Sometimes it’s just your attitude and mental toughness that stands between you and your accomplishments of seemingly impossible feats.
Commit Only to What is Valuable
Only commit to things that you can place the highest value in accomplishing. These are the only things that you have any real intention of doing anyhow. If you have not commitment to follow through on your resolutions, they do more to rob you of your power than they do to support. This year, try it a different way and create plans to which you are committed and build in accountability. This will increase your odds of having a powerful 2009.
Have a powerful day!
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New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work
Each year nearly 100 million Americans make New Years resolutions to lose weight, eat better, exercise, save, invest or earn more money, quit drinking or smoking, strengthen or make new relationships, or a host other things that might otherwise eliminate unnecessary pain or cause joy in their lives. Every year, 97% of the resolutions made are broken. 25% are broken within the first week, close to 40% are broken within the first month, and nearly 60% don’t make it past the six month mark. The next year, the same resolutions are made to do, start, or stop the same things again.
New Year’s resolutions – the way our tradition would have us make them just don’t work. Here are two major reasons why:
- Relatively little thought goes into determining the resolutions. Either the last few days of the year or on New Year’s day, a list of things that are top of mind ar...
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Weight Loss and Exercise Are Usually Bad Goals to Set
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Every year millions of people set goals to exercise or to lose weight. A multi-billion dollar industry supports this national obsession with goals related to moving our bodies and slimming down. Gyms count on the fact that most of the people who purchase memberships will not show up. Were everyone to do so, there would not be enough room to hold all of the sweaty bodies. Diet product companies are supported by their repeat customers who had some measure of success that was not sustainable. The yo-yoing we used to do with toys as children has been replaced with an even more pervasive yo-yoing of our weight and waistline measurements.
Queen Latifa recently started Jenny Craig. She has been known in the past to say that she did not have a problem with her weight, she thinks she is beautiful, she likes to...
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High Achievers Must Set Their Own Standards
Hicham El Guerrouj is an Olympic gold medalist in track and field as a middle distance runner. His vision of achieving the title of Olympic Champion led to a tough ten year battle and was almost not realized. El Guerrouj was headed down the path of becoming “The Greatest Never” [to will a Olympic gold medal] and instead became “The Greatest Ever.”
Prior to arriving at his first Olympic games, El Guerrouj was part of the Moroccan relay team that set a world record. He won the indoor world championship, came in second in the world championship, and was on an unbeaten streak in the 1,500 meters as he entered the games. During the 1996 Olympics, on the last lap of the race, while battling for first place, he f...
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Accountability is About Results – Not Punishment
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For some reason accountability has gotten a bad reputation in this society. When the word is used, many of us tend to have flashbacks to being sent to the principal’s office to be held “accountable” for our actions — which of course only happens when the actions are deemed unacceptable.
Our entire school experience is based upon a punitive use of accountability. We are given assignments and are graded on our performance when they are due. When we are younger, our parents often bug us during the interim to see how we are doing and whether we are making progress. The older we get though, we learn that, in college, it’s our responsibility – no one will be there to prod us along. And our grades, at the end are used to hold us accountable – to reward or punish us for the quality of ou...
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