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15/07/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

5 Obstacles To Resolve When Setting Goals

Setting new goals can be exiting.  They can also feel a bit intimidating if they are big enough.  Either way, if you want to successfully achieve your goals, you will have to make some changes.  And here is where the challenge of obstacles begins.

Achieving Goals Requires You To Make Some Changes

Making changes requires you to stretch yourself beyond your comfort zone, in order to make progress.  It requires you to replace old habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and acting with new ones.  As you move beyond your old patterns, your old comfortable ways  will be challenged, making you uncomfortable.  It’s essential to push through the discomfort so that you can undertake the new habits long enough to break the old habits.

5 Obstacles To Resolve When Setting Goals

Before you head off on your goals, make sure that you don’t have the following five obstacles to change in your way, otherwise [Read more…]

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03/06/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Are Your Beliefs Preventing You From Achieving Your Goals?

Your beliefs shape your whole world.  They shape your thoughts, your feelings and your actions.  Are your beliefs preventing you from achieving your goals?

What Are Beliefs?

Beliefs can be defined as the ideas a person accepts as being true or real.  And conversely, the ideas a person accepts as being false or unreal.

Why Are Beliefs Important 

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