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Intermittent Fasting to Lose Weight Fast (The Smart Way)

Every now and then we all gain a little extra fat that we would like to get rid off….fast. And we all seem to get the same old advice: “Create a balance between a healthy diet and exercise… and the weight will come off.” By a balanced healthy diet, most coaches mean eating 5 – 6 small meals a day with at least 20 minutes of cardio three times a week. The frequency of meals is designed to keep you full throughout the day and also keep your metabolism high – in order to keep burning fat. And while this…

90 Day Challenge, Coaching

The Benefits of Hiring a Life Coach

1. What Does a Life Coach Do? A life coach is an expert who can motivate you to take massive action and transform the areas of your life that you’re not satisfied with. Coaching, in the way I see it for my clients, is about achieving concrete measurable results; whether in the pursuit and actualization of their goals or in the realization of their total well-being. This includes communicating to clients the options, alternatives and possibilities available to them and to what extent they can use these resources to help them attain their goals. This also includes training them to…

90 Day Challenge, Purpose

Being Self-Aware and Developing Self-Awareness

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance” – Confucius. If you’re a student of personal-growth, then you expect great things of yourself. You strive to improve your skills and abilities and excel in your personal, professional and financial endeavors. In order to constantly improve yourself, you need to develop an ability to gauge your skills accurately and honestly. You need to have self-awareness; an ability that is lacking in most people. Self-awareness is not the same as self-consciousness. Self-consciousness is a mental state of being excessively preoccupied with one’s imperfections, whereas self-awareness is the philosophical view of…

90 Day Challenge, Purpose

How to Live a Happy Life With One Mental Shift

People complain about how they can’t seem to find lasting happiness. They say they’re happy on some days but unhappy on others. And they wish they could just be content with what they already have. Many of these frustrations arise because people hold (false) beliefs about happiness. They want to have happiness in their lives as though it was a commodity that they could possess and own. Much of this mischaracterization has its roots in the consumerist mindset that dominates the psychology of most people these days. A consumer views happiness as a commodity; as a product that can satisfy…

90 Day Challenge, Relationships

How to Effectively Neutralize Difficult People

Perhaps the worst part of anyone’s day is having to deal with difficult people. Difficult people come in all shapes and sizes. They can be family members, co-workers, customers, a boss, or even employees and company representatives. And what they all have in common is that their behavior is well outside of what’s ethically and professionally acceptable. Such people can pretty much make your life miserable if you let them, so it’s important to put a stop to their behavior and neutralize it as quickly as possible. The best way to solve a problem is to start by describing it…

90 Day Challenge, Confidence

5 Killer Tips to Deal With Criticism and Rejection

“Look at a man the way he is, he only becomes worse. But look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.” Goethe. Whenever you’re pursuing a personal project or a dream that you care deeply about, you will inevitably encounter criticism and rejection. People are going to tell you flat out “No.” Others will be more subtle and will say things like “oh, it’s been done already,” “the market is saturated with this kind of stuff,” “you were never that good at this sort of thing,” “it’s better to be…

90 Day Challenge, Purpose

How to Make Any Decision in 20 Minutes

From time to time, we have to make major life decisions that can set us off on a completely new path. It’s scary to think that one decision can change our lives forever and it’s even scarier to decide which path is the right one. So what are you going to do? You obviously want to do what’s going to make you happy, but how are you going to know? Take this hypothetical scenario: you’ve been working for a company for a few years, and things are not too bad. Although your job eats away most of your time and…

90 Day Challenge, Money

How to Reduce Stress of Money

About 40% of people in the US are not taking the necessary steps to manage and reduce stress in their lives. In addition to what we already know about its effects on our cardiovascular system, chronic exposure to psychological stress can over-activate our immune system and lead it to attack its own healthy tissue. In other words, stress can literally kill you. Most people experience stress when they’re unable to cope. And without developing their coping skills, they incur the damages of feeling and being stressed. Stress can be counteracted in two ways: Modify how we respond to stressful “cues”…

90 Day Challenge, Habits

Best Time of the Day to Work on Habits

In my last article on forming super sticky habits, I tried to clarify how one can develop and acquire a new habit in 21 days. There, I also critiqued what has become commonly known as the 21 day habit formation myth. For the full article see here. In this article, I want to focus on the factor of timing, also known in psychology as (TOD); or time of the day All the habits that I’ve acquired and still practice to this day were habits that I began working on either first thing in the morning or early on in the…

90 Day Challenge, Speaking in Public

How to Give a Persuasive Speech (Tip #3 is best)

Giving a persuasive speech and using persuasive words is a critical pre-requisite to success. It allows you to influence people’s degree of belief with respect to the utility and value of your ideas and to motivate them to choose the course of action you desire. This skill, however, doesn’t only benefit marketers and sales people, but also other professionals in leadership positions. In fact, managers, doctors, and educators can tremendously benefit from becoming more persuasive communicators. For example, a teacher can help students realize the importance of writing and cultivate a desire in them to want to improve, a doctor…