Personal Development;Life Enhancement;Achievement
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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)
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
A Public Commitment to Juice Fasting
Jul 19th
“In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.” ~Kathy Norris
Tomorrow morning I am starting a juice fast. For at least 60 days, or until I have gotten clear of gout symptoms, I will be drinking only freshly extracted juices and water. No coffee, no tea, no sodas – just fresh juices and water.
Why am I doing this? Because I’ve finally had it! I suffer from gout and when I say suffer – I mean it! Gout has been plaguing me for almost 10 years now and has become the defining characteristic and limitation of my life. (for those of you that don’t know – and you should be very happy that you don’t know!; Gout is a excruciating swelling of joints – typically toes or ankles. My last attack immobilized my left ankle and my right knee – until you can’t move them you may not realize just how much you use ankles and knees! I was left with a walking gait not unlike the recently reanimated dead so popular in horror films.)
I’ll talk much more in the upcoming entries about exactly what I am doing and why. For today, I wanted to get this commitment out to my readers and myself – I believe in the extraordinary power of public commitment.
Bye for now…Jack
“Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another.” ~Author Unknown
Fasting, Imagination and Dreams
Jul 13th
“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” ~Elias Canetti
Protein Fasting
I am starting to protein fast again today. It was very effective during the 3 days that I protein fasted 2 weeks ago and I thought I would go for a longer period of time and see how I do. Please understand that I am not recommending that anyone start or go on a fast; this is a huge and challenging commitment and without training and support – likely to be a very unpleasant experience. If you have training and support and a trained medical specialist to work with well – then consider fasting. The health benefits are huge – the psychological challenges are great to overcome, and you will lose weight faster than any other diet.
So, I am going to protein fast for 8 days this time. I will consume only water, protein powder free of carbohydrates and fats, and one essential oil capsule per day. I am going to consume approximately one hundred and eighty five grams of protein each day and at least four liters of water each day. Wish me luck!
A Come As You Will Be Party
My wife and I are having a small “come as you will be party” today. It will be a hoot. We are going to dress and act and talk just as we imagine that we will once we have already achieved our goals for the next five years. I have never participated in this kind of event before and I’m excited. The idea for this comes from chapter twelve of Jack Canfield’s book: The Success Principles. I would put this one on your list of books worth the time to read. I’ll talk more about this event and how it went soon.
There is Power to Change in Dreams
I decided to write down some more reasons to lose fat and get back into optimal health. These are very personal reasons and they excite me. When I think about doing them and achieving them, I feel motivated and motivation is a very good thing indeed while fasting!
Some more things I want to do:
- I want to run with the bulls in Pamplona Spain.
- I want to climb Kilimanjaro in Africa.
- I want to learn to hang-glide.
- I want to learn to parachute jump.
- I want to compete in the Paris to Dakar race.
What do all of these have in common? Well for me, I better be in much better shape to have a decent chance of surviving any of them! How about you? What are your dreams and what do you need to change to make them happen?
Till next time…Jack
“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” ~Edgar Cayce
Protein Fasting Results
Jun 23rd
“Commit to be fit”. ~Author Unknown
So I did complete my 3 day protein only fast. I ended up losing 7 pounds of bodyweight in those 3 days. My energy was pretty good during those days – I was able to walk and workout and function at a fairly high level. Today was my first heavy workout since I returned to more normal eating. I will be curious to see how sore I am tomorrow. In the past, when I would water fast, I would be quite sore after my initial workouts. I expect to see some different results with this protein fast. The really intriguing question will be anwered over the next week: What did protein fasting do to my set-point? Or to say it another way: how much of that 7 pounds do I keep off in the next week?
Stay tuned for more adventures in returning to optimal bodyweight!
Bye for now…Jack
“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise”. ~A.A. Milne
Fasting and the Next Step
Jun 17th
“The best of all medicines is resting and fasting” ~ Benjamin Franklin
I am going to fast for the next 3 days. This will be a little different than the fasts that I have done before – my longest water only fast was 24 days – for this fast I will be exercising and taking vitamins and consuming protein – only protein. I am not going to be eating any carbohydrates. I am not going to be eating any fats – with the exception of the fats that I am going to supplement thru flax seed oil and fish oil. I am only going to be consuming protein. How much protein? Well, for this short experiment, I am going to consume approximately 180 grams of protein per day. This works out to about 1 gram of protein for each pound of what I would like my lean body mass to be.
So, why am I doing this? I am doing this because I am ready for the next step in returning to my ideal weight. I’ve made great progress this year. I am wearing clothes smaller in size than I have been able to wear in nearly 7 years. Still, I have a long way to go and I am anxious to get there.
So, why a protein fast? I want to see how well I feel while protein fasting and I also want to see how it affects my set-point. I think that water fasting has a natural tendency to raise my set-point…the natural weight that my body tries to maintain. I want to see if exercise and protein fasting will achieve a similar result in quick weight loss without raising my set-point.
I have water fasted before and experienced great results. Water fasting is a wonderful way to heal yourself from serious injury. Water fasting is however very challenging mentally and ultimately, the weight that you lose comes back. I’m going to see how protein fasting works instead…just for three days! Stay tuned and see what happens. I will be blogging and tweeting about this daily.
Till next time…Jack
“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon”. ~Doug Larson
Fasting Begins
Jan 12th
“I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth’s gravitational pull has become since 1990.” ~Dave Barry
I started fasting today. For the next few weeks, I am going to be dieting very strictly. I am going to alternate fasting – drinking just water and eating no food of any kind with protein fasting – eating just protein without carbohydrates or fats. I am not doing this for religious reasons – I am doing it because I am fed up with being out of shape. Actually, I have a long ways to go just to get to out of shape! Currently, I am obese and I just can’t stand it anymore. This is a great mental place for me to be!
I don’t recommend fasting, water or protein, to anyone. You need to know what you are doing and you need supervision. I have both. I will document the results of this fast here on my blog. For the record, it is starting today, Monday January 12th and I intend to continue it through Sunday, February 22nd. Once a week or so I will check in and let you know how I am doing and how I am feeling.
What are my biggest motivators for this diet? 1) Being around to achieve my dreams. 2) Having the energy, the physical vitality to achieve and enjoy my dreams. 3) Playing with my daughters. 4) Running and playing tennis again. Remember my goals for 2009? This is my “Fun” goal:I will run in the USA’s largest cross-country race: The Living History Farms Seven Miler. This race starts at 9am, Saturday November 21st, 2009 and I intend to be ready!
My bodyweight as I start this diet? 332 pounds. Wow, that was hard to admit!
Till next time…Jack
“Research conducted by University of California, Berkeley suggests there are major health benefits to caloric restriction. Benefits include a reduced risk of cancer, the slowing of the aging process and the potential to increase maximum life span. Currently, the reduction of caloric intake is the only proven method of increasing the lifespan of an organism. Dr. Joel Fuhrman maintains that pure water fasting can not only “detoxify” cells and “rejuvenate” organs, but can actually cure such diseases and conditions as cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, colitis, psoriasis, lupus and some other autoimmune disorders when combined with a healthy diet. He believes that “Fasting is Nature’s Restorer.”"