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Why DIEting does not work! – NO FAILURE ZONE
Lot’s of people on diets after the holidays. Using will power is a short term strategy that works, but in the long run most people tire. Face it, denying your body food is painful. And your brain don’t like pain. So let’s not fight ourselves (good luck if you do), and let’s use a judo […]
Something is going to Blow! – NO FAILURE ZONE
Ever been stuck in a painful situation? There’s a history of pain, and pain in the present moment. You want to take action but you don’t because you feel the pain is going to be even worse. You are stuck! Here’s how to get unstuck. You have to focus on the pain and make it […]
What’s the MIXUP? – NO FAILURE ZONE
Yesterday’s blog pointed out mixed associations. Now let’s spell them out, literally. We will use a BEN Franklin inventory. Grab a piece, draw a line down the middle. Pick the area of your life where you are stuck because of mixed associations (feelings, emotions). Could be finances, relationship, work, kids, school, health, whatever, who ever, […]
There’s a MIXUP here – NO FAILURE ZONE
You have all heard or worse USED the expression “I have mixed emotions about that” or maybe “I have mixed feelings about that”. Feelings and emotions are two ways of saying the same thing. But there is a more accurate term to use. You are having MIXED ASSOCIATIONS. You are associating the goal or outcome […]
Who are you? – NO FAILURE ZONE
Most people would rather sit in comfort holding onto what they have than to take the chance to go after there dream. I am mindful of the servant who buried a piece of silver so as not to lose it while the boss was away. That was not a good strategy. That servant had a […]
What’s your pattern? – NO FAILURE ZONE
Guess what? There are links like a steel chain that we shackle our destiny with.They are the patterns of behavior we have learned to avoid pain and get into pleasure. Not recommended patterns are smoking, vaping, drinking alcohol, cutting, shooting up, snorting, porn, verbal abuse, overeating, etc. Better and recommended are exercise, learning, teaching, yoga, […]
DE-Liberate – NO FAILURE ZONE
To do something deliberately means to do it on purpose. If I do that last set of painful forced reps I am choosing to experience pain, but the mental satisfaction and gains outweighs the pain. A lot of pains we endure are not made by choice or deliberation, they are reactions to a situation, a […]
Pain:Action Relation – NO FAILURE ZONE
We humans only do things for two reasons, ever- avoidance of pain or pursuit of pleasure. So if we are not taking action it is because we see the action as painful. I dislike deadlines and procrastination. I see waiting till the last minute as painful. I ask the question “what will this cost me […]
Ever achieved a goal? – NO FAILURE ZONE
Right now, think of something you are doing presently, that was once just a goal. Got it? Now think of all the obstacles or events or people that got in the way of it, but yet here you are doing what you set out to do today. The point of this is you know how […]
Ten Years from Now – NO FAILURE ZONE
Jack LaLanne decided that on his 70th birthday he would do something big. Jack towed a flotilla of 70 rowboats during a mile-long swim from Long Beach Harbor to the Queensway Bridge in California. He had a vision and a plan. Then he did the work. Then he succeeded. The man was an inspiration to […]
