The Moment of Resolution

When you come across your Moment of Resolution will you act on it or choose to wait?

Honesty can difficult. Being accountable to ourselves is something that we’re not used to. The overweight executive has become an expert at avoiding any personal accountability with their health. They hide under loose fitting clothes, avoid mirrors and take the back row of photos whenever possible.

The overweight executive may have failed at looking after themselves, but they have succeeded in business. Their thoughts and actions allow their imagination to draw an image in their mind of how they look — strong, powerful, in control. That is why they can’t believe it when they see an old fat guy staring at them in the mirror.

Each time the overweight executive looks at his reflection it’s an opportunity for it to become their Moment of Resolution. This is the time when they make the most important decision in their life, the decision to act and commit to doing the challenging work.

It will most likely be in their forties, that age when it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up. They will speak about just “getting by” but really they have reached something of a breaking point.

Their Moment of Resolution will be brought on by a photo or a video. They will see an image of themselves, and they didn’t like what they saw. They had been hiding from the camera for some time, and it had caught them when they weren’t expecting it. They would still be reeling from the shock when they come to me.

It had become clear to many of them in that Moment of Resolution that everything was related. Their suits didn’t fit anymore; they felt sick and tired day and night; they lacked the verve that had once driven them to succeed.

What determines if your next photo is another moment of pain or your Moment of Resolution is the decision to act. They say that change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of changing. This statement is true, but it doesn’t need to be.

As an executive, you make decisions long before a situation becomes unbearable. You see problems and act on them before they become catastrophes. What would happen if you applied the same decision-making skills to your health?

When you come across your Moment of Resolution will you act on it or choose to wait?