Getting Unstuck: Moving Forward To Success by Dr. Annette Colby, RD Ever find yourself stuck in that awful loop of inactivity? You circle around and around between wanting to move forward and then apathy? Covering the same ground and never moving forward? It could be that you are stuck in the web of your own comfort zone. It’s a place we hang out at that’s routine, predicable and safe. We’ve stopped growing, taking risks, and seeking. We can get stuck eating certain foods for comfort, not taking the risk to lose weight, not choosing the next step to overcome an ... The Secret Meaning Of Compulsive Eating Behaviors by Dr. Annette Colby, RD Food is not simply fuel to keep you going. Nor is it the enemy, out to turn your body into an ugly fat mass or clog up your arteries. So many expert sources dispense food “rules” to live by: Eat four of this every day, eat three of these everyday. Avoid these certain foods at all costs. Eat this food in moderation. The evening news bombards us with food dangers. Diets provide even more wacky “rules.” No wonder food is such a messy subject. It’s turned into an intellectual battle of good versus e ... Preventing Setbacks: Compulsive Eating, Binge Eating, And Eating Addictions by Dr. Annette Colby, RD On your journey to moving past using food to cope with life’s difficulties, you will experience good days and bad days. It takes a lot of work to develop self-compassion and much practice utilizing new ways of thinking and acting. It is my belief that what is commonly referred to as “relapses” or “set-backs” are not a step back in time, but an important experience needed to gain new understandings and to strengthen new choices. When a “relapse” does occur it does not happen spontaneously, but ... Applying Action To Your Inner Desires by Dr. Annette Colby, RD Author's Biography: ... Aim For Your Star by Dr. Annette Colby, RD “Aim for your star, no matter how far, you must reach high above and touch your life with love, you must never look back, but charge on! Attack! See your goal your star of desire, see it red hot, feel it burning, you must be obsessed with it to make it your true yearning, be ready my friends for when you truly believe it, you will certainly achieve it and by all of God’s universal laws you will always receive it!” Bob Smith (American editor, author, founder of Orison Swett Marden Foundation) ... Dream Board by Dr. Annette Colby, RD DREAM IT, CREATE IT, BECOME IT If you’ve been reading my newsletter for awhile, you know that I continue to incorporate and teach the ‘how to’ principles behind successfully achieving our goals and dreams. One important piece of wisdom I've gained is that nothing happens, no forward steps are taken until we first have a dream. But even when we have a dream, we can’t begin manifesting it until some important first steps are taken to lay the groundwork. To make a dream come true, what’s interes ... Allowing Joy by Dr. Annette Colby, RD “Ask and it shall be given” is a phrase we have all heard. I believe instead, “Ask and find yourself worthy of receiving.” If you’re like most of us, you’ve experienced joy, at least a little. But have you found your way to experiencing the everyday, easy flow of joy that fills the body from the inside? Christianity and Buddhism both teach the principle that joy is an inner quality. The belief is that at the core of each person lies calm radiant joy. Everyone is born inherently happy. But ... Inner Peace by Dr. Annette Colby, RD Are you content and at inner peace? Or are you insecure and filled with worry? Imagine your life with more inner peace. Imagine it as fully as you can. Would you feel better about yourself and your life? Your answer may be a resounding yes, but it’s not always clear how to obtain this inner peace. How do we gain inner peace when things are seemingly not going our way? Many famous saints, sages, prophets and philosophers like Jesus, the Buddha, Mohammed, the Dalai Lama and countless others ... Achieving Elusive Goals by Dr. Annette Colby, RD Everyone has something in their life that they would like to change. Some really big goals include overcoming addiction, achieving and sustaining weight loss, attaining inner peace, manifesting health, or becoming more successful. We are born to continuously expand our abilities. The beginning of most goals are exciting. Visions of triumph flourish in the minds of those starting a path of change. Each new day brings energy to chase down the most elusive of goals. But what if you’ve been working ... Measure Effort To Achieve Success! by Dr. Annette Colby, RD Let’s say you’re moving forward in your efforts to achieve your goals. Along the way you will certainly experience many victories. Yet there will also be challenges and failures. To keep yourself going, you are going to need lots of support from within. This support is going to come in the form of self-monitoring, self-talk, and self-reward. I can not overstate the importance of constantly telling yourself what a good job you are doing. It’s not just the little things that you do each day that w ... Creating An Effective Toolbox For Success by Dr. Annette Colby, RD WHAT’S IN YOUR TOOLBOX? Think tools are just for builders and construction workers? Think again! Everyone needs a well stocked toolbox. Over the years, given the wisdom of life’s experiences and much learning, I have assembled my own psychological toolbox. It contains, among other things, Ideas from diverse schools of thought Different ways of perceiving Trust in the wisdom contained in my body An open mind An open heart A creative spirit Acquiring effective coping tools chan ... Creating Success Through Self-Affirming Thought Patterns by Dr. Annette Colby, RD Everyone of us has the potential to successfully more through the unique problems that face us. Creating success often involves identifying the many ways in which we continue to think negatively — and the many ways we limit ourselves. The next step becomes acknowledging and releasing the fear beneath those limitations and replacing ineffective strategies with newer ways of thinking and newer ways of feeling about ourselves. Below is a shortened and condensed list of practices to continue moving ... Compulsive Eating And Binge Eating Disaster Plan by Dr. Annette Colby, RD Congratulations on waking up each morning and greeting the day with renewed determination! Perhaps you rise and say, Today’s the day — I will make it through the entire day sticking to my diet goals.” What a wonderful, optimistic way to begin a fresh day. Ahead of you lies the promise of a new day, a fresh start. Sometimes though, as experience has shown, good intentions alone aren’t enough to overpower the urge to binge. This is where positive desire needs to be coupled with a sound action p ... Get Out of Your Way! by Saundra L. Washington D.D. Therefore, if you keep thinking negatively, you will keep yourself confused, hostile, discouraged, vengeful, depressed and so forth. You will be at war against yourself on hostile ground, your own mind. Always realize that the battle is mental. Decide right now to develop a zero tolerance for chronic negativity. No matter how you may want to look at it, getting out of your own way is an “inside” job. It is of paramount importance that you develop a stance that is willing to set aside your own ... The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly by Saundra L. Washington D.D. That we must live with imperfections is a fact of life that cannot be denied. We must come to terms with the silent and perennial truth that the field of human life will always consist of the good, the bad and the ugly coexisting together. There is no perfect place, person, or thing. We know this do we not? I have visited many beautiful places in my life and discovered, sometimes to my own amazement, that there was also the not so pretty hidden behind the lovely scenery. In every metropolis ... To Succeed Greatly, You Must... by Jason Katzenback To Succeed Greatly, You Must… (1) Climb up from under the limitations of circumstances and conditions (2) Do something in such a way that you become a leader in rendering service and securing just compensation for your service. Read that again! It suggests the personal factors which will make your effort successful. It also suggests the process of succeeding, and the means of carrying out the process. The determining factors are: (1) Freeing yourself of hindering circumsta ... Benefiting from Strategic Thinking by Stephanie Tuia I recently took an organizational behavior class where my professor conducted a strategic thinking exercise in which groups of students were to be a part of a scholarship committee. The purpose of our committee was to use strategic thinking on allocating a scholarship budget to reward several incoming freshmen to our university. I, along with some classmates represented freshmen candidates who would receive the scholarship. These candidates all had different strengths that would live up t ... Value Based Leadership Coaching by CMOE Development Team What can I do to be a better coach? The Eight Step Coaching Model describes the process, yet too often the focus is on techniques only. “How can I say it to win my point, get others to do things my way, or convince them?” Focusing only on one technique is fundamentally manipulative. Good leadership coaching, like good parenting, is a way of being as well as doing. This way of being, or our values, drives our behaviors. Like Olympic figure skaters, coaches should evaluate themselves in two ... Why Is Teamwork Training Important? by CMOE Development Team “When teamwork kicks in, nobody can beat you.” - Don Shula, Head Coach, Miami Dolphins - Only NFL team to attain a perfect 17-0 season Whether it’s two people, a department, or an organization, teams are the means by which great things get done. Unfortunately, not all work groups exhibit teamwork. So, how can our groups develop that sense of community and cohesiveness, or what was Don Shula’s secret? When and how does teamwork kick in? The key is effective teamwork training. Our r ... 7 Secrets to Finding Joy by Keith Varnum To pursue happiness is an inalienable right. To experience happiness is not. No one owes you happiness. No one can ensure your happiness. Happiness is a choice—your choice. The key to experiencing happiness is to put joy on your life agenda along with completing tasks and goals. Joy is a direct result of intention. Your intention determines how you experience each moment of your day, each aspect of your world. As you go through your daily activities, ask yourself, “What’s my intention?” A cle ... The Power of Effective Coaching Skills by CMOE Development Team The most valuable assets of a 20th century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st century organization … will be its knowledge, workers and their productivity. -Peter Drucker Peter Drucker is a respected author and opinion leader (he invented the process of “management by business objectives”) and I’m positive he would agree that one notable way to get the best performance from “workers” and maximize their “productivity” is through coaching; an interactive ... Limiting Perceptions and Broadening Horizons by Jesse S. Somer A balance of Author's Biography: Jesse S. Somer M6.Net http://www.m6.net Jesse S. Somer believes that humanity, by widening its perception on what it is actually made of and where it comes from, will evolve further as a species. Happiness and sustainability of life for all creatures could become our new creed. ... Advanced Body Acceptance: The Secret To Weight Loss Success by Dr. Annette Colby, RD Self-acceptance and body love can be tough concepts to grasp and even tougher to incorporate. The degree of difficulty doesn’t seem to matter if you’re thin or very large or somewhere in-between. It takes time and persistence to create a new belief about one’s self and one’s body. Don’t worry so much about losing your old beliefs about yourself. Instead, take the time to build new beliefs. In a way, building self acceptance and body acceptance are a little like creating a homemade tapere ... Supervisor Training: Helpful tips to lead your pack by Stephanie Tuia A new supervisor is hired to anchor a gardening project that has fallen apart. The last supervisor walked out on the job because he was overwhelmed with the high expectations of the project. The new supervisor is in charge of ten teenage workers, five young women and five young men, all of whom are not thrilled to be working on a summer day. As the new replacement, the supervisor is in charge of landscaping the lawn and garden areas that garnish a business complex. The complex manager has in ... Where Can You Find Friends? by Race Kale Many times in your life you felt lonely and, sadder than that, you felt there was nobody you could turn to, in order to ask for help. Being uncomfortable when you're alone is a natural reaction, because human beings are creatures that need social contact, just as much as they need to breath. In other words, like it not, we need friends! But what should you do if you realize one afternoon that you want to leave office earlier, which you haven't done in seven years since you got hired, but ther ... | ||||||
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