<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jody-urquhart-14.jpg" alt="Jody Urquhart - motivational speaker" width="100" height="127" />Our biggest roadblock to <a title="The 8 Principles of Success" href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2015/03/the-8-principles-of-success/">success</a> is execution. Everybody knows, for instance, that the key to losing weight is to exercise more and eat less. So why is it so hard to do? Every year more and more people are over weight and more people claim to have a new diet or weight loss strategy.</p>
<p>The real problem is not that we don&#8217;t know what to do &#8211; but it&#8217;s actually doing it. Studies have shown that it takes 21 days for new behavior to become a habit, but often within this time period <a title="Motivational articles" href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/">motivation</a> has waned, distraction has set in and success is tempered. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/05/boost-your-success-by-focusing-on-execution/" title="Permanent Link: Boost Your Success by Focusing on Execution" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2251,"date":"2014-05-31T10:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T15:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2020-12-26T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T16:26:11","slug":"boost-your-success-by-focusing-on-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/05\/boost-your-success-by-focusing-on-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Boost Your Success by Focusing on Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/jody-urquhart-14.jpg\" alt=\"Jody Urquhart - motivational speaker\" width=\"100\" height=\"127\" \/>Our biggest roadblock to <a title=\"The 8 Principles of Success\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2015\/03\/the-8-principles-of-success\/\">success<\/a> is execution. Everybody knows, for instance, that the key to losing weight is to exercise more and eat less. So why is it so hard to do? Every year more and more people are over weight and more people claim to have a new diet or weight loss strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The real problem is not that we don&#8217;t know what to do &#8211; but it&#8217;s actually doing it. Studies have shown that it takes 21 days for new behavior to become a habit, but often within this time period <a title=\"Motivational articles\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/\">motivation<\/a> has waned, distraction has set in and success is tempered. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/05\/boost-your-success-by-focusing-on-execution\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Boost Your Success by Focusing on Execution\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}