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Eliminate Fears – Ready To Eliminate Your Fears?
In my quest to grow my business, Im always listening to tapes and teleclasses, attending seminars, and reading books written by experts in their field. One thing Im clear about from everything Ive learned, if you want to be successful, its up to you to make that happen.
An Attitude of Gratitude
Well, its Thanksgiving again for the Canadians, and here in Germany we have celebrated our Erntedankfest, but anytime of the year is a good time to practice an attitude of gratitude.
William James said, The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Weight Loss: Tweaking Your Lifestyle
Despite our national propensity to overeat, under-exercise, and grow steadily heavier and more out of shape, we all yearn to be slender, fit, and attractive. Our culture rewards the thin and the beautiful; look at how we devour celebrity gossip, mesmerized by the looks and energy of our current favorites.
Why the discrepancy between our aspirations and our reality? There are a plethora of reasons, most of which can be traced to the simple fact that life gets in the way.
Weight: Give Us Something To Shoot For
We have all seen the new Dove commercials that feature real women rather than the impossibly ideal models that are usually selected. While the Dove girls are universally attractive and fit, they also reflect different sizes and shapes, designed to represent the average American woman. Is that what we want?
Weight: The Thanksgiving Hangover
We all need brief periods of self-indulgence – it’s part of the human condition. Expect a setback on your weight loss goals and let that knowledge mitigate your disappointment. Then continue on your diet with the assurance that a special occasion blip doesn’t define your future. Enjoy the memories of a family gathering while carefully planning your next week’s intake.
The Diet Bore.
You probably know a diet bore: there’s at least one in every office, every group, and at every get-together. It’s almost always female – men lose weight too but don’t seem to feel the same compulsion to convert the entire world. Blame it on our innate female need to change everyone else.
The Holidays: An Emotional Feast
Why are November and December so toxic to our weight control efforts? Certainly there is abundant food available during the month long celebration from Thanksgiving to New Year. It is the season for non-stop parties and gifts of food from colleagues, friends, family, and customers.But more than just the food, there is a special atmosphere that descends on the Western World at the end of November.
The Psychology Of Diet Preparation
We decide to lose weight because of any number of reasons: we dont like the way we look, our clothes dont fit, our health is in danger, our significant other is wandering, our job is at risk, or our kids are embarrassed. We tend to think of weight loss as something that involves only our body; surely no one ever decided to lose weight because of a fat brain or a bloated mind.
Yet we decide is a mental function. The actual size of the body does not trigger the decision to lose weight, such a choice in made in the brain.
Weight Loss At Work: Non-Food Rewards
Food seems to be the perennial favorite for any kind of work reward because it is universally accepted. Some of us (we hard core dieters) may pass on the sweet stuff but usually find something allowable. In a world where two thirds of us are overweight or obese, is there nothing else available as a gift that cuts across all individual interests? Five specific non-food rewards are suggested.
Life Is One Damn Diet After Another
Allowing ourselves to think of a diet as a delineated, restricted period within our total life span is a sure avenue back to tent city (that refers to what we wear, not where we live). To have any hope of attaining permanent weight control, we must approach it as a lifelong effort, watching our intake day after day, week after week, year after year.
Dieting: I Can’t Afford To Lose Weight!
When it comes to our weight, our emotions reign supreme. We so desperately want to be more attractive, more respected, and more desirable. We will even subject ourselves to painful and sometimes dangerous surgery to bring our reality closer to our ideal. And we will rob our piggy banks, deplete our bank accounts, and run up our credit cards for anything that promises us a slender future.