I wanted to add:
I suppose that on the face of it, taking picures of your good food choices is weird and stupid. However, I hope you’ll see my point that taking pictures of your good food choices is Brilliant A.F.
Why?
Because every time we reinforce a behavior, we help lock it in. We strengthen that behavior in our memory banks. And we identify with that behavior — who was the genius who ate tomatoes and asparagus before noon? Oh, right, it was ME!
So what I am thinking, is that we can get some MAJOR mileage out of using a tool like this — eat once, reinforce four times.
Meaning, every single time we go back and look at our good food choices, we get more coins in the Fabulousness Bank. Future good choices are powered by how much we have in the Fabulousness Bank!
We look at a pic of the asparagus we ate yesterday, and that’s another High Five From the Universe.
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I would add that I believe that taking an honest appraisal of any poor or mediocre choices made in your day, needs to happen quickly and privately, just like you would correct a talented child.
You wouldn’t put the pic of young Mozart’s worst performance in the weekly update to patrons, you would only showcase how beautifully he was coming along for a 9-year-old.
So I don’t believe in taking pics of poor food choices, because we don’t want to lock those into memory. Take an honest assessment of where you chose poorly, and then quickly flash to what you wish you had chosen instead. And start locking THOSE images into memory, as mental rehearsal for the future.
OK, there’s my thought for the day!