New Year’s Resolutions: 10 Simple Steps to Stick to Them

Now that it’s a new year, are you wondering how how to stick to your new year’s resolutions? I’m here to help you.
In particular, I’d like to serve you if you’re seeking to shed excess weight, to create smart habits and set aside such health-harming habits as over-consuming sugar, coffee or diet soda, as well as procrastinating, smoking, being habitually late, obsessively checking emails or nail biting.
First off, know that you CAN Break Free of Your Bad Habits (what I call “Babits™”) for good.
Wondering why you would want to do that? Well, take the case of sugar. Indeed, as I recounted in my book SUGAR SHOCK!, just after quitting sugar and refined carbs on doctor’s orders in 1998, ALL 44 of my ailments, from crushing fatigue to brain fog, completely disappeared! I was amazed!
You, too, can learn that licking sweets (pun intended) and other health-robbing substances, as well as unproductive habits, can help you to:
* Shed excess weight,
* Get consistent energy,
* Boost your moods,
* Calm you down,
* Become more spiritual and centered,
* Increase your passion and productivity,
* Reduce your risk of getting type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer or hypoglycemia,
* Manage these conditions, if you have them,
* Rev up your libido,
* Reduce your PMS symptoms,
* And so much more!
In short, removing sugar and other negative patterns can help you get a Life That Rocks!™, you leave room for positive activities to fill their place. Here are 10 smart steps, which can help you break free of your babits™ (bad habits) and allow you to replace them with smart habits.
1. Congratulate Yourself. To begin your journey to health and wellness, I invite you to pat yourself on the back. You may wonder why you would want to do that, especially if you’ve spent years abusing your body. You want to applaud yourself, because the mere fact that you’re beginning to look at your sugar addiction or other bad habit is big! The first step to break away from sweets, refined carbs and other babits™ is to NOT beat up on yourself. Granted, you may have gobbled or guzzled high-calorie nutrient-poor sugary foods and drinks over the years, but now is a time to be gentle with yourself, to treat yourself with compassion and to take pride that you’re taking the much-needed first step to treat your body with love and care. Go ahead: Lavish some praise and kudos on yourself now that you’re finally confronting the bad habit that’s been plaguing you—perhaps for years. Share your excitement in your journal or in a heart-to-heart conversation with a loved one. Then imagine that you’re at the starting line of a race like a runner athlete and that you’re ready to make a massive positive shift. Please also remember to acknowledge and celebrate your every little accomplishment. For example, when you make it through a meal without sugary foods, diet soda or caffeine—or if you at least consume less of them—take pride and applaud yourself. After all, each time you make healthier choices, you get closer to more energy, a trimmer body and a better life.
2. Move With Your Mind & Mantra. Before you begin to try to kick your sugar addiction or another babit™, it’s time to embark on Seven Smart Starter Habits (through Step #8) to cement your confidence that good health, inner calm and new patterns await you. That’s because whenever you seek to remove an old habit and replace it with a new one, your work begins before you even try to make changes. In other words, before you begin to “diet” or make important lifestyle changes, you want to convince your mind that you CAN succeed. Begin each day knowing in the depth of your being that you’ve already licked your unhealthy habit. To get both your subconscious and conscious mind to accept that you’ve succeeded—or are on the path to succeeding—create an easy-to-repeat phrase, affirmation or mantra such as “I, [Your Name], choose only nourishing foods and drinks, which keep me slim, toned and healthy.” Repeat your positive statement at least 30 times a day. Make sure to say it in the morning, right after you wake up, and in the evening, before you go to sleep. Repeating it about 10 to 20 times before meals also can help. Back in 1998, when I finally kicked sugar, repeating my mantra enabled me to succeed. Now, my clients find this technique effective, too.

New Year’s Day: Get Inspired in New York & Break Free

Dear Sugar Shock Blog readers, do you live near New York City?
If so, I invite you to join me New Year’s Day at the JCC in Manhattan for a very exciting New Year’s Day Fitness Fair.
In particular, from 1 pm to 2 pm, come have fun with me while getting motivated, educated and charged up to take positive actions in the new year.
Of course, as the new year rings in, this is an ideal time to begin to create a new, improved you.
One of the best ways to better yourself is to gently, compassionately look at yourself and how you’ve been treating your lovely body.
From 1 pm to 2 pm on New Year’s Day at my talk at the JCC in Manhattan, you will have an opportunity to have fun while beginning to kick your sugar habit or other bad habits (or what I call babits™).
My intention is to help gently guide you to look at your bad habits (babits™) and to engage in fun, uplifting, adventurcises™ (adventurous exercises) so you can get you can inspired to take some positive, life-changing actions in the new year.
Why study your babits™ such as over-reliance on sugar, caffeine and artificial sweeteners? Because if you set aside your babits™, you can get more energy, shed excess pounds, lift your moods, get along better with your loved ones, become more productive, accomplish more, boost your confidence and even rev up your libido.
Please do spread the word. Invite your friends and loved ones and my talk from 1 pm to 2 pm at the JCC in Manhattan. If you come as a result of reading this blog post, let me know, because you get a free gift from me.

New Year’s Resolutions: The 10 Commandments of Goal Setting by “Goals Guy” Gary Ryan Blair

Since it’s that time of the year when we have new year’s resolutions on our minds, who better to chat with than one of the foremost experts in goal setting and achieving. That’s why I chatted with “Goals Guy” Gary Ryan Blair yesterday on my Gab With the Gurus Radio Show.
Did you catch it yet. Go now to catch this empowering, inspiring, fascinating interview that I conducted with “Goals Guy” Gary Ryan Blair.
Anyhow, Gary — who offers this remarkable Got Goals? program — kindly gave me permission to post his 10 Commandments of Goal Setting. Check them out. He talks about these insightful commandments on my radio show.
ince it’s that time of the year when we have new year’s resolutions on our minds, who better to chat with than one of the foremost experts in goal setting and achieving. That’s why I chatted with “Goals Guy” Gary Ryan Blair yesterday on my Gab With the Gurus Radio Show.
Did you catch it yet. Go now to catch this empowering, inspiring, fascinating interview that I conducted with “Goals Guy” Gary Ryan Blair.
Anyhow, Gary — who offers this remarkable Got Goals? program — kindly gave me permission to post his 10 Commandments of Goal Setting. Check them out. He talks about these insightful commandments on my radio show.

Learn to Lose Weight, Beat Cravings, Combat Stress & Clear Clutter. Thrive in 2009: Free for First 24 Hours

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2009 Can Be Your Best Year Ever! Make Your Resolutions a Reality: “The Goals Guy” Will Help You Jan. 7 on My Gab With the Gurus Radio Show

Repeat after me: “I Hereby Resolve to Make 2009 the Best Year of my Life!”
What if these words were part of a promise to yourself this holiday season? How about a promise to make 2009 your best year ever?
Suppose you decided today — right now – that you’re finally making a REAL commitment to turn your dreams into actions… your goals into achievements… AND your Resolutions into Reality.
And suppose you had more fun doing it than you ever imagined?
It can happen… but you’ve got to take the first step.
Just start by listening to the acclaimed “Goals Guy” Gary Ryan Blair on my Gab With the Gurus Radio Show on Wed., Jan. 7 at 3 p.m. Eastern.
(Please note that this is one of three exciting shows offered this special week.)
Then visit this exciting resolutions website, which is designed to help you make your dreams come true.

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