Crystal Andrus | Author | International Motivational Speaker | Women’s Health Advocate | Fitness Expert | Nutritionist

Although liposuction or gastric-bypass surgery may seem like the easiest way to lose weight (or if finding a rich mate or winning the lottery would be the best answer to your money woes), it’s not! If you don’t know how you achieved your success, you won’t know how to maintain it. You’ll always be afraid that you won’t be able to keep it up or that someone will come along and steal it. Just think about the woman who loses 20 pounds on a crazy fad diet without exercising and then becomes afraid to eat—terrified that she’ll gain it back, obsessively weighing herself every day. Studies show that over 75 percent of people who win the lottery are broke within five years, and I can assure you that a rich man’s money will always be his!

If you don’t really know how you created your success and experience a setback (life always gives us setbacks), you’ll be an emotional mess, hanging on to whatever scraps you can. On the other hand, if you know how you created your success, you’ll have the know-how, plus the jet fuel, to overcome any obstacles and catapult yourself forward again, quickly!