Surging Ahead for Success, Issue 19
Sunday, Dec 28, 2005
IN THIS ISSUE
New Year - New Diet - New You?
Why
"New Month Resolutions" Are Better than New Year's
Resolutions
I hope you've all had a wonderful Holiday Season! And now, as we approach a New Year, have you made some serious resolutions? It's actually a very good time to make new and important decisions - especially those which encourage us to make the best of ourselves. The following Guest Articles, New Year - New Diet - New You? and Why "New Month Resolutions" Are Better than New Year's Resolutions deal with this issue and ways in which we can effect lasting results. Have a wonderful New Year!
............... June
New Year - New Diet - New You?
By Ron Goodwsen
Are you about to make yet another new year’s resolution, as
you see out the old year, along with it’s broken promises
and failed, good intentions?
Fresh with new-found conviction, after the gross excesses of
the Christmas period and our usual failure to control
ourselves, we arrive at the new year’s resolution, an annual
triumph of hope over reality!
Hope, that this time you will have the single mindedness to
succeed, where last time you failed. I’m not suggesting for
a moment that you do not want to succeed, I’m sure that your
desire to lose weight is genuine, but here’s the reality,
it’s a hope, a dream and what’s the point in having dreams
if you’re not going to make them happen?
You may dream of winning the lottery and yes, you could win!
But it’s down to chance and you have a better chance of
flying to the moon, than of winning the lottery. Making a
real change to your life? Well that’s a dream you can, make
happen! And you can start right here, right now.
The problem with new year resolutions, lies in the forward
planning. Moving towards a significant target date in your
life, to contemplate doing something that you know is going
to be a struggle.
Of course you’re not looking forward to it! What do you
expect? As you begin to experience a steady build-up of
expectations, leading up to the big day when you’re finally
going to start putting right everything that’s wrong with
your life! No pressure there then! I’m sure you’ll feel
ready to start on that day!
In the meantime of course, you now have the perfect excuse
to behave badly, because it doesn’t really matter if you let
yourself go over Christmas does it? You can do everything to
excess. It won’t matter if you put on a few extra pounds!
After all, you deserve to have one last binge before the
deprivations of the coming year ahead!
If you believe that, then you’re delusionary. You’re just
fooling yourself because it makes you feel better at the
moment. It’s the high, before the deep low that will
inevitably follow and damage your self-esteem, sabotaging
your chance of success even before you start.
Wake up and smell the coffee!!
Do you really want to lose weight? Then do something about
it, NOW! Clear the cupboards of all the things that you know
are bad for you, NOW! Don’t eat them! If you think waste is
bad, box them up and give them to charity. Do it NOW – as
you read this article. Don’t put it off until tomorrow,
because tomorrow never comes!
How we think and feel about ourselves is often the
difference between happiness and success, or frustration and
failure, therefore success and real lasting changes, only
comes from changing the way we think. We are all products of
our own thinking.
So, every thought we think has an impact on us. We respond
to our negative thoughts and to our positive thoughts. If
you have a history of failing to live up to your own
expectations, your memories are loaded with negative
programming.
No matter how much conscious effort you put into changing
your habits, your subconscious mind is flooding your body
with negative messages that have been ingrained for years.
You can however, change the way you think about losing
weight using the help of hypnotherapy DVD’s. Many people
trying to lose weight struggle to maintain willpower. They
feel that they need help and are often too embarrassed to
admit to anyone that they have a problem. Now, many
sufferers of low motivation and low self-esteem, are
benefiting from hypnotherapy treatment, which can literally
change peoples lives for the better.
Your life will improve if you begin to believe in yourself
and your abilities, you will feel respected, giving you that
extra boost to increase motivation, and your enthusiasm will
increase noticeably. Some people say it feels like magic
because it is so easy to make powerful changes. Hypnotherapy
simply allows you to access the resources you already have
in your subconscious mind.
Desire to make changes is good. Taking action to start
something is even better. Let’s assume that you’ve decided
right now, to start making the changes that you want. If you
have tried before and failed, you need a support structure
put into place as quickly as possible, to help you to
maintain your resolve and to keep your thought processes
focused on your goals. A hypnotherapy DVD programme for home
use can help. You certainly don’t want to be obsessing about
food all the time.
You can lose weight and I’m sure that your eating programme
of choice will be right for you. You will have success this
time if you make sure that you put an effective support
system into place as soon as possible.
So, don’t wait to make any new year resolutions at midnight
on the 31st of December, decide to start making the changes
that you want to make in your life, now!
Do something different this time.
About the Author: Ron Goodswen, partner at Imagine Me Media - the Hypnotherapy DVD company. Roderick Piggott - Hypnotherapist with over 20 years of hypnotherapy experience. http://www.imaginememedia.com
New Year - New Diet - New You? By Ron Goodwsen
Why "New Month Resolutions" Are Better than New Year's Resolutions
By Dr. Stephen Kraus, Success Scientist
Nearly half of Americans make New
Year's resolutions, but only about 15% are able to keep them
over the long-term. In other words, about 85% break their
resolutions, with as many as 20% breaking them in the first
week!
Perhaps the single most important thing you can do to be
more successful in keeping your resolution and making life
changes is this: don't make New Year's resolutions - make
New Month resolutions instead.
Let's face it: If you only take stock of where are and where
you want to go in life once a year, then you're probably not
going to end up where you want to be. If you set goals and
start self-improvement efforts only once a year, you'll
forget them. You'll lose focus. You'll get distracted by the
hassles of day-to-day life. You'll get overwhelmed by the
magnitude of your goals.
Perhaps most importantly, you'll set goals so far in the
future that they won't be motivating. And that's why it's
better to set New Month resolutions instead of New Year's
resolutions.
There's nothing wrong with the idea of a New Year
resolution; after all, people have been making them for over
4,000 years. The problem is that people don't make them
often enough.
Imagine how much more people would achieve if the end of
every month brought about the same feelings as New Year's
Eve: that renewed commitment to fitness and weight loss, the
excitement about their goals and their future, that urge to
get organized and get focused. The New Year brings about the
feeling of a "fresh start," and that can have very real
effects; for example, research shows that people are more
likely to recover from depression if they have that sense of
a fresh start.
Perhaps the biggest reason to set New Month resolutions is
that short-term goals have repeatedly been shown to lead to
more motivation, better performance and greater happiness
than long-term goals. Consider this sampling of findings:
As the deadline for a particular goal looms, people think
more about that goal and experience a burst of productivity.
Even rats work harder as they approach their goals! We call
it the imminence effect," and setting monthly goals uses
this effect to your advantage.
Children struggling in math asked to set near-term goals not
only outperform those asked to set more distant goals, they
also develop a heightened sense of personal control,
confidence, determination, and even (gasp!) an interest in
math that wasn’t there before.
Among adults, near-term goals lead to more weight loss than
distant goals, and those who do lose weight setting distant
goals do so only because they improvise more near-term goals
as well.
Those who are most satisfied with life are those working
toward enjoyable, moderately challenging goals of high
short-term importance. Those consistently focused on very
long-term goals are less satisfied with life, and view their
long-term goals as more difficult, more pressure-filled, and
less enjoyable.
Members of the U. S. Olympic ski team are required to write
long-term, intermediate and short-term goals, but the sports
psychologists who work with them have concluded that
repeated daily focusing on long-term goals is often
counter-productive. The focus is too far into the future and
prevents the athlete from completing the intermediate steps
essential to ultimate success.
Military leaders often segment or compartmentalize complex
missions into smaller, bite-sized sub-missions. With these
findings in mind, use New Month resolutions to achieve more
in your own life. Instead of focusing on your goal to build
a successful business by the end of the year, focus on
writing the business plan by the end of the month. Instead
of focusing on your goal of losing 50 pounds in the next
year, focus on exercising 30 minutes each day during
January. You get the idea. You'll achieve more, be happier,
and get that great "fresh start" feeling 12 times more often
than New Year's resolution makers.
Success Scientist Dr. Stephen Kraus has been called a combination of Tony Robbins and Mr. Spock because of his scientific approach to the psychology of success. Steve is author of the highly-acclaimed book, Psychological Foundations of Success: A Harvard-Trained Scientist Separates the Science of Success from Self-Help Snake Oil. Steve has a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University, and can be reached at www.RealScienceOfSuccess.com or www.KeepYourResolution.com
Why "New Month Resolutions" Are Better than New Year's Resolutions By Dr. Stephen Kraus, Success Scientist
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