The “President” (11% of the population)
Like your brother/sister brain type, the “Motivator,” you thrive when you are in charge and in control. You’re generally good at it too, and with your keen ability to communicate with others, people will be happy to follow you.
Your brain type is known to struggle more with health and weight issues than some of the other brain types. Your love for food and eating as well as frequent social events makes becoming fit more of a challenge for you. You have a tendency to develop poor eating habits, including overeating, especially if you are distracted from how much you are eating and what kinds of foods you are eating by getting “caught in the moment” at entertaining functions with lots of people. Plan ahead for social events. Before you go to that party, commit to eating only foods that are healthy. You may also consider eating before you get to the social event, so you are full when you arrive. The 7 Minute Rule technique will help you tremendously at social functions or when temptations arise.
You would rather do than wait. Wired for action, but not necessarily on the same track if something better comes along. You are generally gifted at delegating too, so it’s generally easy for you to hand your last passion off to capable hands in order to pursue your new passion. In fact, this is your preferred style, because that will allow you to juggle multiple passions at the same time, which is your preference.
You are a risk taker, so you tend to have more accidents seeking thrills. It would be wise for you to participate in a medium-intensity exercise program that is safe – like interval training for instance, in order to limit your chances of injury that might prevent you from continuing an exercise program uninterrupted.
It’s important to take away emotional negativism before starting this program, because otherwise, you may feel that you are depriving yourself of the foods you used to eat or may have become addicted to or have developed strong cravings for.
You have high energy levels, so be sure to focus this gift towards regular exercise. That routine will help keep you on track better with your nutrition too. Moving your body and committing to a regular schedule with exercise and activity will help your brain stay on track. Exercising with others will be a great motivator, especially if there is interaction between the participants during the session.
You tend to be on an emotional roller coaster more often than other brain types, so while the highs are fun, you need to watch out for the lows, to make sure that you stick with your eating plan during those times. These lows may also cause stress, which can take a toll on your health, so stress reduction strategies are key. The EFT technique will be especially helpful for you.
You must beware of compulsive behavior causing emotional eating when you find yourself in a funk or are experiencing anxiety. You tend to want your cake now, at the expense of risking the consequences later. Continued careless living can land you in less than ideal circumstances, which can affect you more than other brain types and be more likely to put you in a funk. The Seven Minute Rule technique will help you tremendously any time you are feeling emotional eating coming on.
You prefer your schedule to be fairly open-ended. Your viewpoints are also flexible if new information warrants a change of mind. This can make you appear wishy-washy to others, but you are just trying to do the most effective thing and keep an open mind to new and possibly better, opportunities. This also keeps you open and available to experience the new and exciting. President Bill Clinton was a good example of this quality.
You may also stray off course and lose control unless boundaries are set. If you respect and follow the boundaries of this program, you will have great success. Remind yourself daily of your boundaries and why those will help you.
You enjoy learning skills quickly and using them immediately. You learn better through hands-on repetition, so making recipes for yourself will help you grasp and understand how it all comes together to form the big picture.
You may be tempted to enlist the help of others, and delegation is certainly wise when you are especially busy, but the more recipes you can make with your own hands, the better you will end up grasping the magnitude and benefits of a health=centered program, which always involves food preparation and kitchen time.
Facts are more useful to you in making decisions than ideas or theories. Focus on the facts and the research to become convinced of the theories you might hear. You may find yourself referencing back to those facts later if doubt creeps in or discouragement happens in the case of setbacks or temporary failures. In that case, you will tend to blame “the program” more than accept responsibility for failing or to admit that you let yourself stray off track.
You don’t want to be put in a box or labeled, so while reading this description, you may feel less accepting of the conclusions. Be careful of this tendency and keep an open mind to the suggestions based on your brain type.
Experiencing successes along the way, related to the end goal, is much more valuable to you than reading about the end goal or visualizing it. Therefore, it is important for you to set small goals you can attain each day or at least each week to keep you moving forward with a chain of successes.
You show a good deal of common sense, dealing well with the practical, real and immediate facts of life. This allows you to adapt to changing situations and switch your course when necessary, which helps you stay on track better than other brain types who might get flustered when unexpected situations arise.
You value wise counsel from friends who you consider experts, which may cause you to be easily persuaded to change diets or programs if they are convincing enough. Be sure to heed the tips in this program at least three fully committed months without switching to another program, so you have enough time to start to see the benefits and real results for yourself.
You thrive on being in front of others, so making your results public and posting pictures often will help keep you on track. Posting the food you eat, the exercises you do, your results with how you look, and what you are capable of doing physically, are all motivators for your brain type.
You need to feel the love, care and support of others more than most brain types, so make sure that you are focusing on the comments back from people that are positive as opposed to those people who are jealous of you, the changes you are making, and the progress you are enjoying.
You tend to see gifts more often than other brain types as symbols of love and affection, both giving to others and receiving from others, so it would help you to give the gift of health as often as you can through offering advice, making people fitness chocolate, buying them fitness gear, etc.
You tend to have a flair for style, and dress to the nines whenever you can, so using clothing as a motivator can be quite helpful. Visualize the clothes you would like to wear and how much better those clothes will look on your improved physique.
If you link your strong personal values to your health and fitness goals, you will be more likely to achieve those goals. When setting your goals, label these as personal values and consider how your success achieving optimal health will augment your other successes in life.
You need to be aware of the potential tendency to change diet plans and escape exercise. If a current plan seems to be interfering with your lifestyle or not producing the results you expect, you will justify abandoning that program. This program has built-in resistance mechanisms toward that tendency because you will find the time required for both food preparation and exercise to be less than other programs and therefore easier to stick with.
You might tend to overeat, but as long as it’s with the right kinds of foods, this isn’t a problem (other than being wasteful, as the excess food you eat will just end up in the toilet). In order to avoid the wrong foods and snacks, healthy foods always need to be around and available. The Conscious Eating technique will be helpful for you to prevent from eating too much food and becoming over-full.
Weighing yourself every day might not be a good idea for your brain type. You are better off focusing on the journey to better health and on the process instead of the results.
Summary and Recap
Goal setting: Set your boundaries and stick to them. Use clothes and fashion as a motivator by imagining how you will look in those new outfits you will be able to buy.
Best Workout: Group exercise that is safe. Some examples of this would be X Gym style, interval training, and Spinning. Be sure to schedule your workouts, so you stick to your plan.
Motivated by: Making your goals, progress, and successes public.
Supported by: Other fun loving people who encourage you and notice your progress and accomplishments.
Areas to strengthen: Social eating and overeating.
Strengths to use: Your gift of relating to others will make it easy for you to have your own accountability group.
Brain training techniques: 7 Minute Rule, Conscious Eating (Part 1 and Part 2), EFT, Triggers, Square Breathing, Success Journal.
