Are You Strong Enough to Get Through The Dip?

Seth Godin refers to the Dip as that valley where your effort is strong and true but the desired result, the finished product, hasn’t arrived...and likely not even in sight. Most people quit in this valley called the Dip...and start over on the same resolution every year.  It doesn’t have to be this way.

The path to mastery…optimal health and body composition in the case of Hybrid members…is filled with Dips.

“The Dip is the long stretch between beginner’s luck and real accomplishment.”

“The Dip is the set of artificial screens set up to keep people like you out.”

It’s a little over 1 month into your year and it’s time to take an audit of that list of health behaviors you created in January. 

Read that list again.

What went well?

What didn’t go well?

Why?

What can you do about it?

Don’t lower your standards you’ve set for yourself, elevate your behavior to meet those new standards. The things you knew to be true at that moment you resolved to be better are not any less true today…despite a diminishing will and motivation.  Be patient.

Remember, Environment and Identity must change for behavior to change.

Do the things that healthy people do: identity.

Eliminate the temptations from plain site, put the good stuff in plain site, leave all the tools you’ll need right in your daily path: environment.

Healthy people are almost rare in America. Consider these stats from the CDC/NIH/HHS:

-12% are metabolically healthy

-50% report a musculoskeletal condition

-60% live with a chronic disease

-72% are obese or overweight

-<5% do 30 minutes of daily activity…

...at Hybrid we continue looking for the people who want to do better and appreciate the path to mastery.

“It’s easy to be a CEO. What’s hard is getting there. There’s a huge Dip along the way.” Seth Godin

‘Get through the Dip’...repeat this mantra when boredom and frustration sets in on your training, your nutrition, your alcohol use, your reading, your new skill learning.

The Hybrid program and coaches help a lot of people get through the Dip and we’re so grateful for that opportunity.