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Top 10 New Years Resolutions – It’s Not Too Late For You!

Dan and Jennifer — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:31:39 +0000

Here’s another great article from Gary Ryan Blair, The Goals Guy. It’s not too late to come up with your resolutions for this year. Gary’s article covers the top ten resolutions for 2007 – Read through the list and see if any of them look familiar… I can certainly identify with most of them.

One word of advice when choosing your new years resolution.

Don’t try to accomplish all ten of them this year. Pick one – yes I said just one – to accomplish this year and focus all of your energy on accomplishing that one goal.

Too many of us try to solve ‘world hunger’, when we could make the most difference by feeding a single family. That’s just an analogy, but you get the picture.

Once you’ve chosen your single resolution for the year, don’t let anything else get in your way. Pursue that one single resolution as if you life depends on it – depending on the resolution you choose (like stop smoking or lose weight), it just may…

As you read this entire article from beginning to end, think about not only how these resolutions to your personal goals, but to your love and family relationships. Have you given them the attention they deserve?

By the way, I couldn’t resist adding my own thoughts to a few of these…

The Top Ten New Years Resolutions…

And How To Achieve Them This Year.

By Gary Ryan Blair, The GoalsGuy

New Year’s is the only holiday that celebrates the passage of time. Perhaps that’s why, as the final seconds of the year tick away, we become introspective. Inevitably, that introspection turns to thoughts of self-improvement and the annual ritual of making resolutions, which offer the first of many important tools for remaking ourselves. The following list is the result of our extensive survey, which consisted of over 300,000 responses worldwide.

1. Lose Weight and Get in Better Physical Shape

Physical activity builds physical vitality. With every year of your life, you have more to gain from being physically active; as your age-related risks of chronic disease increase, regular exercise generally slows or reverses that trend. In fact, you’re even more likely to notice the benefits of regular exercise if you already have a chronic condition.

Are you ever going to be fit again as long as you live? The answer is unless you make a resolution to get fit – you’re never going to be fit – ever. The choice is yours; it begins by opting for the stairs instead of the elevator, fruit in place of chocolate, and active rather than sedentary activities.

Dan and Jennifer: We made a very simple commitment this year to do some sort of physical activity (that actually gets our heart rate up) for 10 minutes every day. Walking from the sofa to the mail box doesn’t count! One of our favorite activities is walking our two really awesome doggies, Cujo (a 10 pound Yorkie), and Sasha (a 90 pound German Shepherd). Can guess whose dog is whose?

2. Stick to a Budget

It’s been said that the best defense is a good offense. Developing and sticking to a realistic budget is a brilliant offensive move as it prevents overspending and ensures peace of mind. Many people find it very difficult to stick to a budget. It does take hard work and a lot of self-discipline, at least in the beginning. The good news is that most people find the longer they can stick to a budget, the easier it becomes.

Dan and Jennifer: We actually addressed this one last year. Neither of us has ever been very good at creating, much less sticking to a budget.

Last August we read a really great book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, and attended a free 3 day seminar, the Millionaire Mind Intensive, from Peak Potentials, founded by T. Harv Ecker. Ecker is a very well known guru in the area of personal development / betterment.

I’m not going to go into the details here, you’ll have to read the book to get the very simple strategies that have helped us triple our savings and always have more than enough money to pay our bills and have fun at the same time. I highly recommend at least reading the book…

Drastically Improve Your Life With a Little S&M…

Dan and Jennifer — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:46:00 +0000

This past weekend, we attended a personal development seminar that we’d been looking forward to for months.

But you can be sure we were surprised when we walked in a little late on the second day, and everyone was getting in on some S&M action…

If we thought it was that kind of seminar, we would’ve been on time that morning.

OK, the seminar was the Millionaire Mind Intensive from Peak Potentials, founded by T. Harv Ecker. Ecker is a very well known guru in the area of personal development / betterment.

If you haven’t read his latest book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind yet, you’re seriously missing out. It’s about finding all those limiting beliefs like "I don’t deserve it", "That’s for other people", "I’m not that lucky", that many of us acquired while growing up and showing you how to destroy them. It’s really that simple.

We can’t give the whole thing away – you’ll want to go to one of these seminars yourself – but here’s what you need to know.

T. Harv Ecker is very big on completely eradicating old damaging beliefs that we hold which don’t serve us. These beliefs actually sabotage our chances for success, in all areas of life – love, relationships, money, success. etc.

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind is a great easy read, and very actionable… Oh, and it also comes with two Free tickets to this really cool seminar, which is how we got in. I highly recommend you check it out.

Back to our story – the S&M session…

Our instructor had just passed out some heavy duty rubber bands and asked everyone to put one on their wrist… and that’s where the fun begins. Yes, it IS exactly what you’re thinking.

The 30 Day Personal Development S&M Challenge

He challenged everyone in the room to wear that rubber band for 30 days, and every time you catch yourself having a limiting thought, you have to stretch that rubber band and let go. ‘POP!’, ‘Ouch!’.

Yes, it hurts, but that’s the idea. Then you correct your statement with something encouraging and positive. And you repeat two more times.

Now, this may remind some of you of some form of bizarre shock therapy or a Pavlovian experiment unleashed on us all, but it’s a really good idea. Yeah, the brain psychology is basically the same.

So for every negative though, you experience three snaps of that heavy duty rubber band. Your brain’s going to catch on pretty quickly, and it’s going to associate the pain with negative, damaging thoughts, and the relief and good feelings with powerful, empowering thoughts.

And like with any bad habit, after 30 days you’ll change the way you think and be much happier and more successful for it.

Read Secrets of the Millionaire Mind and get your own personal success story in gear. Also, dial into the free Millionaire Mind Tele-Class. That price again is "free", so you’ve got nothing to lose except some bad habits.

Now if you’re looking for the "other kind" of S&M, watch for our special BDSM series coming soon. As you probably know by now from reading our blog, we don’t pull punches or hide out from the forbidden topics. That’s not what helping people is about.

As always, our commitment to you is to answer your questions without bias or judgment, and to help you with the best advice we possibly can. If we don’t know the answers, we’ll find someone who does!

That’s our promise to you.

Have a great day!
Dan & Jennifer