Too Bad We Need Support, huh?

February 10, 2014 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

Note: We recently launched of a seminar series, “Five Things You Must Know To Make Your Life Better.” Each week we’re taking a quick look at each of the five. This is the last one of the five.

#5: Get support

Can we be really honest?

If you could achieve your goals on your own, you would have already done so, right? As they say, “Nothing changes if nothing changes,” and if you continue to try and muscle your way through it, you’re actually holding yourself back.

It’s important to remember that each of us is at times a teacher and other times a student. In some areas we show others the way forward. In others, we must be guided.

There is no shame in learning – and there is great courage in asking for help.

Reach out; there will always be a hand ready when you need it. (You’ll repay the favor later.)

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Close the Back Door

February 3, 2014 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

Note: We recently launched of a seminar series, “Five Things You Must Know To Make Your Life Better.” Each week we’re taking a quick look at each of the five.

#4: Close the Back Door.

Don’t leave yourself an escape route.

Make it as easy as possible to move forward and as difficult as possible to stop. Clean your environment of triggers and replace it with support.

Examples:

> If your goal is to lose weight, put your scale, measuring cups, and journal right in plain view. Get rid of “red light foods.” As soon as you lose a size, get rid of your old clothes. Keeping them “just in case…” usually turns out to be “it just so happened…”

> If you’re goal is to walk more, put your walking shoes right in front of the door. Wear your pedometer wherever you go. Better yet, get a second pair and keep them in the where you can see them. Look for opportunities to walk.

Too often, because we mistakenly believe we “failed” before, we keep our goals secret.

That’s a mistake.

One of the best ways to close the back door is to tell anyone who cares about you what you’re doing and how they can help. If you decide to stop moving forward, that’s your option, but after closing the back door, it becomes a very conscious decision and you have to “own it,” rather than believing you were a victim and it “just happened.”

Remember: Don’t sneak into success; leap loudly with as much noise as you can make.

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Embrace the Rough Patches

January 27, 2014 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

Note: We recently launched of a seminar series, “Five Things You Must Know To Make Your Life Better.” Each week we’re taking a quick look at each of the five.

#3: Embrace the Rough Patches.

 Just because the road has bumps doesn’t mean it’s not the correct road.

Difficult times don’t throw us off; it’s mistakenly believing that we wouldn’t have difficult times that throws us for a loop.

If we think it’s a straight shot from here to there, when we do hit a barrier we think, “It’s all over! I’ve lost my mojo.”

Even the best relationships cause some pain. However, we don’t dump our partner just because we don’t see eye-to-eye. We work through it. Expect that there will be difficult times – and expect you’ll work through it.

Since 80% of setbacks are caused by the same couple of issues repeated over and over and over again, a rough patch – if handled correctly – gives us an opportunity to finally get past a long-term barrier we’ve had that’s consistently held us back, probably causing relapses.

If we handle it well, we’ll NEVER have to face it again.

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Are You a Success or a Failure?

November 18, 2013 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

Celebrate your “successes”

– but don’t deny your “failures.”

Realize how you label them matters.

We learn by slip-ups. If we knew how to do everything we need to do, we’d already be doing it.

What might be a “failure” today many times is the groundwork for a future “success.”

Move forward. Fall down. Figure out why. Get up. Repeat.

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Are You Lazy, Bad, or Sloppy?

October 21, 2013 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

You’re not “bad,” or “lazy” because you don’t do what you’re supposed to do.

However, you might indeed be “sloppy.”

Let’s face it; we’re overly critical.

If – for example – we’re losing weight and we have a day of which we’re not proud, we say we were “bad,” or we “cheated,” or we beat ourselves up for being “lazy.”

We’re not lazy. We’re certainly not bad.

The reality is we’re busy, overloaded, and trying to do a whole lot.

Don’t label yourself for slip-ups. Rather, describe the error.

For example, wouldn’t it feel better, instead of saying, “I was bad today;” to say “I was ‘sloppy’ or ‘careless'”? One implies that you’re a person of lesser moral value. The other shows you’re human and you made a mistake.

You can correct a mistake a heck of a lot quicker than you can change your morals.

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Too Bad We Need Support, huh?

#5: Get support

Can we be really honest?

There is no shame in learning – and there is great courage in asking for help.

Close the Back Door

#4: Close the Back Door.

Don’t leave yourself an escape route.

Remember: Don’t sneak into success; leap loudly with as much noise as you can make.

Embrace the Rough Patches

#3: Embrace the Rough Patches.

Just because the road has bumps doesn’t mean it’s not the correct road.

If we handle it well, we’ll NEVER have to face it again.

Are You a Success or a Failure?

Celebrate your “successes”

– but don’t deny your “failures.”

Realize how you label them matters.

Move forward. Fall down. Figure out why. Get up. Repeat.

Are You Lazy, Bad, or Sloppy?

You’re not “bad,” or “lazy” because you don’t do what you’re supposed to do.

However, you might indeed be “sloppy.”

The reality is we’re busy, overloaded, and trying to do a whole lot.

You can correct a mistake a heck of a lot quicker than you can change your morals.

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