provide us. I also like the fact that you don't promote good and bad food like alot of the fitness influencers. I'm a 35 year old female currently weighing 155 trying my best everyday to get to my goal weight of 120. I workout everyday strength training and now the stair master cardio. Eating clean and reading ingredients on the labels. So thank you very much for the inspiration to keep pushing hard and helping me pick my hard because it's hard to be fat and it's hard to be fit!! ❤
The amount of time I spend scrolling or reading books to find motivation, I could have already done the workout. Thank you for the reminder that the right action is where it begins.
I don't follow my own advice to my adult students. I preach exactly what you highlighted in this video. Take a small action and that will lead you to where you want to go. The only way you fail is if you quit. Or doesn't matter how long it takes. I put that advice into action this morning and walked a mile while listening to this video. 😊 I feel good and will remind myself of this feeling when I'm "too tired" or just plain lazy to get up and move! Thanks for your videos.
Jordan!!!!! I watched the whole video and then decided to take my iPad and rewatch the video in the kitchen while I chopped up romaine lettuce, chopped up my cauliflower, and my celery and have all my veggies cleaned and ready for a BIG ASS SALAD or just to grab some veggies and go. I feel like I got so much accomplished right now. Thank you for all that you do to help me!!
Thank you for always speaking about this! Hearing you and Susan speak on your podcast about how taking action is the actual MVP not motivation, changed my life. Realizing I create my own motivation through action is now something I use in all aspects of life. Thank you for the positive impact.
Action. A small word key that unlocks that mental barrier…to succeed. I’ve trained myself to think I’m just not that person who will ever be proud of my physique. Action…I’m going for a walk…to the gym. 👋🏼
You're so right about motivation. Without knowing, this is what I applied on my journey to loose weight and regain my health after thyroid cancer. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and great tips 😊
This makes so much sense to me! The one habit/action I do that has changed my life is habit stacking my workout clothes into my bedtime and morning routines. After I brush my teeth and wash my face at night, I lay out my workout clothes for the next day. Then I put on my workout clothes and shoes before I brush my teeth and wash my face in the morning. I found that I was "dressing for success" by setting my intention to workout in the first 10 minutes and last 10 minutes of my day. I also make my protein chia pudding breakfast right before my bedtime routine. These changes led to a 35 pound weight loss and getting back to strength training regularly over that last several years.
Listening you talk about raising children just is showing everyone how freaking smart you are ! I love your fitness and wellness video but what makes you different is how smart you are in all areas. With your family and your sense of humor. Just all around great person ! I wish I remembered how I discovered you so I could thank whoever it was that had tagged you !
I just recommended your channel to a co-worker of mine because you have been a huge help when it comes to my own health and wellness journey! You're amazing!
Thank you for another wonderful video. One thing that I love about this is the short mention that the M-A-R cycle can work both with positive behaviors and negative behaviors.
THANK YOU! Love how you used the example of making a promise to your friend and showing up but breaking the promises to yourself, that was deep and very much needed to hear. Enjoy your content but mostly love how you keep it real.
I personally experienced this today. I've been counting calories and attempting to eat my protein goals for the past 17 days (Action). The last couple days, I started to lose "motivation". So I decided to step on the scale. I experienced a 12 lbs loss, and boy am I motivated now! I am just as motivated now as I was the first week when I could feel the results of getting slimmer.
Yes! Taking action is the 1st step… I just had to keep saying to myself “Don’t Think .. JUST DO”…. That helped get the ball rolling and was able to lose 82 lbs by just doing my plan and not over thinking… met with my coach weekly… just Do It!!
Hello!! I'm saying hi from Mexico here! Thank you so much for the video and info, I've been following since the Big Mac challenge and it has been suuuoer eye opening, I'm doing a mini cut myself as we speak (down around 8lbs) , with the help from a nutritionist buuuuut knowing it's all about calories and all the info from your channel and insta has been SOOO helpful to hope for better results and make sure they are lasting. I do believe my relationship with food has improved plus understanding weight fluctuations.... I actually think I've lost the fear of weighing myself :) Thank you for all you do!!
I need to commit and speak to myself like I do my friends! A 5 min walk always leads to a longer one and better choices throughout the day. Thanks for the reminder!!
Actually a bit hesitant to click the link in the email cause I thought, I already know what you're gonna say about Action - Result - Motivation blah blah. But boy I was so glad I clicked that link. Learned something new - SELF EFFICACY 💙 been feeling down, even shaming myself lately bec I've gained back all the weight I've lost last year and watching this video made me cry a bit because it hit me hard about how I show up for others but not for myself, how I keep my promises to my friends but break mine. Thank youuu for these words. I'll make sure to show up for myself this time, fitness and in life 💙 may you inspire more people! And regards to old abe & neenee!
I agree how action, motivation and results are interconnected. The biggest struggle I have is to be okay with "change". Taking that first step (action) is ALWAYS the toughest. It's uncomfortable, alien, embarrassing and we just want that one magic pill to cure it all.....looking back, I am grateful that I have chosen to do the hardwork. Therapy, prioritizing my health, tracking my progress, trying out different things and commiting to it until it comes naturally like brushing teeth, and accepting that I'm not perfect....motivation and results will follow ❤️
Great video! Motivation is great but definitely not a constant. The snowball effect is amazing in daily actions. Having a giant salad for supper tonight, full of protein and a variety of veggies, and some cold pasta, so refreshing and so much food.
Thank you! Just starting to try to take my life back and this was what I needed to hear. Just getting up to do a small action is absolutely doable. I want to be in the snowball of action, results, motivation!
Even when you talk about something I've already heard about you are able to add something valuable! I was struggling with the "action" part and last month I decided to start training with a trainer a couple of times a week for a while... I've been adding a third time at home in no time! Also, that thing you said at the end really struck a chord with me... Loved it!
I never realized that I already knew it should start from Action until this video and hearing you putting things in perspective ! 😊 Watching this video gave me more encouragement and motivation than most of the conversations I’ve been having with the people around me 💪🏼 Also, love your plan of approach with your daughter!
Thank you for words that i really needed at this point of life. i've been feeling really s*it both mentally and fysically. eating has been big issue, how i treat my body, talk to my self, think different things in my head and so on. you gave me keys to build something from nothing. how to build up by little steps. i made my self to eat and just watched your video, i didnt feel hungry at all but i just made the first action. i feel little better now. im 6.1 and weight 127.8 pounds. not good at all. i need to start doing some actions even if they are little. i wish you'd see this. after 3 months from this day ill come with update about my weight. its not its game on!
Dear Jordan, I just love your videos: they are so REAL and HONEST. And that is so difficult to find. And.. furthermore: they are free and soso helpful. Thanks for all you do. Greetings from Germany P.s. Your baby is sooo cute!!
Action, Results, Motivation is so simple yet so powerful. Thank you for that! I’m going identify a few regularly achievable actions to commit to. I don’t use RU-vid much but this great video has served as a reminder to me to watch your channel. Well done Jordan and Mitch!! 🙌🏼
My best source of motivation is my mother, who retired several years ago and has pretty much been firmly planted on the couch since then. She has lost all muscle mass and balance, and is broken wrist or hip just waiting to happen. Every time I feel like not doing anything I think about where I’ll end up if I don’t get up and get moving!
These are such good reminders. It reminds me a lot of some of the basic principles of the Atomic Habits book...the "start" action you take is that one small step that can kick off a chain of events that achieve big results! Thanks for taking the time to put this info together. I'll be sharing!
Love this whole video. Action-Results-motivation needs to be on a t-shirt! On the topic of helping your child feel good but not above other, the Bluey episode "Library" has 3yo Muffin thinking she can do as she pleases because she's special, her dad explains things to her very nicely after things get well out of hand.
Thank you for the reminder to keep promises that you make to yourself. We are often so invested in the care of others we forget that we are a priority as well. I love the message about positive reinforcement! I need to incorporate that into my self talk. “Look at you drinking a glass of water! You magnificent human! Your skin is already glowing more.”
Hey Jordan, great video. I am so happy I joined the Inner Circle! I love the facebook page, the app, the videos and everything. Thank you for creating all of this for us!!
@Jordan Syatt your videos are really good. I like your straightforward approach. But I have to say that I can’t be alone in having studied so much about nutrition and health that I’m not even sure why I didn’t go into the field, yet I’m not where I want to be with my weight. I’ve gone “all in” to eating plans more times than I can count. And finally I realize that is EXACTLY the problem, a kind of extreme approach to nutrition (I also heard you mention this vicious obsessive cycle that is unhealthy in your video about bingeing and stopping binge eating)! So there are people who have “done all the things” and even had good results, but not sustained them and then created another bad cycle of overwhelm then turning into the false belief that maybe this can’t work for me. Anyway, I just want to throw that out there, and also acknowledge that it was your video about weighing-every-day-for-30-days-just-to-see-that-weight-fluctuates, which somehow clicked in my mind and broke that tendency to getting discouraged, which drains my motivation along w depleting self confidence (and self-efficacy). I hope that makes sense. Thank you.
Great video! I am going to make sure my self talk is better. I have followed you on Instagram for a while but I am just now finding you here. I wish I would have sooner. I can’t wait to watch more of the videos.
I logically knew this information but hearing you say it again really solidified it in my brain. I got up and walked around my office and will do some stretching later in the afternoon :)
Decent content, you have an awesome ability to explain information in a clear & concise manner that's easy to understand, no bullshit. you're one of my favorite exercise & health guidance lads out there, so yeah, fair play to you J I'm looking forward to the next one. 🙌
I love watching, listening and learning from you. You put so many things into perspective. Thank you for the positive reinforcement talk on parenting. I needed to hear that. You help motivate to eat right and work out. Now I just need to do this consistently which is my problem. Thank you for your videos, they truly help. Your family is also so beautiful and adorable. I loved the video with you moving the couch when you got home to surprise Ne Ne.
I find that if I set myself up for the next morning and also remind myself why I'm taking care of my body with workouts and nutrition, it really keeps me in check.
I love this, and I plan to share these concepts with my daughter and her lack of homework motivation! I can see this relating to so many areas of life 😊
Great stuff, especially about the more gentle self-talk. I never speak to others the way i talk to myself and it's hard to not be toxic for some reason, although i'm pretty chill when it comes to others. Thanks for another amazing video !
Thank you for explaining fitness in such an understandable way. Your views are so simple but soeasily dismissed by other fitness influencers. I agree with you that taking action is better than motivation. When I don't want to work out I tell myself that I will put on my workout clothes and do only 20 minutes. After 20 minutes I can stop if I want. Most often than not, that 20 minutes turns into a full hour.
I love this! I've been reading Atomic Habits (by James Clear), and the way you talk about Action-->Result-->Motivation feeds directly into how habits are formed as well. I also want to show your video to my husband (who is a brown belt in BJJ). :)
Action, results, motivation! Simple but so powerful. Love your explanation and also thank you for touching on positive reinforcement because that is also very important
Smashed it. Love action first. Great prospective on flooding family with positive. First video I've seen. Liked, commented and subscribed. Throw me in for the free month 👍
As usual your video is on point. I especially appreciate your advice towards keeping your word to yourself and self-efficacy. I believe I may need to look into this some more as I seem to doubt my ability to succeed in this journey just because I have failed before.
