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10/07/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Fight or Flight Can Hinder Goal Achievement

Fear is a normal and adaptive response to perceived threat that has evolved over millions of years.  This response is often referred to as “Fight or Flight” – ie when faced with a threat you will either confront the situation or run away.

Here’s a great short video which explains  Fight or Flight.

Fight or Flight response to fear is an important tool in our survival kit.  However if the fear, real or imagined is not addressed, it will hinder your ability to make progress on your goals.  Breaking through the walls of your fears is essential if you want to transform and achieve more success with your goals

What insight did you gain from watching this video?  Please share your comments below.

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Filed Under: Goals, Transformation Tagged With: Empowerment, fear, goal achievement, goals, transformation

24/06/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

How Stress Reduces Your Ability to Achieve Your Goals

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What Is Stress?

Stress is the body’s reaction to a change that requires a physical, mental or emotional adjustment or response.  It’s a person’s physiological response to an internal or external stimulus that triggers the fight-or-flight response.

This primitive response was designed to aid our ancestors survival by preparing the body to tackle or run away from threats.  And as such, served an important purpose – our survival.

How Stress Affects Us

In the wild, once an animal is away from the threat, its body calms and it returns to normal.   However humans are different.  We differ to animals in our response in two key ways: [Read more…]

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12/06/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

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“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
– Mary Engelbreit

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10/06/2015 by Lisa McDonald

Your Attitude Is An Essential Part of Your Capacity to Achieve Your Goals

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In order for you to successfully achieve your goals, generate the wealth you desire and make the greatest impact in the world, you need to have the right attitude.

Today’s video contains world renowned salesman, author and motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, speaking about how “attitude [Read more…]

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06/05/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Courageous Defining Moments

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The U.S. senator and onetime prisoner of war John McCain defined courage as a brief, singular occurrence: “that rare moment of unity between conscience, fear, and action, when something deep within us strikes the flint of love, of honor, of duty, to make the spark that fires our resolve.”

I both agree and disagree with this statement.

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The part I agree with, is that courage is a moment of unity between conscience, fear and action … that fires our resolve”.  It’s a moment where you choose [Read more…]

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