Chrissie Webber works as a writer, business coach and motivation/ leadership trainer and is Managing Director of Life-Shapers Ltd, an online weight-loss motivation company. With over 20 years experience in the field of business and people development she has an expertise in the area of motivation for permanent weight loss.
Following a lifetime of weight issues - at her heaviest, over 21 stone and a massive size 30 – she has personal experience of diets and their devastating effect on size and psyche. With a background in nursing, psychology and business coaching, coupled with a lifetime of dieting, she developed and successfully used a series of models and tools that enhance weight loss motivation. Now over 5 dress sizes smaller and having sustained her weight loss for several years, Chrissie continues her passionate drive to change the mindsets of people away from a ‘Scarcity’ dieting mindset – where food is demonised as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – to an ‘Abundance’ mindset where mind, body and spirit work hand in hand with food and nature.
Well, I have almost finished writing my book, Weight Loss, Life Gain. It has been the most uplifting work I have ever undertaken. Having never been one for writing a personal journal or 'daily pages' as Julia Cameron calls them in her book The Artist's Way, I am amazed at the positive effect it has had on me. The question that crosses my mind now is how often do we ever measure what we do by the motivation it offers us?
So often I have read personal development books and never followed the suggested exercises or journals. I never seemed to have the time. Through my book and this Blog I have made time to write and it has been wonderful. The motivational lift it gives me is enormous. In fact I miss it so much on the days that I am out working as a trainer and coach that sometimes, like today, I rise early enough to sit and write.
Finding something special, that feeds your soul and offers you a glimpse into who you really are, is so important. Anything creative or uplifting can do it.
Time is all you need to find and invest in to make it work on your motivation levels.
In writing things down, thoughts and feelings, new realisations jump out at you from the page. Sometimes they are huge revelations that help you over a period of demotivation. At other times they offer small steps of determination for actions for change. Whatever your process for creating motivation in your life, the key is having the tenacity to stick at it. To have the belief in yourself that your goal is achievable is paramount to your success.
It has been seven years since I began to write my book. In the early stages my work was under confident and immature. Through the process of turning up to the page, every day my skill and confidence grew. It’s the same with anything we do, even our journey to find the weight we were born to be. Turning up each day ready to love ourselves is, I believe, the work we are here to do.
