The most common structural damage to buildings is from settling. A building that seemingly was built on bedrock or solid ground begins to settle unevenly and big problems begin! Cracks appear and if the process continues uninterrupted the end result is a building that is uninhabitable. All because the ground ended up not being as solid as the builder thought it was.

The same thing happens with your personal dwelling–your body! If you don’t do your body “building” on a strong foundation and solid ground, that whole process will begin to deteriorate, crack and eventually become uninhabitable.  In this case, I am talking about building on solid mental, emotional and spiritual ground. If you’re not truly ready for the great 12 week adventure known as a transformation, all the mental conflicts and battles that can crop up will almost certainly sabotage your building efforts.

That’s why I just finished the series of blogs on various mental attitudes and character defects that make a challenge very difficult. I also included a brief paragraph on how to solve the problem if you find yourself hampered by any of those shortcomings.

A transformation is one of the most difficult and rewarding things you’ll ever do. And you deserve to have at the end not only a fully functioning and beautiful body, but also a fully functioning and beautiful attitude, outlook, and mental state.  In order to do that, while you’re doing the transformation physically, you really need to work on the mental aspects at the same time. If you do that, you will not only have a new body for life, you’ll have a truly transformed life, with a renewed love for life as well.

The blogs I wrote on resentment, envy,shallowness, faithlessness,impatience, a controlling mindset (co-dependency),self-pity, selfishness, and self-sabotage can be found on the Body for Life blog sites, or on my own website, www.mikeharris.org. Each one describes a common defect or stumbling block to being able to do a good challenge. Once you identify the “issue” that is likely to be your biggest enemy as you prepare to go into this transformation battle, you’ll have the basics to be able to conquer the enemy within, and to bring this problem to and end once and for all.

Do that, and you’ll find that your transformation ground will indeed be solid, and that there’ll be no settling of that ground. Nor will there be any need for you to settle for less than the best that you deserve.

I wish you each and every one a joyous twelve weeks of work and fun as you begin the making of a new you!