Hi Friends,
It's time to stare down the third and final enemy of New Year Resolutions.
Are you ready to put it down for good? Let's begin...
This is the third enemy:
3. You don't have the right tools to get you started
Staying focused on your goals can sometimes be challenging. There are countless distractions and temptations in life, all of which can put you on a detour, and leave you miles away from where you want to be.
Are you trying to lose weight?
"Hey that pecan pie in the fridge looks pretty tempting…"
Are you planning to start a new hobby?
"My favorite show's on tv, I'll do i tomorrow…"
Are you determined to give up drinking?
"It's Happy Hour at the bar tonight, maybe I should treat myself one more time…"
*You need a set of tools or techniques to keep you focused, disciplined and determined.*
Some people use vision boards. Some write down their progress in journals. Some form a pact with friends so they can check up on each other.
One of my favorite tools that I have now made into a daily ritual is affirmations.
Every morning, without fail, I recite a list of affirmations out loud to myself.
It gives me a great start to my day, and it's a constant reminder of the commitments I have made to myself.
Why don't you give it a try?
I've put together a little affirmation toolkit for you. Below you'll find a video and a PDF that I highly recommend you start using every day.
Watch the video first:
Now, save and print out this PDF document:
Download It Here
Once you've printed it out, add your own affirmations to it--the ones you committed to doing yesterday.
Don't forget the commitment you made to yourself!
As long as you stay focused and determined, you'll be achieving your goals in no time.
Remember to start working on your daily, weekly or monthly goals right away.
I'd love to hear from you. Send me a message in the comments section below, and tell me how you're doing with your resolutions.
Remember, just as you are committed to your resolutions, I'm committed to helping you achieve them.
Lets take on 2010 together and make it the best year yet!
Sincerely,
Burt
My name is Burt Goldman. I’m one of those “lucky people” who discovered a secret early in life. For the last 50 years, I have been traveling the world and meeting and studying spiritual masters from every inch of our planet. Now, at the age of 82, I'm ready to share with the world what I have learned. I started this blog to be able to share with you my most valuable teachings and insights I have gained over the past few decades. Here, you'll find plenty of valuable information on meditation, energy healing, spirituality, and my latest revelation, Quantum Jumping. I look forward to connecting with you and I sincerely hope you enjoy being a part of this blog.
There are a lot of people who are living in a rented property. Most of this rental contracts are for period of six or twelve months. Before being able to moving in, the renters has to deposit a large sums. Many rental contracts include clauses that at the end of tenancy the renter will have the property cleaned.
nice to be here.... thanks for share
great information you write it very clean. I'm very lucky to get
this details from you.
Thanks for this
information
great information you write it very clean. I am very lucky to get this tips from you.
I agree with your Blog and I will be back to check it more in the future so please keep up your work. I love your content & the way that you write. It looks like you’ve been doing this for a while now, how long have you been blogging for?
[...] Of Attraction | Reference and ...30 Power Words To Activate Intention Setting ? Abundance TapestryMy Tools Are Yours To Use | The American MonkNew ClickBank Products on 1/28/2010 - Fraud EconomyWin a Starbucks Planner 2010 with a New Year [...]
I really enjoyed your video but it is difficult to view it in the morning when the web takes time to open.Can you give it away?
I loved it, very up lifting Thankyou
[...] something special I wanted to share with you instead. I’m glad to hear that you liked my affirmation toolkit. I hope you have already started reciting them daily. Thanks for again for your positive [...]
Dear Burt,
I'm rather new to your site and materials (I just received this Christmas, on request, your MindBox CD's, and enjoying them a lot, btw), so, please apologize if I'm asking something you already addressed somewhere before; when healing, for instance the energized water, should the other person know what you are doing, or is not necessary? I'm talking about 2 years old daughter here, with big sleep problems, so, should I tell her, for instance, that this is a special water, who will help her sleep very well the whole night, or I can skip it? Thank you very much, and again, thank you so much for everything you do and are, I feel myself so blessed to have got to know you!
p.s. I find this last video very inspirational, reminds me of Christian Larson's "optimists creed", but more warm and familiar, a la Burt Goldman... a big THANK YOU, and all the blessings be with you!
dear burt...i 've started my practice since i recieved this affirmation video an has given me my inner peace back...if our thoughts don't get fed regularly with good spiritual information we won't experience what an how we are to be from within ourselves...this world tries to choke us with negativity an all the influences that we get caught up in...so thanks so much for the musical video along with picture of nature to bring a positivity into our spirit heart an mind...love to all...josi***
Its an excellent video Burt. It helps realising my own self. Thanks a lot for this.
Dear Burt - Thank you for always keeping things in a down to earth presentation that never fails to lift me up. Despite the sometimes profound content, you always keep it real.
Your guidance is appreciated at a time in my life when I am going through some significant changes… and making a few too. This note to you is going to be the start of my journal, for one. This particular topic addressing goals and resolutions is timely for me. I’ve started some recent changes before and without consideration of the “New Year” per se. You help to make my efforts more effective! I appreciate you.
I have a challenge in life; and I know I am not alone. I explore an endless stream of self development and spiritual teachings, as a result of my ongoing internet, (soul), searching. One thing leads to another. It is easy to be overwhelmed with the vastness of the content available, as well as the number of resulting emails to sift through. I regularly unsubscribe from sites just to keep it more manageable.
At some point there can just be too much cream filled center in the middle of an Oreo cookie.
It is easy to sense the unwise temptations to go after so much that you are left with little or nothing substantial in hand. Although there is so much wonderful content to look into there comes a point that the "wheat must be separated from the chaff". Yes, there are weeds and thistle patches out there. So there is a need to be more focused and avoid the pitfalls and increase the harvest. This has always been a particularly personal challenge.
Well, it is back to the “Daisy Pond” for me.
I am reminded of the carousel at an amusement park as a child and my struggle to decide which of the horses I should ride. I was never a one horse man but there are only so many rides to fit into a day at the park. I would start my deliberations while waiting in line. I never considered the occasional zebra, giraffe, ostrich, or the "unthinkable" inanimate… sleigh!
On this carousel of life a most steady and trusty of mounts is a black Arabian stallion named, Burt.
Thanks for being there and helping me along to my "Where".
Your Friend,
Dallen
I bought your set of Mind Box CD's. I am enjoying them so very much as I do learing from all of your experiences and gifts to us.
Thank you!
Dear Burt- Thank-you so much for remembering me w/ this
e-mail!!
I AM now studying both your courses at Mind
Valley-THE LIFE ACCELERATOR,& THE HEALING TRIANGLE!! So
do not think you are far away from my heart & soul!!
After I was diagnosed with cancer-I knew it was my Soul speaking-directing me to take complete
respondsability for changing my life.
Your Quantum Leaping programs #1 and #2 and the 2 programs above have been INCREDIBLE!!I would reccomend them to ALL!!
Please keep me on your mailing list/ and you
will be w/ me in Spirit during my surgery in February.
Love, Caroline P.S..my African Gray Parrot says"UNCLE
BURT NOW?" when ever your voice fills our home!You are
very much beloved!(:
good morning burt an friends...i love te thought of MARILYN WILLIAMS...'ALOWING OTHER PEOPLE RUNNING MY THOUGHTS"...GOOD PHRASE...people do that so the affirmations are sealed into our subconscious to safeguard our reactions to things they say...thanks burt..josi***
Hello Burt,
Thank you for your lovely gift. Actually you are the gift that just keeps giving and giving. You seem to be a classic example of the law of attraction - the more YOU give the more YOU get! And so it is for all of us. A great lesson.
Words and beliefs create emotions and feelings, and from the emotions and feelings we create our lives, every day.
Blessings to you.
Betty Iams
I love doing affirmations. I am a Divine Instrument of Creation. I am creative instrument of the Divine.
Thanks Burt for your affirmations - they work for you that's certain!
Thank you Bart!
Discipline is the most important.One more way for us to take control of our lifes!
Thank you for your great work.The affirmations are the best i have come across.You are so inspiring.Keep up the great work.It is always so inspiring to read your blog and tips.
have a great day
Thank you so much. Very lovely video. I am smiling...BIG!! Valerie
Dear Burt, this is beautiful,so very positive and resonates so very well with me as I am sure it will with others. Wat a lovely start to the day. Thank you ever so much for your generosity.
With joy and gratitude, Love, Sanjana
Hi Burt,
I love your blog and your work is outstanding. I hope you keep it up. You are a wonderful person and thank you so much for these Affirmations.
Leo
thanks 4 da help you i look at life better n i m a better person now n i will stay dat way god bless
Asking for a handout and expecting a gift because I am a special person, is a prayer. Knowing what to do and having the tools and opportunity to create wealth is a plan.
Why affirmations work is unknown, so they fall into the classification of prayer rather than plan.
They are however a start for the creation of a plan to produce the desired effect.
Thank you Burt for these wonderful affirmations. The pictures are so beautiful and peaceful. You are the best!
Donna
AMAZING SPIRITUAL MASTER HERE IN THIS MOMENT OF
~~
THANK YOU YOU
COSMIC LOVE MASTER ~~~
GIFT TO US ~~
Thank you for your smile. Thank you for your loving and encouraging thoughts, they keep me going on with a loving purpose! Thank you
Wow, what an inspiring video. I will be using this every day. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Susan
England
Hello Burt
At Christmas a friend gave me your mind in a box, and I have listen and used some the content mostly for financial freedom and healing.
I have yet to see a results in those two domain.Personal growth is doing very well I am growing and I am grateful.
I was just wondering what can I do to make things work for me, it's quite simple but I see no results. And now I getting down again.
Thank you
Bernard
Thank you, Burt! I wish you a nice and sunny weekend,
Ljerka
Burt...Thank you for being with us at the start of 2010. You so keep me on track. We love you Burt for the energy and wisdom that you give to all.
Awesome Burt, just awesome especially thank you for sharing the affirmations with pictures in the print out.
Thank you for this Affirmation I think it's the best one yet. I will use it daily. Burt thanks agin. From the Artist for Wildlife.
This is a great Affirmation. I think the best one yet, Thank you Burt so much.
Thank you Burt!
Thank you Burt - Affirmations changed my life - even though repeating simple words would seem to not make a difference, they really do!
After listening to my self talk (things my brain would repeat throughout the day), I realized how many other peoples words were running my thoughts!
Changing those negatives into positives has created lasting positive change in my life. I'm still living through the stuff I called into existence before I knew how powerful thoughts were, but know all this is temporary.
Two of the affirmations that I use are: I am grateful for helpful people. I am grateful for free stuff.
So, you are the result of two years of positive affirmations and proof of the power of thought!
Have a fabulous day,
Marilyn
Burt this is a wonderful video and I will be usng it daily with the affirmations. Good way to start my day.
Thanks Burt
Ron Daack in Virginia
Dear wonderful Burt,
Thank you for the fantastic video and affirmations! I appreciate you and all you are doing in service to others.
Listening to yoour affirmations gave a lift and lilt to my morning. The beginning of a beautiful wonderment of joyful living. This week is a special invitation from Burt for all of us to live LIFE IN ALL WAYS, IN EVERY WAY a life in full abudance.Again and again thannk you Burt
Pamellapure
Thanks Burt,
I needed this, just in time to do my own affirmations you give the gift of guidance, thank you brother, thank you in deed!
JC
Hello Burt!
I Love that video for me is everything what i need at this time is like YOU read my mind ,That what may lift my energy and spirit.Thank you
What a great video! Thank you for the words of wisdom. It helps to hear things expressed so well.
What a wonderful message.
I like the positive affirmations and the effect they have in my soul. Words are so powerful!
Yes, life could be beautiful and we have to really try to feel it fully every day. The universe provides us with an infinite source of energy and inspiration. We just have to know how to look for it.
You are a true inspiration, dear Burt.
Burt, Wow, What a FANTASTIC VIDEO! I have always felt that who ever was with me would have GOLD. I still feel this way but now I have two wonderful young adults (my children) who are living examples about living with affirmations and staying focus. I do think that as we mature into who we want to be it becomes easier and easier as we practice being kind, loving and giving. Thank you Burt for all this great information- Cheers to Life
Burt your a wonderful man to have at this place and time thank you for your generous affirmations gift!Dora