It has been said that the world makes way for a person who knows where he or she is going and that we are happiest when engaged in activity that has meaning and purpose. However in reality the vast majority of people have little or no idea of where they are headed, one week, one month or one year form now. Research reveals that less than five percent of the population have actually determined and ultimately worked out a written plan for achievement of specific goals. Additionally those who in fact plan, quite often restrict those efforts to financial and career planning, they hardly ever set goals or plan for other life areas, such as family, physical, social and mental development.
Your Personal Goal Program
Goal setting begins by establishing the relationship between where you are now and where you want to go; the more clearly you understand your goals the more likely it is that you will do whatever it takes to achieve them. Specific goals yield specific results; unclear or hazy goals usually produce no results.
Why Written Goals and Plans
Writing goals forces you to clarify your thinking.
Reviewing written goals serves as a reminder of your objectives.
Written goals will keep you focused.
Writing a goal eliminates the danger of it being altered by the passage of time.
Written goals offer a standard by which to measure progress
The process of writing and clarifying your goals and thought process typically generates new thoughts and ideas. The more emotionally involved you are with your goals the more likely that you will accomplish them.
My name is Dominick Borzomati and I am a BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COACH. Since 1993 I have empowered and enlightened individuals and organizations to greatly improve their performance, expand their capabilities and enhance their ability to achieve worthwhile purposes. All of my clients achieve the outcomes they have set for themselves. I deliver RESULTS!
Saturday, 6 April 2013
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
How Core Beliefs Become Learning Behaviors
Enriched learning is all about the effective absorption and integration of new material. The more you know about the concepts, the more you will find out things unknown to your parents, to teachers, and even to neuroscientists just a decade ago.
For instance, ninety-five percent of your behavior reflects patterns and habits mostly acquired when you were very young. Because our educators and caregivers didn't know any better, most of us grew up with ineffective study habits. Countless hours have been wasted in classrooms and in home study, and have often yielded frustration, self-limiting beliefs, and low self-esteem. However, there's no need to take it anymore! No matter what your age, you can learn successfully and with delight.
Freud popularized the concept of the subconscious (or what is sometimes also called the unconscious or the non-conscious). Although your conscious mind plays an important role, learning has much more to do with non-conscious processing than with conscious thought. Remember that, as you learn how to nourish and develop it, your mind's chief responsibility is your protection; in fact, your survival.
Let me use an analogy to explain the power of the subconscious mind. If your feet are flat on the floor, the area under your feet corresponds to the processing ability of your conscious mind. The floor area in the room not covered by your feet represents the power of your subconscious mind. Your conscious mind operates at around 126 bits per second, and your subconscious mind is 10,000 times faster. Clearly, the power is really in the subconscious.
As a therapist, I have found that most issues that adults present to me originate in their first seven years of life. This imprint phase of social development is at a time when the conscious mind is not yet fully developed, before growth of a vital filter to assess incoming information's validity, the so-called Critical Faculty. Well aware of this, advertisers use the term Critical Faculty Bypass when weighing the effectiveness of advertisements. If the advertising message gets through to the emotional subconscious mind, then the likelihood of purchase increases. What does this have to do with learning? Quite a lot. Read on.
If life-long patterns are set in the first seven years of life, then it's important for parents, older siblings, coaches, teachers, and any other influencers to be extremely careful with their language, both verbal and non-verbal. If a parent says, "You're just like your father. You'll never amount to anything" or "It's a good thing you're cute, because you're not very smart". The messages go directly, in the absence of a strong Critical Faculty, to the subconscious where accepted as valid, they begin to form patterns and beliefs. Subsequent fractured self-esteem and self-doubt results.
Elephant trainers use an interesting control technique. When an elephant is still very young, the trainer attaches one end of a strong chain to one of the elephant's legs, and the other end to a stake. This allows the animal the freedom of a very defined circle, and, harnessed day after day, the elephant learns that this circle is its only territory. As the years go by, the chain is progressively exchanged for thinner and thinner ropes. The trainer knows that the elephant could walk away at any time, but the elephant doesn't catch on, and so remains within the defined circle. Important questions for you from this are: What's your circle? What are your self-limiting beliefs?
Bestselling author and international speaker, Brian E. Walsh retired from a 30-year management career to further his earlier interest in NLP and hypnotherapy. He returned to formal study, and within four years had achieved his PhD.
Dr. Walsh regularly conducts workshops and teleclasses on enriched learning. He is a master practitioner of NLP, an acupuncture detoxification specialist, an EFT practitioner, and a clinical hypnotherapist.
His eZine, "Personal Enrichment Digest" has subscribers around the world. His most recent release is a 90-minute DVD of his presentation, "Enriched Learning". He has also co-authored with John Gray and Jack Canfield in the self-help book, "101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life: Volume 2."
His website is http://www.WalshSeminars.com
A Simple Formula For Overcoming Worry and Fear
If you ask most people why they have not achieved their goals or the level of success they desire, they will usually respond with some built-in excuse (negative belief) that is holding them back. Underlying this excuse or negative belief is usually a fear or worry. How many times have you attempted something new, only to stop before you ever got started because you were afraid of what others may think? Or you don't think you have the time or money or both? Or because you believe are inexperienced or lack the knowledge to succeed?
Someone once defined F.E.A.R. as False Evidence Appearing Real, which means we have chosen to believe in something that is not really true. But because it is our belief, it is our reality. Worry is nothing more than a sustained fear caused by indecision. Sometimes we need to ask some tough questions to determine the cause of these worries or fears. Once the fear is identified, a simple formula can be used to overcome that fear.
The first step is to clearly define what you are afraid of or worried about. Write in down. Put in on paper. Half of your worries and fears will be solved the instant you can define them clearly by putting them on paper. What once seemed big in your mind will look small and insignificant on paper.
For the other half, you need to move on to step two. Ask yourself, what is the worst possible thing that can happen if this fear or worry becomes true? Make a list, yes, write it down on paper underneath your clearly defined worry. Keep writing down everything that comes to mind until you have identified the worst possible outcome. Do you realize that 90% of what we worry about never happens? Think about how much time you spend on worrying about stuff that never will happen. This list will help you see that.
Once you have completed your list, resolve in your mind that you will accept the worst possible thing that can happen. Since 90% of those things will never occur and generally the other 10% will not kill you, realize you will survive. Accept the worst possible thing by telling yourself, I can handle it, over and over again. This will start to turn things around.
Finally, begin now to make sure the worst never happens. Put together an action plan of exactly what you need to do to turn things around. By focusing on positive changes and implementing your action plan, your focus will shift to the positive outcomes and away from your fears. You will begin to feel better because now you can DO SOMETHING! Positive action is the only cure for fear and worry. Try this formula today and see if it will work for you. It has worked for me.
To Your Success!
Steve Scoresby
Steve Scoresby has been in sales and marketing for over 17 years teaching others to be successful and now has taken his skills and expertise to the internet. You can check out his latest project to find the best home based business ideas and opportunities to work at home by visiting : SteviesFreebies.com
The Roadmap to a Less Cluttered Space
Organising isn't the spice of life but it surely is the meat and potatoes to have the life that can be chock full of spices. Many people find organizing boring or time consuming. Most of the time those same people lack vision of what they'd like their space to represent or they don't know where to get started. How can one spice up organizing their home or spaces in their homes who view the task as worrisome and uninteresting?
At a recent NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers) conference I learned about the wonderful and grand tool of a mind map. It's great for the non-linear thinker or even the linear thinker who may have lost their way in their beloved list making. What is a mind map? Well imagine a word or phrase or topic you are attempting to explore. For our sakes, let's say you want your guest bedroom to serve a dual purpose of a boudoir-away-from-home for your lovely guests and reading room while you're not entertaining overnight lodgers. Without much thought, you could put "My guest bedroom" in the middle of a piece of paper (the bigger the paper the better). Then make off-shoot verbs, nouns, adjectives, or whatever comes to mind when you think guest bedroom. For instance you might simply think "sleep" from that might follow "comfort", then "pillow", "rest", "reading", "well-lit", "soft"... well, you get the picture. Go crazy! Get into it, write words surrounding this topic until your mind feels like it's smoking through your ears. Well, not THAT hard but how about until your paper is surrounded by wonderful and beautiful ideas you never really thought you'd come up with initially if someone just plainly asked you, "So what do you have in mind for this space?"
Now here comes the hard part. Look around the room you want to transform and ask yourself: Are any of the words on my mind map translated into this room/space? Probably not right? Hence, the reason you are looking to transform the room in the first place. But now you may be better able to see things in the room that don't fit into the image you've portrayed on your map. You may have said "sleek" and if Fluffy's cat condo is in this room/space you might get an "ah-ha" moment in relocating Fluffy. Sorry Fluffy, you might have to take one for the team.
One major thing that you might find it a little hard to believe that I've never seen someone put on their ideas of what they'd like to see in a room is the word clutter. So if you've got a lot of clutter going on it's definitely time to get rid of it. "Well how do I do that?" You ask. You've tried before you say? Well now that you've gotten a vision for your room de-cluttering may go a little smoother than in the past. By using a mind map, you might just find out why and how to put the spice into organizing and in your room which may just happen to be your bedroom.
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Monday, 1 April 2013
Get Started! Get Motivated!
It is not at all difficult to start a diet that will radically change the way you look, but the hardest thing is to keep yourself motivated along the way and make sure that you do not give up until you reach the goal you set for yourself. Always remember that nothing is impossible and that everything you set your mind to can be attainable. Good things come not to those who wait, but to those who work their asses off and never give up.
There are several ways to keep yourself motivated for a longer period of time, but the most relevant is training your mind, as everything starts from uphere and disperses into the whole body. Always keep in mind that real life begins where your comfort zone ends. So get out of your comfort zone, but most of all from your comfy couch where you're reading this article from, find out what motivates you and do something to feel good about yourself! This also helped me and I guess could help you too!
Below I will share with you some tips that will definitely motivate you to attain a lean body, hit the gym, maintain a good health and keep yourself happy!!!
- Think of foods you can have not the other way round.
- Stick a poster with a hot celebrity you admire and keep telling yourself "this is how I want to look 6 months from now".
- Take it one step at a time and set yourself short term achievable goals, in order to attain what you want; respecting a diet entails making real lifestyle changes and does not happen over night.
- Expect setbacks, as temptations arise, especially on weekends; you can cheat, but do not over do it!
- Always start new resolutions on Monday, especially if you were a cheater on weekends; as the week begins you have 7 whole days to stick to your goal; if you're sick of starting over, you have to stop quitting.
- Forget about perfection! If you spoiled yourself with caloric boom, do not take it as a failure and give up, but always think tomorrow is a new healthier day and start over. Always choose the correct path and that is the one to success.
- Be your own cheerleader and set weekly attainable goals; you can write them on stickers and put them on your desk, mirror, laptop. Your biggest limitations come from your mind not from your body, if the mind strongly believes you can achieve a goal, your body will comply and achieve it!
- When your whole body aches and you're all sweaty you know you're doing something right, so don't give up!
- Workout, feel good and keep motivated!
Eat clean, train mean, get lean!
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