200: 6 Lessons That Change the Game

<p>We've got another book club episode today! On a recent road trip I listened to Ryan Holiday's new book Ego is the Enemy and there were so many powerful lessons! I just need to share them with you! Many of these are game changers!</p> <p>I was a big fan of his earlier book, The Obstacle Is The Way so I was eager to get my hands on Ego is the Enemy. It did not disappoint.</p> <p>In today's episode I'm sharing the 6 lessons that change the game when it comes to fat loss, health and happiness.</p> <p><a href= "http://primalpotential.com/200-6-lessons-change-game/">http://primalpotential.com/200-6-lessons-change-game/</a></p> <h2>6 Lessons That Change the Game</h2> <p>There were 6 primary lessons that I believe powerfully apply to fat loss, health & happiness that I gleaned from Ryan Holiday's <a href="http://amzn.to/29gJbNw">Ego Is The Enemy</a>. In today's episode, I share those lessons and how you can apply them to your health.</p> <h3>Ego is the enemy of what you have and what you want.</h3> <p>Ego can keep us from true success by hiding the truth about our choices and our abilities.<br /> Ego crosses out what matters and replaces it with what doesn't.<br /> Ego tells us what we want to hear when we want to hear it but gives us a short-term fix with long-term consequences</p> <h3>Humility and reality are the cure for ego</h3> <p>Be humble in your aspirations</p> <p>Be gracious in your success</p> <p>Be resilient in your failures</p> <p>Unfortunately, I think the more common approach in dieting is:</p> <p>Unrealistic in our aspirations</p> <p>Critical of our success</p> <p>Defeated in our failures</p> <p>Make it a mantra: every next choice is a new chance.</p> <h3>Engage in activities that move you forward. Eliminate activities that do not.</h3> <p>Are the things you're doing moving you towards your goals?</p> <p>Talk depletes us.</p> <p>Talking & doing compete for the same resources.</p> <p>The relationship between work and chatter is that one kills the other</p> <h3>Be more objective (and less emotional)</h3>