*10 Motivating Tips to Keep Your New Year Resolution* Let us welcome 2022 as the year to enjoy greater health, happiness, success, and fulfillment! We tend to attract what we think the most about … Top resolutions by people include a desire to lose weight, stop smoking, exercise more, improve health and looks, improve relationships, and to make or save more money. Here are ten helpful instructions to reach any goal: 1. Create a written plan with a specific, measurable, realistic goal. If more exercise is the goal, be gradual in increasing intensity and duration of exercise. Being over ambitious leads to disappointment, or even injury. Make the goal simple, such as resolving to lose ten pounds (just ‘lose weight’ is too vague); to eliminate soft drinks, candy, pastry, and chocolate; to walk Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Have your deodorant only available at the gym. To control spending, cut up credit cards and have monthly automated savings. Improve a relationship by setting aside specific times to be with a loved one. 2. Be accountable by making a verbal commitment to a few people. 3. Enlist support from a family member, friend, mentor, professional, a class, a good self-help book or recording. 4. Be positive and think “I know I can do this.” Have an intense focused mind set on what you should do, not what you should not do. For example, instead of thinking of not smoking, focus on deep breathing, or drinking more water. 5. Consider setbacks as learning experiences and do better next time. 6. Talk to people who have done what you want to do and model them. 7. Realize you have a choice and going in the right direction reinforces your will power. 8. Reward yourself for small steps to success with a movie, a small gift, a new outfit, a visit to a friend, etc. 9. Several times a day, read a card with motivational reasons and benefits to stick to your plan: Have one on your mirror, and carry one in your wallet to read when waiting somewhere. Reading this just before you fall asleep strongly influences your subconscious mind. 10. Keep a Daily Progress Journal to evaluate and improve your plan for success. People wanting to lose weight often say “I blew my program” when they did well on twenty meals out of twenty-one during the week. That is over 95% success! Many success coaches instruct others to start with easier goals to feel a sense of accomplishment. This gives confidence to achieve bigger goals. Sometimes it is best to focus all your mental energy on one major goal at a time, focusing on small steps. One brick at a time creates a building. Patience and calm persistence lead to success. Plan how you will deal with any obstacles that may arise. The key to my motivating methods is the use of hypnosis with people to intensely focus their mental powers on what they want; to boost their belief in themselves; to increase their self-love so they are totally dedicated to success; to instill positive self-talk, and to program mental success images into their subconscious mind so they imagine and feel that they have already succeeded. “Men are not prisoners of fate, only prisoners of their own minds.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt *Hypnosis Wisdom from Psychiatrist Milton Erickson, M.D.:* “Trust your unconscious; it knows more than you do … You can pretend anything and master it … Adults are only little children grown taller … It isn’t so much what the therapist does, as what he gets his patient to do … I want you to discover the difference between your thinking and your doing … Why would a big zeppelin woman come in and say, ‘I’m a trifle overweight.’ And a man with a potbelly and he hasn’t seen his feet for years, say he’s a trifle overweight. And why does a patient who goes on three-month binges, drunk for three months or six months at a time say, ‘I’ve got a slight alcohol problem?’ Because they are afraid to face the truth … A trance state is using your brain so that you can entertain any thought and give reality to that thought, to that memory, the same way you can dream at night … Try tonight to dream an explanation.” *Next Online Seminar: Stop Smoking with Hypnosis, Sat., Jan. 15th.* More information at: https://vanceromane.com <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/3c137ee7ac9791709ffd61d63cc415b5880d8d65?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvanceromane.com&userId=2047633&signature=73f1830b0fd665aa> (Newsletter readers and your friends may use discount code FRIEND.) Early registrants are invited to a short free bonus session to enhance their depth of hypnosis, on Sat. Jan. 8th. My father always said: “Better days are coming!” Vance Romane Copyright 2022 M.V.P. Ltd.-Romane. 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