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Focus. Concentration. Finding it, Maintaining it, Increasing it. What we focus on will expand and what we don't focus on will contract. You will become, do or have whatever you think about most of the time. I can say with absolute certainty that it is extremely important to manage our focus and develop laser sharp clarity on what it is that we really want.
- The Realgoalgetter Blogs
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- Newsletters
The Realgoalgetter Ezines are published regularly with site updates and new articles about goal setting and achievement information.
- Take Action Now!
Taking action, any action is the first step. As long as you are moving, you can use the momentum to take more action. The saying that you can't steer a parked car is right on. You must get your vehicle moving before you can steer it.
- Action Rules!
'Don't know where to go or what to do?' Decide for now that you do know, pick that thing that keeps coming into your mind, but you brush it away when your self talk keeps telling you; 'I couldn't possibly do that.' Do it. Begin it. And see the magic start to happen for you.
- Take Responsibility Now
You can attend the courses, listen to CD’s and read the books, but if you are not willing to take responsibility for what you have in your life and accept your own power and ability to change it, you are never going to get the changes you want.
- Commitment
Here is a good quote when you are stuck deliberating on whether to take action or not. It is about COMMITMENT - Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative and creation.
- Tips For Taking Action
What will work for everyone is the fact that once you make the decision to get it done, and commit to it, then, you will find the right method to use. (Reason then Strategy) Look at each task on a per 'action' basis, not all lumped together, because they all are different, and you want to have an arsenal of tools handy to deal with it when it come up.
- Develop Power Habits
Disciplines to practice and make a habit. Look at what more can be done to speed your progress to your goals. Where can I improve? What can I do more of? What can I do better? What I am doing is great, but is there something I can do differently? Regularly check in and measure your progress, focus, and positive attitude daily.
- Stop Procrastination
Procrastination can become habitual if not kept in check. Here are some articles to overcome the procrastination behavior, and continue taking action towards your goals.
- Why So Tired?
There's nothing so fatiguing as something you're supposed to have done and haven't done. In other words, those chores and tasks on the to-do list. This can be one large thing, or a number of small things. In fact the size of the task doesn't matter; they all create about the same amount of fatigue in your brain.
- Ending Procrastination
I'm going to tell you how to overcome procrastination. I'm going to show you how to turn procrastination into perseverance, and if you do what I suggest, the process will be virtually painless. It involves using two very powerful principles that foster productivity and perseverance instead of passivity and procrastination.
- Ten Ways To Stop Procrastinating
Trying to realise our ambitions, even if we don’t always meet them, is preferable to not having the courage or motivation to take the risk. So not making any resolutions because we fear that we’ll break them is having a defeatist attitude, as we allow procrastination to become an insidious habit which stops us from leading more fulfilling lives.
- Evaluating Your Associations
If you were to evaluate the major influences in your life that have shaped the kind of person you are, this has to be high on the list: the people and thoughts you choose to allow into your life. Mom was right, choose your friends wisely.
- Goal Setting
Goal Setting Topics And Articles
- Impossible Is Just A Word
Everyone, at some point of his or her life, has dreamed of being somebody special, somebody big. Who hasn't fantasized about being the one who hits the game-winning homer?
Who hasn't dreamed of being the homecoming queen? And how many times have we dreamed of being rich, or successful, or happy with our relationships? Have you dreamed a big dream?
- Goals-Whats In It For Me
Setting goals has many benefits. Here is a list of some of the benefits you will reap by setting goals and documenting your progress. Once you have determined what you want to achieve and outlined a detailed action plan, you have no excuse left to delay taking action. You know exactly what steps to take to realize your dream. Simple.
- Personal Goal Setting Steps
Commit to yourself, increase the urgency and importance of this set of goal setting steps steps. Your desire will overcome any inertia associated with any previous failures, and small actions taken daily will increase the momentum to the point where you will be unstoppable in your quest.
- Four Powerful Strategies to Achieve Your Goals
We all have wishes. Wishes are goals, but goals with a little snap, crackle, and pop. Goals provide the process that can take you where you want to go, but too often they don't provide the inspiration to get you there. Wishes are different. They have impact - like being struck by lightning instead of by a lightning bug. They let you dream. They let you soar.
- Proper Decision Making
You want to make all the 'right' decisions in your life--not only in your career, but in your personal life and in your finances as well. You can do that, but you can't wait until you're faced with a decision to begin preparing for it.
- Goal Planners
Planning your life's purpose and path, making up a Goals Worksheet, or Goals Workbook is not very much different than planning for an event of some type, just more comprehensive, and ongoing. Get a good planner system . . .
- Personal Development
Personal Development Page links with descriptions, which can be found in this section.
- Why Change? Why Plan?
In today's world, the speed of change, and our increasing information / knowledge base, is making it necessary to constantly learn new and sometimes wildly different information, just to keep up with it all. In today's times, we will fall rapidly behind, if we do not plan to stay ahead.
- What's Your Dream?
That which moves you inexorably towards it's attainment. Your life purpose, a worthwhile mission that you have a real need to fulfill, where just the pursuit of it demands you be at your best self. You rise to the occasion, it gets you up early, it keeps you up late, all the moments inbetween a whirlwind of action and excitement. You are living your dream, happily and joyfully making life pay your price.
- Achieving Your Dreams
Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path. To unleash this power, though, your dreams must be well defined.
- Business Practices To Bring Home
Bringing work home from the office isn’t often heralded as the path to a fulfilling life. In fact, the spillover of work into home is an ongoing struggle for many. But, there are 4 business practices, that, when adopted in your personal life, can enhance your overall effectiveness and ease.
- Discover Your Vision
You should be able to see the future with clarity. When you want something bad enough, you have already seen it in your mind. The universe will not reward you physically, until you believe it mentally.
- Finding Your LIfe Purpose
What is a Life Purpose or Calling? Life purpose is a calling, an overall theme for our life or intent that transcends our daily activities. It is the quality we are here on earth to develop, the type of service we are here to render.
- Writing A Purpose Statement
Committing yourself to defining your purpose is the perhaps the most important task you could ever engage in. “Discovering your purpose will put your life into crystal-clear perspective,” says Mark Victor Hansen in an Internet article “Conceptualize your Purpose.”
- How To Stay Positive
How to stay positive, Yes. The very fact that we are just that, human, allows us all to have down times. The difference lies in how quickly we choose to get over those things that are holding us back, or making us feel at less then our personal best. And that I believe is a major key - being able to get past the downtimes in ones life as quickly as possible and getting back on with being your best. Remember, positive attitude and motivation are hands on projects.
- Five Top Tips to Build Your Motivation
When we are motivated we’re energetic, focused, and we get things done. Too many of us have ambitions we want to achieve but we wait for the motivation before we get going. The good news is that we can all learn practical actions to boost our motivation, keep it high, and so achieve our ambitions.
- Why You Don't Need Motivation
I often hear people say they lack motivation – in fact, the “motivation discussion” is almost a ritual with my new clients. You really want something, in fact you almost need it, but you just don’t have the drive to get to it. Motivation . . .
- Self Image
Relationships are the key to a joyful, successful Life. Your relationship with yourself is one of the most important; your self image, the picture of yourself that you hold in your mind will determine how much you put in and therefore how much you get out of life.
- Self Discipline
The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. That subordination requires a purpose, a mission, a clear sense of direction and value, a burning " YES! " inside.
- Fix Negative Self Talk
This I think, is one of the toughest parts to discipline. Every time I would go for it, this little voice inside me would say, 'Who do you think you are? Others more powerful than you have failed at this. What makes you think that you have what it takes? And so on and so on ..... Three things I will do when this tiny (but powerful) voice shows up are:
- Doubt Kills Goal Achievement
What do you doubt about yourself? Do you question your ability to live according to your Higher Self’s purpose? Your ego has been conditioned to question your higher self. It is an altruism that keeps us living our lives based on someone else’s beliefs and values. Life IS fair. Life is fair to those who HAVE NO DOUBT. Or more accurately, Life is fair to those who HAVE NO FEAR.
- Articles
Self Improvement Articles by various expert authors.
- Principles To Guide You
How many of us have set New Year's resolutions or goals for our lives that all too quickly are forgotten or put aside until the next year? The following set of principles will help you achieve your New Year's resolutions and much more. Read them over carefully. Challenge them, as at first reading you may not fully understand or agree with some of them.
- Decide What You Want
In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can’t see how it’s possible to get what they want — so they don’t even let themselves want it. Don’t sabotage yourself that way! What scientists now know about how the brain works is that you must first decide WHAT you want, before your brain can figure out HOW to get it. Once you lock-in your desires, your mind and the universe can step in.
- The Secret Power Of Faith
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” - Helen Keller. The power of your Faith is effective only when you are willing to risk whatever the situation demands of you and in whatever you attempt to do.
- Health and Fitness
Health, Fitness And Longevity - Page Links and Summaries of Health information found in this section
- Setting Healthy New Years Resolutions
Staying Healthy for a Lifetime - “This New Year I’m going to go to the gym four times a week”, “My resolution is to quit smoking”, “I will lose 20 pounds and look great for summer”…We’ve all been there at some point or other, the New Year starts and so do our resolutions. And why not, the New Year is all about new beginnings, hopes and dreams. The problem can be when we’re not realistic with our resolutions or don’t map them out appropriately it can be difficult to accomplish all our goals. It’s great that you want to get healthy this New Year.
- Quality Of Health
A well known health fact that has been consistently proven is that the quality of your health is directly affected by the abundance or lack of certain factors. Some of these factors are simply:
- Abundant Energy
Many people equate the word energy with just it's physical component, arrived at by proper nutrition and exercise. Real energy, life force, is arrived at when your body's needs are supplied in the proper balance,
- Exercise Benefits
Let's Get Rid Of The Excuses First . . . and then we can move forward. What we are really saying is that until now we haven't been able to motivate ourself to do what's necessary. We need a bigger reason to exercise regularly.
- Exercise The Ultimate Energy Boost
Are you feeling tired, lately? Just can’t seem to wake up in the morning? Feel the need for an afternoon nap? Instead of drinking coffee or soda, try a work out instead. Studies have shown exercise to be a better energizer than even prescription stimulants. Many cases from fatigue are caused by inactivity, not by too much activity. So if you’ve been feeling run down and need a jump start, try adding exercise to your daily routine.
- Proper Nutrition
Have you ever wondered how our bodies assimulate all the foods we eat, you know, separate the stuff that's usable from that which is not. Then, how much energy we use up to eliminate the extra.
- High Fiber Diet Benefits
A diet high in fiber foods is tremendously important for many reasons. Adequate amounts of fiber are essential to good health, in that it keeps your digestive system working smoothly, helps elimination from the body and most of them are rich in vitamins and nutrients.
- Clean Your Body Inside
With all the types of pollution we are subjected to, the stresses and pressures of life itself, and not to mention all the unnecessary food and drink we ingest in the name of 'entertainment', feeding the taste buds instead of our bodies, we are building up toxins.
- Meditation Benefits
Our brains, our minds need a break. Meditation fills this need. A friend once told me, “Meditation is the ultimate rest period for the mind.” The rest, the rejuvenation, the power boost, the sharpening of your focus, the physical benefits you attain by meditating, have no equal.
- Weight Loss - General
General Weight Loss Information
- 11 Weight loss Tips
11 Weight Loss Tips to use daily.
- Trying To Lose Weight?
Regarding Losing Weight or Quitting Smoking, One of the presuppositions of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is that "there is a positive intention behind all behaviors." And based on that presupposition, when it comes to successfully eliminating negative behaviors, there is formula that we must always keep in mind. I'll let you in on the secret in a minute.
- Losing Weight With Organic Foods
Right now, it seems like everyone is looking for the secret to losing weight. They take pills and go on the latest diet looking for a quick fix. The truth is, there’s no miracle diet that will help you take off 20 pounds overnight, but there are things that can give you that extra boost to finally take the weight off once and for all. One great “extra boost” is organic food.
- Choose The Right Weight Loss Supplement
If you type in “weight loss supplement” into an internet search engine you’ll find thousands of products claiming to take 30, 50, or 100 pounds off lightning fast. The truth is: there’s no pill, machine, cream, or anything else that will take off the pounds magically. The only way to healthily lose weight and keep it off is through exercise and the proper diet; however, you can enhance your diet and exercise program with a quality supplement.
- Muscle Tone And Losing Weight
Sure, exercise is important for losing weight. In fact, weight loss without increased activity is impossible for many people. But the kind of exercise you do can make your weight loss even more significant. You need to build muscle mass if you want those calories to keep flying off while you’re sitting around doing nothing. That’s why it’s important to do exercises that tone your body while you exercise.
- Men's Fitness And Weight Loss
Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle Program
- Women's Fitness And Weight Loss
Melt The Fat Fitness Program
- Resources
Resource Sites For More Information
- About Us
My name is Al Smith. Yep! That's me The Real-Goal-Getter himself! I dreamed up the 'Realgoalgetter' moniker when I realized that my life wasn't taking the direction I really wanted to go. I needed a profound statement about myself that I could work toward, an affirmation, a self image to reach to, an identity that would propel me to living the good life! I needed to build my self esteem back up through some examples of success.
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