You Can be Great If You Really Want To

It isn’t easy speaking to a child about losing weight, but sometimes it has to be done to prevent serious health problems later in life. Fortunately, there are some simple things you can do to encourage your child to get slimmer.

Leading by example is a key here, because you won’t inspire your kids if they see you eating bad foods.

Make eating healthy food a family affair, and be sure not to single out one child. You can still allow snacks as long as they’re healthy, just don’t have anything that’s bad for you available.

Another thing you can do is stop using food as a reward. It’s usually sugary treats that are offered as a bribe to get homework or chores finished. Your family’s lifestyle should include healthy eating as a matter of course, and any reward system has to be completely separate from that.

Once you’ve established a healthy home life, it’s time to think about getting out and about. The whole family can benefit from playing sport or just taking a good walk around the local neighborhood. An overweight child will be more motivated to take up a physical activity if the rest of the family is doing the same.

You will be of the greatest help to your overweight child if you are supportive and pay attention to how he or she feels about food. If you set any weight loss targets, make sure they’re not too hard to reach. Aim for a healthier lifestyle rather than relying on the weighing scale alone.

Making these few adjustments to your home life will help your child lose the excess weight and keep it off. The best thing a parent can do for a child is to be a positive role model.

Cooking healthy meals and eradicating unhealthy food from the house is a good way of ensuring success for your child. Healthy eating and regular sport are the habits he or she needs to adopt for a healthy future.

Be prepared for the long haul. Although it’s going to take some time, adopting this lifestyle will enable your child to lose pounds and also to have greater control of his or her weight in the years to come.

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Your own Why is your greatest objective in life. It is the cause that you wake up every day. I have a extremely powerful Why that makes me laser-focused on the road of accomplishment and prosperity. I talk my Why aloud each day, not simply once, but several times. Speaking your own Why helps you to move it into existence. The power of the verbal term is unimaginable. Its power can be incomprehensible.

Dr. Creflo Dollar is one of my personal best spiritual mentors. I was lately reviewing one of his web-based Bible studies and discovered this statement about words: “The potential to change starts with your words. Your words have serious ability; and good or bad, you will have what you say. When you begin to take responsibility for your own words, you’ll change your own life. Judge your own speech and coach yourself to just speak what you think. By speaking faith-filled phrases, you position yourself to obtain the promises of God.”

As usual, Creflo over-delivered by providing this Bible reference to back up what he had said: Proverbs 18: 20-21 says “A man shall be filled with the fruit of his words whether good or evil. Death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I want you to have one minute to actually internalize what Dr. Dollar emphasized in this particular teaching. It is important that you know the words that you talk shape your life – good or bad. I challenge you to stop allowing negative words to curse your own life and start presenting blessings over yourself and your family everyday by saying your Why out loud for the world to hear.

I am aware a number of you reading this may being telling, “But JohnHow should I say my Why out loud if I do not know what it is?” Your own Why is what naturally moves you and produces your own every day choices and actions. If you do not know your Why yet, do not worry. Take some time to really examine this question and to think about WHY you’re here on this beautiful planet Earth. God has a purpose for everybody. Get quiet, turn within, and look for the answer. Grab a piece of paper and just beginning writing your own Why in life. It will flow effortlessly once you start. Above all, make sure your own Why is truly yours and not the Why of another person. Do not ask any person their own opinion about your Why. It has to be yours! You only have one life so do something and decide what you ultimately might like to do about it.

Growing up, labels were placed on all of us. Family, friends, schoolmates, and society in general had their own ideas of what we should be doing with our lives. However, they rarely took the time to shape their own lives. Instead, they lived vicariously through you. Have you been living their Why, the life they think you should be living? No one has the power or right to live your life except you! If you’ve been living someone else’s life, least of all your own, begin to take control of your life and find your Why by continuing on with this chapter and asking yourself the next question.

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5. What sorts of goals should people set?

I would urge people to think big and set long-term goals that excite them, without worrying at first about how they are going to get there. It really is a shame when people limit their lives by telling themselves that what they really want isn’t realistic. The only way to find out what’s realistic is to go for it.

You also need short-term goals to aim at, to give you something that’s achievable and to give your unconscious mind some behavioural reinforcement when you achieve them. Psychologists have found (Ken Sheldon and Tim Kasser if you want to look them up) that people are happier when they achieve “vertical coherence” in their goal-setting – that is, when your higher-level and short-term goals are aligned so that achieving the immediate goal takes you closer to the big one. 6. How should people go about setting goals?

First, get yourself into a positive emotional state by reviewing what’s already working in your life, what you like doing, what you’ve achieved already and what you’re proud of. This will help you find your direction, get you thinking more strategically, and also help you to feel like you deserve success.

Then clarify your values – what’s important to you – in the area of your life in which you want to set goals. Typical areas might include work and career, relationships, finances, health and fitness, and personal development.

Only then, when you’re feeling good and you know what’s important to you, should you start thinking about specific goals that will satisfy your values. Get clear about what you want, get a clear sensory image of what it will look, sound and feel like, and set a specific date for it in your future.

7. What are your top 3 tips for successful goal setting?

Okay, the first one would have to be focus on what you want, not what you want to get away from. If you don’t know what you want, how will you know if you’re on the right track, or recognise when you’ve got there? It may sound a bit “cosmic ordering” to say that your unconscious mind attracts what you focus on, but it’s only another expression of that principle widely recognised in business that you are going to move in the direction of whatever targets you set. “Towards” motivation gives you a direction, it gets even stronger when you get close to achieving your goal, and you feel good when you have it. “Away from” motivation, by contrast, is undirected, it runs out when you get far enough from the thing you want to avoid, and it’s stressful.

Next, form a sensory image of your goal – what will you see, hear and feel when you have it? This is vital for motivation. Most people are familiar with the idea that goals should be SMART – specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timed – but you’ll notice there’s nothing in there about whether you care if you achieve them or not. Using your senses gives you that missing piece by providing something to engage your emotions.

Finally – put a date on your goal! Until you have put a date on your goal, it will keep getting pushed to the back of your queue of priorities. Even if you say “in a year’s time”, the goal will always remain a year ahead unless you turn that into a proper date.

Why? Your unconscious mind acts like a good and faithful servant, and it will do its best to give you whatever you ask it for. But it will always take the line of least resistance. If you don’t put a date on your goal, there will always be something more urgent to deal with. This is why important but non-urgent tasks tend to be neglected,

8. What pitfalls do people new to goal setting have to be careful of?

Three that I can think of straight away: firstly, not taking into account potentially unwanted knock-on effects of achieving the goal. If you don’t consider all the consequences of your goal – on your health, your family, your friendships, and the wider community – you may end up with something you don’t want. The smarter way to set goals is to take the consequences into account, allowing you to make changes to your goal and/or your route to achieving it. That way you stand a chance of getting the benefits of your goal while avoiding unwanted side effects.

Second, taking too much on and getting discouraged. It can be very easy to set a big, compelling goal – and then feel overwhelmed by the effort you think it will take to get there. The goal is so big, and so different from how things are now, that getting there by the deadline you have set will surely demand too much of you. And the more you think about the legwork it will take, the more discouraged you feel. The remedy is to break it down into smaller steps that feel more achievable, and recognise each step as an achievement. The key really is to get started – not necessarily to “take massive action”, but to take some action to get you going.

Finally – and this is the biggest pitfall of all – not knowing what you want. In the absence of some powerful external motivation, like getting yourself out of debt or meeting a deadline set by someone else, how do people motivate themselves to even think about what they want – as opposed to what they want to get away from? I’ve certainly had large periods of my life when I was more or less drifting. The way out of it is to think about what’s going well, what you are good at and what’s important to you – then it becomes easy to build a picture of where you want to go.

9. Tell us a little about your book on goal setting and how it can help people.

Well, Achieve Your Goals: Strategies to Transform Your Life (Dorling Kindersley 2006) is a step by step guide for how to determine what you want, how to set goals so they happen, and how to keep yourself motivated on the way there. It wasn’t easy to write it to fit in with the publisher’s very exacting design standards, but it’s actually come out as twice the book it would have been if I had just written it as a conventional textbook. I had to collaborate with the designers to find visual ways of getting the main points very concisely, and the result is a beautifully designed and illustrated book that is a lot easier to read for the busy person. It’s something you can work through from start to finish, or just dip into for a quick fix if you run into a specific obstacle. Judging by the number of five star reviews on Amazon (all the reviews are five star at the time of writing), it’s doing its job.

10. Is there anything else you would recommend people to do, read or look at?

It’s definitely worth taking a course like the four-day ‘Create The Life You Want’ workshop which is also the first part of the NLP Practitioner training – it’s one thing to read about goal-setting methods, but you really have to experience them in practice to get the best from them.

There’s a lot of interesting research on goals and motivation coming out of the Positive Psychology movement at the moment – you can keep up with it on my ‘Practical EQ’ blog.

And, if coming on one of our courses is not practicable for you at this time, why not get together with some of your friends and form an Achieve Your Goals book group so you can support each other as you work through the exercises? Social support is a key component of goal achievement that makes it much easier for most of us – you don’t have to do it all by yourself!

As you can see, goal setting can form a key element in keeping yourself on track and focused. If you want more from Andy we also conducted an audio interview which will be available from my shop in the next few weeks. In the meantime, why not take some time out to review and revise your goals? I look forward to hearing of your successes.