One of the primary principles in a challenge is to visualize the kind of body you want, the type of life you desire, and to then set specific goals that will take you to or at least nearer to that ideal. There seems to be a very strong correlation between what a person visualizes and works toward, and the outcome of the transformation. Remember Hank Johnson from the Success Stories video? He was the guy who visualized himself with Frank Zane’s body. And he looks like a slightly leaner and darker Frank Zane in the end! So, developing that art of visualization, and using the mind-body connection for all it is worth, will truly help you obtain the results you need. So long as you have faith; so long as you don’t continuously doubt. Lack of faith is like a bridge that is out on the road between where you are and where you want to be. Or maybe more like a crimp in the air hose that supplies the oxygen you live on. However you view it, lack of faith–doubting–is a real stumbling block to many challenges. Though it seems like it just came up spontaneously, such as when you looked at the before and after photos, and wondered if they really could be real, the truth is that lack of faith and doubting is a mindset you’ve had for a long time. People get into one of two habits, positive thinking coupled with positive actions, or negative thinking (doubt) coupled with negative or no actions at all.  Listen to the speech patterns of someone around you who is always failing at things. You’ll hear “Isn’t that just my luck?” Or, “well, wouldn’t you know it?” A person without faith  learned probably back in his  childhood that he didn’t deserve much and really shouldn’t expect much from others. Faithless people were taught by other faithless people that  those who are cuter, smarter or richer than them are the ones that get everything–not them! The heartbreak of all this is twofold: 1.Faithlessness becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. People who expect to lose usually lose. They do so not because it was in the cards for them, but because their subconscious behavior aligned with their expectation that they would lose. They played down to their expectations, and sure enough, they lost. 2. Faithlessness and doubting is taught to family and others around these people.  So, it perpetuates itself. There’s no better time and place than a transformation challenge to break this cycle. All you need do is read the book, do the exercises in the power mindset section, set some powerful but achievable goals–in writing–and come up with a cohesive plan of action. Then, execute it daily to the best of your ability to do so. Done exactly right, a transformation becomes the true antidote and the ultimate cure for faithlessness. This is why I have always DISCOURAGED people from doing “informal” transformations, because it plays right back into the faithlessness that so many have in their mindset. A challenge done carefully, faithfully and officially will drive out the faithlessness and instill discipline and optimism in its place. It just might get youa big win along the way, too!