Keep your eyes on the prize

There may be no heroic connotation to the word "persistence", but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill 


Improving your health and physique, generally, involves; organisation, definite goals with definite plans, creativity, consistency, desire and focus, and although these principles may be understood, they must be applied with PERSISTENCE.

By definition a lack of persistence is the only cause for failure, as this failure can only appear when persistence ceases. The good news is that the only the only trait necessary to maintain persistence and therefore eliminate failure is DESIRE.



Every success in human history has been bred from a keen desire to achieve. Remember this fact: apathy breeds mediocrity and when it comes to being the best, moderation is a vice.

Announce to yourself what you really want, and be specific, as only people who have a burning desire to change ever do. If you are honest with yourself and discover that you would only 'like' something, then appreciate that if your desire is moderate then your results will follow suit.

To replace apathy with desire, draw on the support of people in a similar situation to yourself. Choose friends or colleagues who also want to banish the possibility of failure, and use them to fuel your desire and maintain your persistence by committing to each other's success. Spend as much time with them as possible.

Remember, spontaneous or occasional effort is of no value to you or anyone else in your social group, all it does is bring everyone down. In order to persist you must apply all of the rules until they become habitual, this is the only way to develop the mind of the person you would like to become.


Thankfully persistence is a state of mind, and therefore can be consciously cultivated. To do this follow these principles:

• Intense desire - Knowing what you want is the first and most important step towards the development of your desire. Focus on your goal and prepare to make this a priority in your life.

• Self-reliance - The belief that you have the ability to succeed irrespective of what happens is invaluable. When you have accepted this you embrace total responsibility for your success or failure and you can eliminate the validity of all excuses.

• Habit - When you implement positive habits, it becomes more inconvenient to change your lifestyle back to how it was, than it is to keep going and succeed.

• Confidence in a plan - Even a weak plan encourages persistence, but a plan which you trust and understand will strengthen your resolve to keep you going when failure looms. Developed confidence in a plan means knowing what you are doing and why you are doing it. Making time to develop your knowledge of health and fitness will help you to understand the impact of your actions on your overall achievement and will allow you to make educated decisions for yourself.

Confidence in your own plan makes you commit to the habits, allows you to rely on yourself to succeed and therefore intensifies you desire to persist.

This weekend there is just such an opportunity:

RWL are giving a seminar at Leicester College this Saturday at 9:30am.

You will learn our proven principles of nutrition from a fundamental point of view. Explaining exactly why it is that what we recommend is so effective for so many people.

Are you so confident in your success that you can afford to miss this?

Metabolic Chaos: A fundamental approach to restoring internal harmony

We'll see you there

info@rwlgym.co.uk