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Why New Years Resolutions Are Doomed to Fail and How to Fix It

January 13, 2013 — Leave a comment

It’s that time of year again when many of us look back over the past year – seeing the weight we didn’t lose, money we didn’t earn, and relationship we didn’t develop and, once again feel the pain of not having made the changes we were so hopeful for at the start of this year.

Why New Years Resolutions Are Doomed to Fail

We resolve, with the promise of a new beginning that tells us, “Next year will be different,” we set about making grand plans and resolutions for the year ahead, knowing in our hearts we will most likely abandon them before the end of the first month of the new year.

What is it that sabotages our noble intentions and what can we do about it?

First, decide what it is you truly want. Not what someone thinks you should want but what you actually want. Take time to think about what really matters to you.

Next, write it down in the form of an affirmative goal. “I am happily reaching my ideal weight of 125 pounds,” for example. Writing a goal in itself can have a powerful effect on it’s accomplishment.

Next, write down why you want it. This important step, overlooked by many, is a key to achieving what you want for your life. The bigger your “why,” the more motivated you will be to stick to your plan.

Then, write how you will feel when you have this. Imagine yourself being the person you want to become. How does this feel? Now, do the opposite. Write down everything you’re missing out on by not having done this. Get honest. What will another year of financial pressure do to you and your family.

These two steps of identifying how achieving your goals will make you feel and what you’re missing out on by not having done so, will give you the leverage you’ll need to push through the inertia that stops most people.

Lastly, ask yourself what one simple step you can take, right now, that will move you toward your desires and do it. This confirms to your subconscious mind that you are serious about making changes and sets your goal into motion.

As Thoreau taught us, “If one advances confidently in the direction of his (or her) dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”

this is your life,not a dress rehearsalIf you want to get a head start on achieving your goals, I invite you to take a look at my home study audio course, This is Your Life, Not a Dress Rehearsal.

Based on my international bestselling book it is the step-by-step process I used to change my life from one of agony and despair to living a life beyond my wildest expectations. You can create the life of your dreams but you need to make a decision to do so. Check it out here.

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What could you accomplish in a decade?

December 31, 2012 — Leave a comment

Georgia and I want to wish everyone a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year

Happy New Year
As we approach the close of yet another year, I’d like to share an idea I learned two decades ago. It comes from a phrase I heard from Tony Robbins. He suggested that, “We greatly overestimate what we can accomplish in a year, however we greatly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.

Think back ten years. What was your life like? What were your dreams?

Now, come back to the present. Where are you today in relation to what you wanted back then? Have you brought your dreams into reality?

If you did, great. If not, what do you need to change?

Now go ten years into the future. What can you imagine as your most amazing, wonderful life? Thinking about longer term goals, like decade goals, gives you room to really stretch and go for your ideal life.

Today I am living the vision I created more than a decade ago.

Having long term, decade goals gives you enough time to make whatever changes may be necessary to fulfill your vision.

In less than a decade you could become an expert in almost any subject, totally change your health and fitness, start and build a substantial business, start a family, or any number of other things that are important to you.

What would you like your life to reflect ten years from now?

Invest some time thinking about and writing your ideal life’s vision. Even from your present perspective, having an idea of what you want and where you are going will serve as a guide for your journey.

We’ll chunk these down into shorter term goals, milestones and action steps later but, for now, start thinking about your five, ten and even twenty year vision of your most amazing life.

this is your life,not a dress rehearsalIf you want to get a head start on achieving your goals, I invite you to take a look at my home study audio course, This is Your Life, Not a Dress Rehearsal.

Based on my international bestselling book it is the step-by-step process I used to change my life from one of agony and despair to living a life beyond my wildest expectations. You can create the life of your dreams but you need to make a decision to do so. Check it out here.

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Little Book That Can Change Your Life

April 15, 2012 — 3 Comments

 

I’m thrilled to announce the release of my latest book,

 

“The Little Book That Can Change Your Life.”

the little book that can change your lifeYou’ll be hearing more about this later and, for a limited time, you can grab a copy at the Amazon Kindle Store for only $.99 

The Little Book That Can Change Your Life

This is a short, fast moving book that boils down the key essential elements necessary to make your life the success you’ve always wanted it to be.

I wrote it for busy people on the go. People who want to get to the meat of the information without having to spend a lot of time. Learn the secrets to your success in less than a hour.

Learn how to tap your innermost desires to create the life you were born to live. Follow the principles in this book to go from where you are to where you want to go.

Change the beliefs that are stopping you from the life you want, conquer fear, commit to your success and take inspired action to change your life o the one you’ve always wanted.

Learn to create a compelling vision for your most amazing future and extract the goals necessary to step into it.

See it in the Amazon Kindle Store for only $.99 

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I’m not a handyman but I have a lot of power tools

March 20, 2012 — Leave a comment

Several years ago my friend, Wayne, was visiting from out of town. We were just hanging around talking one morning and, for some reason, had ventured into my garage.

Wayne looked around at the reasonably neat space filled with, at the time, cartons of my books, and not much else.

Wayne looked around and remarked, ”Jim, you don’t have any tools.”

I answered, ”Yes, you’re right.”

”But,” he stammered, ”You won’t be able to do anything around the house.”

I explained to him that he was beginning to get the idea.

I intentionally do not have the collection of tools typically found in a garage. I’m not a handyman and I do not like doing those little projects around the house that many men seem to enjoy. And, I’m not all that good at it.

Also, since I’m in my own business, I consider it a poor use of my time. I believe we all have our specific talents and, especially if you work for yourself, you’re better off doing something that pertains to it and hiring the help you need for those projects you do not wish to do.

I have an arrangement with my lawn care service. I don’t cut grass and they don’t write books.

Garage jokes aside, there is one area in which I do have tools. Plenty of them.

I have an ever expanding collection of tools for the mind. I have bookcases filled with personal development books, many of which are classics.

I have countless hours of audio seminars in my iTunes library, featuring some of the best success teachers I know. I make good use of my exercise and driving time, listening to personal development and business seminars. This enables me to continue to learn while doing other tasks.

From that first set of cassette tapes, way back when I was trying to figure out how to get my life right side up, I have not stopped reading self help books and listening to success audio programs.

This practice, which I have made into a positive habit, has been the greatest contributor to the success I enjoy today, more than any other thing I have done.

It’s true I do not have a lot of carpentry or yard tools, but I have a grand collection of ”Power Tools” for leading a happier and more successful life.

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If you want to succeed, do it now

March 9, 2012 — Leave a comment

“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”

Anonymous

Do it now!

Whatever it is you have been putting off, do it. This is your life, it’s not a dress rehearsal. What is it you have always wanted to do but, for some unknown reason, never quite get around to? I’m referring to those usually minor desires, not major goals like “get married” or “start a business.”

Jm ParasailingFor me it has been things like, para sail, swim with dolphins, ride in a glider plane. These were not major accomplishments but still, for some reason, I had been putting them off for years. Why? Why is it we have a tendency to treat our lives as though we will live forever?

In truth, our time here on this earth is but a brief moment in time. If you compare our, perhaps, 100 years here to the age of this planet we call home, you will see we are only here for a blink in time.

What are you putting off? What are some of the things you have always wanted to experience but are postponing because you think you have all the time in the world?

Read the obituaries in today’s newspaper and realize that everyone whose name is in there thought they had another day. It’s not my intent to offend you, but I do want to shock you into the realization that — this is it! This is your life.

Your life is precious

Don’t treat your life lightly. Live now! Have you always wanted to sky dive? Visit the Great Pyramids? Swim with dolphins? See Niagara Falls? Whatever it is you have always wanted to do but have been putting off, decide now to do it.

Make a plan.

Determine what you will need to do to prepare. Find out the costs involved. Take action.

When I started writing my international bestselling book  This is Your Life, Not a Dress Rehearsal, I had still not experienced para sailing, even though it was something I really wanted to do.

There were no logical reasons why I had not done it. I simply kept putting it off. It was always in my “someday I’ll” file.

Someday is now!

I’m pleased to say that as the image above illustrates, I have experienced the thrill of sailing through the sky, hanging by a couple of strings.

I decided to take my own advice and make “someday” now. It was great! Doing it was simple enough. All I needed to do was take action.

Exercise: In your journal, answer the following:

What is it you have always wanted to do?

What preparations will you need to make?

What is your target date to complete this?

If you’re ready to start living the life you were
born to live, get the tools you need here. 

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