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Before you start out making your New Year’s goals and resolutions, take a minute to watch the 9 minute video below.
It will put you in the right frame of mind to make decisions that will guide you in 2013. I promise you’ll be glad you did.
Enjoy!
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Research shows repeatedly that keeping a food journal or otherwise tracking what we eat is a consistently successful activity to help you meet your weight loss goals.
If weight loss is top of your goal list for 2013, check out the website Weight by Date. It’s purpose is to [read more]
It’s no secret, and I’ve written about it here many times, that habits are a very powerful tool to facilitate reaching a goal.
The simple act of automatically (i.e. unconsciously) taking a particular action every day has powerful effects, IF they can just be established.
I found this article at LifeHacker.com this [read more]
Taking action toward your goal on a regular basis is essential to reaching it. We’ve seen repeatedly that the ability to pursue a goal consistently over time produces consistent results.
But “sticking with it” over the long haul (what Psychologists call ‘Grit‘) is not an innate characteristic that we [read more]
A professor stood in front of his philosophy class and with various items in front of him. When the class began, he picked up a large, empty jar and began to fill it with golf balls. He asked the students if the jar was full, and they each agreed it [read more]
Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.”
~ Steve Jobs
The image below is just a sample of the interruptions that we all get every day, but it makes the point.
Unfortunately, these have little if anything to do with our goals, but they compete for our attention.
If we don’t say “no” to these distractions, our goals are [read more]
I think this is going to be the first in about a 5 post series on my latest struggle – Information Overload.
This dilema has become almost amusing (but not quite).
The problem I encounter daily is the massive volume of information I receive which I want to consume, [read more]
You’ve got a goal in mind (weight loss, career change, whatever…), you decided on it weeks ago, but you haven’t started working on it yet?
Why not?
What’s the one thing that’s holding you back? I’d love to hear from you!
Anyone who is pursuing a personal goal is bound to experience stress at some point in time, if not frequently.
This is a fascinating article on how Marine’s in far more stressful conditions that most of us ever encounter handle it very successfully:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mindfulness-in-frantic-world/201207/meditate-just-the-us-marines