Tonight, Ali Vincent won the Biggest Loser. The season 5 of the Biggest Loser was broadcast live and it's great to how Ali became the winner of the Biggest Loser with her hard work and dedication. I was sitting there on the edge of the couch going "please win, please win, please win" and Ali did. I don't know why it was so important to me. Maybe because it was so important to her. I think she compelled people to root for her. This is the first time a woman has won the biggest loser. Out of the three finalists two of them were women.
Of course once I knew how much Ali needed to have lost total to win The Biggest Loser season 5, I knew she would won before she even stepped on the scale just by looking at the difference in how she looked in the live finale and in the previous episode. I think she did too. As soon as Ali Vincent knew how much she needed to have lost to beat Roger and be the biggest loser, she got a little bit of a smile on her face. Ali knew she would become the winner of The Biggest Loser Season 5.
Here I wanted to write a little about goals and mindset. Kelly and Ali both worked incredibly hard. They were both underdogs in many ways. They both REALLY wanted the win the Biggest Loser. Both of them had a single minded obsession with being the first girl biggest loser. At the end of the day though I think one thing made Ali rise above Kelly. I suppose we could say that Kelly had a back problem and it held her back. That may or may not be true. However, Ali binged on frozen yogurt so they both had their setbacks and problems.
What made the difference, IMO was mindset. Kelly wanted it badly. She always said: "I really want to be the first girl biggest loser." "I have a shot at being the first girl biggest loser," but she never fully claimed it as hers.
About midway through the season Ali Vincent stood up and said to a room full of her competitors, "I'm going to be the biggest loser." She didn't say: "I really want to be" She said "I am going to be." She almost never said "want" or "have a shot at." She said it as if it were already true. Even to the last moment tonight before weigh ins she said she was going to be the first girl biggest loser. She knew from early on that confetti was going to rain down on her head and she was going to take home the money.
I think sometimes we say things like "I really want to be published" "I have a shot at being published" but we rarely say "I am going to be published" (unless you've already been published, then pick something bigger to insert there.) I think writers being a generally superstitious lot are afraid of jinxing it or something. Or appearing to be vain.
However, the power is in the full proclamation followed by action. Ali Vincent could have said it all she wanted, but not put forth the effort and not won. She also could have worked hard like Kelly did, but not fully believed in winning the Biggest Loser season 5 claimed it as hers, and that might have made a difference.
When we go for goals, its important to say: "I am going to" not "I really want to," like Ali did by winning the Biggest Loser Season 5.
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