Making a Change to Your Life Will Impact Your Success With Cliff Ravenscraft – EP 139

This week on the Dad Spotlight podcast we bring you Cliff Ravenscraft, of the Cliff Ravenscraft Show as well as being known as the Podcast Answer Man to talk to you about making changes to your life to put an emphasis on fitness. Cliff Ravenscraft has gone through a tremendous transformation within his life. Before he...

This week on the Dad Spotlight podcast we bring you Cliff Ravenscraft, of the Cliff Ravenscraft Show as well as being known as the Podcast Answer Man to talk to you about making changes to your life to put an emphasis on fitness. Cliff Ravenscraft has gone through a tremendous transformation within his life. Before he made substantive changes in his life he found that his weight was out of control, his blood pressure was too high, he was stressed and just not happy in his life. In 2009, he ended up in the hospital and the doctors stated that he had a high chance of not making it through the surgery, but he chose to have the surgery. This was a wake up call for him and he found that he needed to make changes.

He started to walk. He knew that he needed to do 10,000 steps. When he first started, he walked maybe 1000 steps and he felt that he was going to die. He started to look at his daily routines and found that the way that he was living, he was getting 270 steps a day in the work that he was doing. He set a goal for 2000 steps a day and increased this to 10,000 steps a day. He lost weight and started to find that he was able to hit goals that he wanted.

At one point he found that he hit a plateau. He was losing confidence and started to eat bad again and started to gain weight again. He would yo-yo on this journey and it took until 2014 for him to truly be able to get to a point where he could make some changes that really allowed him to move his life in the right direction. It took his mentors intervening to allow him to be able to make these changes.

He was told by a mentor to read: Fully Alive Book Younger Next Year He also was challenged to work out 6 days a week and to train for a triathlon in six months. At the point when we talked to Cliff Ravenscraft, he had been working out for six days a week for the past 19 months.

Cliff stated that it was a desire to change his identity, not motivation that allowed him to do this. He had to have the will power to go through this journey. With the eating habits that Cliff Ravenscraft and his wife had his kids were eating similar foods. They also were not exercising. In the past 19+ months, his family did not think at first that Cliff would be able to stay up with this. His wife was behind him and she even started to work out with him to be able to start changing her own identity too.

Will power is like a muscle, thus, everything that you do stretches this will power. You make choices all the time to push yourself further and to push your will power further too. Working out is a lifestyle habit and it takes will power to do this on a daily basis. People have started to follow Cliff Ravenscraft’s journey. He encourages people to tag their fitness journey with the same hashtag to provide encouragement to others.

Cliff Ravenscraft stated that there is s Podcastanswerman.com/fitness – allows you to follow Cliff Ravenscraft’s fitness journey Cliff Ravenscraft has continued to go beyond just working out to now include cycling long distances. Also, he has done additional races that have pushed him more than he ever thought that it would.

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