GET TOTAL CLARITY OF PURPOSE

To get super-lean, you have to decide exactly what you want and zero in on it the way a guided missile locks onto its target.

The Great Napoleon Hill called it "definiteness of purpose." Achievement expert Brian Tracy calls it "clarity." Most of us simply know it as having goals, but I like the terms "clarity" and "definiteness of purpose" better than goals. Vague goals can be your downfall.

"I want to gain muscle and lose fat."

That's certainly a goal, but it's a poor goal because it lacks clarity.

One of the biggest reasons people fail to move up to the advanced level is because they can't decide what they want. They become victims of "flip flop syndrome."

Imagine a captain giving no commands and just allowing his ship to just float around rudderless, drifting wherever the currents take it. Or imagine the captain giving instructions to his crew like this: "go east; no, go west; no, go east; no, go west again."

Ridiculous, right?

But this is exactly what you're doing when you have no specific written goals at all, or when you want to gain muscle one day and lose fat the next (or do both at the same time).

You have to make up your mind! "A made up mind attunes itself to tremendous extra power," wrote Napoleon Hill.

You must choose a definite course, make a clear-cut, definite decision and follow through with action in one specific direction. There must be no doubt. If on one hand you want to get ripped, but on the other hand you’re worried about losing all your muscle, you will unconsciously sabotage yourself every time.