This is the last blog on this series of Goal Setting.  If you remember, the other Success Keys are: # 1: Be Committed; # 2: Create a Realistic Plan and # 3: Be Prepared for Setbacks.  We also learned how to use EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique to quickly, easily, painlessly and permanently eliminate our cravings and the emotional blocks that interfere with successfully reaching our goals

Today’s blog is on the final Goal Setting Success Key # 4: Tracking Your Progress.

Reaching goals usually takes time and often, we don’t see results for a while.  Unless you have a way of tracking your progress, you won’t know if you are actually accomplishing your goal.  This is often when people get discouraged and quit. Read the rest of this entry »

 In the last blog on goal setting, we talked about the two reasons why people fail at reaching their goals - especially weight loss goals.  They were giving in to cravings and emotional eating.  I introduced EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) as the fastest, easiest and most effective way to eliminate both of these setbacks in weight loss.  And I promised to share my experience with breaking my chocolate addiction.

I am a Stress Relief Coach and often put on seminars where I teach people how to eliminate their stress, using EFT.  After teaching the basics, I will ask for volunteers to help me demonstrate how effective EFT is for so many different problems. 

I always like to use chocolate as an example of an addiction, because it was mine and I knew how people felt around chocolate.  When my life was stressful I would turn to chocolate. I craved the richness and comfort that eating chocolate gave me. Once I started I couldn’t stop. I would eat the whole thing.

I never deliberately used EFT for my own chocolate addiction but when I starting using chocolate as a demonstration in the seminars, I would tap along cash advance new yorkcash advance company,advance cash company scams,advance advance cash company heircash loan payday quickadvance cash day loan payfast cash advance payday loanadvance cash loan loan paydayadvance cash line loan,advance cash on line,budget line cash advanceadvance cash cashing champaign,champaign check,advance cash cashing check columbia,columbia,check cash advancecash until payday loanpre settlement cash advance,advance cash settlement,advance cash chicago settlementadvance america cash loan,advance america cash company,cash advance americaadvance cash company,scams on cash advance companyadvance cash loan online paydayadvance card cash creditcash advance servicecash loan payday untilpayday cash advance,payday cash advance no faxing,cash advance till paydaycash advance servicesfast no fax cash advance,fast cash advance,easy fast cash advancequick cash advance,advance cash now quick,quick and easy cash advancecash till payday loancash advance loanadvance cash loan payday softwareadvance cash loan onlinepay day cash advance payday loan,pay day loan cash advancefirst american cash advanceadvance cash check credit no online,cash advance no credit check,advance cash check credit nolawsuit cash advance,first cash advance,cash advanceallied cash advanceadvance cash check credit nobad credit cash advance,advance bad cash credit loan loan,cash advance for people with bad creditloan oneclickcash paydaypayday loan same day cash,cash advance loan payday internet,cash loan paydaycash loan payday tiladvance cash loan payday today,advance cash loan payday,payday payday loan cash advance loanadvance cash day pay until,pay day cash advance,advance cash day loan paycash advance no fax required,savings account cash advance no fax,advance cash fax noadvance cash faxing no,no faxing savings account cash advance,no faxing required cash advancelawsuit cash advance,advance cash lawsuit pre settlement,lawsuit settlement cash advanceadvance cash loan payday quickcash advance nowpayday cash loanmagnum cash advance,advance cash faxing magnumadvance advance america cashfirst choice cash advance,first southern cash advance,first cash advancecash advance detroitadvance cash fast loan paydayadvance advance america cash,advance america cash advance,advance advance america cash center inccash international loan payday servicesadvance cash faxing money no now,advance cash faxing no,no faxing cash advance with eveyone else - using some of my own reasons for why people eat chocolate. And you know what? I worked for me, even though I wasn’t concentrating on my own reasons for eating chocolate.

I work as a nurse part time in a nursing home in Abbotsford, B.C.  and Christmas is the worst time for chocolate as all of the resident’s families give chocolates to the nursing staff.  At one time there were ten boxes of chocolates at the nursing station. As well, our family had five boxes of chocolates given to us.  Talk about temptation!

Before EFT, I would have eaten most of the chocolates.  But I didn’t have even one!  And it wasn’t because I was being strong or disciplined.  I just didn’t want them.  Now, that is the way to diet!  There is no diet.

I just don’t have the craving any more! Is there an addiction that you would like to get rid of? Cigarettes? Alcohol? Drugs? Gambling? Whatever? With EFT, you can be free of the addiction Forever - Guaranteed!

In the next and final blog on this series of goal setting, I will introduce the final success key.

In the previous blog on goal setting, I introduced Success Key # 3: Be Prepared for Setbacks.  At that time, I said that there were two reasons why people could have setbacks, using the example of weight loss.  They were: couldn’t resist the powerful physical craving and eating for emotional reasons.  I said that in the next blog, I would introduce a powerful exercise that would eliminate both of these setbacks.

The tool that I want to introduce is Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT.  EFT is like Acupuncture - without the needles. Very simply, with EFT, you tap on the ends of the key energy meridians or energy channels with your fingertips, while focusing on the craving or the emotional problem that is making you want to eat. The tapping or vibrating helps to shake up or release the energy blocked by the problem or craving.  Then you are able to think more clearly and choose a better food choice instead of automatically eating the way you used to.

1. The first thing you need to do is pay attention to your body and notice what is happening to you.  If you are experiencing a craving for a forbidden food, where do you feel it?  In your stomach?  At the back of your throat?  What does it feel like?    Identify exactly what you are feeling when you have the craving. 

Also identify what is going on around you.  Are you in a stressful situation?  Is this a programmed response or a habit?  For example, when you watch T.V. after dinner, do you always have a snack?  Or, are you used to having coffee and donuts during your break at work? 

Do you get the idea?  You need to separate yourself and look objectively at what is happening around you when you get the craving to eat.  That information is vital to using EFT to break the addiction. 

2. Take the time to sit quietly with a pen and paper and write down every feeling or sensation you have around food.  Write down what times or activities are especially hard for you.  Write down what foods call your name.  Also, notice and write down what is happening emotionally for you.  Are there any people or situations that can trigger an eating craving for you?

3. Think about each craving/emotion that you have written down, one at a time and tune into your body. What do you feel as you think about it? Choose the one craving/emotion that creates the greatest physical response. Determine between ‘0′ and ‘10′ your level of stress about this craving/emotion.  ‘0′ means there is no stress and ‘10′ means there is great stress. Tip: If you are crying or feeling intense emotion, you are a ‘10′.

4. Once you have identified your main stressor about the situation, you can quickly and easily reduce it by applying Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT. Using the attached diagram, you are going to start reducing your stress on the craving/emotion you have chosen by tapping on the karate chop point. According to the diagram, it is the fleshy side of your hand - what you would use if you were going to karate chop something. In this case, we want to karate chop or eliminate your stress.

While tapping on the karate chop point, repeat the following statement three times: “Even though (fill in the blanks with your chosen craving/emotion), I love and accept myself and choose to feel good about myself, desiring only adequate amounts of healthy food.” This is an example only. Use your own words to make it real for you.

Tips: — Be as specific and detailed as possible. The more detailed, the faster the stress relief. For example: “I am feeling anxious” is pretty general. A far more effective statement would be: “I really want to eat that chocolate bar because I am feeling anxious about having to speak to Tom today”.  Do you see the difference?

• The more feeling you can put into the statement, the more effective it will be.

5. Then you tap with your fingertips on each acupressure point (listed below) about seven to ten times. As you tap, you state aloud with feeling, a reminder phrase about your craving/emotion The reminder phrase is usually just a shortened version of the original statement. For the above example, the reminder phrase could be: “want chocolate” or ”want my chocolate comfort.”  Do you see what I mean?  Just pick some words that create a picture in your mind of what you are feeling or craving.

The tapping points are:
a) Inner corner of eyebrow (on the brow bone)
b) Outer corner of eye (on the eye socket bone)
c) Under the eye (on the eye socket bone)
d) Under the nose
e) Center of the chin
f) Collar bone point - just place the flat of your hand over the two collar bone points and slap                                                                                                                     g) Under the arm, parallel to the bra strap for women, again using flat of hand
h) Gamut point - top of the hand, above and between the baby and ring finger knuckles
i) Top of the head, parallel to both ears, using flat of your hand

6. At the end of the round of tapping, take a slow deep breath. Check in with your body to see if the stress level has decreased on this issue. You will notice that as you tap certain points, you will probably start yawning or sighing. This is a sign that the stress or craving is being released.

If there is still some remaining emotional stress or craving, repeat the tapping procedure, using the words: “Even though I still have some remaining (fill in the blanks with your issue/statement), I (repeat the above positive statement: (I love and accept myself and trust that I will eat only what is healthy for me).  Or say whatever comes into your heart or mind.

Tap each of the above points again, using the reminder phrase: “remaining (fill in the blanks). Continue until the stress is resolved.

Within a couple of minutes, the craving will be gone.  You will have to continue doing this exercise every time you get a craving but it only takes a minute to do.  Once you have broken the addiction, you will no longer want the food.  That is so freeing because you won’t be depriving yourself of anything.  You just won’t want it.

In the next blog, I will share my experience of using EFT to break my addiction for chocolate.

This is the next step in our continuing series on Goal Setting and is written for all those people who are serious about improving some part of their life.  We started it as a series for people who had written New Year’s Resolutions but goal setting isn’t just reserved for the first couple of weeks in the New Year.  Actually, that is probably when most goals are broken.

In order to be successful in making and achieving our goals we need to follow a four-step success plan.  We have already discussed Success Step # 1: Be Committed and Success Step # 2: Create a Realistic Plan.  Today’s post is Success Step # 3: Be Prepared for Setbacks.

You have to be prepared for setbacks and when they happen, consider them a learning experience rather than an excuse to dump the goal.

Don’t think of them as complete failures, don’t dwell on them and don’t let them make you give up your goals.  Get back on track to reach your objective.  After a setback, examine what was going on in your life to cause you to lose focus and plan ahead what you will do the next time you are put in a similar situation.

In using the example of weight loss, there are two reasons why people have setbacks.  One reason is that they couldn’t resist the physical craving for the forbidden food.  The second, is that they were eating for emotional reasons.  In the next post, I will reveal a simple, powerful tool that addresses both problems: quickly, easily, painlessly and permanently - Forever.  Guaranteed!

This post is a continuation on the series on goal setting and for those still working on their New Year’s resolutions.   I wonder how many are left.

The first success key to actually achieving your goals, discussed in an earlier post, was to be committed.   Today’s post talks about the second success key: creating a realistic plan.

You need to come up with a realistic plan to help you achieve your goals.   To demonstrate, let’s continue with the example of losing weight as the New Year’s resolution.   Most of us have unrealistic expectations and put too much pressure on ourselves.   Basically we set ourselves up for failure. Read the rest of this entry »

This blog is for all those people trying to set and keep their goals, like the New Year’s Resolutions that were made.

In the previous blog, I encouraged you to write down the reasons why you wanted to change a certain negative behavior.  I suggested that you need to think about, and write down, all of the benefits you were getting by doing that negative behavior.  I said that you had to be getting some kind of benefit, some kind of pay-off or you would keep doing it.

In this blog, I am going to give an example of a pay-off, using the goal of losing weight.  In order to lose weight, we need to eat better quality foods, eat less and exercise more.  Sounds simple doesn’t it?  So why don’t we do it? Read the rest of this entry »

This blog is for all those people who are trying to set goals, trying to keep the New Year’s Resolutions they made, trying to make positive changes in their lives.

The biggest key to successfully achieving our goals is that we have to be committed.  Psychologists say that resolutions are only successful if the person making them is committed to change.  People who have succeeded at accomplishing their goal, reached a place in their life where they’ve said: “Enough is enough.  I’m not going to put up with this any more and I’m going to do whatever it takes to get what I want - no matter what!” Read the rest of this entry »

The is the second blog on goal setting - for all those people who are trying to live their New Year’s Resolutions and change their lives for the better.

First of all, it’s hard to admit that we are responsible for something we don’t like in our lives.   It is so much easier to point at others or circumstances and say that they are the reason why I am not getting, doing, having or being what I want.   The problem with that philosophy is that we can’t do anything about external influences or events.   The only thing we can change is ourselves.

If we are responsible for something we don’t like in our lives, then we also have the response - ability to change it.   Read the rest of this entry »

This blog is for all those people who are trying to set goals or make positive changes in their lives.  January is the time of year when we all think about our lives and many of us make New Year’s Resolutions.  The most common New Year Resolutions are personal ones: eat better, exercise more, cut spending, lose weight, have better family time, etc.

Unfortunately, statistics show that by the end of January, at least half the people have abandoned their resolutions and by the end of March, up to 90% have given up.  But it doesn’t have to be that way.  We can change - if we are willing to allow ourselves to learn from our experiences.  The following story demonstrates this.

 Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters  - by Portia Nelson

Chapter 1:   I walk down the street.   There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.   I fall in.   I am lost.   I am helpless.  It isn’t my fault.   It takes forever to find a way out. Read the rest of this entry »