First day of the rest of my life………..
12 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in My Training Updates, NLP Tags: goal setting, goals, motivation, Neuro-linguistic programming, Paul McKenna, positivity, Richard Bandler
Sounds scary doesn’t it? Woke up this morning feeling, well, excited; its like when you are getting ready for a first date or to go on fabulous holiday and you feel excited, nervous, full of anticipation and to think I get to feel like that about the rest of my life, how cool is that?!
So, grabbing hold of my life and squeezing every last inch of happiness and fun out of it I am off to the gym for a PT session and then I have client this afternoon; I can’t wait to start applying the techniques and language patterns to every day life and to see how they can enrich all areas of my life.
First things first; GOALS. I have always thought goals were important to me and that was reinforced when Paul McKenna did his timeline exercise last year, my goals became really clear and have guided my decision making the last few months. Don’t think I would have achieved all I have the last six months without having understood my goals and the steps that form a part of each one.
No matter what you are doing, or in what area of your life, it’s really important to understand two things;
- Where you are now
- Where you want to be
We all need to understand where we are now, how we feel, what that looks like – it is only by understanding this that we can recognise 
what we want and how we want to feel so spend a few minutes today thinking about how you feel now, your achievements, successes, troubles, worries etc anything that helps to get a handle on where you are in your life right now!
Now think about what you really want your life to look like, where do you want to be, what do you want to achieve and when – what does that look like, what does it feel like, what do you see, what do you hear. Do you truly understand what your hopes, dreams and goals are?
If we can understand where we are and where we want to be we can better understand the steps needed to bridge that gap and rather than it seeming like a vast chasm between the two points it can become a ladder of smaller steps each one building to the ultimate end goal of a brighter better future.
Have a wonderful, happy, healthy weekend.
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Goals, goals and more goals!
21 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in My Training Updates Tags: Bench press, Extraversion and introversion, fitness, goal setting, Level 3 Personal Trainer, motivation, NLP, Push Up, weight loss
Following my Homer Simpson light bulb moment last week I have been doing some serious thought about what my fitness or gym based goals should be. I seem to have given myself a whole load of other goals that I am happy with even though I know the workload will be intense, I also know that the sense of achievement as I tick each one off will be worth it;
- Pass my L2 PT accreditation exams
- Pass my L3 PT exams
- Complete my NLP Practitioner course
- Complete marketing and branding for new business
- Develop website with on-line library or resources for clients
- Start actually seeing clients
- Develop NLP therapy business as a complement to PT
- Complete NLP Master Practitioner course
- Develop my own coaching and training materials for NLP courses
So, given that I already have my hands full why on earth do I need to give myself the added pressure of developing another set of goals as well? Well, as a self-confessed introvert (see my post entitled Are you an introvert or and extrovert?) I am results driven and goal oriented – what makes me happy is seeing results, achieving things and given the level of dissatisfaction I have despite how much I have achieved this year, being clearer on what I really want can only a good thing!
In that case, what do I REALLY REALLY want to have achieved in fitness and/or weight loss in 12 months time – what is the real honest answer to that one? What would make me happy? What would make me proud and satisfied at my accomplishments?
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How I missed the goal….
17 Feb 2012 2 Comments
in My Training Updates Tags: fitness, Goal, goal setting, NLP, S.M.A.R.T, SMART criteria, weight loss
When I started this journey (oh that phrase is really beginning to grate!) I had only the vaguest, sketchiest idea of what I wanted to achieve or why; I wanted to be fitter, healthier and if I lost weight that would be a bonus because underneath it all, in hindsight, I think that was what I wanted.
But I never gave a thought to what I actually wanted to achieve; how much fitter, to do what? Stronger in what way? And as for the weight I never even gave it a conscious thought just a vague idea that I wanted to lose a couple of stone but no idea or understanding of how long that would take, what my idea weight would be or why.
I sit here looking back at the year and at what I have achieved and attempting to understand my dissatisfaction with my achievements, its obvious that the lack of clear goals and an understanding of why they were important has hampered my progress. I tell people all the time both at work and in my personal life, if we don’t know where we are going how do we know when we get there – and here I am having done exactly what I tell others not to do! How can I judge whether the year has been a success or not when the measures by which I am judging myself are ones which I didn’t even know existed 12 months ago? How can I complain that I am dissatisfied with my progress when I didn’t even know what I wanted to get out of training in the first place?
New Year new goals….
12 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in Information Tags: fitness, goal setting, goals, NLP, NLP Life Training, relationships, success, visualization, weight loss
New Year, new goals?
Doesn’t matter if its weight loss, fitness training, success at work or happy personal relationships, try this its really effective..
Divide your year into 12 chunks with a large number of goals in the first two to three months. Make you are clear what you want to achieve.
For the closest goals make sure you put in lots of details. Picture yourself reaching your goal, write down as much detail as you can, see it clearly. Make sure they are specific and achievable.
For the following months add in all the goals you want to achieve later in the year. As the weeks or months pass you can start to fill in the details adding extra information – this gives you a rolling plan.
Use those further off goals to guide your “seed-planting” - that is – start to plant the ideas of what you want to do in the minds of those you want to work with, without necessarily giving them details, yet. You’re preparing people to work with you later and getting their imaginations engaged beforehand.
Now fire yourself up. As you see yourself achieving each goal, set up a reward. It might be a pat on the back, it might be a meal, new clothes, a day out. Be prepared to feel the satisfaction of completion
Goals can be anything from how much love you bring to your family, how much time you spend with friends, how much weight you want to lose, get fitter, healthier, get complete a training course; if something is important to you, then goal setting and visualisation can help you get more!
I have to give credit to the lovely team at NLP Life Training, you are amazing. This technique has been a part of my life for a while now and I have to say it makes my life so much simpler, I know where I am headed and what it looks and feels like when I get there. How do we know we are successful if we don’t know what success looks like?
