Bodybuilding Quiz: How Motivated Do You Feel?

Posted on February 20, 2012 by savi0043

Working out is fun and all, but I never know exactly what I’m going for. Sure I want to lose weight and gain some muscle but I feel like I’ve got no direction. How do you keep on track?

Bodybuilding Quiz: How Motivated Do You Feel?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Marc_David]Marc David

Let me make a prediction…

96.8% of subscribers who actually are reading this have wished they had more passion in the gym.

And a full 99% of those still reading, do not have their goals written down anywhere.

Why is motivation so difficult? How come the #1 question I receive is from somebody who asks, “I know what to do, but I just need somebody to motivate me to do it all year round.”

So let me ask you…

Can you clearly see your goals that you want to obtain? No really. Can you SHOW me what you want to accomplish in the next 6 months?

Personally I always thought that writing down your goals and to-do’s was crap. Until I took a sticky yellow post-it and wrote down 4 things I wanted to accomplish on my website over the weekend. Nothing fancy at all but clearly the things I wanted to do. They were specific, simple and realistic.

Needless to say…

I did them all over the weekend. And here I’d thought about them for 6 months!

Look… goal orientation is the key element in establishing strong motivation.

Let me say that again – Knowing what you want to accomplish is key in establishing the desire to actually do it!

A goal is nothing more than a stepping stone from one goal to another. It’s the bridge between wanting to achieve something and actually achieving it.

So let’s being with the Six Steps you must do to go from thinking about it, to actually doing it.

:: A Goal Must Be Well Defined ::

If you’ve seen those Red Cross thermometers or any place that shows some type of chart with the money received and the ultimate goal.. that is pretty well defined.

Just think about it…

What sounds best to you?

a) I want to lose weight

b) I want to destroy 15 lbs of fat and get to 10% body fat with a year

Please tell me you picked B. B is clearly more defined and therefore more obtainable.

:: A Goal Must Be Stated In Writing ::

Life gets in the way. My story of wanting to do just 4
simple things to my own website that I had the ability to do just kept getting buried under the complexities of life and schedules.

Once it was a simple post-it note on my desk, it had a magical way of getting done as I checked off each item. It didn’t require any more work on my part but it was defined and clearly visible.

Everybody says this right? Even Tony Robbins, Tom Venuto, Jon Benson, Jeff Anderson, and the rest of them.

But guess what? Those guys are right. That is their secret to success.

They write down what they want and once it’s in writing, it gets done.

The rest of us think about it forever and never really get around to doing it.

Heck, if you don’t write down a grocery list of what you want, you’ll forget things at the store, get distracted and make 4 more trips that weekend.

Opps… maybe that is why I should take a list to the store. Saves on gas too.

My point is, your goals MUST be written down.

:: A Goal Must Be Stated In The Positive ::

I’m not a medical doctor of some Neuro-Linguistic
Programming, but I know enough about the subconscious to know it doesn’t understand negative goals.

Use a positive mindset when creating a goal. “I won’t eat junk food” is better stated as “I will eat healthy foods eat day.” Even better is “I will enjoy eating healthy foods each day.”

Now your goal is an affirmation which can be used to kick- start some action!

Rather then state what you won’t do, start telling yourself what you will do.

:: A Goal Must Have A Deadline For Completion ::

How many of you get excited about payday? Or an up-coming vacation? Or even a UFC fight in Las Vegas?

Simple. It’s something to look forward to and think
about. It creates a sense of urgency in ordering tickets and getting the hotel if you know you are leaving on a specific date.

If there’s no real goal for completion, there’s no sense of urgency after a bit and hence, most people quit the gym after 6 months.

Not only did they not have a clear goal most of the time but they had no deadlines for obtaining anything.

After a bit, it’s just a routine, gets boring and since
there’s no deadline to accomplishing anything, they get back to life and out of the gym.

:: A Goal Must Have Sincere Emotional Appeal ::

So let me ask you…

If you don’t really care, how much passion do you have for that thing?

Creating a goal should be a sincere effort with something tied to your emotional desires.

Heck if you don’t even care, trust me, your mind will find a quick way to end that gym session.

An emotionally charged goal will have a sense of urgency and that leads to passion to complete something specific by a certain deadline.

Passion is the fuel you are looking for and only you can create it. Sadly, it’s not available in any gas stations that I know of… yet.

:: A Goal Must Be Difficult, Yet Realistic ::

With that said, if it’s too easy, it’s unlikely you’ll give
it enough attention to really focus on it or care. “I’m
going to make it to the gym tomorrow,” is hardly an earth shattering revelation for most. To make matters worse…

If it’s too difficult, you’ll get frustrated with the lack
of progress and your confidence in actually doing it will be compromised. That means…

You need to create goals in such a way that with a
continual, concentrated effort, you know you can get the job done.

Imagine a mountain top with a red flag at the very top. That is your long term goal (specific too). But it’s unrealistic to think you can achieve that in 2 months.

But if you had little yellow flags along the path to that red flag, those would be short term, achievable goals you could look forward to with a sense of urgency because they could have a shorter deadline and time to completion.

How about losing 1 lb a week of fat?

How about gaining 2 lbs a week for those who are on a bulking cycle?

How about writing one question and answer a day for the Beginner’s Guide to Fitness and Bodybuilding? (That’s how I got all 250 pages of my first book done.)

Short term thinking but with long term results.

If you know you can get the job done, your passion for doing it will rise.

Now go get some yellow sticky notes!

Copyright 2006 Marc David

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Rejection Hurts and Then It Changes Your Life

Posted on February 19, 2012 by savi0043

Rejection Hurts and Then It Changes Your Life
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Marquita_A_Herald]Marquita A Herald

Try thinking of it this way… no rejection, no growth.

What if everyone said yes to you? Okay, I can hear you now – you’d like to give it a try just for a while, especially with your spouse, parents or boss. But the truth is if everybody agreed with you… if you experienced no rejection you’d have no reason to try harder… to grow as a human being, nothing to challenge and excite you, and frankly after a while it would probably be a pretty boring life.

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody’s going down. ~Lance Armstrong

What do you want out of life?

If your ultimate goal is to grow, be successful and have a brilliantly fulfilling life, but you’re doing everything possible to avoid any form of rejection or discomfort, then aren’t your actions in conflict with your goals and dreams?

What if, from this day forward, the word “no” didn’t stop you anymore? What if every time you were rejected you became stronger, more powerful, and more resilient? What if the greatest success strategy in the world was not to go for yes, but to go for no?

Rejection doesn’t have to debilitate you. In fact, it can empower you to achieve a whole new level of greatness you never dreamed possible.

Do not take rejection personally. There are times in our lives when we are rejected simply because of timing, and sometimes a rejection has nothing to do with us at all. So if you get turned down, don’t waste valuable emotional energy second guessing the reason, assuming that you are a failure or that no one likes you.

Think positively. Sometimes, getting rejected is a blessing in disguise and may send you in a whole new direction or provide you with the space for something bigger that is about to happen! Sometimes a rejection is nothing more than the other person’s opinion… let it boost your confidence and steel your resolve! Remember, what you tell yourself is what you will believe, so tell yourself that no matter what; you are going to get through this and succeed or move on to something better suited to you. Above all, don’t try to ignore or bury fear of rejection. Instead, condition yourself to take action in spite of the fear.

Listen to the rejection carefully. Pay attention to the reason for the rejection. This will tell you if you have a second chance or not. Try asking follow-up questions to understand why you are being rejected and get creative in coming up with an alternative solution. If you were not accepted because of lack of experience, you can look for ways to get more experience. Sometimes “No” just means you haven’t yet given the other person enough reasons to say “Yes.” Other times a “No” simply means no. You have to rely on your intuition to sort out which is which.

Everyone experiences rejection. Knowing that rejection is an emotion that everyone experiences at some point is a reality check! Of course, “embracing rejection” doesn’t mean giving up easily. It simply means fully accepting the notion that you intend to decide your own worth rather than being controlled by other people’s responses.

Try and try again. Believe it or not, rejection is one of the best growth opportunities, as long as you learn from the experience. If your response to rejection is to blame someone else, you’re probably not going to get much out of the experience. However, if you focus on what you could have done better, you’re on to something important.

Even the most successful people in the world get rejected. To become all that we are capable of being, we need to grow and on occasion experience some discomfort. What if Dr. Seuss had given up after his 27th rejection and not tried one more time?

To learn more about cultivating resilience in your life, please visit my blog IGG – Tips, Tools & Tantalizing Ideas at: http://www.inspiredgiftgiving.com and look for my Free special report – 12-Step Guide to Building Resilience.

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Successful Transitions: The Opportunity to Rewrite Your Life Story

Posted on February 19, 2012 by savi0043

Successful Transitions: The Opportunity to Rewrite Your Life Story
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Marquita_A_Herald]Marquita A Herald

Life is full of changes, big and small… all shapes and sizes. Some changes are welcomed; others range from inconvenient to catastrophic. You’ve reached a career dead-end, how do you make a job transition? Your heart was broken into a million pieces, how do you survive the days ahead? You’re being transferred across country and have to uproot your entire family, how do you face the challenges before you? How do you survive the changes?

While the words are occasionally used interchangeably, there is actually a subtle, but nonetheless significant difference between change and transition. Change is the external circumstances of what’s happening – the job change, the passing of a loved one, the break-up of a marriage; while transition on the other hand is the internal process that you must go through to adapt to the change and the new situation it presents.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~ Anatole France

A life transition can be positive or negative, planned or unexpected. Some transitions happen without warning, and they may be quite dramatic, as in cases of accidents, death, divorce, job loss, or serious illness. Other life transitions come from positive experiences such as getting married, going away to college, getting a promotion or starting a new job, moving to a new city, or giving birth to a child. Even when events like these are planned and anticipated, they can be just as life-altering as the unexpected events.

Whether positive or negative, life transitions cause us to leave behind the familiar and force us to adjust to new or different ways of living and thinking, at least temporarily.

Until we successfully transition from the old reality to the new reality, a successful change can’t happen.

There are three stages to successful life transition:

1. Let go of the past: What is ending in your life… your life as a mother with children living at home is ending; you are no longer single, married, employed, etc.

2. Internal Process: This can look and feel like periods of inactivity or even depression, as you allow yourself to mourn the loss of your old life. Feelings and reactions to things go flat, rudderless, ambition less… it’s like spending time in your own cocoon while you allow yourself time of solitude to rewrite your life story with a new and better ending.

3. Embracing the change: The beginning of a new way of living.

Ultimately, change can be good or bad. It is always up to you to decide if a change is for the better or for the worse. However, if you give yourself time to adjust to the change… to let go of what was, celebrate the good and forgive the bad… you may not only find change far easier and less stressful, but a wonderful opportunity to revisit hopes and dreams you once had but perhaps had forgotten.

Marquita is a writer, entrepreneur, coach, world traveler, avid reader, lover of dogs and the blogger behind IGG – Tips, Tools & Tantalizing Ideas. To learn more about cultivating resilience in your life, please visit my blog IGG – Tips, Tools & Tantalizing Ideas at: http://www.inspiredgiftgiving.com and look for my Free special report – 12-Step Guide to Building Resilience.

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Are You Sure You Want to Neglect Your Feet?

Posted on February 19, 2012 by savi0043

Do you have no time to take care of your feet? There are simple ways to achieve healthier feet, and never neglect these.
Are You Sure You Want to Neglect Your Feet?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mark_A_Robbins]Mark A Robbins

They say you’ll never know how important something is until it’s gone. Unfortunately, that seems to be the case with most people when it comes to their feet. Only a few manage to take care of their body from head to toe with equal importance. The feet need to be taken care of so that you will be able to continue everything that you are doing. If you don’t see how important your feet are, just think about how hard it will be to go anywhere without being able to walk properly. How will you go to certain events when you can’t satisfy the shoes code since your feet hurt with wearing fancy shoes? You will not be as versatile as you are now. What’s sad is that you can do something about it yet you choose not to.

Don’t wait until it’s too late to take care of your feet. As early as now, start with a healthy routine composed of nothing but healthy and relaxing actions. The first thing for you to do is to take those running shoes and put them on. To maintain healthy feet, maintain exercise and have a healthy body. Just do a few runs around the neighborhood to strengthen the muscles on your feet so that even if you are required to stand for a long time, your feet will know how to cope.

Another thing to do is begin eating healthy foods. They can deliver moisture to your feet so that it doesn’t dry up. Dry feet can be very problematic, so make sure that you avoid this condition at all costs. To aid in getting rid of dry feet, there are foot cream products that you can try. These products aim at solving dry feet as well as cracked heels that bother both men and women. Now that dry feet are the subject, you might also want to be careful with the shoes that you are wearing since some of them might be extremely uncomfortable for the feet.

As a part of the effort to care for your feet, also remember to have a regular appointment at a spa for a foot scrub. This can help get rid of accumulated dead or dry skin cells that lead to cracked heels later on. It’s best to constantly have these removed than suffer the consequences later on. These are just some of the things that you can do for your feet.

Mark A. Robbins has his own foot spa and always reminds his clients to come back to maintain their healthy feet. He also recommends some products like the best foot cream to get rid of [http://dryfootcream.com]dry feet and cracked heels easier.

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Thank You!

Posted on February 18, 2012 by savi0043

Thank you so much! You all ROCK!

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