Success - How Bad Do You Want It? An Eric Thomas Motivational Talk

Weight Loss Motivation...Tips to Stay Motivated

Struggling to keep your weight loss motivation and need some inspiration to continue with your diet? Dietitian Juliette Kellow gives you more fabulous motivational tips to keep you on track.

So you’re back to where you need to be, but now, out of the blue, the pounds are no longer falling off and you’re starting to get niggling doubts about whether you can really reach your goal. Worse still, you’re craving all your favourite comfort foods and the idea of exercising has suddenly lost its appeal.

Look forwards rather than backwards

Don’t dwell on your experiences with diets in the past. The chances are if you need to lose weight now, they weren’t right for you.Whilst it’s probably easy to find examples of times when you’ve felt demotivated with your diet in the past, given up and quickly regained those lost pounds, this doesn’t mean it’s guaranteed to happen this time.

Thinking negatively will almost certainly result in you giving up. So instead, put past dieting failures behind you and instead focus on the success that lies ahead.

Reflect on your successes

Start by reminding yourself how much better and healthier you already feel. Then look at some old pictures of yourself when you were bigger and reflect on the differences in your appearance now. Doesn’t it feel great to have more prominent cheekbones, slimmer arms or a trimmer waist?

Put on an old item of clothing that used to be tight – there’s no better feeling than trying on a pair of trousers that you couldn’t get past your hips and can now do up at the waist! Checking out your overall weight and inch loss to date can also really help to give you a boost. 

Hopefully, you’ll have been monitoring your progress on WLR’s target charts, so you can quickly check out just how far you’ve already come and boost your motivation to continue your diet.

 Do some maths

If your motivation to lose weight is sliding, dig out a pen and paper and attempt to add up all the hours you’ve spent in the last month worrying about things like:

• your  weight
• your shape
• what you eat
• what you don’t eat
• feeling guilty about not exercising
• how you look in your clothes
• whether people are looking at you
• if your health is suffering
• anything else that’s linked to your size

Now add up the number of hours in that month where you’ve felt great about your size, shape and diet. Chances are you’ll find a massive difference in the two numbers, with negative thoughts seriously outnumbering positive ones. 

Ask yourself whether you really want to go another month wasting so many precious hours thinking negatively about your weight, health, eating and exercising habits. When you think positively, you’ll generally feel happier with the result that you’ll regain your motivation to diet and achieve your weight loss goals.

Get to grips with a weight loss plateau

Jumping on the scales after a hard week of dieting only to discover you haven’t lost as much as a pound can be seriously disappointing and demotivating. But sadly it’s very common.

Research suggests that after four to five weeks of steady weight loss, some people even increase in weight by about a pound. Why this happens isn’t clear but it’s probably the result of our metabolism adjusting and seems to be the body’s way of ‘catching up’ with its sudden change in size.

Many slimmers see this plateau as a sign that their diet isn’t working, lose their motivation to lose weight and so give up and quickly pile the weight back on.

Understanding that your weight may stabilise for a few weeks – and looking at this as your body sending you a positive message that it’s been through some pretty big changes and is preparing for more – really can help to keep you positive and focused during this difficult time and regain your weight loss motivation.

Pay attention to your food diary

People who regularly write down everything they eat and drink are generally more successful at losing weight – and keeping it off. The reason: it helps to keep them focused on every single morsel that passes their lips.

After several weeks or months of dieting many of us get complacent about keeping our food diary because we think we know what we are doing. As a result, it’s all too easy for portion sizes to gradually increase, more treats to creep back in and old bad habits such as skipping breakfast to return.

Unsurprisingly, the scales stop moving in the right direction and we end up feeling miserable and lose our motivation to lose weight. If you’re not already keeping a diary, get back into the habit of writing down everything you eat and drink – and watch those pounds start dropping while your diet motivation soars.

Cut calories a little

It might not sound like a great way to get you motivated, but if the scales have been static for several weeks then cutting your calorie intake slightly may be all it takes to get them moving again.

There’s a good reason why you should reduce the number of calories you have as the pounds fall off.

Quite simply when you lose weight, you need less energy to move around, and so need fewer calories to continue losing weight at the same rate. The good news is, WLR does all the hard work for you, so as the pounds drop, your daily calorie allowance is adjusted to suit your new lower weight.

Get support

Surrounding yourself with a good support network really can help to spur you on so enlist the help and support of friends and family.

• is there a friend you could exercise with?
• could your partner also do with eating a more healthy diet?
• could you encourage your work colleagues to do a fruit run rather than a chocolate run every afternoon?

Source: http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/weight_loss/weight_loss_tips/motivation-weight-loss.htm

What do You See?

 

Two men were seriously ill. They occupied the same room in the hospital. One of them lay in the bed near the only window in their room. Every day he was allowed to spend some time sitting up in his bed to help drain the fluid from his lungs. The other man was forced to spend all his days flat on his back.

They talked a lot about their lives, families, jobs, vacations. Every time, when the first man was sitting by the window, he described in detail all that he saw outside the window. His roommate always looked forward to those moments, when his world was broadened and brightened up by the world outside.

Amazing views of a park with a beautiful lake could be seen from the window of their room. Children delightfully played among ducks and swans. Couples walked arm in arm among colorful flowers. Also the stunning city skyline could be seen.

While the man by the window thoroughly described all that was happening outside the window, his roommate would close his eyes and imagine all the beautiful scenes of life that were described to him.

One morning, the man whose bed was near the window, died peacefully in his sleep. His roommate was very sad.

After some time, when the nurse came to visit him, he asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse agreed and kindly made the switch. When she left, the man slowly and painfully propped himself up on one elbow and took the first look at the world outside. He was stunned. The window faced a blank wall.

When the nurse came to visit him the next time, he told her about all the beautiful things outside the window that his roommate described to him. The nurse replied that his late roommate was a blind man. He probably just tried to encourage you, she said.

What do you see? OR better still, what do you CHOOSE to see?

 

Use Your Own Mind - Motivational Speech by Jim Rohn

Career Inspiration: Strive To Be These 3 Things

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” 

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

  

We live in an age when we allow ourselves to be ruled by our fears. The more we have the more we curl in on ourselves to defend it, clinging to our past achievements rather than reaching forward for more.

But nobody ever achieved great things through caution. It is boldness of speech and action, the willingness to let go of our fears and step bravely forward, which allows us to be the best that we can. Einstein didn’t become the most famous scientist in the world by quietly accepting what he had been told. Neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs became global business leaders by timidly working in long established fields.

If you want to achieve great things then you need to be bold.

Be Different

It’s easy to feel pressure to conform, to work in the same way as others in your business, to take the same model as your competitors. But all this will do is guarantee that you blend into the background.

Apple built their business on a guiding principle of simplicity. In an ever more complex age they stood back and asked how they could take that complexity out of their products. From the way they look to the way they work you can see that principle at play in Apple devices, and it’s part of how they’ve been so successful. Be bold enough to be different.

Be Challenging

It’s always tempting to be timid and not to challenge the attitudes of others. Maybe it’s accepting your boss’s view even when you disagree with her. Maybe it’s setting unambitious targets because you know that your team can safely meet them. Maybe it’s giving your customers the same product year after year because that’s what they’ve come to expect.

But challenging the status quo is a great way to create your own space, to show the intelligence, insight and creativity that you’re capable of. And it can lead to opportunities no one expected.

The success of organic farming is an example of this. Going against perceptions that all customers cared about was identical fruit and vegetables at dirt cheap prices, organic farming has turned into a thriving business sector and in the process challenged the way that we think about our food.

Or think of Bob Dylan going electric. It was a challenge to his audience and to the traditions of folk music. It changed the face of rock and roll and guaranteed his place as a cultural legend. Be bold enough to be challenging.

Be Yourself

At the heart of all of this is being yourself. If you can be the real, authentic you, if you can define achievement on your own terms, then you will be more comfortable in your own skin, more effective in your work and more compelling to others. Your energy will be unleashed and your passion will show, bringing out the best both in you and in others.

Russell Brand may not be everyone’s favorite comedian but his willingness to intelligently discuss subjects he cares about has made him a star. Richard Dawkins may seem abrasive but by standing by his beliefs he has widened debates on science and religion, selling a substantial number of books along the way.

Be bold enough to be you and the rest will follow.

Let Go of the Fear

Fear of loss, of challenge, of embarrassment is natural, but it will only hold you back.

Be bold. Be the best that you can.

Source: http://www.talentculture.com/leadership/career-inspiration-strive-to-be-these-3-things/

 

It's possible - Motivation by Les Brown

Kindness Begets Kindness - Inspirational Story

 

Carl was a quiet man. He didn’t talk much. He would always greet you with a big smile and a firm handshake. Even after living in our neighborhood for over 50 years, no one could really say they knew him very well.

Before his retirement, he took the bus to work each morning. The lone sight of him walking down the street often worried us. He had a slight limp from a bullet wound received in WWII. Although he had survived WWII, he may not make it through our changing uptown neighborhood with its ever-increasing random violence, gangs, and drug activity.

When he saw the flyer at our local church asking for volunteers for caring for the gardens behind the minister’s residence, he responded in his characteristically unassuming manner. Without fanfare, he just signed up.

He was well into his 87th year when the very thing we had always feared finally happened.

He was just finishing his watering for the day when three gang members approached him. Ignoring their attempt to intimidate him, he simply asked, ‘Would you like a drink from the hose?’ The tallest and toughest-looking of the three said, ‘Yeah, sure,’ with a malevolent little smile.

As Carl offered the hose to him, the other two grabbed Carl’s arm, throwing him down. As the hose snaked crazily over the ground, dousing everything in its way, Carl’s assailants stole his retirement watch and his wallet, and then fled.

Carl tried to get himself up, but he had been thrown down on his bad leg. He lay there trying to gather himself as the minister came running to help him. Although the minister had witnessed the attack from his window, he couldn’t get there fast enough to stop it.

‘Carl, are you okay? Are you hurt?’ the minister kept asking as he helped Carl to his feet. Carl just passed a hand over his brow and sighed, shaking his head.

‘Just some punk kids. I hope they’ll wise-up someday.’ His wet clothes clung to his slight frame as he bent to pick up the hose.

He adjusted the nozzle again and started to water. Confused and a little concerned, the minister asked, ‘Carl, what are you doing?’ ‘I’ve got to finish my watering. It’s been very dry lately,’ came the calm reply. Satisfying himself that Carl really was all right, the minister could only marvel. Carl was a man from a different time and place.

A few weeks later the three returned. Just as before their threat was unchallenged. Carl again offered them a drink from his hose. This time they didn’t rob him.

They wrenched the hose from his hand and drenched him head to foot in the icy water. When they had finished their humiliation of him, they sauntered off down the street, throwing catcalls and curses, falling over one another laughing at the hilarity of what they had just done.

Carl just watched them. Then he turned toward the warmth giving sun, picked up his hose, and went on with his watering. 

The summer was quickly fading into fall.

Carl was doing some tilling when he was startled by the sudden approach of someone behind him. He stumbled and fell into some evergreen branches. As he struggled to regain his footing, he turned to see the tall leader of his summer tormentors reaching down for him. He braced himself for the expected attack.

‘Don’t worry old man, I’m not gonna hurt you this time.’ The young man spoke softly, still offering the tattooed and scarred hand to Carl. As he helped Carl get up, the man pulled a crumpled bag from his pocket and handed it to Carl.

‘What’s this?’ Carl asked. ‘It’s your stuff,’ the man explained. “It’s your stuff back. Even the money in your wallet.’ “I don’t understand,’ Carl said. ‘Why would you help me now?’ The man shifted his feet, seeming embarrassed and ill at ease. ‘I learned something from you,’ he said.

‘I ran with that gang and hurt people like you. We picked you because you were old and we knew we could do it. But every time we came and did something to you, instead of yelling and fighting back, you tried to give us a drink. You didn’t hate us for hating you.

You kept showing love against our hate.’ He stopped for a moment. ‘I couldn’t sleep after we stole your stuff, so here it is back.’ He paused for another awkward moment, not knowing what more there was to say. ‘That bag’s my way of saying thanks for straightening me out, I guess.’ And with that, he walked off down the street.

Carl looked down at the sack in his hands and gingerly opened it. He took out his retirement watch and put it back on his wrist. Opening his wallet, he checked for his wedding photo. He gazed for a moment at the young bride that still smiled back at him from all those years ago.

He died one cold day after Christmas that winter. Many people attended his funeral in spite of the weather. In particular the minister noticed a tall young man that he didn’t know sitting quietly in a distant corner of the church.

The minister spoke of Carl’s garden as a lesson in life. In a voice made thick with unshed tears, he said, ‘Do your best and make your garden as beautiful as you can. We will never forget Carl and his garden.’

The following spring another flyer went up.. It read: ‘Person needed to care for Carl’s garden.’ The flyer went unnoticed by the busy parishioners until one day when a knock was heard at the minister’s office door. Opening the door, the minister saw a pair of scarred and tattooed hands holding the flyer. ‘I believe this is my job, if you’ll have me,’ the young man said.

The minister recognized him as the same young man who had returned the stolen watch and wallet to Carl.

He knew that Carl’s kindness had turned this man’s life around. As the minister handed him the keys to the garden shed, he said, ‘Yes, go take care of Carl’s garden and honor him.’

The man went to work and, over the next several years, he tended the flowers and vegetables just as Carl had done. During that time, he went to college, got married, and became a prominent member of the Community.

But he never forgot his promise to Carl’s memory and kept the garden as beautiful as he thought Carl would have kept it.

One day he approached the new minister and told him that he couldn’t care for the garden any longer. He explained with a shy and happy smile, ‘My wife just had a baby boy last night, and she’s bringing him home on Saturday.’ ‘Well, congratulations!’ said the minister, as he was handed the garden shed keys.

That’s wonderful! What’s the baby’ name?’ ‘Carl,’ he replied.

Six Rules for Success by Arnold Schwarzenegger

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34 Inspirational Wayne Dyer Quotes

Wayne Dyer is a highly respected motivational speaker, psychologist and author, who has inspired millions around the world over the last few decades.

• Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion 
• Love is co-operation rather than competition 
• Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life 
• Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change 
• How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours 
• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with 
• It’s never crowded along the extra mile 
• When you have the choice between being right and being kind just choose kind 
• Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I’m going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy 
• Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy! 
• Practice being the kind of person you wish to attract 
• When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace 
• The more you see yourself as what you’d like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you’ll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality 
• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice 
• Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing 
• All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy 
• Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul 
• Conflict cannot survive without your participation 
• Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it 
• When you’re at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive 
• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself 
• I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m not 
• You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside 
• A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe 
• If you believe it will work out , you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t you will see obstacles 
• With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose 
• Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it 
• You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it 
• You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now 
• There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts 
• Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him 
• Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character 
• You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be 
• There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way

Source: http://addicted2success.com/quotes/34-wayne-dyer-quotes-that-will-inspire-success-in-you/

I Really Hate my Job - Great Motivational Speech by Zig Ziglar