February 14, 2010
The Challenge:
Keeping a fast paced life can be very taxing on your body. By design, this website has focused on challenges for your mind but it is equally important to develop a plan to remain physically fit. Eating right, exercising, meditation, etc. should all be a part of that plan. For this challenge, create your physical fitness plan.
This task is worth 25-points on your scorecards.
Thought Provoking Questions:
How are you going to keep yourself committed to the plan?
What hurdles will you have to overcome to implement your plan?
The Lesson:
The toughest part of a physical fitness plan is remaining committed to it. If you have not done anything physically for a long time, it will take several weeks to feel the difference in your level of energy. In those first few weeks, you will have to consciously push yourself to implement your plan. You’ll have to fight the urge to relax versus exercise or eat a cheeseburger versus a salad. Stick to it and you won’t regret it.
What you’ll soon find is that you will have greater energy throughout your day, you’ll sleep better through the night and the pace in which you accomplish your goals will be faster. That being said, if you are already very busy, you will have to find the time to implement your plan. This could mean getting up early, getting a babysitter or changing where you eat and grocery shop. For more details on what should be in your plan, check out this article by lifeMOJO. The most important thing is to have fun finding ways to get fit.
“Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.” Alan Thicke
January 09, 2010
The Challenge:
This weekend marks the first “birthday” of The MindSetGame.com! Looking back at this year, we’ve covered challenges that help us with four key areas necessary to achieve our dreams (discipline, direction, imagination and attitude.) With the right mindset and a little focus on these key areas, we can all achieve huge success. As a birthday treat, we should all take a moment to celebrate something in our lives with a reward to ourselves.
This task is worth 15-points on your scorecards.
Thought Provoking Questions:
What did you give yourself?
Do you make it a habit to give yourself rewards for achieving specific goals?
The Lesson:
When you achieve something, even if you feel it is small, you should always associate a reward to it. Celebrating your wins will give you satisfaction and motivation to keep going. If it’s a small goal, match the reward so you are not giving yourself a BIG reward for something that can be accomplished quickly. This approach will also help you break your larger goals into small ones so that you get to celebrate along the journey to achieve your dreams.
Have fun this week and enjoy your celebration. Also, if you have ideas for future challenges please send them in. Thank you all for your continued support and involvement!
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” - Oprah Winfrey
December 16, 2009
The Challenge:
This challenge is related to the last one, something that can make finding time for your goals easier to manage is to start with just a small amount of time each day. It’s amazing what can be achieved in just 30-minutes a day when it’s spent focused on your goals and moving them forward. For this challenge, commit to a specific amount of time each day to be focused on your goals.
This task is worth 25-points on your scorecards.
Thought Provoking Questions:
How much time did you commit to? Were you able to stick to your time commitment?
If you still had distractions, what were they caused by?
The Lesson:
If you spend just 30-minutes each day focused on your goals, you will have spent the equivalent of 182-hours over the course of a year. What you will find is that by starting with a small amount of time each day, you will slowly begin to increase this time as the goal formulates itself in to reality. And as the goal begins to take shape, you will become more enthused and those distractions that caused you grief before will have a more difficult time pulling away your attention.
Persistence is also a key to this challenge. The person that commits to taking baby steps will eventually find themselves far from where they started. It doesn’t always feel like you are moving forward until you look back several months and realize just how far you’ve come. Don’t give up on this process, this is truly what separates the successful people in life. These struggles are what make the rewards so memorable.
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole stair case, just take the first step” - Martin Luther King Jr.
December 06, 2009
The Challenge:
There are only 24-hours in the day to take action towards our dreams. In life, we have to balance the other important things including time with family, friends, careers with our personal goals and dreams. Of course, we have to eat and sleep as well. A question that often comes up is how do I find the time to achieve my dreams? For this challenge, list the important things in your life and then prioritize them according to their importance to you.
This task is worth 50-points on your scorecards.
Thought Provoking Questions:
How many things did you list? Do you feel this is a realistic number for you to balance?
What were the top three priorities? Can the others be eliminated or reduced?
The Lesson:
At some point we look at our lives and realize that we have a time capacity, and that capacity is 24-hours of everyday. Everyone is playing by this same limitation, so why are some able to achieve more than others? The answer lies in how some are able to focus on what they want and then make certain sacrifices to achieve their dreams. It’s a tough choice, but you will have to identify things you are willing to give up to achieve your dreams. This challenge is meant to help you begin the process of identifying your priorities, but the decision to cut things out of your life will be a deep and personal one.
Once you identify your priorities, you will need to decide how much time you want to devote to each priority. Don’t forget about necessities like sleeping and eating. Also, there will always be the unforeseen circumstances that pull you away from your dreams but that are important for you to be a part of. Make sure you can accommodate these situations by creating a plan to catch-up on your top priorities when these situations arise.
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become” - Charles Dubois