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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)
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
Creating Your Ideal Life by Time Traveling
Feb 14th
“I can not travel into my past, without consent of the future me.” ~Toba Beta
I was doing a bit of time traveling earlier today. Sorry, I haven’t invented any new machines or physical technology, but I have made time traveling a regular part of my life for many years – and I am going to strongly recommend that adopt this habit as well! So what am I actually doing when I “Time Travel” and why should you do something similar? I’ll tell you next time – I promise…Jack
“His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.” ~Robert A. Heinlein
Ready to Make Your Dreams Come True?
Sep 9th
“Goals are dreams with deadlines.” ~Diana Scharf Hunt
Over the next four months or so, I am going to be sharing on this blog many of my top techniques for achieving goals – both personal and professional goals. Much of this is material that I will be including in my book about goals and achievement that will be released in September of 2011, but you will get to see it first here. These will be the exact same tools and strategies and tips that I use today with my high-end executive coaching clients – information on goal achievement that I have tested and refined over more than 25 years as a coach. I am going to deliver this life enhancing information in small and easily assimilated chunks. Be sure to come back here often or subscribe to my RSS feed – I promise it will be time very well invested.
Till next time faithful reader…Jack
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” ~attributed to Leonardo da Vinci
Is it Time to Share Your Dreams
Sep 2nd
“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” ~Marsha Norman
Is it time to share your dreams? Maybe. (Sharing dreams with a friend is a wonderful way to play and sort thru dreams and see which ones are ready to move from dream to goal.) If you have a recurring dream, one that excites you and you think it might be time to go after it, maybe. If you are also fortunate enough to have a friend or partner that will willingly hear your dreams, keep them safe as your secret to share, hear the desires hidden behind the dream – no matter how silly the dream itself may sound, and then will reflect back to you gently with their own insight added; then yes it is time.
Do you have this kind of person in your life? Count yourself amongst the lucky if you do. They are quite rare and if you have someone like this in your life, I hope you are nurturing them.
Are you this kind of person in someone else’s life? It is not an easy role for most of us and it certainly didn’t come naturally to me. But wouldn’t it be a real gift to the world to become this kind of person for someone that you care about?
Next time, I’ll begin to talk about going from dream to goal – they aren’t the same thing.
Till next time…Jack
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” ~Anatole France
Avoid These Mistakes When Starting Your Book
Aug 25th
“A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.” ~Rita Mae Brown
In 2005 I decided that I was going to write a book. As I mentioned in my last entry, this wasn’t a consciously made choice. My unconscious mind decided that it was time to take action and let me know this at the end of a seminar.
I am not sure why I made that decision at that particular time. I had known that I would benefit from a book for years; as a seasoned and in-demand seminar leader, I almost always had the opportunity to sell products at the end of my presentations. Instead I used this time for chatting with attendees and over time, many of these chats ended up becoming coaching or consulting clients. (Although I can successfully coach virtually anyone that speaks a common language with me, I only consult on a handful topics.)
So, these seminars, along with other marketing techniques, kept me with a consistently full coaching practice, commonly with a waiting list, and I was complacent. Not lazy, just complacent.
Use me as a BAD example
Once I had made the decision to become a published non-fiction author, I thought about it virtually every day. And there is the beginning of the first mistake. I thought about it everyday. I invested energy into it every day. I felt bad that I wasn’t writing more – almost every day. What I didn’t do was take action on it every day – that would have taken a different and much wiser decision!
Three Mistakes I Made
Looking back 6 years, I am embarrassed. I should have known better! As an NLP practitioner, I had helped hundreds of people get unstuck and begin taking consistent action from a place of pleasure. From my slightly more enlightened future, I can look back now and see three big mistakes that I made.
- My first mistake was not deciding – not committing to – taking action every single day.
- My second mistake: I was using a pitiful motivation strategy to get myself to take what little action I did take! (I’ve talked about good and bad motivation strategies before and I will again – really useful stuff!)
- Finally I was not accountable to anyone for getting this book done. The only person I was reporting to about it was me and that was just not good enough.
Next time I’ll talk about what I would do differently and what I am doing differently now to write books.
Till next time faithful reader…Jack
“Choices are the hinges of destiny.” ~Attributed to both Edwin Markham and Pythagoras
I’m Back!
Aug 23rd
“Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.” ~Sofia Serrano speaking to David Aames in the movie “Vanilla Sky (2001)
I’m back!
I’m finally going to have the time to start updating this blog on a regular basis again. I’ve spent much of the past 4 months buried in writing the first draft of a book. What time I had left over from that adventure, I split between working with my coaching and consulting clients, working out 6 days per week with personal trainers and of course, my family time always comes first. Anyhow, enough excuses and as Paul Newman said so well in the movie The Color of Money “I’m back!”
What you can expect to find here
So, what can you expect to find here? Of the many blogs that you could decide to read, why add mine to that list?
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You’ll find useful pieces that you can use immediately to improve your life – these nuggets will initially be drawn from my upcoming book about goals and achievement. I’ll share everything I’ve learned about setting goals and the process of achieving them rapidly and pleasurably.
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You can watch and learn the entire process of getting a non- fiction book written and profitably (I intend!) self-published. You will also learn why I decided to self-publish even though I had offers to buy my book from traditional publishing houses.
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See me as I transform my 50+ plus year old body from a neglected, taken for granted shell to a fit, muscular and energetic living work of art! (Wow! That even motivates me!)
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Learn from all of the massive mistakes that I have made all along the way. That way you can either avoid them or at least have a heads up on what to expect if you go there yourself.
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Learn first-hand the tips, techniques and strategies that I have developed and used with my clients over the course of more than 20 years working as a coach and business consultant.
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Get my take on business books that you might want to read or maybe not read. I am an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction and I will be reviewing business books here on a very regular basis.
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And if I go or do something interesting, you can bet I’ll share that as well.