3 Ways To Push Through And Strengthen Your Mindset
Achievers Never Quit, And Quitters Never Achieve
Where are you at the end of January? Are you going strong? Maybe you are just hanging in there. Have you already thrown in the towel on your goals for 2016?
There will always be obstacles in your way to achieving your goals. Doubt and time stealers sneak in. What is giving you resistance at the end of this month?
If you have a desire to quit, reevaluate your goal and ask yourself, where will I be tomorrow or next year if I quit? What are my options? Are the consequences of quitting greater than the pain of pushing through?
3 Tips For Pushing Through Into February
1) Strengthen Your Character – If you quit it speaks more about who you really are than where you are in the struggle. External things happen to everyone, but not everyone quits. External things cannot stop you, only you can choose to stop. If you stumble and fall, that is not failure. Failure is if you stay down or make excuses to quit. Get back up and learn from the experience and push through!
2) Strengthen Your Attitude About Your Journey – Those who quit, don’t have a harder path. Likewise, those who achieve their goals don’t have an easier path. They just push through!
3) Strengthen Your Vision – If you want to achieve your goal, you need to see the journey to your destination differently. Don’t dwell on how long it is taking to get there. Take one day at a time. When you feel as though you have had all you can take, tell yourself that you have come too far to quit now. When you don’t feel you have the strength to keep going or hold on any longer, remind yourself that the darkest hour comes just before the dawn. Hold on and push through!
The artist Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed on a star does not change his mind.”
The only way you can fail is if you stop trying! You need to keep going and when you do, you will achieve your goals.
If you choose to stop, you cannot blame what is happening around you or to you. If you do stop, it is because what is inside you – or what is not inside you. It is essential to choose to think differently because success is probably just around the corner.
Strengthen your mind and achieve your goals. Don’t quit! Push through!
Finish January strong and let that momentum carry you into February. Take a day to reevaluate your month, make the changes you need to make and then push though.
If this has given you any benefit, please comment below or on www.facebook.com/absorb360.
If you want more coaching on pushing through, contact me at: tracy@absorb360.com.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Reach Your Goals With These Mind Games
I have repeatedly said that if we want to change our lives, we need to change our actions. If we want different results from yesterday, a week ago, a month ago or a year ago, we need to change what we did yesterday, last week, last month or last year.
As the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Most of us have good intentions to change for the better. Many of make a plan and want to take action. Unfortunately, most of us, fail to actually DO what we plan.
These simple mind games can help you take the necessary action to achieve your goals.
You can quit unwanted habits and start desirable ones by playing these mind games.
Say you want to quit eating unhealthy snacks (or any unwanted habit). Typically you think each time you eat a bag of chips or a few cookies, I failed. But, if you play the mind game right, you can open yourself up to success. You need to train yourself to play this game. Each time you want to take cookie, you think of all the different things you could do instead of taking a cookie. You will begin to realize how many ways there are to succeed, rather than fail. I will eat an apple. I will go for a walk. I will have a glass of water. This helps you use the power of self-fulfilling prophecy. Say something you want to do, and then do it!
You need to play this same mind game if you want to create a positive habit. Maybe you want to exercise 30 minutes a day. Many people fail to meet this goal when they start thinking and saying, I won’t get my exercise in today. If you want to succeed, you need to come up with a better outcome, like, I will go for a walk before breakfast or during lunch, or I will use the treadmill or stationary bicycle while watching TV this evening.
When you choose to speak like this and play these games with your mind, you will increase your willpower and you will have a much higher success rate.
If you want to increase your chances of succeeding, you need to change your mindset!
If this has given you any benefit, please comment below or on www.facebook.com/absorb360.
If you want more coaching on playing mind games to reach your goals, contact me at: tracy@absorb360.com.
I have repeatedly said that if we want to change our lives, we need to change our actions. If we want different results from yesterday, a week ago, a month ago or a year ago, we need to change what we did yesterday, last week, last month or last year.
As the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Most of us have good intentions to change for the better. Many of make a plan and want to take action. Unfortunately, most of us, fail to actually DO what we plan.
These simple mind games can help you take the necessary action to achieve your goals.
You can quit unwanted habits and start desirable ones by playing these mind games.
Say you want to quit eating unhealthy snacks (or any unwanted habit). Typically you think each time you eat a bag of chips or a few cookies, I failed. But, if you play the mind game right, you can open yourself up to success. You need to train yourself to play this game. Each time you want to take cookie, you think of all the different things you could do instead of taking a cookie. You will begin to realize how many ways there are to succeed, rather than fail. I will eat an apple. I will go for a walk. I will have a glass of water. This helps you use the power of self-fulfilling prophecy. Say something you want to do, and then do it!
You need to play this same mind game if you want to create a positive habit. Maybe you want to exercise 30 minutes a day. Many people fail to meet this goal when they start thinking and saying, I won’t get my exercise in today. If you want to succeed, you need to come up with a better outcome, like, I will go for a walk before breakfast or during lunch, or I will use the treadmill or stationary bicycle while watching TV this evening.
When you choose to speak like this and play these games with your mind, you will increase your willpower and you will have a much higher success rate.
If you want to increase your chances of succeeding, you need to change your mindset!
If this has given you any benefit, please comment below or on www.facebook.com/absorb360.
If you want more coaching on playing mind games to reach your goals, contact me at: tracy@absorb360.com.
Sunday, January 17, 2016
New Year, New You – 2 Steps To Having A Successful 2016
I have been off a week here and have been doing some thinking as to where I would like this blog to go in the New Year. I am passionate about health and wellness 360 degrees – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. I am also passionate about helping others live healthy and wealthy lives, all 360 degrees.
There are many blogs on healthy eating, about products, oils and supplements. I feel more led to focus on personal growth and our mindset. If we are not healthy in these areas, there is little hope for health in other areas.
We need to be encouraged, inspired and challenged to be the best that we can be and to strive to reach the desires and goals we have for life, whether they be personal, spiritual, relational, or financial.
2 Steps For A Successful 2016
1) Take Your Thoughts Captive!
If you can take your thoughts captive and control what you think about and how you think about it, you will control many results. You need to realize that only you are in control of what you think about and how your feel. Circumstance does not force you to feel a certain way. You choose how you want to feel.
The powerful decision comes not only when you choose to not think negatively, but when you choose to think positively! You must replace negative thoughts with positive ones. This can be hard work at times, but you must be willing to do this with every thought if you want to have a more successful 2016.
2) Choose a Positive Attitude!
A positive attitude will bring positive results! Your attitude will not only control your life and your destiny, but it will control the journey, making it pleasant or unbearable.
Your attitude will make you or break you in every area of your life. It is the foundation for every success or every failure you have.
Your actions are created by the attitude you choose to have. If you choose to have a negative attitude about a situation, you most likely will not put much thought into making needed changes for a better outcome. You will spend your thoughts and time complaining rather than choosing positives thoughts and taking positive actions that will, in the end, give you better results.
So, we could say, what you think is what you get. If you choose a bad attitude enough times, you will expect failure. On the other hand, if you choose to have a positive attitude, even when things don’t go your way, you will enjoy the journey much more and you will just step over the obstacle and continue towards your desired results.
Your thoughts will become like a magnet for either failure or success. When you get what you are expecting, this will reinforce your positive or negative beliefs.
Positive and Negative thoughts become habitual when you continually think a certain way. Reflect on where your thoughts tend to wander, especially if a challenging situation arises. It is easy to be positive when everything is going great. It is in the time of trials and tribulation that our true character is manifested.
Shift your thinking and create a positive attitude! Analyze every thought you think until positive thinking becomes habit.
When you take control of your attitude, you will take control of your results!
If this has given you any benefit, please comment below or on www.facebook.com/absorb360.
If you want more coaching on taking your thoughts captive or how to choose a positive attitude, contact me at: tracy@absorb360.com.
I have been off a week here and have been doing some thinking as to where I would like this blog to go in the New Year. I am passionate about health and wellness 360 degrees – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. I am also passionate about helping others live healthy and wealthy lives, all 360 degrees.
There are many blogs on healthy eating, about products, oils and supplements. I feel more led to focus on personal growth and our mindset. If we are not healthy in these areas, there is little hope for health in other areas.
We need to be encouraged, inspired and challenged to be the best that we can be and to strive to reach the desires and goals we have for life, whether they be personal, spiritual, relational, or financial.
2 Steps For A Successful 2016
1) Take Your Thoughts Captive!
If you can take your thoughts captive and control what you think about and how you think about it, you will control many results. You need to realize that only you are in control of what you think about and how your feel. Circumstance does not force you to feel a certain way. You choose how you want to feel.
The powerful decision comes not only when you choose to not think negatively, but when you choose to think positively! You must replace negative thoughts with positive ones. This can be hard work at times, but you must be willing to do this with every thought if you want to have a more successful 2016.
2) Choose a Positive Attitude!
A positive attitude will bring positive results! Your attitude will not only control your life and your destiny, but it will control the journey, making it pleasant or unbearable.
Your attitude will make you or break you in every area of your life. It is the foundation for every success or every failure you have.
Your actions are created by the attitude you choose to have. If you choose to have a negative attitude about a situation, you most likely will not put much thought into making needed changes for a better outcome. You will spend your thoughts and time complaining rather than choosing positives thoughts and taking positive actions that will, in the end, give you better results.
So, we could say, what you think is what you get. If you choose a bad attitude enough times, you will expect failure. On the other hand, if you choose to have a positive attitude, even when things don’t go your way, you will enjoy the journey much more and you will just step over the obstacle and continue towards your desired results.
Your thoughts will become like a magnet for either failure or success. When you get what you are expecting, this will reinforce your positive or negative beliefs.
Positive and Negative thoughts become habitual when you continually think a certain way. Reflect on where your thoughts tend to wander, especially if a challenging situation arises. It is easy to be positive when everything is going great. It is in the time of trials and tribulation that our true character is manifested.
Shift your thinking and create a positive attitude! Analyze every thought you think until positive thinking becomes habit.
When you take control of your attitude, you will take control of your results!
If this has given you any benefit, please comment below or on www.facebook.com/absorb360.
If you want more coaching on taking your thoughts captive or how to choose a positive attitude, contact me at: tracy@absorb360.com.
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
This Year I Will… 4 Steps To A Successful Start In 2016
Now that you have assessed 2015 and know what you need to change in order for 2016 to be more successful, you need to finish your plan if you don’t have a specific outline with detailed steps, and you need to start taking action immediately.
Every day you let slip by is one day further from your desired goal, and in fact it begins to create a wall that you will need to scale in order to get moving.
Writing goals and steps help you to have a better chance of taking action.
#1 – Write Your Top Five Lessons You Learned In 2015
These can be lessons on what to do or what not to do. They can be new skills you attained, or they can be something you read or a lesson from watching someone else.
#2 – Finish This Sentence - This year I will…
...accomplish, learn how to… Be specific!
Don’t just write, “I will increase my income.” Write specifically how much you will increase it. “I will increase my income by $20,000.”
Don’t just write, “I will be a better mother.” Write specifically how you plan to be a better mother. “I will spend at least 20 minutes each day doing what my child wants to do with me.”
Don’t just write, “I will to lose weight.” Be specific on the amount. “I will lose 30 pounds.”
#3 – Finish This Sentence - This is important to me be because…
Again, write in detail.
What will the extra $20,000 allow you to do? Pay off debt? Take a family vacation? It is not about the money, but about what the money will allow you to do.
Why is spending the 20 minutes a day important to you and your child? Be specific. Put some feeling into it.
Why do you want to lose 30 pounds? How will that make you feel? How will that affect your health or your self-image?
#4 – List 3 New Actions that You Will Implement In The Next 30 Days
I will…1, 2, 3
"I will spend an extra hour every day at work."
"I will schedule in 20 minutes every day at 3:30 to spend time with my child."
"I will cut bread out of my afternoon and evening meals."
If you follow these four steps for the next 30 days, you will be one month closer to reaching your goal for 2016. You will also be on the road to developing habits that will create momentum to propel you forward the next month and throughout the year.
Revisit these four steps and each month write a new #4. Do you need to continue doing the same thing? Maybe that didn’t work and you need to try something different. Most likely, you will begin to see little successes that will encourage you to keep on keeping on.
If this has given you any benefit, please comment below or on www.facebook.com/absorb360.
If you want some coaching while walking through these 4 Steps, contact me at: tracy@absorb360.com.
Now that you have assessed 2015 and know what you need to change in order for 2016 to be more successful, you need to finish your plan if you don’t have a specific outline with detailed steps, and you need to start taking action immediately.
Every day you let slip by is one day further from your desired goal, and in fact it begins to create a wall that you will need to scale in order to get moving.
Writing goals and steps help you to have a better chance of taking action.
#1 – Write Your Top Five Lessons You Learned In 2015
These can be lessons on what to do or what not to do. They can be new skills you attained, or they can be something you read or a lesson from watching someone else.
#2 – Finish This Sentence - This year I will…
...accomplish, learn how to… Be specific!
Don’t just write, “I will increase my income.” Write specifically how much you will increase it. “I will increase my income by $20,000.”
Don’t just write, “I will be a better mother.” Write specifically how you plan to be a better mother. “I will spend at least 20 minutes each day doing what my child wants to do with me.”
Don’t just write, “I will to lose weight.” Be specific on the amount. “I will lose 30 pounds.”
#3 – Finish This Sentence - This is important to me be because…
Again, write in detail.
What will the extra $20,000 allow you to do? Pay off debt? Take a family vacation? It is not about the money, but about what the money will allow you to do.
Why is spending the 20 minutes a day important to you and your child? Be specific. Put some feeling into it.
Why do you want to lose 30 pounds? How will that make you feel? How will that affect your health or your self-image?
#4 – List 3 New Actions that You Will Implement In The Next 30 Days
I will…1, 2, 3
"I will spend an extra hour every day at work."
"I will schedule in 20 minutes every day at 3:30 to spend time with my child."
"I will cut bread out of my afternoon and evening meals."
If you follow these four steps for the next 30 days, you will be one month closer to reaching your goal for 2016. You will also be on the road to developing habits that will create momentum to propel you forward the next month and throughout the year.
Revisit these four steps and each month write a new #4. Do you need to continue doing the same thing? Maybe that didn’t work and you need to try something different. Most likely, you will begin to see little successes that will encourage you to keep on keeping on.
If this has given you any benefit, please comment below or on www.facebook.com/absorb360.
If you want some coaching while walking through these 4 Steps, contact me at: tracy@absorb360.com.
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