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Harper. A constantly updated, one-stop
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station. Unlike many similar sites, it is a totally
free resource for anyone who is serious about moving
from mediocre to amazing in any area of their
personal or professional life. With hundreds of
articles covering a wide range of subject matter,
great interviews with cool people and inspirational
video posts, there's more than enough brain-food to
keep you busy for hours. Okay, days!!
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Life Coach
Melbourne - Craig Harper
If
you are interested in maximizing your potential,
stepping out of that 'holding pattern' and being
privately coached by Craig click here.
Business Coach Melbourne -
Craig Harper
If you're a personal trainer, gym owner or studio owner
who is interested in growing your business and/or your
career, then mentoring with Craig could be a valuable
part of your overall success strategy and professional
development journey.
Biological Age Testing
- Craig Harper
In a recent test, Jan Frazer, who has a chronological age (the
number of years she's been on the planet) of 67 did a biological
age test which showed she has the body of a 37 year old female.
Pretty Impressive! How old is your body! Find out here.
Nutrition Melbourne -
Craig Harper
Many nutritional
experts are confusing people with jargon and pseudo-science.
Craig's HPN Service provides remote access to Craig's Director
of Nutrition to cut through the dietary confusion and
contradiction.
Public Speaking Melbourne - Craig Harper If you've ever
thought about becoming a professional speaker or
improving your public speaking then you can be privately
coached here.
Fattitude
- Craig Harper
While many books focus on food,
Craig Harper teaches that creating life-long change is more about the
dieter, than the actual diet. This book is perfect for people who have a
history of 'almost' getting in shape.
DVD
or CD - Renovate Your Body - Craig Harper In this entertaining presentation, Craig discusses the
notion of Renovating Your Body - once and for all. Many of us have a curious
ability to be able to get in shape for events (weddings, parties, reunions
and birthdays), if only we'd get in shape for life.
Craig Harper is a leading
motivational speaker
and educator. He is a highly
sought-after corporate coach and is considered to be
a leader and pioneer in the areas of personal and
professional development. Working with hundreds of
teams, companies and a wide variety of organisations
on numerous continents over the last twenty years
has given Craig a unique insight into, and
understanding of, human performance and all its
variables. Craig has an ability to educate, inspire,
challenge and make people laugh all at the same
time!
So today is Sunday January 31st 2006; the day before we all change our lives forever.
Apparently.
We've told ourselves tomorrow is the day. The new us. Leaner, lighter, happier, more relaxed, wealthier, more balanced.... different. Better. Between Christmas and New Year we ate our own body-weight in food because... that's what we do and anyway..."We're starting tomorrow!"
So it's all okay.
I can justify and rationalise whatever I want; shut up Harper.
My body, my life. Anyway, I deserved it.
We overeat, we drink too much and we stumble towards the end of the Year, safe in the knowledge that January 1 is coming... and it will all be different.
Somehow.
Sure we've made and broken resolutions and promises before.... but this year it's gonna be different.
Lesson 1:If nothing changes, nothing changes. If you want next year to be the best year of your life, then you need to establish why and how it will be different this time. Keeping in mind that a good or a bad year is not about situations, circumstances, events or other people; it's about you.
Your choices. Your attitude. Your ability to deal with discomfort. Your ability to create new standards and 'rules'. Your ability to persevere when previously you've thrown in the towel. Your ability to keep doing, even when the doing ain't fun or cool or sexy (consistency).
So tomorrow we start losing weight. Getting fit. Giving up the smokes. Cutting back on the alcohol. Swearing less. Fixing relationships. Changing bad habits.
Yep, tomorrow's the day.
So glad it's not today; not emotionally prepared today.
Just heard an interesting stat on the news: this New Year four million Australians will go on a diet. That's about twenty percent of our population.
If we use the same maths on the United States, we end up with sixty million dieters.
Jenny Craig must be rubbing her hands together.
Lesson 2: The truth is, for most people, the only change that January 1 brings is a short term change in behaviour (usually less than a fortnight, often less than a week).
For Personal Development types like me, January 1 is the most interesting day of the year. It's the one universal day where everyone talks about goals, dreams, plans and hopes; in short we all talk about creating a better life (however that is represented for us).
We talk about it, we dream about it. But often we don't (really) plan for it, sweat for it, sacrifice for it, work for it, get uncomfortable for it. We just kind of 'hope' it will happen. Hopefully success will fall on us from a great height.
We don't create it. We don't persevere. We don't finish what we start.
In my job I have watched (literally) thousands of talented, intelligent and capable people spend years going around in circles. Years being frustrated. Years under-achieving. Years making Excuses and years waiting for the right time. Years making and breaking promises and resolutions.
Our biggest challenge in the pursuit of forever change, is not our ability (or lack of it), not opportunities, luck, potential, skills, education (or lack of it) and not our age or gender; it is our ability to consistently do the things we need to do to create our desired results, irrespective of how we're feeling, day in and day out.
Lesson 3: Motivation is temporary. For most people, motivation is a feeling; an emotional state. "I feel motivated because I just saw this amazing film clip....". If we only do when we feel motivated, we'll never create real (forever) change... because nobody is motivated 24/7.
Success is always less about motivation and more about some very un-sexy things like planning, self-control, discipline, organisation, time-management, decision making and mental toughness. Not sexy, not glamorous, but effective.
I can tell you want you want to hear, or I can tell you the truth.
Lesson 4. We don't need another resolution, we need a revolution. A revolution in the way we do things. A revolution in the way we approach the next year. A revolution in our head.
I hate the whole concept of January 1 being the day for a new start.
If only we all understood that every day is the day.
A better life ain't about the New Year....
It's about the New You.
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DVD
- Renovate Your Body - Craig Harper
In this entertaining presentation, Craig discusses the
notion of Renovating Your Body - once and for all. (Also
available on CD).
Fattitude
- Craig Harper
While many books focus on food,
Craig Harper teaches that creating life long change is more about the
dieter than the actual diet.
Food for thought
- Craig Harper
In this book, Craig Harper
walks the reader through his 21 rules to Permanent Weight Loss.
So you've decided you want to get in shape (again)
- Craig Harper
Imagine a pocket-sized fitness book that takes just twenty minutes to
read. Craig Harper addresses the REAL getting-in-shape issues.
