It has been about 18 months since we began production on INSPIRED: The Movie, and I think I’ve started to understand more about inspiration, and how powerful it can be, and maybe what it cannot be.

“INSPIRED” as a title is perhaps a bit broad, and possibly misleading. Since what we have learned is that “profound life change” only begins with inspiration. It is a starting point in most cases. Sometimes it is only a single event or person or story, that is enough to start us down a path of change, and the entire journey ends up having little to do with the inspiration that started it all. Sometimes it is the inspiration that guides every single action that leads us to a new possibility in our lives.

INSPIRED: The Movie is about how to lose weight. If you’ve ever wondered how people do it, why people do it, and why some people always fail, then this is the film for you!

What we’ve come to learn over this whole process is that quite often inspiration alone has little to do with our probability for success and degree of success. We’ve worked with people who have been inspired countless times, sometimes weekly, and a year later they are not much further than they started.

What I think we’ve learned is that as each of us is different, our minds work vastly different. Some people’s minds are able to translate a source of inspiration into a long chain of consistent behavior, and others, cannot seem to last a day or two from a source of inspiration. It’s so complicated I’m sure we don’t really have the answers yet. Why people are generally optimistic, or generally skeptical, or lack confidence obviously relate to how focused and consistent we can do what we know we should do. The real “secret” is figuring out what causes us to do the right thing day after day, because in the end it is all about how consistent we can be.

I am certain we cannot come up with a perfect formula, but I am also pretty confident we have nearly nailed down the things we can do to reduce the “random” nature of our success in losing weight.