Personal Development;Life Enhancement;Achievement
goal achievement
The Past, The Present and Juicing
Jan 27th
“Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.” ~Doménico Cieri Estrada
When I first started giving this seminar that I call “The Annual Goal Setting Process”, I did not include any material on changing or using our pasts. This is partially a bias of mine – I personally love to spend time in my present and I love to spend time planning and creating my ideal future. Also, goals and goal achievement tend to be naturally forward looking.
And the seminar was just fine without talking much about the past. People enjoyed it, they learned from it, they told me how much attending had changed their lives. So why are we going to talk about the past today? Because of my feedback sheet.
I give each of my seminar attendees a form that I encourage, plead and beg really, for them to fill out after the seminar is completed. They can fill it out right away or mail it or fill it out and email it – as long as they get it back to me! I ask for positive feedback and I ask for negative feedback – this is the hardest to get and by far the most valuable. In fact, right now, as you are listening and watching me, I am intending that you are seeing yourself filling out this form when our time is over today!
To be continued…
Bye for now…Jack
Juice Fasting Update
This is day thirty of my juice fast – although it is now a modified fast for a few more days. I injured my back working out earlier this week and I was not recovering. I guessed that I did not have enough protein intake to recover in any reasonable time while juice fasting and so three days ago I added some whey protein to my diet – about ninety grams of quality protein daily. This has completely stopped my weight loss, but my back is healing very nicely. I think I can go back to my “pure” juice fast in just a few more days. I also think that I am adding back muscle mass that I had been slowly losing, certainly I feel much more solid, and I have not added back any weight. I am hoping that this little break will actually restart me on another cycle of quick weight loss and should also reduce some of the weight spring-back potential that I have been worried about happening when I finally end this juice fasting adventure.
“Excessive time and attention put into your past is energy you are stealing from your future.” ~Jack Bergstrom
Goal Achievement, Compelling Futures, Juicing
Jan 26th
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however” ~Richard Bach
Today is a further continuation of my virtual seminar that I am creating for us both. Be sure to read the last few posts as well as this one to get up to date – it will be worth your time.
“Here is our agenda for today:
1) We are going to start with an exercise called “Putting the Past Behind Us”.
2) Then, a brief and powerful Networking Training session. Unless your goals are very small, you will never accomplish them by yourself.
3) Next, we’ll continue our goal setting session by creating an inventory of your dreams.
4) Then, I’m going to ask you a stimulating and unusual series of questions designed to further define and refine your goals.
5) Next, we will do an exercise called “Creating Your Compelling Future” – making your future so bright and exciting that you can’t wait to do whatever you need to do to make it happen!
6) Then, another Networking Training session. In just a few minutes working together today, you will know more about how to network successfully than most people ever learn in an entire lifetime!
7) Finally, we will end our time together with a couple of Threshold Exercises – my gifts to you to make sure that our time together really pays off!
Ready? Ready or not…Let’s begin!”
To be continued…
Bye for now…Jack
Juice Fasting Update
This is day twenty nine of my juice fast although it is no longer a pure juice fast, at least for the next few days. I am experimenting with adding some whey protein and seeing what that does for my exercise recovery and my rate of weight loss. So far, with only one days data: I feel a bit more energetic, I do seem to be recovering a bit faster and I also seem to have stopped my weight loss – at least for this one day. It will be more telling to see my results tomorrow after a second day of working out and having some whey protein with my freshly extracted juice.
“It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien…The Hobbit
New Year’s Resolutions, Goals, Juicing
Jan 25th
“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.” ~Benjamin Franklin
Today is my continuation of my virtual seminar that I am creating for us both. Be sure to read the last few posts as well as this one to get up to date – it will be worth your time.
“You are attending a seminar today called Annual Goal Setting – The Key to Your Best Year Ever. I don’t know what brought you here today, but let me tell you what my intentions are for you.
I intend this to be the most valuable three hours that you have ever invested in your entire life. For most people, if they plan their lives at all, they will do their annual planning while they are drunk, five or ten minutes before New Years and then they will wonder why those New Years resolutions don’t work.
You are going to leave here today with something very different – something wonderful!
You are going to become very clear on what you want to achieve in this incredible life of yours and you are going to understand why you want what you want. This is true power and motivation!
You are going to leave here feeling excited and empowered and with a sense of manifesting your own marvelous destiny. And should that feeling start to fade, you are going to know how to bring it back – whenever you want.”
To be continued…
Bye for now…Jack
Juice Fasting Update
Day 28 today. I have added back some whey protein to my diet. I decided to do this to see if it would help my lower back recover more quickly after I injured it working out a bit too vigorously. So far, with just one day to report, I do think the protein is helping my recovery rate. I also think it will inevitably slow my rate of weight loss. Still, I will keep it up for a few days and see if I can get my back healed – then back to my straight juice routine.
“So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.” ~ W. Clement Stone (American best selling Author and Founder of Combined Insurance Co (now a part of Aon Corp.), 1902-2002)
Annual Goal Setting and Juice Fasting
Jan 24th
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” ~Abraham Lincoln
One of my most popular seminars has always been my annual goal setting workshop. This seminar takes right at three hours and the attendees leave with great goals that are authentically theirs and workable plans to make them happen. For most of my attendees, they will have, in just three hours, more clarity about what they really want, and why, then they have ever had in their lives.
I’ve decided to do my best to recreate this process right here on my blog. This will serve me and I intend for it to serve you – my readers. For me, I have been asked many times to create a product around this seminar. For you, well, you get to attend a great workshop for free – although instead of a three hour block of time, you will have to invest a few minutes a day, for an underdetermined number of days, while I create this.
So, imagine you are in a beautiful comfortable seminar workshop. Put the location wherever you want. I’m going to imagine myself in a large conference room at a nice hotel on the Amalfi coast of Italy. (If you are going to be a bear, be a Grizzly. If you are going to dream, dream big!) You have a nice comfortable seat and a table in front of you with a large pad of paper and a nice pen. (You will be doing a lot of writing, but I promise; it will be worth it.)
The room is full, people are chatting and someone comes to the front of the room, gets everyone’s attention and reads my introduction. After my introduction I come to the front of the room, say hello, and I immediately begin:
“I am going to read you some words, some words carefully selected to put you into a great state for our time together today. All you need to do is listen to the words and let whatever happens, happen. Ready? And then I slowly and clearly read these words aloud:
Destiny Destined for Greatness Explorer
Achievement Powerful Self Confident
Successful Unstoppable Grateful
Deeply Fulfilled Excited Adventure
Satisfaction Playful Delight
Ready to learn Fun Ready for new experiences”
Then the seminar continues…
This is a process that I call priming and at another time I will talk about the why’s and how’s of this deceptively simple process.
Bye for now…Jack
Juice Fasting Update
This is the 27th day of my juice fast. I decided to add some whey protein to my diet today; my back is extremely sore from working out and I want to see if I recover more quickly with some added protein. I will let you know how this works tomorrow. Otherwise I feel good.
Many people have been asking lately just what I am drinking on this juice fast. Here you go:
I drink sixteen ounces of freshly extracted fruit juice first thing in the morning. This is generally a mixture of green apple and pear. As long as the apples and pears are crisp they juice beautifully. This is my favorite juice of the day.
My next three juices are a mixture of mostly vegetables with just a bit of fruit for sweetness. I generally, but not always, drink a mixture of:
Kale – one large bunch.
Celery – one large bunch, sometimes I need a bit more to make up the desired amount of juice.
Cucumber – generally two small or one large English cucumber.
Lemons or limes – two of them peeled and dropped in the juicer.
Ginger – a chunk approximately one inch by one inch.
Green apples – two.
That’s it. Recipe is called “Mean Green” online and it is drinkable. Is it great? Well, not to me – but it is drinkable and it works. I am generally not hungry and I am losing weight and rapidly getting rid of gout (the plague of the last 12 years of my life!).
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ~Oscar Wilde
Goals, Dreaming and Juice Fasting
Jan 23rd
“A philosophy of life: I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure.” ~Paulo Coelho
Last time I was talking about dreams and dreaming and how I start all of my coaching clients out with some dream work. I do this to tap into their true motivations and to give me the information that I need to effectively help them. For you, I’m going to do my best over the next entries to give you the same experience that my clients have. In live client work I would typically use hypnotic language patterns and priming to get them into a great state for lucid and awake dreaming. With you, dear readers, I will have to be a bit more creative.
Let’s start here – if there were no limits, if you could have anything that you really wanted, anything at all; what would you want?
Bye for now…Jack
Juice Fasting Update
This is the 26th day of my juice fast. Overall, it has been a great experience – so far. May it continue! My results so far:
- I have lost twenty three pounds of bodyweight.
- My energy is slightly better than it was before I started the juice fast.
- My skin has become much clearer and smoother.
- The nearly constant pain that I have had for years from gout is much reduced – although not yet gone.
- I have cut one of my gout medicines, allopurinol, completely out of my diet.
- I have reduced the other gout medicine, indomethacin, from 2 per day to 1 every other day – a huge improvement.
- I am generally not very hungry – I must remind myself to drink my five glasses of freshly extracted juices (16 ounces each glass).
- I have taken an entire wardrobe to goodwill and unboxed and am now wearing a size smaller that I have not been able to wear for more than 10 years! Wow!
- My feet have become smaller – I am now wearing, comfortably, almost a full size smaller shoe than I was 26 days ago.
- I don’t need, or want, as much sleep.
- My waist has, or the bulge above my belt where my waist will be someday, has gone down by 2 inches.
- I only need to shave every other day now.
Downsides?
- Travel is challenging – I tried grocery store bought bottled juices a couple of times and they made me hungry and lethargic – I have to carry a cooler and my own freshly extracted juices.
- I crave meat – almost all the time. I am hoping that this gets better.
- I dream about meat! Bacon, steaks, eggs, chops, roasts: all of these follow me to sleep and tantalize me.
“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.” ~Robert Fritz
The Power of Your Dreams
Jan 10th
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” ~T. E. Lawrence
I am a dreamer and I am proud of it! I love dreaming. I believe that our dreams come to us for excellent reasons – to motivate us, to educate us, to help us find our purpose – our place in the circle, and sometimes to frighten us – if we need to pay attention to something.
I start all of my clients off with a dreaming exercise. One of the reasons I do this with my coaching clients is motivation – their motivation. I think that all of the power and energy that we need to manifest our goals comes to us in our dreams and I want them to have that power. My clients love this beginning process and next time I will begin sharing with you just how I do this with them.
Till next time…Jack
Juice Fasting Update
Day 13 – down 18 pounds this morning. I was hoping for a faster rate of weight and fat loss. Still, this is a great start and I have many weeks yet to go. My energy level continues to rise; I am starting to sleep better and feel less need for a nap or break during the day. My skin is getting smoother than it has been in years – dare I say that it glows? Well, not quite yet and I’m not completely sure that I want glowing skin. Just thinking about that term seems to lower my testosterone level just a bit.
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” ~Walt Disney
I’m Going to be a Grandfather
Jan 9th
“All babies are beautiful.” ~Jeanne Calment
I attended my older daughter’s ultrasound today – she is having a baby in a few months and today we found out that the baby is fine and is a girl. We even got to see my upcoming granddaughter’s face, in 3d ultrasound; I think she has my nose.
I’m glad I was able to be there – to share this moment with my daughter and her husband. I will always remember it and I used this time, this experience, to recommit to the goals that I had already made about my elder daughter and her family. How about you? When is the last time that you recommitted to achieving your goals?
I’m going to start sharing on this blog the goal setting process that I move my clients through – this same process is the basis for my upcoming book about goals. Come back often and let me help you make some of your most heart-desired dreams become reality.
Bye for now…Jack
Juice Fasting Update
Day 12. Down 17 pounds now and my energy is picking up; even drinking only fresh juices I have more vitality than I did before I started this adventure. My skin is clearing up and I took an entire size of clothing to goodwill – I am never coming back to this size.
“Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens atRoswell! I rest my case.” ~William Shatner
My Book about Goals
Jan 6th
“The best of all medicines is resting and fasting” ~Benjamin Franklin
My First Book is About Goals
My first book is going to be about goals. Even though I was originally inspired to write a book while I was giving a seminar about MasterMind Groups, I decided to start with goals. It was awhile before I made this transition though so the book about MasterMind Groups is also well along.
So why start with goals? Because it is exactly where I start with all of my clients. I have been evolving, testing and tweaking my goal setting and achievement process for more than 20 years now and it is excellent. Come back often as I will be sharing much of the content of this book over the next few months.
Till next time…Jack
Juice Fasting Update
Day 9. Down fifteen pounds. Energy fair. Lots of skin breakouts – I’ve read that this is common at first. Craving for meat. People are starting to comment that I look thinner – I like that!
“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.” ~A.A. Milne
Happy 2012 – A Year of High Adventure
Jan 2nd
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” ~Lewis Carroll
Happy 2012! Are you ready to make this your best year ever? I know I am. I’ve been planning this coming year for most of the previous month and now I’ve started. Wow! – do I have some great plans for this upcoming year:
I am finally, ready or not, going to release my first book. Look for lots of information here about this over the next 10 months or so and an official release date of Thursday, October 25th, 2012.
I am going to do whatever it takes to get back in great shape. I intend to lose, as quickly and delightfully as I can make it, more than 100 pounds of bodyfat. You can read and even watch this process right here. (As I write this, I am on the 5th day of an alkaline juice fast.) Much more upcoming about this entire adventure.
I’m going to start traveling and speaking again. I moved my family from Colorado to Iowa 3 years ago to care for my mom and that has occupied much of my energy. I have things arranged now so that I have more freedom – time to start doing much more speaking to entertain and educate at the same time – I love it!
I am going to start accepting new coaching clients again. I haven’t accepted any new clients since I moved to Iowa- I just supported and nurtured my existing clients. Now I have time to work with some new people – I love helping others to achieve their dreams. It is so fulfilling and exciting to be involved at such a deep level with clients!
I am going to get my website current and re-release my newsletter. I have neglected this more than long enough. Look for the first issue of my weekly newsletter the last week of January and look for updates to my website almost daily.
Enough talking about taking action – time to do something!
Bye for now…Jack
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” ~Jonathan Safran Foer
Can Juice Fasting Eliminate Gout?
Jul 25th
“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.” ~Thomas Jefferson
Today is the 6th day of my juice fast. I committed to fast for at least 60 days – or longer if needed, in order to clear myself of gout symptoms. So how have the first 5 days been? Challenging but do-able!
Since I also stopped all coffee and tea and sodas 5 days ago, I imagine some of the headaches and general feelings of discomfort come from withdrawal from caffeine and other chemicals that I had been habituated to. Anyhow, I have not felt very well since starting the juice fast – but this was expected.
However, discomfort aside, Gout seems to be rapidly decreasing in severity! My left heel has been bothering me on and off for months and my last gout attack, just a few weeks ago, immobilized my right knee – both of these feel much better already! I am encouraged – I think this will do the trick. And as a decent side effect, I have lost 12 pounds of bodyweight in the first 5 days of this juice fast – a very nice side effect!
Till next time…Jack
“The first wealth is health.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson