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	<title>Life Focus Center Blog &#187; goal achievement</title>
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		<title>Un-procrastinate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the death-nail of many a dream. It turns success into failure, fun into dread.
There are many reasons people procrastinate. A major one is perfectionism and its sibling &#8220;fear of failure.&#8221; Here we know unconsciously that the reason we did not do as well as we should have because we did not have enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go for small winning goals at first</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/small-winning-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last post about visiting a cemetery I mentioned that I was transferring old posts from the main Life Focus Center web site to the blog. I mentioned that rather than having a goal of transferring one a day, my goal is to transfer all by the end of this year. In fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>write your goals from an ecological point of view</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/write-goals-ecological-point-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[goal achievement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=832</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Think of all consequences of your goal from an ecological point of view. This basically means being aware of cause and effect relationships. Often we have a goal and take action toward the goal f and do not notice all the secondary effects. Some of these may be beneficial and others we may not like.
Just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>write your goals with an achievement time</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/write-goals-achievement-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[continuing the goal writing series:
Your goals need have an achievement time.This is the T of SMART goals.
If we use the metaphor of flying to Hawaii, and we have no arrival time, we may take ten years going from here to there and yet since ultimately we are hoping to get to Hawaii, we (our unconscious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep your goal realistic while you dream your wildest dream</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/goal-realistic-dream-wildest-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the goal setting and achievement series:
Keep your goal realistic while you dream your wildest dream.
This is appears    like a paradox but is doable and an extremely important part of good goal setting.
Earlier we mentioned an important characteristic    of successful people thus: &#8220;Challenge yourself enough    but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>four question reason why goal writing</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/question-reason-goal-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[goal achievement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next point about writing your goals is to have them for yourself.
Thus if you want to become a non-smoker because it bothers your spouse, your doctor told you to stop or you&#8217;ll die, or you promised your child you would stop, your chances of success are much lower than if you want to become a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>when writing your goals keep it simple</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our goal setting series:
Keep the goals you write simple and concrete. The unconscious mind (the part of you which achieves goals) does not like or for that matter understand nor comprehend complicated redundant ideas which are abstract nominalizations and complex sentences like this sentence which goes on and on.
So be specific but keep it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>write your goals in the present tense</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/write-goals-present-tense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our goal achievement series:
Write your goals down in the present tense as if they are true in the here and now.
This is because the unconscious mind is lazy and always chooses a path of least resistance. Thus if your goal is to lose weight and become slim and you write, &#8220;I will be slim.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>write your goals in the positive</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/write-goals-positive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[goal achievement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One secret of achieving your goals is to write your goals down. That&#8217;s a start but there are ways to write your goals so their achievement becomes easier:
Good goals must be written in the positive (or write it the way you want it). That is to say if your goals are to reduce your weight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best clue for achieving your goals</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/clue-achieving-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=803</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When an airliner goes from say Los Angeles to Hawaii, it is off course about 99 percent of the time. How come it gets to its destination?
The pilots have a goal in mind and do a series of midcourse corrections. Thus they take off and aim for Hawaii (their destination or goal). Soon air currents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Goals</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/smart-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[weight loss]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time I have learned about goal setting I have heard about SMART goals which tell us how decent goals should be:

Specific -  not I want to look better but I want to lose weight
Measurable -  just having the goal of losing weight doesn&#8217;t do you much good &#8211; if you lowered your weight by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are goals?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I mentioned that new years resolutions are not good goals as we end up with huge impossible to fulfill goals and by mid-January we give up on our resolutions and once more prove to ourselves that we have weak will power and diminish our chance of achieving our next even reasonable goals.
So a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New year&#8217;s resolutions</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/years-resolutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Each January all the gyms in the USA are full of new members as people try to lose some of the weight gained over the fattening holidays. By mid February the gyms return to their normal membership.
This happens every year. In fact gyms keep getting new members all the time but very few actually go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change your if to when</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The words you use make a huge difference to whether you achieve your goals or not. Using wimp out words like if and try imply failure. Strong words like when imply successfully achieving you goals.
In fact your words can change your attitude to anything. If you call something as pain (or your doctor says something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegeterian fast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No meats at all in the next 24 hours. This is a getting ready for the vegan fast. You can have dairy and eggs but no meat during this fast. Now this is trivial for me since this is my typical food I eat during the weekdays. However, the series is for everyone. Some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Quadrant Motivation Questionnaire</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/quadrant-motivation-questionnaire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have already written about the utmost importance of having and knowing your  why in order to achieve your goals.
When doing hypnotherapy the reason why anyone wants to change is the most important aspect of designing the right suggestions to give. The four quadrant motivation questionnaire is a wonderful way of discovering that &#8220;why&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give yourself small goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[self esteem]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll soon start a whole series on goal setting. This post is continuation of the idea of starting the day on a good footing.
If as soon as you wake up (or last thing at night before you go to sleep) you give yourself some small goals that you can do very early in the day, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Challenge yourself enough but not too much</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of psychology experimenters wished to find out the behavior of successful people. They told the experimental subjects to play a game where they had to throw a ring onto a peg (like horseshoe game).
The subjects were never told how far to stand from the peg when throwing the rings. One group went too [...]]]></description>
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