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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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		<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>Give yourself a deadline and then do it even if it is not as good as you desire</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/give-deadline-good-desire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[self esteem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[will power]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[continuing our goal achievement series:
Give yourself a deadline for any goal and then just beat that deadline no matter what it takes.  This again is a way to beat that most odious habit of procrastination which damages our chances of archiving goals more than just about any other hindrance.
A friend gets into trouble by being [...]]]></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>write your goals in the positive</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/write-goals-positive/</link>
		<comments>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/write-goals-positive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[goal achievement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goals]]></category>

		<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>
		<comments>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/clue-achieving-goals/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/smart-goals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[goal achievement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weight loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goal setting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goals]]></category>

		<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>Four Quadrant Motivation Questionnaire</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/quadrant-motivation-questionnaire/</link>
		<comments>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/quadrant-motivation-questionnaire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goal achievement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good questions]]></category>
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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>Know your reasons why</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/reasons/</link>
		<comments>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/reasons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[goal achievement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In any goal achieving situation especially weight reduction and smoking cessation it is extremely important to know your reason why. When you have a strong why the how will appear to you and you will be able to plan out a route to your goal and you will be able to get there and remain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give yourself small goals</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/give-small-goals/</link>
		<comments>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/give-small-goals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self esteem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boost self esteem]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self confidence]]></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>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/challenge-yourself-enough-but-not-too-much/</link>
		<comments>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/challenge-yourself-enough-but-not-too-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=423</guid>
		<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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		<title>Fail forawrd fast</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/fail-forawrd-fast/</link>
		<comments>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/fail-forawrd-fast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=50</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been writing that if you double your failures by taking more risks you&#8217;ll more than double your successes. One way to increase your &#8220;failures&#8221; is to fail forward fast. This means take a risk.
Act now! Act fast! Act fearlessly!
Chances are you&#8217;ll be successful but suppose you are not. Do not delay do something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Know when to declare victory</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/know-when-to-declare-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/know-when-to-declare-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flexibility]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=48</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the sixties when Vietnam war was going strong and all thinking people knew that there was no way Unites States could win the war lots of us used to say, &#8220;Let&#8217;s declare victory and go homes.&#8221; This is very good advice in your daily life.
Today, I had the goal to bring up another blog [...]]]></description>
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