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10 Things You Can Stop Doing To Improve Your Life

What Can You Stop Doing For A Better Life

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:30:00 +0000

What Can You Stop Doing For A Better Life?

As we get ready to start the brand new month of October, it’s a great opportunity to re-set and refocus, on where we are heading and what we want to Achieve.

October has become a very popular month, to think about something you'd like to stop doing. For example, we have, Stoptober for those looking to Stop Smoking and Go Sober for October, for those looking to stop drinking alcohol.

So, I thought I'd asked you today, is there something that you would like to stop doing in your life, that will help improve your life, that will help you to achieve the goals and the results that you want?

Take some time to think about your habits, your actions, your daily routines, and ask yourself, is there anything that you're doing, that's not moving you forward in the right direction, that’s not in alignment with the goals and results and the life that you want?

Have a check in with yourself and ask yourself is what I'm currently doing moving me closer to what I want, or further away from it. If it's moving you further away, have a look at some of the things that you're doing and ask yourself, is there something you could stop doing, that's going to help you in your life.

And it doesn't matter what time of year you're reading, watching or listening to this. It may not be October, it doesn't matter, any day, week, month is a great opportunity for you to stop, to pause, to assess and get clear on what direction your life is going and if what you are doing is helping you or hindering you. And if it's hindering you, maybe look at your habits and behaviours and stop any that aren’t helping you.

To give you some ideas, here’s a previous post I shared with

https://youtu.be/3ArhT8ePknM

Here’s 10 things you can STOP doing to improve your mindset and your life…

Stop…

1. Excuses

2. Self-doubt

3. Comparing yourself to others

4. Bad habits

5. Worrying and overthinking

6. Negative self-talk

7. Trying to please everyone

8. Worrying what others think of you

9. Stop worrying about things you cannot control

10. Stop pressing snooze on your goals & start living the life you want

I hope that gives you some useful ideas for what you can stop to help you in your life.

Once you've decided what you can stop doing, then ask yourself if there is anything you can start doing that's going to help propel you forward.

Is there anything you can start doing, that's going to move you forward in the direction that you want to be going in. It doesn't matter how big or small that action might be, but the compounding effects of taking action in the right direction, will help get you there closer than if you just leave it to chance.

So, that's your action for today's, take a moment to think about, if there is anything you could stop in your life, that’s going to enhance, enrich you and move you forward in the right direction!

Whatever you decide, let me know what you are going to stop that’s going to help improve your life now.

Remember, what your mind believes you will achieve, so allow yourself to think differently, to believe in yourself, to take action, so you can enjoy and achieve the life that you want.

Go on, you can do it!

All the best

Christian

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Mid Year Personal Goal Review And Reset

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 05:00:00 +0000

How To Reflect Review And Refocus Mid Year

I don't know about you, but I think it's astonishing that we're halfway through 20 21 already!

But as it’s half time in 2021, it’s a great time to pause, to reflect, to take a couple of moments, to look back on the six months that have just passed.

Regardless of when you're reading this, it's a good thing to do from time to time, to stop, to pause, to check in on where you're heading, where you've come from and just do a bit of a review and a debrief, to discover what you've learned.

Look at what you've gained and celebrate some of your wins, before you refocus and ensure that you are aligned and working towards achieving the goals and the life that you want to achieve.

So, take a couple of moments to pause, to think, to stop and look back over the six months that have just passed and ask yourself…

What have you been grateful for?

What have you enjoyed?

What have You learned?

What have you gained?

What has gone well?

What do you wish you had done differently?

What have been some of your highlights, your highs, your wins?

And what can you learn from all of this?

What can you take forward into the next six months, into the second half of this year, to ensure that you finish strong and heading towards achieving what's important to you?

In Summary…

First have the review and debrief to see what you can learn and take forward to help gain traction and momentum towards the life and the goals that you want.

Then ask yourself is there anything you need to stop doing?

Is there anything that you need to keep doing?

Is there anything you need to start doing?

That's going to help you work, move towards the things that you want.

It’s time to have an honest conversation with yourself, to look at what you're doing, to look at what actions you're taking, what habits you currently have and where your mindset is currently guiding you.

Imagine if you had a TV crew follow you around for the next six months, what are some of the things that we would find you doing, will your habits and actions be taking you towards, or away from the goals that you say you want to achieve?

Now take a moment to think about your current mindset and what changes and enhancements you would like to make, that will help you finish the 2nd half of 2021 strong.

If you were to be looking back on New Year’s Eve at the end of this year,

What do you want to achieve?

What do you want to accomplish?

What do you want to ensure that you did to help yourself get to where you want to be?

Now choose and commit to what you can do today, in the next few weeks, that your future self will thank you for.

Please get in touch, leave me a comment and let me know what, not only what you've learned from this half of the year, and what you're planning to do now, to help you to finish strong.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so allow yourself to think differently, to believe in yourself, to take actions that will help you achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Go on, take time to make it happen for yourself now!

All the best

Christian Baker

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How Do You Motivate Yourself And Others

Mon, 24 May 2021 05:00:00 +0000

How Do You Motivate Yourself And Others - Are You An Encourager Or Discourager?

Hi, I’m Christian Baker from www.ChristianBaker.net and The Achieve Podcast, sharing inspiration, motivation, and encouragement to help you to think differently, to believe in yourself, to take action so you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

I came across a quote recently that goes along the lines of,

"There are two ways of exerting strength, one is to push down, and one is to pull up”

This got me thinking, this is something that can impact us both internally and externally.

Firstly, look at the internal, do you focus more on the things that you can't do?

Do you criticize yourself, is your inner self-talk one that's encouraging you, or belittling you?

Took a moment to have a think, become aware of what you’re doing and then look at how you can change it for the better.

Are you suppressing your potential? Are you focusing too much on the negatives, rather than giving yourself the encouragement and taking the time to focus on your strengths, your qualities, and the things that you can do, the things that you can change?

We can't always change everything, but we can change how we react and respond to it.

By focusing on the things that we can do, this helps us to move forward in the right direction.

Now let’s look at this from the External perspective.

Are you somebody who likes to offer a hand to people?

Do you like to encourage or discourage people?

Do you like to bring the best out in people, or are you somebody who criticizes?

Are you somebody who looks at the negatives and all the reasons why you can't do something?

Also think about the people you spend time with, do the people around you exert their strength on you in a way that belittles you, that pushes you down. Or do you surround yourself with people who are encouraging and inspiring you, the kind of people that bring out the best in you?

Have a look at your life, have a look at the way you think, the way you speak and communicate with yourself and others, have a look at the people you spend the time with and ask yourself;

“Are you pushing down on your personal best, on your success, on your achievement, on the life that you want, or are you pulling up and encouraging yourself from the inside out?”

Simply become aware of whichever it currently is, once you’ve done that, now look at how you can make some changes to bring the best out of you and the people around you.

It takes just as much time and energy, so decide which you would rather do and choose to do what will have the most positive impact for you and the people around you.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so allow yourself to think differently, to believe yourself more, be kind and encouraging to yourself. Then take action so that you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Go on, make it happen!

Leave a comment or get in touch and let me know how you're going to utilize this in your life moving forward and what a positive difference it makes for you!

All the best

Christian Baker

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Where Is Your Favourite Place In Nature?

Thu, 13 May 2021 05:00:00 +0000

#connectwithnature #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthawarenessweek

Where is your favourite place in nature to visit and spend time?

Pop over to facebook or Instagram and let me know or share a photo in the comments your favourite place.

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All the best

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Connect With Nature and Come To Your Senses

Wed, 12 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Connect With Nature and Come To Your Senses

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗼 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲?

Connecting with nature allows you to come to your senses.

Anything that allows you to connect with one or more of your senses, is allowing you to naturally disconnect from the noise and busyness of your mind and day to day life and simply be more present in the moment.

While you are focused on the nature around, the things you can see, the sounds of the birds, the feeling of the ground beneath your feet, the air temperature against your skin, the scent of your favourite flowers, then you can’t be thinking of anything else.

𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚-𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩.

Step outside, pause for a moment and simply notice and tune in to what you can see, hear, and feel around you now.

How are you going to connect with nature today?

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Mental Health Awareness Week - Connect With Nature

Tue, 11 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Mental Health Awareness Week - Connect With Nature

A few thoughts on my morning walk about connecting with nature.

What’s your favourite way to connect with Nature?

What is your favourite thing to do in nature?

Where is your favourite place to visit in Nature?

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Mental Health Awareness Week - How To Improve Your Mental Wellness

Mon, 10 May 2021 05:00:00 +0000

How To Improve Your Mental Wellness.

This week is mental health awareness week 10th – 17th May 2021. So, I thought it'd be a great opportunity to have a look at your own mental wellness and see if there's any ways that you can improve your own mental health and wellbeing.

One of the first things I'd encourage you to do, is take an overview of your current situation, how are you currently feeling?

If you could measure your mental wellbeing on a scale of 1 to 10, where would you score yours?

If 10 is really strong, almost superhero like and one is very low, where on the scale would you currently put yourself?

At this point it doesn't matter where you are, whether you think it was as low, high or in the middle. This is just a snapshot of your current position. If it's not as strong, or as high as you’d like it to be, it's just an indicator that there's room for you to make some improvements, to make some changes, to help yourself improve your own mental wellness.

There are some fundamentals that are important foundations, like getting god sleep, good nutrition, hydration. Ask yourself are these things being taken care of.

If they're not, then look at how you can improve these, and if they are fantastic, now look at some of the other things you can do to help improve your mental wellness.

Now, I'd like you to do is think about your mind fitness, your mental wellness in the same way, as you probably would think about your physical fitness and wellbeing, if you want to improve your physical fitness, you wouldn't go for a walk, or a run, you wouldn't work with a personal trainer, or go to a gym, once or a even a few times and expect that to keep you in credit for the rest of your life.

And I want you to approach and think about your mental wellness in exactly the same way.

Consistency is the key.

Start off by making a list of all the things that you like doing, things that you enjoy doing, hobbies, activities, past times, anything that you find relaxing, that helps to de-stress, re-energises and uplifts you.

This is one of the reasons why so many people have been affected by the global pandemic in the last year, because without realizing it, many of us have lost outlets that used to help release and let go of some of our stresses and strains. As well as things that help to charge us up and keep us feeling good.

With more and more people having to work from home, even the small day to day things like, the daily commute into, may have served as an unwind between home and work, the human interaction with people we meet on our way to work, or in work. The gyms have been closed, pubs, restaurants, days out holidays, all those things that people would normally take for granted, suddenly stopped.

We may not have realised that these things were an important part of our life.

Whether you're reading, watching or listening to this at the time of the pandemic, or afterwards, have a look at your life and ask yourself, are you consistently doing things that help keep you topped up and charged from the inside out.

Make a list of things you like doing, whether that be simple daily tasks, or things that you do occasionally, make a list of all the things that you can do to keep your mental wellness and your mind fitness as strong as you possibly can.

Once you’ve done that, then look at how you can do more of those things in your day-to-day life on a consistent basis

Your action step for today, is to look at your own mental wellness score on a scale of zero to 10, then make a list of all the things you can do to help keep your mental wellness topped up as part of your lifestyle.

Over the next few days, I'm going to share a few different tips and strategies for how you can enhance and optimize your mental wellness. In the meantime, have a think, and make a list of all the things you can do help yourself.

It’s important to remember, don't just do it a few times and expect things to improve, to keep your mental wellness top to up and to maintain it, it’s what you do on a consistent basis that's going to make the biggest difference.

Also remember that these things don't have to be complicated, you just need to be consistent with it.

Please get in touch, leave a comment and let me know how you're going to help yourself to improve and enhance your mental wellness moving forward.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so allow yourself to think differently, to believe yourself more, to take action, so you can enjoy and achieve the life that you want.

Go on, you can do it!

All the best

Christian Baker - Mindset Coach

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May Goals - Make The Most Of May

Mon, 03 May 2021 05:00:00 +0000

May Goals - Achieve Your Goals

As we embark on a brand new month, how will you make the most of March?

Before you look towards the new month, I encourage you to first reflect upon how last month went.

Is there anything that you can learn from it?

What did you enjoy?

Look for any lessons or learnings you can take into the new month a head, have a look at what you can do this month to make May matter.

You can listen to the podcast episode here…

How can you make the most of May?

We all have the same amount of time, it's down to you how you choose to take time to do the things that are going to make a positive difference for you.

One of the things I often suggest is that you set yourself a challenge. In my private members club, the Personal Best Club, every month we have a brand new Focus 30, where we take the time to choose one thing to do every single day, that's going to help us move forward in the direction that we want to move.

Maybe, it's something that you want to do to help yourself, to look after yourself, to improve something, to achieve something, just choose one thing that you can do that's going to make a positive difference for you.

So, when you look back and reflect on the end of the month, you can say that you have made progress, that you've made momentum in the direction that you want to be moving in, rather than just leaving it to chance.

There's a saying that says, “the time is going to pass anyway.”

So why not take the time to utilize it in a way that's beneficial for you?

I've previously encouraged in previous episodes to set yourself a 28 day challenge. It's very similar to the Focus 30, but 28 day fits into any month.

So, just take a couple of moments to think about what one thing can you every day for the next 28 days that's going to make a positive difference to you in your life.

What is the one thing you can do, that's going to move you closer to achieving a goal that you want to achieve?

The good news is, you’re not limited to one thing, but if you just reduce the overwhelm and simply choose one thing, then the momentum you gain from doing that, is going to build your confidence, and it’s going to help you to keep taking action long after the 28 days and into the future.

Choose and commit to what you're going to accomplish, what you're looking forward to achieving, to help make the most of May.

Get in touch, leave a comment and let me know what you’re going to achieve this month!

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so allow yourself to think differently, to believe in yourself, to take action so that you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Go on, you can do it, now make it happen.

All the best

Christian

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Keep Yourself Charged - Recharge Your Mind!

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Do you take enough time to reset, recharge and reenergize?

I’m forever having conversations with clients, who are stressed, overwhelmed, or suffering with some level of anxiety. One thing we often look it is, how best we can incorporate lifestyle strategies that help us to reset and recharge.

Think about your mindset, your energy, your perspective, like that of the charge on your phone, or some other device.

Unless you consistently and frequently keep it charged and topped up, then inevitably it will run flat and on empty.

The busy-ness, the demands, the activities of day-to-day life is using up our energy, so it's important that we take sufficient time to recharge, to reset and to reenergize.

So, have a check in with yourself today and look at your life and ask yourself, are you taking enough time for yourself and to recharge.

Let's be honest, most of us don't take enough time to re-charge and it's a conversation I have with clients all the time.

Sometimes there's also an element of confusion, between taking time purposefully within intent to take time-out, versus escapism.

Often people look for activities to help them escape from the stress and demands of life, and they don't feel fully replenished, or they don't get the full benefit from it, because they've running away from something.

Instead, what I'm talking about is making sure you weave into your day-to-day life, your week to week, your month to month, things that you enjoy, things that inspire you, things that encourage you, things that help to keep you topped up, charged from the inside out.

This could be anything, we're all different, we all like different things. Physical activity can be an important component of that, but that could look like many different things, for many different people, reading, listening to music, getting outside in nature, going for walks.

Whatever way works for you, be honest and ask yourself, do you do it often enough.

Look at how much variety you can come up with, for doing different things that will help keep you, you rested, recharged, and reenergized.

Don't fall into the trap of waiting until you need it, do it consistently, so you help prevent yourself from getting to the point when you need to reboot and re-charge. Be more productive, purposeful proactive and do the small things as often as you can, that help keep your charge as consistently high as you possibly can.

That way, it's going to take a lot more for you to run on empty, but also, you then have things in place, that even if you get distracted by life, you have habits and routine that naturally help you reset, refocus and get yourself back on track if needed.

Your action for today, is to have a look at your life, have a look at your day, your week, your month, your time and ask yourself, what can you do to help keep yourself charged up and, and let me know in the comments, or get in touch and let me know what's your favourite way, or ways to keep yourself rested recharged and re-energized.

I look forward to hearing all the different things that you enjoy.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve.

So, allow yourself to think differently, to believe yourself, to take the right kind of action, so that you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Go on… You can do it!

All the best

Christian

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The Achieve Podcast with Guest Frederique Murphy

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 05:00:00 +0000

#TheAchievePodcast #LeadBeyondTheEdge #FrederiqueMurphy

The Achieve Podcast Episode 61 with Leadership Mindset Strategist and Author, Frederique Murphy.

For further details about Frederique's and her new book Lead Beyond the Edge visit

https://frederiquemurphy.com/

https://leadbeyondtheedge.com/

All the best

Christian

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3 Reasons We Often Fail To Achieve Our Goals

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Here’s why most people don’t achieve their goals…

I've just been having a conversation with a new client who was pretty frustrated with why they're not achieving the goals and the outcomes that they want.

They're very intelligent, they know what they want, they know what they should and shouldn't be doing, but there's this immense frustration that they're not doing it.

I want to share with you today, 3 common reasons we often struggle to achieve the goals and the outcomes that we want to make, whatever that might be, whatever change or transformational goal you want to accomplish.

We often find ourselves in a place where we feel held back, or stuck, or not doing what's necessary to make it happen.

Firstly, the main reason why so many people don’t achieve their goals is we often spend too much time focused on the things that we don't want.

The way the mind works is we get more of what I think about, we get more of what we focus on, so if we keep thinking and talking about what we don't want, we're training our mind to keep doing those very things we don’t want to be doing.

So, you need to get clear on what you don't want, but then you need to spend more time focusing on what you actually do want and help train your mind and your actions to go in that direction.

The second reason we often fail to achieve our goals is we often find ourselves running to out of date programming.

Our feelings, our beliefs, our attitudes, our habits, our behaviours, are either moving us towards what we want, or further away from it.

Intellectually we may know what we want, but we find ourselves stuck or sabotaging our efforts because we've been programmed, or we've programmed ourselves to do something else.

For example, if somebody is looking to lose weight, they've probably got themselves into some bad eating habits, or they're not as motivated to exercise, or be active.

So consciously they want to make sone changes, they know what they want to achieve, but their habits and their behaviours, their current programming is out date.

So, if you want to change or achieve something and you feel held back, you may need to look at your subconscious programming. Think of your mind like your phone, you often get prompts to select a software update. It's not that your current software is right or wrong, it’s just become out of date. And your mind is the same, for your mind to perform and function how you want it to, it just needs an update.

Have a think about your habits, your thought patterns, are they aligned with what you want to achieve.

If they are, great and if they're not, it may be that you just need to get a shift and make some changes to help you to reprogram your mind for where you are in your life now.

The third reason I see people struggling to achieve their goals, is due to the lack of action in the right direction.

These are all linked together, because sometimes our habits and our behaviours, the actions we take are moving us towards the things that we used to do, or the things that we don't want anymore, due to focusing on what we don’t want too much, or due to out of date programming.

It's important and all very well getting clear on what you want, but you then have to do something about it, you then have to take action towards making it happen!

If there's something that you want to change to achieve or accomplish, ask yourself if you are you taking action towards it, or away from it?

Be aware of where your actions are taking you, then you can look at what you can do to help make it happen.

Simply ask yourself, “what's the one best thing I can do next, which will move me towards achieving the outcome that I want?”

That’s the 3 common reasons why most people struggle and fail to achieve their goals and the outcomes we want.

Let me know in the comments, if you struggle with any of these and if you've got any questions, let me know.

And remember, what your mind believes you will achieve, allow yourself to think differently, to believe in yourself, to take action and you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Go on, make it happen, you can do it!

All the best

Christian

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Refresh Your Mind - 5 Ways To Spring Clean Your Mind

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Refresh Your Mind - 5 Ways To Spring Clean Your Mind

Could you benefit from spring cleaning your mind and your life?

Spring is such a wonderful time in nature for awakening, for growth, for change and transformation.

In this episode, I'm going to share with you five ways that you can help yourself to spring clean and de-clutter your mindset, your thinking and your life.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so allow yourself to think differently, to believe in yourself, to take action and you can achieve the life and the goals that you want

All the best

Christian

Mindset Coach

P.S If you would like some help to refresh your mind, to give your mind a spring clean, then head over to my website, Christian baker.net, where you can grab a free copy of my relax and unwind mindset reset audio. Have a listen and let me know how you get on.

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Change Your State Of Mind - Change Your Life

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +0000

In a recent episode of The Achieve Podcast, episode 56, with Success Coach Paul Webb, I was reminded of a quote from Albert Einstein.

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein

I’ve got a couple of thoughts on this I’d like to share with you today.

Firstly, if you're in a current state of worry, anxiety, overthinking, overwhelm, then you have to change your thinking, you have to change your state, to step away and gain some perspective.

If you stay stuck in that kind of thinking, it’s going to be much more difficult to get out of that mindset.

So, if you're currently, or if you ever find yourself caught up in any level of stress, anxiety, overwhelm, or just overthinking, then I encourage you to do something that will help you get some clarity and perspective.

Think of your mindset like a channel, or frequency, a state of mind that you can change.

So, if you're in a state that's not serving you, or it's not helpful, then change it.

You can do that in many different ways, one of the easiest and one of my personal favourites is to just take an action, just move, go out for a walk, go somewhere for a change of scenery, a change of perspective.

You could also do a guided meditation, or some mindfulness breathing exercises. These are a great way of shifting that internal state that you're in, that just gives you some perspective and clarity to help you to think differently. Which allows you to take a different approach towards helping yourself move forward, or to resolve whatever was causing you some inner conflict.

Every now and again, if you find yourself in a state of overwhelm or negativity, just know that you can take some simple steps to help change that internal state of mind, just by moving, get an out of your own head by doing something like meditation, like breathing exercises.

Just know that you have the ability to change your mindset.

As somebody who helps people to change their mindset, if you find yourself in a state where you want to make a change, but you're not able to do it, be aware that your current level of thinking, is unlikely to help you to make that change, to enable you to move forward in the direction that you want.

Sometimes you need to allow yourself to find a way to upgrade your mindset, to upgrade your current level of thinking, this is often referred to as adopting a growth mindset, rather than staying in the fixed mindset and state that you're currently in. Instead, you can upgrade your default thinking to help get out of your comfort zone.

One of the ways of doing that is to update your mindset and it’s possible to do this in many different ways, you can educate yourself, to nurture your mind with new learnings, whether that be absorbing positive, motivating videos and books and podcasts, or seeking out a kind of a professional mindset coach, or therapist that will help you to make some changes to update your mind.

But really what I wanted you to do today is have their awareness that it is possible that you can change your level of thinking.

Whether that’s to help in the short term, with something that's currently happening, or if that be a more kind of permanent change that you want to make to enable you to move forward and help you to achieve the goals and the life that you want, either way it’s possible to change your thinking and your mindset!

Let me know in the comments, or drop me a message and let me know..

What's your favourite way of changing your state of mind?

What's your favourite way of getting out of your own head and changing your thinking?

Do you like to go for a walk?

Do you like to do some exercise?

You'd like to go for a run. Do you like to read a book?

Do you like to listen to a video or a TEDx talk, or do you have a favourite podcast that you like to tune into?

Let me know, what's your favourite way of changing your current level of thinking.

And remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so allow yourself to think differently, to believe in yourself, to take action and you can achieve the life and the goals that you want

All the best

Christian

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Failing To Prepare Is Preparing To Fail

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Are You Prepared To Fail Or Succeed?

There's a great quote by Benjamin Franklin that says,

“If you fail to plan, then you are planning to fail”.

Now there's a slightly different version that I want to share with you today.

And that is,

“If you fail to prepare, then prepare to fail.”

So, if there is something that you want to change, improve or achieve in your life, what preparation are you making towards making that happen?

What skills do you need to learn and develop?

What habits, routines, and actions do you need to put into place to prepare yourself to make it happen?

As well as this, have an honest conversation with yourself and ask,

Are you prepared to do to make it happen?

You know, making plans, setting goals, is fantastic and important, but there comes a point when you have to implement something, you have to make some changes. You have to make progress towards it.

So, ask yourself, what are you prepared to do?

Are you prepared to do what's necessary to make it happen?

What preparation are you making?

Are you prepared to actually do it?

Your action for today is to reflect on this, look at any changes that you want to make in your life. Look at anything you would like to achieve in your life.

And ask yourself, is there anything you need to learn or develop?

Are there any skills that you need to acquire?

Are there any changes you need to make to your habits and your routines in your life?

If you are not prepared to do what's necessary to make it happen, do you really want to achieve it, do you really want to make the change?

If you do, then you might need some assistance to help remove some mindset blocks, or upgrade your mindset from any limiting beliefs, or out of date conditioning that may be getting in your way.

Or if you’re not prepared to make it happen, then maybe you need to reassess your goal, or the change that you say you want to make.

It’s your life, it’s your decision, so take a couple moments to think about it.

Are you prepared to do what's necessary to make it happen?

Let me know in the comments, get in touch on social media and let me know if you are prepared to achieve you goals and what your next step is going to be towards making that happen.

Prepare to fail or be prepared to achieve, it’s your choice!

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the life that you want.

Just make sure you are prepared to do what it takes to achieve the life and the goals that you want.

All the best

Christian

Mindset Coach

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The Achieve Podcast With Success Coach Paul Webb

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +0000

The Achieve Podcast Episode 56 - with Success Coach Paul Webb

The Achieve Podcast Episode 56 with Success Coach Paul Webb

00:00 Introduction to Lifestyle and Success Coach Paul Webb

00:37 - How important is Mindset to Success & Achievement

02:07 - Paul's definition of Success

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal" Earl Nightingale

07:32 - Tips for helping with adversity

Remember "This too shall pass" - no matter what the situation is right now, it will change. Because the only constant in the universe is change.

Don't make things that are impermanent, permanent.

08:58 - The Law of Polarity - everything has a polar opposite. You can't have a problem without a solution.

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." Albert Einstein

Think about the solution, don't get embroiled by the problem.

10:50 - why the billionaire is so wealthy - he goes looking for problems

11:50 how to help yourself when you are going through difficult times

A problem is only a perception - if you want to get away from a problem you have the solution, it's you that's going to get you out of it.

13:00 - slow down and reconnect with your breathe.

you're never going to get yourself out of the stressed reactive situation unless you’re calm.

18:10 How you do anything is how you do everything

19:00 the importance of daily habits & routines - genius is showing up on doing what needs to be done even when you don't want to do it

23:10 fall in love with the process not the end goal

24:31 Your mindset sets everything, the way you think and talk to yourself and others.

“If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won’t get to keep the money.”

Jim Rohn

26:00 We have to change our level of consciousness in order to achieve our goals

27:00 Marginal gains - Little changes make huge differences over time.

27:50 Do the one thing, first thing in the morning that takes you closer to where you want to go.

28:00 it takes 66 days to form a habit - Research by Phillipa Lally at University College of London

29:00 Daily task and accountability - If you want to make a change, pick one thing and do it everyday

30:00 Do something for yourself first thing in the morning.

30:30 Why don't people do the things that will help them change and move forward.

"The pain of where they are is often more comforting than the unknown of where they are going."

The comfort and familiarity is what keeps us where we are.

31:50 Your current circumstance bears no relation to where you can go

"if one person can do it, anyone can do it"

32:35 it all starts with making a decision.

33:30 How important is confidence - you have everything you need right now

It's important to show up every day and do the work

Get started and everything comes as you move

36:00 Learn from others but find your own way.

37:35 “Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.” Bruce Lee

38:20 What we can learn from the Hummingbird and the sheep farmer Cliff Young

40:35 Your free to make your own mind up, which is why mindset is so vital, you have to get rid of all the doubts, you have to change the belief system, and know it's possible.

At some point you have to go from believing to knowing, and that's where the power is.

41:40 - Conclusion - You have unbelievable resources and power laying dormant within you. All you need to do is take the first step and the universe as long as you are moving will

magically will unfold to present you with the next step, you don't need to know how to do the whole thing just yet, you just need to know that you can and that is the power of mindset.

43:00 Pauls new project - Three Pillars Lifestyle Programme combining, health, wellness, strength, mindset and performance.

44:00 quote to live by - "Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious." Rumi

44:45 - Final Thoughts

As a Man Thinketh - “Mind is the master power that molds and makes, and we are Mind, and evermore we take the tool of thought, and shaping what we will, Bring forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills. We think in secret, and it comes to pass - Our world is but our looking glass.” James Allen

Paul's links

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https://paulwebbcoaching.com/

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Plan Your March Goals - What Will You Achieve This Month

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +0000

How will you make the most of March, how can you make March matter?

Today we start a brand new month. It's the beginning of March 2021, which means we are two months into 2021 already.

So, I wanted to ask you,

How has your year started out?

What have you enjoyed?

What have you achieved?

Are you where you want to be yet?

If not, take a couple of moments to think back to when you set yourself some goals at the beginning of the year, what is it you wanted to have achieved? What do you want to accomplish in 2021?

And if you haven't set yourself any goals yet, take a few moments to think about it now,

What do you want to achieve?

What do you want to have accomplished by the end of this year?

Then ask yourself,

What can you do this month to help move you forward?

How can you make March matter?

How can you get momentum this month?

To help you, I encourage you to just choose one single thing that you can do every single day that is going to help you to move forward, to make progress, to create momentum towards the very thing, or the things that you want to achieve and accomplish in your year and in your life.

Remember the time is going to pass anyway, so you may as well choose to deliberately do something that's going to move you forward.

In March you have…

31 days

744 hours

44, 640 minutes

How will you make the most of it?

Take a couple of moments today to think, if you could reduce the overwhelm and just commit to doing one thing that is going to help you move forward and make progress, what would you choose today.

Then set yourself a 28 day challenge and do that one thing every day for the next 28 days and see how much progress you can make.

Imagine, if we were to have a conversation a month from now, how much momentum, how much progress you could have made to help you towards whatever it is you want to achieve.

On the flip side, imagine you don't commit to doing something and another month passes by and you're still no closer to the things that you said you wanted, how frustrated would you feel?

Pause for a moment to think about what one thing you can do every day.

Choose something, commit to it and commence.

Just get started and do that one thing every single day, that's going to help you move forward.

What one thing can you do that your future self will thank you for?

What's the one thing that you are going to choose to do for yourself, that's going to help you to achieve the life and the goals that you want this month, but also this year?

Let me know, get in touch or leave me a comment to let me know what you are going to make happen this March.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve. So, allow to start to think differently, to believe in yourself, to take actions that you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Go on make this month matter, make March matter and create the momentum to just do it.

All the best

Christian

Mindset Coach

Stop Wasting Time – Think Differently And It Will Change Your Life

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Stop Wasting Time Thinking About The Things You Don’t Want - Think Differently And It Will Change Your Life.

In the last episode I shared some ways for how you can help manage your mental fitness during challenging times.

One of the ways I suggested was to shift your focus.

To shift your focus away from the things that you don’t want and start to pay more attention to the things you don’t want.

Take time to train your mind to focus more on the good, the positives, the things that you are grateful for, the things that you enjoy and take time to focus and nurture your mind on encouraging sources of inspiration, rather than the negativity in your life and in teh media..

As well as these ideas I wanted to share with you another way you can help train your mind and change how you feel.

And that is to focus your mind on what you are looking forward to.

I was talking with a client the other day, who has been working flat our for 18 months, with hardly anytime off, no holidays, so I took him through a guided mediation to imagine being on holiday.

I appreciate you can never fully replace the feeling and experience of being there for real. But you may be amazed how good it feels just imagining what you are looking forward to.

This helps because, the mind doesn’t understand the difference between real and imaginary, the mind and body releases similar chemical responses when we imagine doing something, to when you actually do it for real

Most worry and anxiety comes from playing out negatives scenarios and outcomes in your mind, when you think negatively it create negatives feelings, but it works the other way too.

When you picture, imagine and think about good, happy, calm relaxing thoughts, it creates the corresponding feelings that goes with it.

So, if ever you want to change your feeling take a few moments to stop, and tune in, meditate, reflect, or simply daydream and wonder about good thoughts.

Imagine it like changing the channel in your mind, stop playing things you don’t enjoy and start choosing to tune into something happy, uplifting, encouraging and enjoyable.

Be aware of what’s currently playing out in your mind and tune into to what you are looking forward to.

It doesn’t matter if it’s real, or imagery, just allow your mind to get playful and wonder about the things you’re looking forward to.

Remember our thoughts create our feelings, so if you don’t like how you are feeling, change your thoughts, when your change your thinking everything else follows.

In summary

Stop wasting time thinking about the things you don’t want.

And start thinking about what you are looking forward to?

Come over to my Instagram, Facebook or YouTube channel and let me know what you are looking forward to…

All the best

Christian

Mindset Coach

“What Your Mind Believes You Will Achieve”

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Ways To Manage Your Mental Health In Challenging Times (especially right now)

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:00:00 +0000

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I’m struggling, it’s taking its toll, I’m bored, I just feel flat at the moment!

These are all things I’ve heard in the last week, as more and more people seem to be struggling with the ongoing pandemic and lockdown restrictions.

If you are struggling, know that it’s not just you, many are struggling and experiencing good days and bad days.

Myself included, quite a few times recently people have said to me, you must be ok, it’s alright for you, your house must be so calm and relaxed, I bet you’ve got the home schooling sorted.

The truth is, like you, I’m only human and I’ve had days where I’ve had my down days, with low energy and everything feels like a real effort and struggle!

This global pandemic and subsequent restrictions have been going on for nearly a year now.

So why are we finding it harder now?

There are a number of possibilities why....

We have been living under restrictions for a nearly a year.

It’s winter and not as easy as in the summer.

We’ve been connected to negative news (more than usual), for over a year,

Worries about the future are escalating, worry about finances, jobs, loved ones, health, education.

The ongoing juggle of working from home and home schooling.

Missing out on human interaction from not going to work, not seeing friends and family in person, social activities, going to the gym/sports clubs, holidays and days out, going to watch sports, visiting the cinema and theatre or whatever your chosen way is to spend your downtime.

And although there is positive news with the vaccine being rolled out, there is still no definite end in sight.

The accumulative effect of some of these factors are probably why nearly year on, so many people are finding it difficult.

With no real clear end in sight…

How can you manage your mental health during lockdown and beyond?

With over a year of negativity and restrictions, our mind’s ability to seek out pleasure and positivity has been supressed, leaving us feeling flat, sad, frustrated, bored, tired and often just a bit blah!

But imagine if it was possible to manage your mental health and retrain your mind during these difficult times, to focus and think differently, because you can!

First make sure you are taking care of the basics, that you are keeping hydrated, eating well, getting good sleep.

Now let’s look at some ways that you can help yourself cope better with lockdown, ways you can change your mindset and manage your mental health in challenging times.

Be kind

Be kind to yourself, stop being hard on yourself, stop beating yourself up, stop comparing yourself to how well others are doing, or why you feel the way you do, when others who have it so much worse than you.

I’ve shared this quote and I’ve seen it do the rounds a few times during lockdown, which is worth remembering…

“We are not all in the same boat.

We are all in the same storm.

Some are on Super-Yachts.

Some just have one oar.” Damian Barr

So be kind to yourself and be kind to others, it’s easy to judge and make comparisons, but we don’t really know if others are navigating the storm in a yacht, or simply treading water to keep afloat.

Shift Your Focus

Take time everyday to focus and look for something good, or positive in your day. Ask yourself what are you grateful for, what have you enjoyed?. Do this on a daily consistent basis and it will help you retrain your mindset to look out for and pay more attention to the good things.

Also take time every day, to watch, to listen and tune into some good news, turn off and tune out from the negativity in your life, and tune into something that you find uplifting, encouraging and motivating, whether that be your favourite uplifting podcast, music, book, YouTube videos, comedy show, simply spend more time connecting to these sources.

Recharge Yourself

I want you to think of your mental and emotional energy like a bank account, are you depositing any credit into it, or are you constantly withdrawing form it?

All the exposure to negativity, worry, stress, unknowns, lack of direction and routine, are all withdrawing from it, so maybe that’s why you feel like you are running on empty.

What can you do to keep your account topped up and in credit?

Here’s a few ideas to help get you started,

- Get outside, and connect to your senses, notice what you see, hear, feel, smell and even taste.

- Get active, go for a walk or a run, do some exercise at home, just get in the habit of being mor active.

- Connect with people, even if you can’t in person, reach out, get in the habit of reaching to at least one person every day, send a text, ring someone, make a video call , say hi and have a catch up, it might just be what they needed but it will help you too.

- Get out of your own head and be more present, stop thinking and worrying about the past and the future and spend more time in the moment, doing some breathing or mindfulness exercises can help, meditation and self-hypnosis is also great practice for this.

Many of these can overlap, which is great If you can stack them up to make then even more effective.

For example;

Get outside and go for a run/walk

Get outside and go for a run/walk and connect to your senses, notice what you hear, see, feel, smell, taste.

Get outside and go for a walk with someone and catch up while you’re walking.

Watch your favourite comedy, while practicing some breathing exercises.

When I go for a walk in the morning, I like to do some breathing exercises, look up and come to my senses, reflect on what I’m grateful for and engage in some positive self-talk or affirmations.

Please remember we are all different, so do what works for you. I always encourage my clients to come up with a variety of different ways to help keep charged and where possible combine some together.

Like putting money in your account, doing it once or twice isn’t going to help long term, especially if you keep withdrawing from it regularly. So, look at reducing the withdrawals but also look at how many different ways you can put credit into you account and keep yourself charged up.

I like to call this mind fitness, what can you do to strengthen and maintain your mind fitness?

I hope this has given you some ideas for how you can help look after your mental wellbeing and cope better during lockdown and beyond.

There are lots of different ways, but hopefully this has given you a few ideas.

Feel free to leave a comment or get in touch and let me know what ideas you have taken from this episode, or let me know how you are coping with lockdown.

And if you know anyone who would benefit, please share this episode with them.

And if you’re thinking, or someone says, what’s the point of doing these things, what’s the point of changing your mindset.

Well, the point is, its good for your mental wellbeing, isn’t that a good enough point!

Simply do it for yourself, simply making some changes to your thoughts and feelings will make a positive impact to your overall wellbeing, do it and see what a difference it makes for you!

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve. So, believe yourself, take action and you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

All the best

Christian Baker

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What Is Holding You Back From Achieving Your Goals - Do You Need To Do This?

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Why Knowing What You Want Is Sometimes Not Enough!

Hi, I’m Christian Baker from https://christianbaker.net/ and The Achieve Podcast, sharing, inspiration, motivation, and encouragement to help you to think differently, to believe yourself more, so that you can take action to achieve a life and the goals that you want.

Have you ever felt frustrated because there's something that you want to change, or make happen, but you just don't seem to be able to do it, or at least stick to it consistently?

And that's because sometimes knowing what you want alone, isn't enough.

Now, I've talked in previous episodes about the importance of getting clear on what you want. And then also coming up with a game plan, an action plan for making it happen.

But even then, sometimes, we get frustrated because it doesn't seem to click, something doesn't quite fit together.

And that's because of our mindset, our thoughts, our feelings, our beliefs, our programming and conditioning is sometimes out of alignment with what we want.

It’s almost like we're running to out of date programming, our programming may have served us useful purpose or benefit once, but it may no longer be in alignment with the things that we want, for where we are in our life now.

So, that's where the frustration comes in, consciously we know we want to achieve something, we want to move forward, part of you wants to accomplish something. But there is another part that’s primary function is to preserve and protect us, that is keeping us stuck and fixed where we are.

Recognizing that is the first step in being able to change it. Once we are aware, then there are definitely things that you can do to help make it happen.

That's what I want you to take away from this episode, the realization that if you ever find yourself feeling as if you're held back, you're stuck and frustrated, then rest assured that it is possible that you can change your mindset and get your mindset in alignment with your actions, that will move you towards achieving the goals and the life that we want.

If you need some guidance and support, find yourself a coach or therapist that can assist you, or get in touch to see how I can help you upgrade your mindset .

But also know, there are some things that you can do yourself.

I've talked before about the importance of setting up daily habits, rituals, routines, behaviours. All of these are really important, but to get any real long last benefit, repetition is the key, you have got to do these on an ongoing consistent basis.

So, decide what you can do on a regular ongoing basis, that's going to help support you in moving you closer towards the goals and the actions that you would like come up with.

But remember doing it once isn't enough doing it a couple of times, isn't enough, doing it for a few weeks might help, but for ongoing long lasting change and transformation, it's got to become part of your automatic habits and behaviours, and that takes a quite a bit of time, repetition and perseverance to create on your own.

So again, if you might want to get some guidance and some help to make that happen for you. If you do want some extra assistance in learning how you can master your mind and help yourself to achieve the life and the goals that you want, feel free to register for my free “Master Your Mind”, mini video mini course, where I share with you the key principles behind mastering your mind, so that you can achieve in your life!

Simply visit my blog https://christianbaker.net/free-training/ to sign up to get yours.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve. So, believe yourself, take action and you can achieve the life that you want.

And if you are frustrated, if you do feel as if you're up against something, just know, trust, believe that if you really want to make the change, it is absolutely possible for you to change your mindset.

And when you change your mindset, everything else will follow from there.

Go on, you can do it… now make it happen!

All the best

Christian Baker

Mindset Coach

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How Has Your Year Started - How To Create A Fresh Start In Life

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 05:00:00 +0000

How Has Your Year Started?

Hi, this is Christian Baker from https://christianbaker.net/ and The Achieve Podcast, sharing inspiration, motivation, and encouragement to help you to think differently,

to develop your mindset, so you can believe yourself more, take action, and achieve the life and the goals that you want now.

Today is the 1st of February, it's the first day of a new week and a new month, and it's incredible to think where one month of 2021 complete already.

How has your 2021 starting out?

Have you made the progress that you would have liked to?

If you haven't, don't worry, you’re not alone and if you have, congratulations!

January can often be a bit of a strange month, even when we're not in the midst of a pandemic.

Often, people set themselves grand intentions, they have all kind of new year resolutions for the year to come and in truth, when people set new year's resolutions, it's usually only a couple of weeks in before they fall by the wayside. And certainly, by the end of January, most people have lost focus and knocked them on the head.

The reality is every day, every week, every month is a great new, fresh opportunity to refocus, to reset, to relearn and to move forward.

So, before you get caught up in the busyness of a new month, take a couple of moments and look back at any lessons, any learning's, any insights that you've gained that you want to take forward into the month ahead, and maybe take the opportunity to refocus and reprioritize.

And remind yourself that you’ve still got 11 months of the 2021 ahead of you.

So, what can you do?

How can you prepare yourself?

How can you prepare your mindset to ensure that you achieve the year that you want and maybe even have your best year yet?

And in the last couple of episodes, I've shared with you the importance of getting clear on what you want to achieve, then getting in habit of taking the time every day to focus on what it is that you want to accomplish and then creating a plan to make it happen. To devise an action plan of what you're going to do every day towards making that happen.

So, whether you reflect on a weekly basis, a monthly basis, don't leave it for something you only do once a year.

I think it’s incredible that people will spend more time planning their weekly shop, their annual holiday (when they could go on holiday) a night out, a home improvement project, then they do their own life.

So, take a couple of moments to think about, and really get clear on the possibility that if you can achieve anything in the year to come, what would you like to achieve?

If you visit the blog post that goes with this episode, I've created a 12 month overview download, that you can printout and fill out with the key things that you want to achieve every month.

If you could break down some of your bigger goals for the year down, that you would like to achieve, enjoy and accomplish into monthly actions, it can really help to have an overview of the next step to focus on that is going to help you make it happen.

Take a couple of moments to think about your bigger picture, your bigger vision for the year ahead, and then break that down into those smaller monthly tasks, and then set yourself a 28 day challenge, for every month.

Choose and decide, what one thing are you going to do this month to help make it happen.

What can you do this month next month that is going to move you forward?

What one action can you do every single day in that month that will move you forward to achieving the goals, the life, the habits that you want to achieve in your life.

Take the time to get clear on your next step for the brand new month, the brand new day a head, it’s fresh start, to take forward any learning's from the past and move forward with that clearer fresher focus so that you can make it happen!

Remember, what your mind believes you will achieve. So, think, differently, believe in yourself, take action, or you can achieve the goals and the life that you want. You've just got to make it happen.

Go on, you can do it!

All the best

Christian Baker - Mindset Coach

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How To Achieve Your Goals - Take Action Every Day To Achieve Your Goals

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000

In the previous two episodes, I've shared with you the importance of getting clear on what it is that you actually want, and then actually taking the time to focus on that every single day, in whatever way works for you.

Just deliberately take time to think to picture, to imagine, to focus on what it is that you actually want, the things you would like to enjoy, achieve, and accomplish in your life.

Now, if you do those two things, you're helping yourself tremendously, but thinking about what you want, alone isn't enough, you then need to start to take action towards making it happen.

So, in summary to help yourself make your goals happen, first you need to get clear, choose, decide what it is that you want. (Don't get caught up in the trap of getting stuck thinking about what you don't want all the time).

Then take time to reflect and focus on it every day and keep it fresh in your mind.

But once you've done that, then you have to take action towards making it happen.

Remember thinking alone is not enough.

So, what habits, what routines can you create and put into practice every day, towards making it happen?

Set your goals and then make a plan of action to Achieve Your Goals.

Decide what you need to do to help move you closer towards achieving your goals.

Don't get overwhelmed with the bigger picture of everything that you need to do to make it happen, instead break it down into small steps and ask yourself better questions.

Ask yourself and focus on;

What's the one thing I can do today?

What's the next best thing I can do?

What is going to move me forward towards achieving the goals and the life that I want?

I've shared before the idea of every single month creating a 28-day challenge. A way of helping you every month to, to reset and decide what's most important to you. What is going to help you the most to move forward in making progress towards Achieving your goals.

Inside of my membership club, the Personal Best Membership Club, we have a Focus 30 every month, where members in the club set themselves their main focus for the next 30 days.

We look at the bigger picture of what we want to achieve, but then we say, well, okay, so now what do you want to do?

What can you do in the next 30 days?

What can you put into practice every day for the next 30 days, that will help move you closer to achieving what you want to achieve?

Then day-by-day the compounding effects of that daily action, it's going to help get you closer to it.

You've got a choice. You can either leave the time and your actions to chance and just hope that it happens, that life doesn't get in the way, and you don't get distracted by other events and other things in life.

Or you can set an intention, create a plan and choose what you are going to do every single day to make it happen for you!

It doesn't matter how big or small the action is, but that consistent action is what is going to help you break it down towards making it happen.

Whatever you set yourself, create some sort of habit tracker to tick it off every day, to monitor and record your progress. When your see and know your making progress this really helps build forward momentum.

Whether you make a note in your phone or on paper, whatever you need to do, just create a plan and then execute it and do something every single day towards making your goals happen.

This going to help you to achieve the life and the goals that you want.

So that's your action for today...

1 - Get Clear and decide what you want to achieve.

2 - Focus on it every day.

3 - Make a plan and take action every day towards making it happen.

You do these 3 easy steps right?

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve. So, think differently. Believe in yourself, take action, and you can achieve the life that you want.

And if you want any extra assistance to help you to master your mind, enrol to get access in my free mini "Master Your Mind" video course to help you to master your mind.

Plus, when you enrol you get a free copy of my relax and unwind mindset re-set audio.

Click here to enrol and get your audio now.

Let me know what you are going to do to help you make your goals happen.

All the best

Christian

Achieve Your Goals - Program Your Mind To Focus On What You Want

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Achieve Your Goals - Program Your Mind To Focus On What You Want

And then do it every day.

In last week’s episode I asked you what you wanted to achieve in the next 12 months.

This is really important, before you achieve anything you have to decide and get clear on what you want to achieve,

Once you have decided I have a different question for you...

How much time, energy and focus did you give it over the last week, yesterday or even today?

By default, we tend to focus more on what we don't want too much, and subsequently we don't give enough (or any) focus on what we actually want.

We get more of what we focus on, so it's time to stop feeding and programming your mind for the things you don't want and start guiding and nurturing your mind towards the things you want to achieve, enjoy and experience.

So, if you haven't already get really clear and focused on what you actually want and then

make the commitment to focus on it every day. Simply choose sometimes throughout the day to intentionally focus on it. Maybe you have your goals written down, or a vision board to represent your life goals, maybe you practice daily meditation, some mindful breathing, or visualisation.

Whatever works for you, tale time everyday to think, picture, imagine and review your goals everyday.

Think of your mindset, like the frequency of a radio, or a channel of a TV, if you were watching or listening to something you weren’t enjoying, or something somebody else was tuned into it, but you didn't like it, would you keep watching it?

No, you'd probably stop it, turn it over, or turn it off.

So, stop playing the mind movies of the things you don't want and start tuning and nurturing your mind every day, towards the things you do want.

Imagine in your mind you have your own GPS system, you have to instruct it for where you want it to go, it's no good keep telling it where you don't want it to go!

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All the best

Christian

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What Do You Want To Achieve In 2021?

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000

What Do You Want To Achieve in 2021?

Do you have any goals?

Did you set any resolutions?

2021 may already be under way, but it’s never too late to get focused and set your intentions for what you are going to Achieve in 2021.

I'm not a huge fan of new year resolutions, as they tend to be a bit vague and half-hearted and then people wonder why they don’t succeed.

But I am a fan of goal setting, for making the decision to commitment to achieving something that you desire.

When you have a target and a goal to aim for, you can focus with intention towards making it happen, otherwise you’re just leaving your time, you focus, your actions to chance.

Think of all the different sports with goals, or targets, well imagine if the took those away, they’d just be running around with no purpose and nothing to aim for.

So, you can decide if you’re going to live your year, your life, with focused intention or leave it to chance.

Any day is a good day to focus and decide what you would like to achieve in the next 12 months.

Some people like to do it at the start of the year, do it on their birthdays.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a special day, or a random day on the calendar, whatever day you are ready to get clarity and focus, ask yourself;

Where am I currently heading?

What would I like to achieve in the next 12 months?

What’s my primary target/goal that I want to Achieve?

21 for 2021.

To help you get started I’ve created a 21 for 2021 printable for you to write down at least 21 things you would like to achieve in 2021.

Visit http://christianbaker.net/blog/what-do-you-want-to-achieve-in-2021 to grab your copy.

Take a couple of minutes to write down 21 things you would like to accomplish, enjoy or experience in 2021.

It’s not limited to 21, I have a client that every year between Christmas and New Year who writes a list of 100 goals for the new year. Others like to come up with a number relating to that year’s birthday for example 40 for 40 or 50 for 50.

Whatever number you choose, however you choose to do it, whatever you choose to focus on, the most important thing is, whether or not you will decide to give yourself some goals to work towards, or if you’re just going to leave your accomplishments in 2021 to chance.

It’s always worth remembering the time is going to pass anyway, why not choose to focus with some purpose and enjoy the time, knowing you are getting closer to the goals, the life and the outcomes that you desire!

In 2021 we all...

12 months

52 weeks

365 days

8760 hours

525,600 minutes

Even with the current uncertainty in the world, how will you make 2021 count?

Imagine what you would like to achieve by this time next year.

If you really want to achieve something, make the decision, write it down, and then commit to taking daily consistent action towards making it happen.

Visit http://christianbaker.net/blog/what-do-you-want-to-achieve-in-2021 to print off the printable and write down your list of the 21 goals you are looking forward to achieving in 2021.

Feel free to share your 21 goals with me, I’d love to hear what you have planned.

You never know, you could even make 2021 your best year yet!

Wishing you all the best for an amazing 2021,

Christian Baker

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What To Do When Life Keeps Getting In The Way Of Your Goals

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Does Life Keep Getting In The Way Of Your Goals - What To Do When Life Throws Obstacles In The Way Of Your Goals

Do you ever feel like everything is against you, that that life keeps throwing curve balls and obstacles your way?

Because life can feel like that sometimes and I often get reminded by this when I watch the TV show, I'm a celebrity get me out of here. It was on the other day and they were doing the cyclone challenge.

I'm not sure if you've seen it, but basically, it's an obstacle course, where they have to go up this hill and they're being bombarded with jets of water, balls and all sorts of things get thrown at them, high powered wind is launched in their direction.

And life can sometimes feel like it's a bit of an uphill struggle and we're being bombarded from different directions. But, although we can't always control those external events, even when it does feel like life is conspiring against us, we still have choices that we can make.

You can give up, you can re-evaluate, and if it's not the right path for you, then get off, and change direction, but either way there are choices to be made.

If you are on the path that you want to be on, if you are working towards achieving something that you really, really want to achieve, then when it feels difficult, stop, pause, do something that allows you to recharge, to catch your breath, to dig deep, to find an extra gear and keep going.

When I've been on the treadmill before, doing some high intensity intervals sprints, I get it on the steepest incline and the highest speed I can manage and do 20-30 secs full sprint. Then in between I stand on the side for 10 - 20 seconds rest, and even when I'm resting, the treadmill is still going at what feels like a million miles an hour underneath me.

This is the same in life, life can continue at the high pace that it is, but we can get off and have a rest and recharge, even if it's just momentarily.

So, ask yourself if this is definitely something that you want to be working towards, how can you help yourself look after yourself to recharge, to pause and just reboot, because if we're not taking care of ourselves, things can sometimes seem worse than they are.

Whereas on another day, when we're fully charged, when we're on it, when we're firing on all cylinders, not only do we have the strength and the ability to plough through and keep going, but it also feels much easier and effortless.

So, it's really important that you take the time to not only re-evaluate to make sure you're on the right path, but to ensure you're doing everything you can to keep yourself charged and fuelled to make it happen.

Now I've taken clients through an exercise many, many times over the years, and I get them to think about exactly what we're talking about today. I remember talking to a client once and he was going through his problems and the predicament he was in. And I said, if you imagine it’s like an assault course, what options, what choices, what can you do?

And very quickly he said, "well, I could just get off and walk around here".

Sometimes that's what we need to do, we would benefit if we stopped and took a moment to look up, to change perspective and just see if there's a better way of doing things.

If there is, then go in that direction, you don't always have to keep going at a million miles an hour feeling up against it.

It may be that right around you, somewhere nearby, just ahead of you, just to the side, you can find a way through, around, over or under any perceived obstacles that may be in your way.

So, ask yourself;

Is there anything you can do?

Is there a simpler way of getting to where you want to be?

Whenever you're feeling overwhelmed, stuck, like life keeps putting obstacles in the way of your goal, I want you to do these three things;

1 - Take time to reflect. Do you really want to achieve the outcome, the goals that you're working towards?

If so, then, then find the best way of doing it. And if not change direction

2 - Recharge, are you currently fully charged? Could you help yourself? Could you pause for a moment? Could you take a deep breath and then go again?

If so, do whatever you can to help yourself.

If you need some assistance, visit my website, www.ChristianBbaker.net, where you can grab a free audio, my "Relax and unwind" audio download, to help unplug and connect yourself into your charger and feel rested, relax, refresh, recharge, and wonderfully re-energized.

3 - Refocus and Re-evaluate, from time to time just refocus and ask yourself, is there a better or simpler way?

Either way, whatever situation you're in, whatever you're working towards. Remember you do have a choice, to stop, or find a way to keep going and make it happen.

Whatever you do, ensure that you look after yourself along the way.

If you need any help, remember to pop over to https://christianbaker.net/, get your free download and give yourself the best possible chance to help you to achieve the goals and the life that you want.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve. So, allow yourself to think differently, to believe in yourself, take action, and you can achieve the life that you want.

Go on, make it happen.

You can do it!

All the best

Christian Baker - Mindset Coach

Finish The Year Strong

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 05:00:00 +0000

How will you finish 2020 Strong?

What will you achieve in the next 28 days?

I have a question for you today...

What would you like to achieve and accomplish in the next 28 days?

At the time of recording we're about to begin the last month of 2020, and it's certainly been a very strange, challenging and uncertain time for so many people.

It's certainly been a reminder that we can’t always change and control external factors, we can't change all the things that happen around us.

But the one thing we can do, is change the way we allow ourselves to react and respond to it and we can always develop ourselves.

So, regardless of when you're listening to this, take a couple of moments and ask yourself,

What would you like to personally achieve and accomplish in your life?

If you could end the year on a high, if you could set yourself a challenge for the next 28 Days, what would you like to accomplish?

Maybe you have particular target you want to achieve.

Maybe there's a goal you want to accomplish before the end of year.

Maybe you want to enjoy a bit more inner a peace and calmness in your life.

Maybe you want to generate calmer and happier feelings.

Maybe you want to get on top of your eating habits.

Maybe you want to work on some personal development and develop a habit or routine, something that's just going to benefit you as you move forward.

Or maybe you want to take this wonderful opportunity, while so many people are unwinding towards Christmas and the end of the year, to prepare yourself and get yourself ready for the fresh new year ahead, so you can kick start the year and hit the ground running, and help prepare yourself make your 2021 the best year yet.

Whatever you want to do, take a couple moments, to think about it, to choose, to decide, then make a plan, commit to it.

The idea of the 28 day challenge, is for you to simply set yourself a daily challenge to do one thing every single day, that's going to move you closer towards accomplishing the goal that you want to achieve.

So, first decide, choose, make a plan and then do something every single day, that's going to move you closer to it.

It doesn't matter how big or small it is, but take the pressure off yourself and make the commitment to just do one thing every day, that's going to help you to make it happen.

So, think about what action you can take everyday for the next 28 days, that will kickstart your momentum, and get you in the right mindset with the habits and routines to move you forward to make it happen.

Then make it happen!

The time's going to pass anyway, you can either leave it to chance, or choose to decide to do something productive with the time, that's going to have a personal benefit and a positive impact for you.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so think differently, believe in yourself, take action, and you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Go on make the next 28 day count for you and your life!

All the best

Christian Baker

Mindset Coach

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How Is Your Mind Fitness - How To Improve Your Mental Wellness

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 05:00:00 +0000

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Would you like to improve your mental wellness?

Would you like to be the best that you can be?

One thing about mindset is, that so many people don't realize that it's something that you can improve and enhance. I think it's viewed often as something that's very static, something that's very black and white, something that you've either got, or you haven't, something that's positive or negative.

Yet the truth is, your mindset should be approached in the same way as your physical health and fitness, which is why I often call it mind fitness.

So, I encourage you to view your mindset in the same way as your physical fitness, something that can be worked on and improved.

What I mean is that if you wanted to improve your physical fitness, if you wanted to become fitter and healthier, you wouldn't eat well for a day or a week or two.

You wouldn't go for a walk, or a run, you wouldn't go to the gym once, twice or a few times, or even for a couple of weeks, and then expect that to be sufficient for the rest of your life. And your mindset is exactly the same.

You should view your mind fitness, the same as you do your physical fitness.

So, what I encourage you to do today, is look at how you can incorporate different activities, I call these lifestyle strategies, into your day-to-day life. Activities and time to help keep your mindset in optimum fitness.

It's important to recognize that you're only human. If you're a man, if you're a woman, if you're a child, if you're a human being, then you're not indestructible, you're not invincible, you're not immune to be an effective by the stresses, the strains, the demands of day-to-day life.

Your mental wellness can and will get impacted as you go through different things in your day to day life.

So, to best help yourself, approach it by incorporating some lifestyle strategies as a preventative, to help keep your mind fitness as strong, as sharp, as balanced as you possibly can.

There are so many different things you can do, things that you enjoy doing, things that help you to unplug, to disconnect, to recharge, to refocus.

I often saying to my clients, you wouldn't let your phone run out of charge, so don't allow yourself to run out of charge.

So, what things can you do?

There are the obvious things, like sleeping well, eating well, physical activity absolutely impacts your mental fitness. They're the obvious things that most people pay attention to, but look at all the different things that you can do to keep your mindset in tip top condition.

And if you're not feeling a hundred percent, ask yourself, is there anything you can do to help yourself?

Check in with yourself and check if you've been doing things consistently to keep your mindset in a good place.

Then if you do notice that you're not feeling a hundred percent, or as well as you'd like to, check if you've put these things in place to help your mental wellness.

And if you do these things consistently, on a regular basis, it's going to be much easier for you to call upon them, if you need to give yourself a bit of a boost and a bit of a lift.

Your action today is to get a pen and paper, or a journal, look at your life and ask yourself, is there any more you could do to help keep yourself as mentally fit as you possibly can?

And if not, look at some of the things you could do and write some of your ideas down. These could be simple things, I'm not suggesting you have to go meditate for hours on end, although meditation is absolutely an effective tool to use.

You could incorporate mindfulness, breathing exercises, reading, going for a walk, getting outside in nature.

Any things that you like doing, listening to music, watching some box sets that allow you some escapism, anything that you feel allows you to get off that treadmill, that hamster wheel of day-to-day life, plug into your charger and just give you a bit of a reboot, a bit of a refocus and a bit of a recharge.

So, if you would like to help yourself to become as mentally fit as you possibly can, then you've got to be consistent with it.

Have a look at what you're doing, have a look at what you can do and make it happen.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so allow yourself to think differently, believe in yourself, take action, and you can achieve the life and the mental fitness that you would like for you.

Go on, see what you can do to help yourself be as mentally strong as you possibly can.

All the best

Christian

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What Do You Want To Achieve - You Must Know This To Create The Life You Want

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Hi this is Christian Baker from christianbaker.net and The Achieve Podcast, sharing inspiration, motivation and encouragement, to help you to think differently, to develop your mindset, so that you believe in yourself more, take purposeful action and achieve the life and the goals that you want, and simply be the best that you can be.

To create and achieve the life you want there's something you must do first!

The first thing you have to do if you want to achieve anything is,

You must decide what you want!

You must first choose, decide and get clear on what it is that you actually want to achieve.

Like I said, this might sound obvious, but human nature is that we often default to thinking and talking about the things that we don't want.

But if you keep doing that, you're just going to repeat and get more of the same.

The mind's very powerful, we get more of what we think about, we get more of what we focus on.

So, if our focus is towards the things that you don't want, then there's no surprise, that you keep getting more of the same.

To achieve anything you must first choose, decide, and get clear on what it is that you actually want.

Now it's your turn, take a couple of moments today, get pen and paper, get your journal out, or just give it some thought. If you could wave a magic wand, if you had a magic lamp with your very own genie, if you could design, create and achieve the life that you want for yourself and those significant people in your life, what is it that you would actually like to accomplish?

Write your goals down, create a vision board, create some affirmations, do whatever works best for you, that helps you to get clear on what you want and helps keep it front and fresh of mind, and then review and reflect your goals, your vision board, to remind yourself and keep your focus on it.

This helps focus, train and inform your mind what it is that you want.

When your mind knows what it is that you want, it will help support you in making it happen.

To achieve anything, you must first get clear on what it is that you want and then you can take actions, deliberate purposeful action that will help move you towards making it happen!

So, if you want to achieve anything, if you want to accomplish anything, if you want to enjoy anything in your life, you first must choose what is that you want to accomplish, otherwise how else can you make it happen?

It sounds simple and obvious, but make sure you don't overlook this fundamental step.

But if you don’t know what you want, how can develop your mindset to support you in making it happen!

Action Step - Take some time out, to think, picture, imagine, to wonder and get playful, for what it is that you would like to achieve and accomplish in your life?

I'd love to hear what you are looking forward to achieving next, so please get in touch, leave a comment and let me know what it is that you're looking forward to achieving in your life.

And remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so think, differently believe in yourself, take action, and you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Get clear on it and make it happen, go on you can do it!

All the best

Christian Baker

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Stop Living On Autopilot - Create Habits To Live Your Life On Purpose

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 05:00:00 +0000

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Hey this is Christian Baker from christianbaker.net and The Achieve Podcast, sharing inspiration, motivation and encouragement, to help you to think differently, to develop your mindset, so that you believe in yourself more, take purposeful action and achieve the life and the goals that you want, and simply be the best that you can be.

Now, today I want to ask you a question.

"Are you living your life on autopilot or on purpose?"

All too often, we get caught up in the business and the demands of day-to-day life, that we just get in the habit of doing things without even given much thought to why we're doing them, or what those habits are doing for us.

Everything that we do is doing one of two things, it's either moving us towards, or away from the goals and the life that we want to enjoy, achieve and accomplish.

I was chatting with a client the other day, they are a very successful, self-made entrepreneur, and we were talking about his daily routines and habits and it reminded me of how often many of us don't pay enough attention to the things we do, the thoughts, the actions, the habits and routines we do in our life. Or how little time, we take to deliberately choose how we spend our time.

The reality is we all have the same 24 hours in the day, it's up to us to choose, to take the time, to do things that are adding value to our life, to do the things that are helping us move in the direction of accomplishing the life we want.

So, think about your life, think about how you spend your time and ask yourself, is what you're doing on a regular consistent basis, moving you towards or away from the things that you actually want.

Once you have given that some thought, then you can take ownership, then you can take responsibility, then you can choose, decide, and commit to implementing making some shifts in the best direction for you.

Some of these shifts can be quite small. Just start being deliberate and purposeful, decide some of the things that you can do each and every single day, that will help you move in the right direction and closer to what you want.

This could include any number of things, changes to improve your lifestyle, shifts to improve your physical fitness or create habits, daily routines and rituals that help support your mind's fitness.

So, if you aren't where you want to be in your life, if you're not feeling the way you would like to feel, maybe you could look at changing and creating some of your habits and routines. You don't have to change everything at once, just make a start and find what works for you.

Get in the habit of taking some daily time, to reflect and focus your mind on the goals that you want and help keep your momentum in the right direction.

Think about what you actually want to achieve. Think about what you want your life to look like.

Some of the habits and routines you could include are, meditation, you can journal, you can do affirmations, you can read and feed and nurture your mind do more things that are going to help improve your mind fitness. Including so regular physical activity can also be part of your healthy habits and routines.

Simply choose what you are going to do, and then do it!

But don't just do it once of for a few days, do it consistently, it's no good doing something once, or a few times and expecting it to make a significant difference to your life, instead make a commitment to do it consistently.

For years I've encouraged clients to set a 28 Day Challenge (4 weeks), and in my Personal Best members club with have a monthly "Focus 30", the aim is to choose, to decide and commit, to doing one thing every day for 30 days, that helps make a positive difference in your life, to do something that helps create momentum and move your forward in your life.

Or you could start by doing it for the next 7 days, whatever makes it easier for you to get started and keeping going, so if you feel overwhelmed, just break it down and start with today, ask yourself, "What can I do today that will help move me forward/make a positive difference?"

Then keep going for the next few days, 7 days, 30 days and by then if it's habit that's beneficial to you, keep doing it.

The repeat the process, rather than living unintentionally on autopilot and leaving your choices and habits to chance, set and new focus every month, to deliberately implement a new habit or routine, that will benefit you and your life.

Remember when you make small shifts, to your actions, your habits, your behaviours, your thoughts, then it can lead to big impacts. The ripple effect in all areas of your life can be tremendous.

Action Step - Take some time today to think about and ask yourself, "are some of your daily routines and habits working for you?", or is it time to start to deliberately choose to do some things on purpose and with a purpose, that will help move you forward.

Let me know, drop a comment, get in touch and let me know what some of your daily habits are that work for you, and what habits you're going to choose to do from this moment forward, that will help you to be the best that you can be and achieve the life that you want.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve. so, think differently, believe in yourself, take action, and you can achieve the life that you want and be the best version of you that you possibly can go on.

You can do it, start now and make it happen!

All the best

Christian

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Say No More And Change Your Life

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Improve Your Life - Say No More - http://christianbaker.net/blog/say-no-more-and-change-your-life/

Hi this is Christian Baker from https://christianbaker.net/ and The Achieve Podcast sharing inspiration, motivation, and encouragement, to help you to think differently, to develop your mindset, to believe in yourself more, take action and achieve the life and the goals that you want and to simply be the best that you can be.

Now over the years of working with thousands of clients, one of the things I see people struggle with the most is the ability to simply say no.

Now that might be internally or externally. It might be saying no to an unwanted thought, feelings, habit, or behaviour. Or it could be saying no to people that drain you of your time and energy. The kind of people that kind of sabotage you, hijack your time and energy by getting you to run to their own agenda, rather than you staying on track and focused on things that you want.

So, what I'm going to ask you today is, "Is there anything, or anybody that you could say no to in your life that would have a positive impact to you and your ability to be the best that you can be and achieve the life and the goals that you want?"

Now, there's quite a few reasons why people struggle to say no, it could be lack of confidence, it could be that your programmed to be a people pleaser, a trait that doesn't allow you to say no to people because the fear of letting them down, it could be because of a lack of clarity.

This is probably the single most important thing that you can do to help yourself, firstly get clear on what you actually want,

What do you want to accomplish?

What do you want to achieve?

How do you want to spend your time?

When you get clear on what direction you want your life to be taken, then it becomes easier to say no to the things that aren't moving you closer towards that. So that's my kind of encouragement for you today, stop, pause, and think about getting clarity on the life that you actually want.

Then you can start to think about what you can say no to, no more excuses, no more bad habits, no more procrastinating, no more wasting time getting lost online or getting sucked into social media, getting distracted from accomplishing, or utilizing your time in a more productive way.

Just stop, pause, look around your life and ask yourself, is there anything or anybody that I can say no to?

And then you can start to say yes to the things that you actually want in your life.

You can say yes to doing more of the actions, the habits, the behaviours that are going to move you closer towards the life, the goals that you actually want to be achieving.

So, there you go, that's your action step today. Take a couple of moments to think about what you can say no to, what you can then start saying yes to more and then go and make it happen.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so think differently, believe yourself, take action and you can achieve the life that you want.

Now help yourself by just saying no more to the things that aren't adding value and helping you to make it happen.

Go on, you can do it!

All the best

Christian

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Stop Your BS And Get Out Of Your Own Way

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Stop Your B.S

Hi, this is Christian Baker from https://christianbaker.net/blog/ and The Achieve Podcast, sharing inspiration, motivation, and encouragement to help you to think differently, to develop your mindset, so that you believe in yourself more, take action and achieve the life and the goals that you want and simply be the best that you can be.

Is your BS getting in the way of you being the best that you can be?

Often we reach a time or a point in our life where we want to change, improve, or achieve something, but we find ourselves coming up with all the excuses, all the reasons why we can't do it.

Now, whether you call it resistance, self-sabotage, the curse of comparison, or the imposter syndrome, fundamentally what's happening is your mind is getting in the way, your own BS, your belief system. The stories that you're telling yourself, both in your own mind and out loud that are stopping you from making it happen.

But this is not your fault, it's simply the way the mind works. The mind's primary objective is to keep us as we are and often our programming, our belief system just gets out of date for where we are in our life and the things we want to accomplish.

It may have been that some of these beliefs, some of these stories that we tell ourselves, served us well once. They may have been appropriate for a particular time in our life. But often if we're at a point where we want to move forward, where we want to change it, it's simply case that that or mind programming our belief system, may just have become out of date for where we are now.

I often describe the mind to be like that for computer, it's only as effective as the programme it's running to, and if that programming is working for you, then fantastic. But if it's not, it may just need an update. So, the first thing to do is become aware of what your BS is.

What are the stories you're telling yourself?

Do you find yourself saying things like;

"I can't do that."

"I'm not good enough"

"I don't have enough experience."

"One day when I'm ready I will"

"When I have enough confidence"

Over the years of working with clients, I've heard statements like this so many times, I've heard pretty much all the different reasons and excuses that you could possibly come up with!

But this is your mindset, your B.S, your programming!

This good news, because it means if it's not working for you, you can change it!

So, that's the first thing to do, to become aware of your Belief System.

Then the second thing to do is rewrite it. Rewrite the narrative, the story, the script that you've been telling yourself. Get your journal out, get a pen and paper, and if you could tell your mind, what it is that you want it to do from this day forward, what would you programme it to do?

If you were writing your own story, if you're writing the next chapter, what would you include within that?

And it's amazing, once you take the time to tell your mind what it is you want to do, it can then go about doing that for you.

Otherwise its primary objective is to keep you safe, to keep you protected, to keep you where you are.

So that's why I say don't fight it, don't give yourself a hard time for it, just acknowledge it. Because your mind is doing a brilliant job in protecting you and keeping you running to that script, that belief system.

But know you can change it!

So, if you could feed and install a new belief system into your mind, that would give you all the confidence, the self-belief, that will allow you to do all the things you want to do, then get these ideas down on paper.

Then the third step is to reprogramme your mind. Becoming aware and actually getting clear on what you want is going a long way towards doing that.

But then every day, focus on it, read it, reflect it, rewrite it, just spend time, really getting your mind clear focused on what it is that you want.

Now, if you do that consistently, if you repeat that often enough, you may well find that that helps you to make the positive changes that helps you to achieve the things that you want to achieve.

But there's so many other things you can do to help yourself. You know, you may benefit from one-on-one coaching or getting in touch with therapist. (Please feel free to get in touch. If you feel as if you need a bit of extra assistance, I may be that I can help you).

There are other things you can do for yourself as well, like affirmations, self-hypnosis and meditations that focus and programme your mind on the outcomes that you want.

There are all sorts of things you can do to nurture your mind, journaling, goal setting, visualisation, vision boards. There are so many different things that you can do to help yourself to reprogram your mind.

But first of all, you need to become aware and acknowledge that your BS is getting in the way, second rewrite it. And then third reprogramme it.

You can do it!

Take time today to get clear on what you want, design and create your new updated belief system, then make it happen!

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve. So, think differently, believe in yourself, take action and make it happen.

Go on, you can do it!

All the best

Christian

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Reset Your Mind

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

This is Christian Baker from https://christianbaker.net/ and The Achieve Podcast, sharing inspiration, motivation, and encouragement to help you to think differently, to develop your mindset, so that you believe in yourself more, and take action to achieve the life that you want and simply be the best that you can be.

Now this week, I received a message from a client I haven't seen for about three years and he simply put, "Christian I need a reset".

This is fairly common message that I receive from people who've got to a point where they just feel overwhelmed, where they just feel as if the busyness of day to day life's got on top of them, or significant things have occurred, which means they just feel as if they just need to have a reset.

And it's something that we could all benefit from doing, to help us to maintain that nice equal balance in our life. Most of us are guilty of getting caught up in the busyness of day to day life, so I'd just urge you to take time to disconnect, to enable you to reconnect, to enjoy some downtime.

It reminds me of a meme that goes around that says, my mind feels like an internet browser, there's umpteen tabs open, some are frozen, the cursor wheel is spinning, I've got music playing, and I don't know where it's coming from. And that's sometimes what the noise and the busyness in our own mind can feel like.

About 20 years ago, I worked in an IT support role and there's an ongoing joke within the IT world that if there's a problem, the usual first response is to advise people to turn the technology on and off.

The same could be applied for our mind, sometimes we just need to get off that hamster wheel, the treadmill of day to day life, the busyness of our thoughts, and just take a step back, to switch off and disconnect and have a simple reset.

Now there's many different ways of doing that, if you need some assistance, visit my website, check the comments or the notes for the link to my website, https://christianbaker.net/ where there is a free 15 minute audio, a guided meditation, that helps you to achieve a mind reset, to help you relax mentally, physically, and emotionally.

Taking the time out, allows you to feel rested, relaxed, refreshed, recharged, and re-energized.

But you may have your own choice for how you like to disconnect, whatever is your preferred choice, just take the time to have some quiet time and allow yourself to feel rested, relaxed, refreshed, recharged, and wonderfully reenergize.

I'm often making the comparison with, IT, technology and the mind. If you think of your mind like a phone, or a computer. With technology, we often upgrade it, we change them.

I don't know if you've ever had the experience, where you've been using a phone, or a computer, that's kind of getting a bit old, or the memory is getting full to capacity and it starts getting a bit sluggish and a bit slow and the power doesn't last as long anymore.

But sometimes it's not until we change it, that you realize what you've been putting up with and how slow it has become.

I think of the mind as being the same, sometimes we need to reset and refresh our mindset, to stop the overwhelm, to stop the noise, to stop the busy-ness and just allow yourself to recharge to reboot.

Think of all the activities that help you to achieve that, when you do them, it's like plugging yourself into the charger, it's like giving yourself the opportunity to offload and backup some of the busyness that's going on in your mind.

It also helps to give you the opportunity to have an update, to upgrade the workings of your mind. So, it works on two levels when you have that kind of calm, quiet headspace.

It's beneficial in its own right, but you can also use that level of awareness to train your mind, to focus your mind on the things and the outcomes that you actually want.

But for today, I just want to encourage you to take the opportunity to enjoy some more calm, quiet time in your day to day life, however you choose to do it.

I have a free complimentary audio on my website, which you're welcome to go and download and listen to that as often as you like.

https://christianbaker.net/

On my YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/christianbakertv/

I also have some short, guided meditation videos you can use. click here to find the ones you like

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSyz9iIbszx1OPoaCiWifLIMjJo67Vt3B

However you choose to do it, I encourage you to take time, to allow yourself to disconnect, to reconnect, to feel rested, relax, refresh, recharge, and wonderfully re-energized.

Then let me know your favourite way to reset your mind.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so allow yourself to think differently, to believe in yourself, to take action, and you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Now help yourself by taking time to recharge as often as you can.

All the best

Christian

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Shift Your Mindset To Focus On What You Want

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

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Hi I'm Christian Baker from https://christianbaker.net/ and The Achieve Podcast, sharing inspiration, motivation, and encouragement, to help you to think differently and develop your mindset, so you believe in yourself more, take action and achieve the life and the goals that you want.

In this episode I want to share with you, why and how it's so important to focus your mind, to shift your mindset towards the things that you actually want.

When you shift your focus, you can change your mindset and change your life!

Now, whenever I'm talking with clients, particularly new clients, we usually end up starting off by talking about what people don't want.

You know, we're very good at this, it's almost like a default setting is to focus, to pay attention, to talk about, to think about the things that we don't want,the things that we can't do, the things we're not very good at.

But if we keep doing that, we're just training our mind to keep paying and attention and keep moving in that direction.

The mind moves in the direction of our most dominating thoughts, our thoughts lead to feelings and our feelings lead to our actions.

So, if we're constantly thinking and talking about the things that we don't want,

we're, inadvertently moving our mind and our life and our actions in that direction.

Now don't get me wrong, it's important, it's a great starting point, to get clear on what you don't want. But if you keep consuming your thoughts, your self talk and your external conversations about those things, that's like going shopping with a shopping list of all the things that you don't want to buy.

Can you imagine the frustration, if you're walking around the shops and all you've got is a list of the things that you don't want. Imagine how unproductive, what, what a waste of time and energy that would be.

But in order to get clear on what you do want is often a good starting point to decide what you don't want, so absolutely start there.

Then you have to ask yourself the question, Okay so that's the things, the life, the goals that I do not want, what's the opposite of that? What do I actually want?

And then just open your mind to the possibility and just start to get playful with the idea and give your mind that direction.

Once you've done that it's important to take time to think about that on a regular ongoing basis.

Just sitting down and getting some clarity once, is a good starting point, but it's not going to help that continuation and the momentum towards achieving that.

So, in summary, get clear on what you do not want, choose and decide on what you do.

Then focus on that every single day, spend a few moments, thinking, imagining, getting excited about what you do want.

By doing this, you're going to shift your mindset. You're going to train and condition your mind towards achieving and enjoying those goals, the feelings and the life that you actually want.

It takes no more time and energy to think and talk about the things you do want, so give it a go, take some time to do that.

Let me know how you get there and what positive difference that makes to you and your life and how it helps you to achieve the goals and the life that you want.

What your mind believes you will achieve. So, think differently, believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the life that you want.

Remember, just spend a few moments every day, thinking about what it is that you do want, because your thoughts, lead to your feelings and your feelings lead to your actions, so go on shift your focus and you can change your mindset and change your life.

Go on make it happen!

All the best

Christian

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What Do You Want To Achieve By The End Of The Year?

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Hi there, this is Christian Baker from www.ChristianBaker.net and The Achieve Podcast sharing inspiration, motivation, and encouragement to help you to think differently, to develop your mindset, so you can believe in yourself more, take action and achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Now we're just approaching the end of the year. Some people look at it that we've got three months left, 12 weeks, 90 days.

However, you choose to look at it we've just entered the final quarter of the year.

Recently I've been having conversations with personal coaching clients around what their goals are for the end of the year, how best they can finish the year strong and what they want to accomplish before the end of the year.

So, I'm just going to ask and encourage you to stop, pause and have a think about that for yourself, if you were to get to the end of this calendar year, what is it that you'd like to have accomplished?

Regardless of when you're listening or watching this, this is a great exercise to be do. There are many great times throughout the year when it's a good opportunity to stop and look at your goals, the start of a new year, halfway through the year, the different quarter's, but to be fair any day is a good day to stop,

to look, to reflect, to review where you're heading and what it is that you're actually wanting to accomplish in your life.

So, whether you frame it as three months, 12 weeks or 90 days, have a look at what it is that you would like to accomplish in that timeframe. But then break it down and reverse engineer it and look at what it is that you're going to do for the next 28 days.

You know, once you have a slightly bigger target or goal, then look at your action steps, what's your main focus.

You could then maybe break it down into the next seven days.

Now you know what you want to achieve in 12 weeks, what is it you need to get done?

What is it you want to accomplish?

What's going to help you get closer towards that in the next seven days?

You could then look at the next day, I always think it's a good idea to review your actions the night before.

So, choose, decide, and commit, what your actions are going to be tomorrow. Maybe you're going to choose just one thing, some people like to look at the top three things that they're going to accomplish in a day.

But if you just say to yourself, what's the one thing that I want to accomplish?

Reduce the overwhelm, the noise and all distractions and ask yourself;

What's the best thing I can accomplish, that is going to move me closer towards the goal and the life that I want?

So my encouragement for you, the action step I want you to take away from this episode, is to stop, to look, to reflect upon, regardless of what time of year now and choose and decide what you're going to, accomplish in the next 12 weeks.

Then break that down into the next 28 day chunks, then the next seven days and just focus, get clarity on the action steps that you can take that accumulatively will get you closer towards actually achieving that.

Once you've done that, feel free to leave a comment, drop me a message, send me an email and let me know what you are going to achieve in the next 12 weeks.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so think differently, take action and you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Go on, make it happen!

All the best

Christian

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Wave A Magic Wand - If Anything Was Possible What Would You Like To Achieve

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Wave A Magic Wand - If Anything Was Possible What Would You Like To Achieve

Hi I'm Christian Baker from christianbaker.net and The Achieve Podcast, sharing inspiration, motivation, and encouragement to help you think differently, to develop your mindset, so that you believe in yourself more, take purposeful action, so that you achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Now, I have a question for you today.

If anything was possible and you could wave a magic wand, what would you like to achieve?

When I work with clients, people often fall into one of two categories, and this is a question I ask both of them for different purposes.

Often people come to me because they're at a bit of a loss, they're overwhelmed, they're not quite sure what it is they want to achieve, but they're just unhappy, frustrated or unfulfilled in some way.

So, we have to look at where they're heading and what they'd actually like to achieve, in order to start moving towards it.

As part of the process, I will often ask them,

"If anything was possible, what would you like to achieve?

Just imagine for a moment that you could fast forward to a point in time in your near future, whether that be days, hours, weeks, months, or even this time next year, simply a point in time. where your life is looking more how you would like it to be. What is it that you would actually like to achieve?

Once you know that, then you can start to take purposeful action towards making it happen, and your mind will help you to go in that direction.

But you first have to get some clarity on what it is that you would like to achieve.

I don't expect that if this is the first time you're asking yourself this, or you're at a crossroads in your life, that you will have instant, or complete clarity, but I encourage you, I urge you, to reflect upon what you'd actually like to achieve, what you want your life to look like.

Perhaps get a pen and some paper, a notebook, or a journal, or use the notes section on your phone. And just ask yourself, "If I could wave a magic wand would I like to achieve?"

"If you could wave a magic wand and change, improve or achieve anything, what would you like transform and accomplish?

I also work with some people who know what they want, they know what they'd like to achieve. They have a goal, but for some reason they're stuck, they feel as if there is some kind of invisible barrier preventing them from getting there.

So again, I ask the same questions, "If you could wave a magic wand, if you could eliminate, if you could remove any and all obstacles, or barriers that are in your way

what would you get rid of?"

"What would you change?"

"And what would you really like to achieve?" (Sometimes we have an idea of what we want, but we need greater clarity to make it happen).

Once you know what's in your way, then it becomes easier to find a way through, around, over, or under whatever it is that’s preventing you from getting there.

But sometimes people don't know what the obstacle is, but they just know they'd like to be on the other side of it. So even waving the magic wand and being on the other side of that barrier, that obstacle, what would that be like?

Then, probably what's even more important, is to ask yourself,

"What's so great about achieving it and what difference will this make to you?"

So, for different purposes you can benefit from asking yourself the magic wand question and see how you can utilise it to help get yourself clarity.

If you could imagine waving a magic wand and achieving it, being at that point in time, having made the transformation and you're now a different place in your life, what difference would that make to you?

How would that feel?

And what's so great about that for you?

Spend a couple of moments, asking yourself and reflecting on the questions.

If you had a magic wand, what would you like to achieve?

What would you like to remove?

What would you like to change?

What difference would that make to you your life?

Get your pen and paper, your notebook, or journal and take some time to get your ideas and thought out of your head.

You can revisit this process as many times as you need to. Whenever you need to get clarity, or you want to change your mindset, this is a great way to help yourself discover and get clarity on what you want and what you can do next to make it happen.

And do remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so change your mindset and you can change your life and achieve the goals that you want.

Get in touch or leave me a comment to let me know if you could wave a magic wand, what you would like to accomplish

Go on you can do it, make it happen!

All the best

Christian

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What Are You Taking For Granted - Develop Your Attitude Of Gratitude

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Hi I'm Christian Baker from Christian baker.net and The Achieve Podcast, sharing inspiration, motivation, and encouragement to help you to think differently, to develop your mindset so that you can believe in yourself more, take purposeful action, so that you can achieve the life that you want.

Now we've had some really turbulent interesting times in this last year. And one of the things that I think this has highlighted for many people, is how much we take for granted.

And I think it's causing people to have a bit of a reset.

So, today I just wanted you to think about, is there anything that you are taking for granted?

Are you taking life for granted?

Is there anyone you take for granted?

Is there anything you take for granted?

Often, it's not until something is taken away from us, or we're unable to do something anymore, that we actually realise how much we used to take it for granted and how much we now appreciate it.

If someone has an injury, or has health problems that means they can no longer do things that they enjoyed doing, or would like to do, and they now really miss it, has a new perspective for how much they used to take it for granted.

So, really the purpose of this episode is to get you to think about and look at your life, to look at the things and the people in your life and ask yourself, is there anything, or anyone that you take for granted?

And then ask yourself is anything you can do about that?

What are you going to do about?

The opposite of taking things for granted is to show more appreciation and gratitude for the things that you have in your life.

This is an exercise, a strategy, that I encourage my clients to do. It's something anyone can start doing, regardless of their current circumstances.

You could make it part of your daily thinking routine. If nothing else, just allow yourself to reflect on the things you are grateful for, or you could write you gratitude down in a journal.

For more about journaling watch this video.

It's something you could get in the habit of doing at the end of every day, or as you're doing a daily walk/commute, or as you're just about to go to sleep at night, just ask yourself;

What am I grateful for?

What do I appreciate in my life?

Whether you do it in your thoughts, or in a journal, just spend more time training your mind to think about the good things in your life.

And if there's anyone that you would like to share your gratitude and appreciation with, let them know, there's no point keeping it to yourself, how will they know if you don't share it with them.

How will they know that you appreciate them, if you don't tell them?

How will they know that you're grateful for the things they do for you?

This reminds me of the quote;

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." William Arthur Ward

So, think about the things and the people that you're grateful for and start expressing it more.

Reflect and express it in your mind, but also share it with anybody who would benefit from hearing how much you appreciate what they do for you.

Do this more and don't take everything for granted. I know we can get caught up in the busyness of life, that we can easily take so much for granted, but every now and again, just to have a word with yourself, take a couple of moments to look around, notice the people, the things, the life that you have and show more appreciation, show more gratitude, and enjoy your life as much as you can.

And if there is something that you'd like to change, remember you can change your mindset. You can change your focus and your thinking.

So, make today the first day that you make those purposeful changes that help you to enjoy and achieve the life that you want. And practicing gratitude is a fantastic way of starting that change in your mindset.

And remember what your mind believes you will achieve. So, think differently, believe yourself, take action, and you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Go on make it happen. Make the changes today and think about what you can do that your future self will thank you for!

All the best

Christian

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How To Get In The Frame Of Mind To Lose Weight

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0000

How To Get In The Frame Of Mind To Lose Weight

How to change your mindset to help you lose weight…

Over the years I’ve helped so many people to change their mindset to help them lose weight. I’ve shared lots videos and blog posts with tips and insights for how you can get in the best frame of mind to lose weight. So, for convenience I thought I’d pull them all together into one place, to make it even easier for you to discover the importance of changing your mindset to help you lose weight and keep it off.

So, if that’s you, if you are ready to train your mind to lose weight then read on and watch the video to discover how you can change your mindset.

Before you do anything, we firstly we need to look at how you mind works.

How the mind works - https://youtu.be/88-hqvdic6I - Watch this video as I share a quick overview of the power of your mind and how your mind works.

Once you know how your mind works, then you can to the next step in discovering how you can change your mind and develop a more positive mindset for weight loss.

How does Hypnosis work - https://youtu.be/hXDBz-ncXLc

As a professional Hypnotherapist since 2002, I have found Hypnotherapy for weight loss, one of the most effective approaches to help people change their mindset to help them lose weight and keep it off.

But hypnosis is not how it’s often portrayed, so if you’re new to hypnotherapy and would like to know what hypnosis is and how it works, then watch this video

What does hypnosis feel like - https://youtu.be/hcFxqiUKeEk

The other misconception people often have, is their expectation for how Hypnosis feels, so in this video, I share what hypnosis feels like and it might surprise you!

The biggest weight loss mistake - https://youtu.be/hrTtiSdqZTc

Now we’ve looked at the power of your mind and what hypnosis is and how it feels, let’s link it back to how this can help you lose weight.

I often get asked;

Why is losing weight so difficult?

Why can’t I lose weight?

Why can’t I keep the weight off?

Watch this video as we look at the biggest weight loss mistake most people trying to lose weight make and how you can avoid it!

How To Improve Your Weight Loss Success - https://youtu.be/L_FDPGR7rvA

If you’ve ever tried to lose weight and struggled, or even failed, you might want to watch this video, where I share with you the 5 weight loss mistakes many people make, that prevent them from losing weight and feeling great.

Once you know what they are, then you too can avoid them.

Why is it so hard to lose weight - https://youtu.be/GiOlCWeEAuo

I’ve already shared the big mistake many people make when trying to lose weight, to neglect their mindset. But as this is so important, I wanted to share this video from a few years ago, where I discuss this again in a slightly different way.

Remember if you want to lose weight and keep it off, it’s important that you pay attention to your mindset and look at how best you can re-programme your subconscious mind to lose weight

Stop Overeating - https://youtu.be/XunO2lE8O_8

During COVID-19 lockdown I shared this video to help people stop overeating during lockdown, but the same applies if you are overeating at any time.

So, if you find yourself overeating or emotional eating, watch this video…

I hope you have found these videos, tips and insights helpful, if you have any questions then please get in touch.

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If you’ve watched all the videos and you’d like some more assistance to help you lose weight and feel great, I have a couple of options for how we can work together.

Option one, is my 4 week online course – “Lose Weight And Feel Great”, click the link to find out more https://christianbaker.mykajabi.com/LWFG

The other option is to book a Private Consultation, where we can work together to help you change your mindset to lose weight and feel great.

I work with clients form all around the world, so these sessions can be done either virtually, via zoom, from the privacy of your own home (or location of your choice), or in person, either at my practice in Harley Street, central London, or one of my locations in Northamptonshire.

If you would like to book private consultation, get in touch and we can discuss if this is the best option for you.

Remember, what your mind believes you will achieve, so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Wishing you all the best for your weight loss success.

Christian

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Make It A September To Remember

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0000

We have now completed 8/12 months of 2020, but as we begin a new month, it’s a great opportunity to refocus.

So, how can you make it a September to remember?

In September you have…

30 days

720 hours

43,200 seconds

What will you do this month that your future self will thank you for?

The time will pass anyway, so how are you going to make it count and make it a September to remember.

How about choosing to set yourself a #28DayChallenge to take action and do something every day for the next 28 Days that will move you closer to the goals & the life that you want and see what you can achieve.

Whatever you want to accomplish, take the next step and Make it Happen!

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

All the best

Christian

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What Have You Achieved During COVID-19 Lockdown

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Be Kind To Yourself And Stop Comparing Yourself To Others.

As we've been living through this pandemic and as people adjust to a new normal, I've seen lots of people and had conversation with people who are struggling with something I've discussed before, the curse of comparison.

Some people have gone through this pandemic/lockdown and taken the opportunity to improve things in their life, to learn new things, to accomplish great things and if that's you, then congratulations that’s fantastic well done to you!

But for many, this unusual strange time has simply been about survival and getting through it. It has impacted people in different ways, whether that be from a health perspective, financially, isolation, or general mental health and wellbeing.

The impact this pandemic has had, something that we've not experience in our lifetime, is something that many people have struggled to adjust to and that's not a fault or a criticism, it's just the way it is.

So, when you switch TV, or look on social media, when you read about the amazing fantastic things that some people have done, and you feel that you haven't. Firstly, it's too late, you can’t go back and change it anyway, so stop beating yourself up for what you haven’t done.

But if you have got this far, you should congratulate yourself and give yourself a pat on the back for surviving something you have never experienced before.

Whatever we experience, whatever we push through, whatever shifts and changes our comfort zones, makes us stronger, so at least acknowledge that.

And when you look at other people and compare yourself, that dos you no favours whatsoever. What you have to remember is, when you read and see someone else's highlights, you don't actually know what’s gone on, or what's going on in someone else life.

We don't see the struggles, the sacrifices, that battles, that other people may have had silently, or what's going on in other people’s minds.

You never truly know the true story from a single picture or post.

So, bear in mind, that it's not helpful to compare your life, or how your feeling with someone else's highlights.

Also, give thought to the fact that everyone is going through their own experiences, or struggles, in one way or another. So, continue to be kind to people, but most importantly start being kinder to yourself.

Remember you've got this far, you are stronger than you probably give yourself credit for.

Stop comparing yourself to others and start giving yourself credit for what you are doing.

And if there are some changes you'd like to make, if you'd wished you had made some changes, then start today.

I’ve talked about it in a previous video about the choice you have, to either leave things to do one day, or make today day one of making it happen.

So, if there is something you want to do, figure out what the next step is that you can take to help make it happen.

In summary,

Stop the curse of comparison, stop comparing yourself to other highlights and show reel.

Give yourself credit for surviving and getting to this point

And if there is anything you'd like to change, decide if you're going to make it day one to make it happen or whether you're just going to leave it chance to do it one day.

Either way it's your choice, make the decision and make it happen!

And remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

All the best

Christian

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Design Your Life - Create Your 10 Year Vision

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 05:00:00 +0000

This is Christian Baker from www.christianbaker.net and The Achieve Podcast, helping you develop your mindset, to believe in yourself more, so you can achieve the life that you want.

Recently we celebrated my daughters 10th birthday, it's incredible to think how fast that time has gone.

And while being reflective and reminiscing on the last 10 years, it also reminded me of some questions I ask my clients.

I often ask my clients and get them to think about, "What’s the 1 thing you can do to move you forward?"

It's really effective to focus on the small steps, to focus on the next step you can take to help you achieve the life that you want.

But there is another important part to this and that’s to give thought to the bigger picture, your bigger vision.

Often people set new year resolutions, or goals for the year ahead, but as Bill gates is attributed as saying;

"Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years."

So, I want you to think about your own 10 year vision, what would you like to achieve, to accomplish, to experience, to enjoy in the next 10 years?

Take a moment to wonder, to go through an imagination exercise and imagine what you would like to achieve, if you could wave a magic wand, or fast forward in time, to 10 years from now, what would you like to have achieved, accomplished and experienced?

Once you have done this, you have destination, a target you can start moving towards, this acts like a compass to help keep you moving in the right direction.

You can then reverse engineer the steps, the goals, the actions and intentions required to help get you there and focus the small steps, the next step to help you move in the direction, that will help you achieve your bigger vision.

Your action from this video, is to take a few moments and give some thought to what you'd like your 10 year vision to include, and then focus on the next step you can take to help get you closer towards it.

Please leave a comment and let me know how this has helped you, or what you're looking forward to about your 10 year vision.

And as my daughter turning 10 has reminded me, the time will pass anyway (and often very fast), you can either choose to create the life that you want, or leave it to chance and possibly live the life that you don't want.

You choose and then develop your mindset to make it happen.

And remember – What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian Baker

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What Are You Looking Forward To?

Tue, 26 May 2020 05:00:00 +0000

What Are You Looking Forward To - What are you looking forward to after lockdown?

I often talk about the benefits of taking the time to be more present, to stop worrying about the past and the future, to simply slow down and just be in the here and the now.

This really helps to re-set and re-charge the mind and the body.

Another strategy that is really effective to help shift your mindset and start thinking differently. Which can be super helpful if you're experiencing challenging times, is to take a few moments to think about and reflect upon, all the things you're really looking forward to.

Grab a note book, a journal, or open your notes on your phone, or tablet and create a list of all the things you're looking forward to doing, all the things you want to experience all the places you want to visit.

If you could wave a magic wand and fast forward to a point in time, a better time, a happier time, a calmer time, a more enjoyable time, what does that look like for you, what are you looking forward to?

If you could create a wish list of all the things you're looking forward to, what would yours include?

We get more of what we focus on, and the mind doesn't understand the difference between real and imaginary, so rather than thinking about what you don't want, allow yourself to think about the things you're looking forward to.

By doing this, you're shifting your mindset and creating more of the feel-good feelings, as if you're doing those things for real.

Don't worry about the when, the if or the how, just have some fun, take some time to wonder, to think and daydreaming about doing these things.

Thinking differently, really does have a positive impact on our mindset and the way we are feeling.

Start getting playful and creative and add more to your list as you get new ideas.

And remember – What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian Baker

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5 Ways To Improve Your willpower

Tue, 19 May 2020 05:00:00 +0000

5 Ways To Improve Your willpower

Would you like to improve your willpower?

Over the years I’ve had so many people say to me they want to change or improve something in their life, but they just don’t have the willpower to do it!

So, coming up in this episode I’m going to share with you 5 ways you can increase your willpower, so stay tuned…

The first thing I always say to people when they tell me they don’t have the willpower is good!

Good for 2 reasons, firstly willpower is not the only way achieve something, in fact you could even go as far as to say that relying on willpower alone is the least effective way!

And secondly if you recognise your willpower is not as strong as you would like it to be, then you can improve it, know that it is something you can develop.

So, here’s 5 ways you can develop and increase your willpower…

1 – Is to view willpower like a muscle, it’s not limited, it’s something you can strengthen and work on to improve, like you can your muscles, if you want to get stronger or lift heavier weight, or train to run faster, then you can, if you train effectively.

But also view willpower like a muscle that can be depleted, if you’re tired and stressed then perhaps it’s not going to be as strong as when your relaxed and rested.

In the same way, if you did a heavy gym session and then went for a run you wanted be surprised if you didn’t get a personal best or you were more tired or slower than usual.

In the same way for optimum performance, a professional athlete wouldn’t do a full on training session just before going out to play a match.

So, see willpower as something you can strengthen but also preserve.

2 - Set yourself up for success – avoid temptation, change your environment and your circle of influence. Stop doing the things, hanging out and being around triggers that lead you to do the thing you don’t want to do.

So, on the flip side create a good environment, set reminders, create plans to do the very things you want to do. If your mind comes up against resistance it will take the path of least resistance and do what you’ve always done, or currently programmed to do.

So make changes that help set you up for success.

3- Which bring me on to number 3 - Bild good habits

Instead of wasting energy resisting the things you don’t want to be doing, intentionally create habits that support the lifestyle, the outcomes and the goals you actually want to achieve,

4 - Use your imagination – think, picture and imagine yourself doing the very thing you want to be doing and achieving. Rather than playing out the movies in your mind of hardship and struggle of the things you’d resist with willpower, focus on the opposite and programme your mind, boost your willpower by playing out in your imaginations what you want.

5 – Avoid overwhelm and enhance your willpower by doing things one step at a time, rather than getting frustrated, focus on the one next step you can take.

Overwhelm and frustration will just create resistance and cause your willpower to be depleted and your mind to follow your current default programming, which may not be the things you want to be doing.

So, there you have 5 ways you can help yourself to boost your willpower, and as well as this 5, remember the importance of self care.

Take time to look after yourself, good quality sleep, eating well and regular exercise are all ways that are said to help increase your willpower.

And also, remember with all that being said, if you want to make a change or improve some area of your life, you don’t have to rely on will power anyway. So, know that you can change your mindset by changing your programmimg,

But you can always help yourself be doing and being aware of these 5 steps.

I hope you’ve found these steps helpful, feel free to let me know how you are going to increase your willpower and if you know anyone else who would benefit from this episode, then please share this with them as well.

And remember - What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian Baker

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Coronavirus: How To Stop Overeating And Avoid Weight Gain During Lockdown

Mon, 11 May 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Are you currently on the COVID-19, Corona Diet?

Are you overeating or putting weight on during lockdown?

I've seen lots of posts and memes on social media about overeating during these uncertain times.

So, in this episode I want to share a few ideas for how you can change your mindset and break free of unwanted overeating habits.

Firstly, lets have a look at what's happening.

During stressful and difficult times, we often find ourselves eating our feelings. Which means we're not responding to real physical hunger, but emotional eating instead.

Emotional eating means we're responding to our feeling, it could be boredom, stress, frustration, anxiety, loneliness, whatever the emotion it has nothing to do with hunger!

Emotional eating is quite common, but I think it's been highlighted during these uncertain times, as lots of people around the world are experiencing the uncertain times and emotions at the same time.

Unconsciously we often turn to food to change how we feel, because when we eat, it changes are body chemistry and gives us short term relief and instant gratification, but it only ever gives us temporary relief.

Often, we feel worse afterwards, fuelling more negative emotions, guilt, frustration, disappointment and in the process of beating ourselves up, we turn to more food to feed those negative feelings, creating a vicious cycle!

The bottom line is, no amount a food will ever satisfying emotional hunger, because it's not real physical hunger!

So, here's a few tips to help you avoid overeating and weight gain during lockdown (or anytime).

1 - Be Aware - firstly you need to become aware of what you're doing, when you are doing it and what you are actually responding to.

So, ask yourself;

What am I doing?

When am I doing it?

What feeling/emotion am I feeling?

Once you become aware of your feelings and actions, then if they're not working for you, you can change them.

2 - Give yourself a break and stop beating yourself up!

These are strange times for all of us, so stop beating yourself for how your feeling and what you're doing.

Don't allow this to be an excuse, once you are aware of what you’re doing give yourself permission to adjust your thinking and habits.

One way to help change your mindset, habits and behaviours is to ask yourself some better questions.

Instead of saying things like, I can’t stop eating or why do I keep eating?

Next time you find yourself heading to the fridge or cupboard ask yourself;

Am I really hungry?

Am I responding to real genuine hunger?

Do I need this right now?

Or simply have a glass of water first and see how you feel in 20- 30 minutes, if it’s just emotional hunger it will probably have passed by then.

3 - Chillout - not only give yourself a break and de-stress, bit actively do more to help yourself manage your emotions by taking time to activities that help with your mind fitness. Do whatever you can to help yourself relax and de-stress, to prevent you from reaching the point where you find yourself emotional eating.

I hope you've found those ideas helpful, please get in touch or leave a comment and let me know what you have taken away from these tips and what you are going to change to help yourself.

And if you know anyone who would also benefit from these tips, please share it with them.

Please remember, what your mind believes you will achieve, so allow yourself to think differently, to believe in yourself more, to take action that will help you achieve the outcomes and the life that you want!

All the best

Christian

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Imagine What You Could Achieve In The Next 28 Days

Tue, 05 May 2020 05:00:00 +0000

What Will you Achieve?

Everyday is a new opportunity to refocus and go again, but a new month is a particualry good time to set yoruself a new target.

Regardless of when you are watching this, you can use this strategy to help yourself make progress and achieve the goals and the life that you want.

I call this, the 28 Day Challenge.

If you would like to make your month matter and improve one area of your life, join me for your own 28 day challenge.

Simply choose one area of your life you would like to improve in the next 28 days and then commit to taking action every day, for the next 28 days on that one area.

This doesn’t mean you’re going to neglect other areas of your life, it simply means you are choosing to give this one thing, extra focus and attention for the next 28 days.

I appreciate we’re not living through normal times and May is not likely to be a typical month, but this doesn’t mean you can’t make a positive difference, for some this may even be a golden opportunity to make some positive changes.

You may choose to;

Focus on your self care & wellbeing

Eat/drink healthier

Increase activity & exercise daily

Do something to help others

Be more present - meditate/listen to one of my audios everyday

Enhance your mind fitness

Improve your confidence, productivity, discipline

Develop a new empowering habit.

Or anything that feels right for you.

Whatever you choose to do this May, remember you have...

31 days

744 hours

44, 640 minutes

And this time will pass anyway, so what will you do in the next month that your future self will thank you for?

Whatever you want to accomplish, take the next step and make it happen.

Set yourself a #28DayChallenge to take action and complete one thing every day for the next 28 Days and see what you can achieve.

Let me know what you decide to do and how you get on.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve. So, allow yourself to think differently, take action and you can achive the life that you want!

All the best

Christian

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Are You Ready To Get Back To Normal?

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Are you looking forward to getting back to normal?

What is your normal?

Normal is something that I hear so much, so many clients say they just want to feel normal and be normal. Although, I know what they mean, the bigger question has to be, what is your definition of normal?

I've spoken quite a bit over the last few weeks about how you can help yourself reduce, anxiety, stress and overwhelm and how the current uncertainty from COVID-19 is magnifying this for so many.

But, I've also had quite a few conversations in the last few weeks with people who are naturally feeling the effects of what's happening, but for different reasons, are enjoying making the most of the circumstances.

This enforced slower paced way of life has prompted some to hold a magnifying glass up to their life and have a good look at what they are doing, to evaluate their life, their career, home life, relationships, health, fitness and overall wellbeing.

But at the same time many are making the most of a different pace of life, for many working from home has given them more time, do things they don't always get time to do.

The time saved commuting to and from work, school, college means they have so much more time, to spend with love ones, get more sleep, do more exercise, get jobs done at home, enjoy hobbies and pastimes they wouldn’t normally get time to do.

Some who may travel an hour each way, have gained an extra 10 hours a week, and many have gained much more. So, it's like gaining an extra working day back every week.

Others are being more productive and getting more done, working from home without the usual interruptions and meetings about meetings. I have one client who travels all around the world with work and is finding working from home quiet a refreshing change.

Some parents are enjoying spending quality time they don’t normal get with their children and enjoying the relief of not have to do the school runs and running kids around from one club and activity to another.

I’m also aware, that as much as this is a relief for some, for others they are missing all of the routine and structure.

So, as many are looking forward to getting back to normal, there are some who are getting apprehensive and anxious about getting back to the demands, busyness and overwhelm of what their normal brings.

During these conversations it has raised two different things to consider, (which are also connected).

Firstly, if you're not looking forward to your normal, maybe it's time to review and evaluate your life and maybe consider creating a new normal.

This may not be a short term solution, there maybe things you cannot change yet, but it may be a good time to think about what you want your life to look and be like.

So, stop for a moment and ask yourself,

“If anything was possibly, how would you like to live?”

Even if you can’t change some things initially, just asking yourself the question and allowing yourself to think about it, is a great start.

Secondly, when I'm working with clients and during my latest Anxiety & SOS online course, one of the things I emphasise quite a lot, is the importance of establishing some lifestyle strategies, that you can incorporate into your day to day life, to help maintain your inner balance and wellbeing.

I often refer to this as working on your mind fitness , to establish habits and routines that form part of your day to day life, that naturally enhances your mind fitness. Don't wait until your mind fitness is affected, take time to be intentional develop and maintain it as best you can, to help keep yourself balanced and centred.

So, if you are enjoying this slower paced life and having time to do more things that you enjoy, take this time to plan how best you can maintain some of these good habits and routines when things get back to "normal", as well as how you would like your new normal to look.

The good news is you have the freedom to change your definition of normal, and then strive to make any change necessary.

Let me know in the comments if there is anything you are enjoying from a slower paced life and what you think you have learnt from this current situation so far.

Remember, what your mind believes you will achieve. So, think differently, believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the happy life that you want.

All the best

Christian

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Things That Make You Happy

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 05:00:00 +0000

The Things That Make You Happy In Life!

Your Happy Life List

Here's an amazingly simple idea for how you can create more joy and happiness in your life.

This simple idea is to create a list of all the things that make you happy in life.

Create list on your phone, write them in a journal, create an album, or a folder, of photos of all the things, times, places, people and memories that make you happy in life.

Give it whatever title you want, Your Happy List, Joy List, Happy Times, Magic Moments, whatever is the best description for you.

The things on the list could be small, simple pleasures, could be exciting extravagant things, just get some ideas down of all the things that make you happy in life.

What you are doing, is creating a reference of all these good times, to remind yourself, but also creating something that you can revisit, if ever you need a lift.

This is your list, it may sound amazing, or trivial to someone else, it doesn't matter, it's whatever is important to you.

By doing this, you are training your mind to focus, to look out for and create more of the good times.

Because where our attention goes everything flows, and we get more of what we think about. So, do this simple exercise to train your mind to think more about the good things and the happy times, rather than leave it to chance and let your mind get consumed with what you don't want, and all the negatives that you don't like.

Also, our thoughts lead to your feelings, so if we constantly think about the negatives, the stresses, the worries, the things we don't want, we are creating more of the unhappy feelings.

Instead choose to think more about good, positive, happy joyful thoughts and you will create more of these feelings.

Take the time to create your happy list, have fun coming up with as many different things as you can, remember to come back and add to it and remind yourself often of all the good things that make you happy in life.

Remember, what your mind believes you will achieve. So, think differently, believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the happy life that you want.

All the best

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Come To Your Senses And Be More Present.

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 05:00:00 +0000

How To Relax And Calm Your Mind And Be More Present.

In the last episode I shared 5 ways to help reduce stress, anxiety and worry, and one of the tips was to be more present.

In this episode I want to share another simple and effective strategy to help you, naturally get out of your own head, connect to your senses and be more present.

This technique is called 5-4-3-2-1, now there’s some slightly different versions shared and I’m going to share my version with you in this episode.

Firstly, stop and take a deep breath and become aware of 5 things you can see, and either repeat them out loud, or say them to yourself in your own mind.

My tweak on this is to find 5 things that are your eye level, or above.

4 – Become aware of 4 things you can feel.

It could be the ground beneath your feet, the fabric of your clothing, rubbing your thumb and finger together, a piece of jewellery, or I’ve had clients who have a small stone, or crystal that they carry around and then they hold it it and feel it in their hand.

And repeat these 4 things out loud or in your own head.

3- Tune in to 3 thing you can hear, the mind filters so much out, but when you stop and become aware of the sounds around you, tune into 3 things, it could be the sounds of nature, passing traffic, whatever you notice, repeat them to yourself.

2 – become aware of 2 things you can smell, flowers, scents, food, move around and find 2 things you can smell, or if you really can’t find anything, think about 2 of your favourite’s smells.

Or just take 2 nice slow deep breaths in & out!

1 – engage your sense of taste and become of 1 thing you can taste. Maybe something you’ve just eaten, or maybe you can still taste minty fresh toothpaste in your mouth, or take a mouthful of drink and connect to how that taste. Or imagine the taste of something you really enjoy!

Alternatively, just take a nice deep breath in & out.

This simple technique quickly and easily allows you to shift your focus, and be more present, if you don’t use, you won’t get the benefit from it.

I encourage you to do it throughout your day, I will often do this while I’m out walking my dog, to help me enjoy a few moments in the here and now.

The key is no to wait until you need to calm your mind, get in the habit and train yourself to do it frequently. This will help to keep you calm, bit also if you ever need to de-stress and reduce anxiety and worry it will be even easier and more beneficial for you.

And if you know anyone who would benefit from being more present please share this episode with them.

And remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so allow yourself to think differently, believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the life that you want.

All the best

Christian

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5 Ways To Reduce Anxiety, Stress, Worry During Uncertain Times

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000

With lots of worry, stress and anxiety in the world, during these uncertain times, I want to share with you 5 ways to help Children and Adults, to reduce stress, anxiety and worry.

Firstly, please give yourself a break, we’re only human, we can all experience uncertain times.

And at the time of writing we are in the midst of the Coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic and its an uncertain times for all of us.

You’re only human and it’s only natural to experience different thoughts and feelings, but rest assured feelings do pass, by doing any of these 5 tips, you can help steer your mind, your thoughts and your feelings in better direction.

So, If you know anyone who needs some help to reduce anxiety and worry, stay tuned…

Here are 5 simple tips to help during challenging and uncertain times.

Listen here for the full podcast episode...

Number One - Reduce exposure to negative news and conversations.

We are bombarded by the news and on social media, and constantly watching it on the news, listening to the updates, talking to friends & family, checking your phone every 5 minutes, isn’t going to help you.

I’m not saying ignore what’s going on or bury your head in the sand.

Keep yourself and children informed, with age appropriate, honest information, but limit your exposure to it.

And on the flip side get reassurance and focus your thoughts and actions on how you can help yourself/ and the current situation.

And then immerse yourself in doing good, positive, happy things.

What we surround ourselves with, impacts how we think and feel, so choose to listen to, watch and and enjoy taking the time to immerse yourself in some good, fun, happy & enjoyable things.

Number two - Stay and Create Calm – Do what you can to stay calm and be reassuring.

Remember little eyes and ear absorb everything, so do the best you can to be calm

Your mind is always listening, your mind hears everything you say, so choose to be as calm as you can for yourself too

When anxiety is present during unsettling times, having some routines and structure, can also help to create a calm environment.

And then choose to take time to enjoy some calming activities. Whatever you find calming… just do more of it!

Number 3 – Recognise and Acknowledge Feelings,

Acknowledge and allow the expression of thoughts and feelings, sharing and realising them from your mind can really help.

Otherwise what you fight resist in your mind will often persist.

You can write them down, draw a picture, or create a safe place to put them,

If it’s for a child you could have a worry monster or worry box, it’s a cuddly toy, you put the written worry into the monster mouth for them to eat, my daughter has a worry monster, and the worries normally come up at bed time, so either the monster eats the worry & gets rid of it for her, or at appropriate time, not sleep time, we can talk about it.

But often just writing it down and getting it out of your head really helps. or if you don’t have a monster, you could just make a box, somewhere safe to put the worries.

As an adult, you could do the same, or if you don’t already have one, get a journal, somewhere for you to offload you thoughts & worries, once you get them out of your head, it creates space and clarity in your mind and gives the worries a different perspective.

Number 4 – Have Fun & Play

Get active, if you can, get outside in nature, in your garden, go for a walk, do a workout. At the moment Joe wicks – The Body Coach is doing daily PE lessons for children, which is great for adults too!

And if your fitness is more advanced, he’s got something for all ages and abilities, or just do your own thing, the key is to get active, and release more happy feel good feelings in the body.

But it doesn’t just have to be exercise - Take time to play, to do some fun enjoyable activities, watch fun things, listen to happy music, dance around, read favourite books, simply surround yourself with good, happy and positive activities.

And then repeat as often as you can.

5 – Focus on being present

Disconnect from technology, from the news and take a few moments to enjoy being in the hear ad the now, the power of now as it’s often called.

This could include, formal meditating, yoga, breathing exercises.

There are loads of age appropriate apps or resources available online, I have a range of audios, and free relaxation videos on my YouTube channel

But here are 2 really simple strategies to help you be more present.

The First one, is to Simple become aware of your breathing, tune in to the rise and fall that happens all by itself. And maybe take a few slow breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Breathing, slowly, calmly and comfortably.

There are lots of really effective breathing exercise, but this really simple easy one, is a really good place to start.

Changing your breathing is one of the simplest and easiest ways of changing the way you think and feel, And the beauty of breathing exercises, is that you can do it anywhere, and as long as you’re alive, you will always be breathing so no one else needs to know you are doing it.

The second strategy & technique is to Connect and engage one of more of your senses, or those of your children, or the person you are with.

this could be through making something, playing, get involved with cooking or baking, go out into the garden, go for walk, create a treasure hunt. Do something sensory and get your, or their sense engaged in something.

Notice or point things out. If you are going for walk become aware of the ground beneath your feet, tune into the sounds of the birds singing, watch the birds flying, collect things and feel the different textures.

Simply notice what you see, what you hear, what you feel and maybe even what you smell or taste in any moment.

So, you now have 5 tips, (with many more ideas within each tip), to help you and yoiur Children reduce stress, anxiety and worry during challenging and uncertain times, or any time really.

If you do these things more frequently, they will help prevent you from getting anxious and stressed, and prevention is always easier.

But then, ifs you practise as a preventative, if you ever need to calm and relax it will be that much more easier to do, rather than you waiting until you feel stressed, anxious or worried and think…

"What were those 5 tips?"… often in the moment it’s harder to find the headspace to apply them.

So, practice and prevention is always the best.

Now, if you know anyone who needs these tips or you think would benefit, please feel free to share this episode with them.

You can also get one of my free audios, Relax and unwind which are great to help reduce Stress, worry and Anxiety, it’s completely free so give it a go.

Thanks for tuning in and please remember what Your Mind Believes you will achieve.

Think differently, believe in yourself and you can achieve anything you want!

All the best

Christian

Resources

Relaxation Guided Meditations Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSyz9iIbszx1OPoaCiWifLIMjJo67Vt3B

Joe Wicks The Body Coach - https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

Free Relax And Unwind mp3 download and Master Your Mind Course.

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Shift Your Focus To Shift Your Weight

Mon, 16 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Do This To Help You Lose Weight!

If you’re really want to lose weight stay tuned, as I share with you how you can shift your mindset, to make it easier for you to lose weight and keep it off naturally.

If you really want to help yourself to lose weight and keep it off, you need to change your focus.

You need to stop focusing on the negatives, the things, the size, shape, weight you don’t want, how you don’t want to be, the foods you think you’re not allowed to have.

And give yourself permission and the freedom to focus on;

- The positives

- The things you can do

- The abundance of foods you can eat

- What you are looking forward to about achieving and maintain the weight and the lifestyle you’re moving towards

- The positive impact/consequences you are gaining from losing weight and feeling great.

We get more of what we focus on and what we think about

So, if you keep paying attention to how you don’t want to be, what you think you can’t have, then they’re the things we get obsessed about.

This is not failing on your behalf, it’s simply the way the mind works.

This is actually a positive for you, because you’re aware of this, then you can use this to your advantage and start focusing your mind on what you want and how you want to feel..

So your action for today, is to stop and take a snap shot of your thoughts and your current focus and see if you can shift your focus and your mindset towards the things you want and the things you can actually do to help yourself lose weight and keep it off.

Go on, you can do it…

Get out of your own way, develop your mindset think differently and you can make it happen!

And remember - What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian Baker

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The Biggest Weight Loss Mistake

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000

The number 1 mistake people commonly make when trying to lose weight.

Why is losing weight so difficult?

Why can’t I lose weight?

Why can’t I keep the weight off?

These are all questions I’ve heard many times from clients over the years.

Have you ever tried to lose weight and struggled, or even failed?

Would you like to know the number 1 mistake most people make that prevents them from losing weight and keeping it off?

Then stay tuned, as I reveal to you the number 1 weight loss mistake and why so many struggle to lose weight and keep it off!

Hi, I'm Christian Baker from ChristianBaker.net sharing inspiration, motivation and encouragement to help you to believe in yourself, to take action so you can achieve the life that you want!

I’m trying to lose weight but can't? or why can’t I lose weight?

That’s something I’ve heard so much and I’ve worked with countless individuals and groups over the years to help them lose weight and feel great.

And the number one mistake most people make is to ignore, or neglect to work on their mindset.

The number 1 things preventing most people from successfully losing weight and maintaining it is their own BS!

Their own Belief System, their mindset, which is made up of your thoughts, feelings, behaviours, habits.

Most people are intelligent enough to know what they should and shouldn’t be doing, or they know where to go to get the help.

But knowing is not enough, we have to change our mindset.

So, unless you change the way you think about yourself and the food you eat, you are unlikely to lose weight and keep it off.

I’ve seen countless personal clients over the year, that have struggled to lose weight, yet they know what they should and shouldn’t be doing, they’ve read the books, watched the TV programmes, tried every diet going, consulted with numerous experts, yet they still don’t seem to be able stick to it!

And that because of the years of conditioning, habits and behaviours we have established around food and exercise.

So, if you really are ready to lose weight and feel great you must consider the importance and the power of your mindset.

Once you are more aware of your mind works and how you can change it. then you can go about make permanent last change for the better.

Of course, you can get some expert assistance, or get one of my programmes to help you develop your mindset.

But firstly, I wanted you to be aware that you can change your mindset, to help yourself start off by identifying, the habits, triggers, relationships that you would like to stop and change for the better.

And if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch, leave a comment, send me a message, or email and I look forward to hearing from you.

And remember - What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian Baker

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Guided Beach Meditation

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Guided Beach Visualisation to help you relax and unwind

Would you like to de-stress and relax?

Do you need something to help you relax and swicth off?

Would you like a break from the busyness of day to day life?

Then please enjoy this free complimentary beach themed, guided relaxaing mediation, to help you relax and unwind.

Allow yourself just undre 13 minutes, as I guide you through a free guided relaxation exercise, to help you quickly and easily relax your mind and your body, allowing you to feel rested, relaxed, refreshed, recharged an re-energised.

Please note each experince can be different and the more you listen to it, the easier it gets, so feel free to come back and listen to it as often as you like.

I hope you enjoy this short guided meditation to help you relax and calm your mind and your body in less than 13 minutes.

Please leave a comment below to let me know how much you enjoy your experience.

All the best

Christian

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Focus More On What Makes You Happy

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Change Your Focus Change Your Life!

Do you spend more time thinking and worrying about the things that go wrong wrong, the mistakes you make and the things you don’t want?

Or, do you think more about good times, special moments, happy times, reflecting on wonderful memories?

Coming up in this episode I share with you the benefits of looking out for and paying more attention to the good times.

Life can get so busy or end up rushing around too much that we overlook the special moments and the little things that we really enjoy.

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." from Ferrers Buller’s Day Off Movie

Or, we sometimes get stuck in the mindset of the things we don’t want, the life and the things we we're not happy about.

The trouble is we get more of what we think about and when we’re too busy we can often overlook the good things.

There’s a lovely quote that goes,

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

So, for this reason I want you to get in the habit of acknowledging these little things, or big things.

Come up with a phrase for describing these times, it could be good times, loving life, good times, special memories, or living the dream!

I have a group with my family and we often share photos, or previous memories that pp up on social media and will say, loving life, good times, special memories, or living the dream!

Although the group wasn’t set up for this, it’s nice to see them when they come up.

So, why not start a group with your friends or family and whenever you enjoy one of these moments, acknowledge it by sending it to you group, or share it on social media with the words or hashtag that best symbolizes it for you.

I have a client who is in a group with his friend sand they call it OH, optimum happiness and when one of them does something that symbolizes optimum happiness, they share it amongst themselves.

Often it’s simple, or even silly things, but when they come through, they all smile, laugh and share in that moment with each other, it’s such a fun and happy thing to do.

By doing this, you are training your mind to look out for more of these moments and allowing yourself to be mindful and enjoy it!

But also, you’re creating some evidence for the good things in your life, so when you’re having an off day, you can look at these and give yourself a boost.

So, even if you do this for yourself and record it in your journal, it’s still a really good habit to get into.

Where your attention goes everything flows, so allow more of your energy and focus towards these good times.

And remember - What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian

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5 Goal Setting Mistakes And How You Can Avoid Them.

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:00:00 +0000

5 Goal Setting Mistakes And How You Can Avoid Them.

Have you ever set a goal but failed to achieve it, or given up at the first hurdle?

Well it might not be your fault!

Coming up in this episode I share 5 of the most common goal setting mistakes and how you can avoid them, so stay tuned….

Over years of working with thousands of people to help them achieve their goals, I’ve found that often the reason people often fall short, is due to people making the same mistakes when it comes to setting their goals.

In this episode I’m going share with you the 5 most common mistakes I see people make that prevent them, or slows them down from achieving their goals, and once you know what they are, you can avoid making the same mistakes too…

1 - Not connecting to the real reason you want to achieve the goal – what is your why, why do you want to achieve, how will it feel and what are the positive consequences for achieving it. Once you know, it will really turbocharge your mindset and momentum to make it happen.

2 - Ignoring your current programming, are your habits, beliefs, values aligned with the goals you have set, or are they in conflict with your current mindset and programme. To put yourself in the best opportunity to achieve you goals you may need to upgrade your mindset for where you are in your life now and the goals you want to achieve.

3 - Not keep them visible, it’s often said, “out of sight, out of mind” and this is true for goals, people often set their goals and then put them away.

Instead keep them where you can see them, and if you don’t want to display them publicly, put them where you can look at them and review them daily.

4 - Not reviewing progress along the way – how can you keep yourself on track and learn from experiences as they come up, if you don’t review your progress. Make sure you review your progress and allow yourself to learn and gain momentum along the journey to achieving your goals.

5 – Is Not committing to them – once you set your goals you must commit to it, and then commit to taking regular consistent action to make it happen. Without the commitment and action, it’s nothing more than a wishy washing desire or daydream.

So, there you have the 5 goal setting mistakes that I commonly see people make and how you can avoid them.

Action Step - Decide what you want, commit to take action and you can make it happen.

And remember - What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian Baker

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Word Of The Week - How To Stay Focused On Your Goals

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Learn How To Stay Focused On Achieving Your Goals.

Would you like to know how you can stay focused on achieving your goals and the life that you want.

Coming up in the episode I’m going to share with you one simple way you can easily help yourself stay focused.

Before you look at how to stay focused, first it's important to get clear and identify your goal.

We have so many things to distract us, that often we struggle to stay focused on our goals and priorities, or sometimes we’re too focused on what we don’t want that we dont focus enough on what we don't want.

But as I’ve shared many times before in other episodes, we get more of what we focus on, so if we keep giving attention to the things we don’t want, we are programming our mind to keep doing it. And also the mind cant process a negative without first thinking about it.

So, to help you stay focused and keep your momentum going towards the goals, the thought and the life you want, I urge you to come up with an affirmation, or mantra to help keep you intentionally focused on your goals.

Now you can do this for your big goals, or your main focus the next 12 months. But what I often get my clients to do, is to create their own word of the week.

So look at what your focus is for the next week, how do you want to feel, what do you want to achieve and accomplish and come up with a word, or a few words that symbolise this, and let this be your trigger to keep you focused.

Don’t wait until you have been distracted, to use your word of the week to refocus you. Decide your intention and use the word of the work more proactively.

If you have a diary or you journal write your word of the week in their. Change the the screensaver on your phone, or computer to your word of the week.

Think about your word of the week first thing in the morning, last thing at night before you go to sleep, say it to yourself and reflect on it as often as you can during the day.

Take some nice deep breathes and be mindful of your word of the week for a few moments, or make the exercise even more effective by combine it with taking some focus breathes.

focus breathing technique video https://youtu.be/Uvd6-yOl5us

Create Your Word of the week

Do this for yourself and notice what an impact it has on your focus.

Just taking the time every week to choose your word of the week means you are taking the time to get focused and more intentional with your week than you normally would and more than most people, most just leave it to chance and get caught up in the current of life.

So, get in the habit and have some fun creating your word of the week!

Feel free tag me in and share your word of the week with me on social media.

And remember - What your mind believes you will achieve, so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian Baker

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10 Things You Can Stop To Improve Your Life

Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:00:00 +0000

How To Change Your Life For The Better

Are you happy?

Is there something you would like change, or improve in your life?

Then stay tuned, as I share with you 10 Things You Can Stop Doing to Improve Your Life.

So often people say they want change this, or improve that, but they get stuck thinking and talking about what they don’t want, or what they’re not happy with, but they never actually do anything about it.

As we get more of what we focus on, if you keep thinking, talking and moaning about these things, then we’re just going to keep ourselves stuck where we don’t want to be.

Instead I want you to focus on what you can stop doing to change your life for the better.

It’s important to identify what we don’t want and that you’re not happy with, but then you need to shift your focus, you need to make some decisions and commitments for the things you’re going to stop doing, to change and improve your life for the better.

So, here’s 10 things you can STOP doing to improve your mindset and your life…

Stop…

Excuses
Self-doubt
Comparing yourself to others
Bad habits
Worrying and overthinking
Negative self-talk
Trying to please everyone
Worrying what others think of you
Stop worrying about things you cannot control
Stop pressing snooze on your goals & start living the life you want

And the bonus one that covers everything…

“Stop focusing on what you don’t want and focus your thoughts, time, energy and actions on moving you towards what you actually want!”

This list of 10 is by no means limited, if there is a thought, a habit a behaviour in your life, that no longer serves you any useful purpose, then you first have to make a decision to stop it!

Tell yourself and affirm… I am going to Stop __(fill in the blank)___ now!

Stop is a powerful command to your mindset, so take the time to decide what you are going to stop.

Once you’ve done that, you are clearing some space where you can think about the thought, habits and behaviours that you can start doing that which will enhance and enrich your life and help you achieve the goals and the life that you want.

Feel free to let me know what you are going to stop doing, and please share this episode with anyone you know who would benefit from stopping something in their life!

Remember, what your mind believes you will achieve, so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian Baker

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Guided Meditation For Relaxation

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Guided Relaxation Meditation

Do you need to de-stress?

Do you struggle to relax and swicth off?

Would you benefit from learning to relax more?

Then please enjoy this free complimentary guided Relaxation Mediation to help you relax and unwind.

Give yourself just 8 minutes as I guide you through a free guided relaxation exercise, to help you quickly and easily relax your mind and your body, allowing you to feel rested, relaxed, refreshed and recharged.

Please note each experince can be different and the more you listen to it, the easier it gets, so feel free to come back and listen to it as often as you like.

I hope you enjoy this short guided meditation to help you relax and calm your mind and your body in less than 8 minutes.

Please click here to leave a comment below the video, to let me know how you get on and what you enjoy about this meditation.

All the best

Christian

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Take 5 To Relax And Calm Your Mind

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Do you ever struggle with stress, anxiety or an overactive busy mind?

Coming up in this episode I’m going to share with you how you can quickly and easily re-set your mind, so stay tuned!

Hi, I'm Christian Baker from ChristianBaker.net sharing inspiration, motivation and encourage to help you think differently, develop your mindset, to believe in yourself more, to take action, so you can achieve the life that you want!

So many of us struggle with overwhelm, stress and a busy mind, I know I often do and so do many of the clients I work with. One of things I do with my clients is to help them establish strategies to help them find ways of getting into a better state of mind, to help them find a better way of thinking and feeling.

One of the easiest strategies I share with my clients, that I personally use over the years, is to stop and take 5!

Take 5 to refocus, reset and relax your mind.

1. Stop & take a deep breath

2. Look up – find something above your eye level to focus on and take a nice deep breathe in and out

3. Stretch out and roll your shoulders and take a nice deep breathe in and out

4. Relax your jaw and take a nice deep breathe in and out

5. Affirm a word of phrase that describes how you want to feel and take a slow deep comfortable breath in and out!

It’s a simple and effective way of elevating your thinking, think of it like changing channel on a TV or radio, you are exercising your freedom of choice to change your mindset.

Taking time to take 5, allows you to get out of your own head, and be mindful and present in the moment, rather than thinking about the past of the future.

And the more you do it, the easier, the more effective and beneficial it will be for you.

I encourage you to do it daily, as often as you can, it’s free to do and it’s quick and simple, but please don’t overlook it for it’s simplicity, just take the time to do it and see how beneficial it feels for you.

You’ve got nothing to lose, but it could potentially have a positive impact for you!

And remember - What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian Baker

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How To Change Your State Of Mind

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 04:00:00 +0000

How To Change Your State Of Mind - Change Your Perspective Change Your Life

Do you ever find yourself thinking to much, stuck in your own head, or in need of a break from your own busy thoughts?

Then stay tuned as I share a very simple technique you can use anywhere and anytime!

Hi, I'm Christian Baker from ChristianBaker.net sharing inspiration, motivation and encouragement to help you to think differently, develop your mindset, so you can believe in yourself more, take purposeful action and achieve the life that you want.

One of the simplest yet most effective strategy I’ve shared with my clients over the years is how they can naturally get out of their own head.

Often, we find ourselves worried, anxious, overthinking or just thinking about things at in appropriate times.

So, one way I help my clients is to share with them ways in which they can naturally get out of their own head!

There a few different ways and there’s that wonderful quote that goes “Stop and smell the flowers” and truthfully anything that helps you engage and connect to one of your senses is going to be effective.

But the one I want to share with you today is to look up more, lift your eyes of the floor and look up more.

You don’t have to walk around with your head in the air, but just find something, anything to look at, that is above your own eye level.

If you are indoors, it could be the corner of the room, you could go up to a window and look out.

Think of it as changing gears, or channels, frequency or playlists, if you don’t like what you’re currently tuned into, then change it!

When we are in own head, thinking we go into downtime, and we tend to be looking down. If the tasks at hand or your job requires that great, then that’s appropriate.

But if this isn’t needed, or you want a break from it, look up in and go into uptime and this will help you get out of your own head naturally.

Stop now and look around, look at something in nature, watch birds, clouds, look at trees, go for a walk and look around and notice all the different things around you.

You could also combine it with utilising another technique, stop, look up and take some nice comfortable focus breaths in & out.

https://youtu.be/Uvd6-yOl5us

Now I’ve brought it to your attention, you’ll probably become aware of how often you find yourself looking down. You’re not going to stop doing it. But once you become aware that you’re looking down, use this as a reminder to look up!

Think of it like headlights on a car, sometimes you need to have the beam right in front of you and other times its more helpful to lift the beam up more!

Take the time to lift your eyes off the floor and look up more and notice what a positive difference this makes to your state of mind!

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian Baker

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Do This To Help You Achieve Your Goals - Take Action And Change Your Life In 28 Days

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 03:00:00 +0000

Is there a goal you would like to accomplish?

Is there something you would like to achieve?

Is there a positive habit you would like to develop, a positive difference you would like to make in your life?

Coming up I’m going to share with you how you can take action to help make it happen,

Hi, I'm Christian Baker from ChristianBaker.net sharing inspiration, motivation and encouragement to help you to think differently, develop your mindset, so you can believe in yoursefl more, take action and achieve the life that you want.

Previously I’ve shared with you the benefit of getting clear on what you want, creating a focus and vision for 10 years and then working backwards to your 12 month vision.

But to really help you get focused and take consist daily action, I’d like you top break it down even more and focus on the next month, or more precisely the next 28 days.

Set yourself a 28 day focus, or 28 day challenge.

Ask yourself, what’s the next step, what can you do in the next 28 days, to move you closer to your goal/vision.

Now imagine how much progress you can make if you do this every month, set yourself a new focus, a new challenge every month, that will move your closer towards your bigger goals/vision for you life.

You can even come up with a focus statement, like a mantra/affirmation to symbolize the focus for the month ahead.

Then picture, imagine and say that to yourself, to help keep you on track, to motivate yourself and give you a lift you when you need it.

The time will pass anywhere, so decide how best you can make the most of it!

Don’t wait for the perfect time, make it happen, small changes and improvements every day will make a massive difference to you and your life, so just do it!

Either you can put it off for one day, or you can make today day one, either way it’s your choice!

Choose, Commit and just do it!

It’s your life you can do it, go on make it happen!

Remember - What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian Baker

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Prepare Your Mindset To Achieve Your Best Year Yet

Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

New Capter – new year new decade, what’s your vision

Would you like to achieve your best year yet!

Then stay tuned as I share how you can prepare yourself and your mind to help make the next 12 months, your best year yet!

Hi, I'm Christian Baker from ChristianBaker.net sharing inspiration, motivation and encouragement to help you think differently, develop your mindset, so you can believe in yourself more, take action and achieve the life that you want.

Are you ready to make this next year your best year yet?

Previously in episode 9, I shared with you the benefits of going through a personal debrief to help you gleam and the learn from your past 12 months.

So, before you do anything else make sure you’ve checked out my previous episode, "Your End Of Year Review - End Of Year Questions To Ask Yourself"

https://player.captivate.fm/a9c3e2ef-4826-45ab-ba46-8726d142f5d5

In summary ask yourself the GEL questions;

What am I grateful for?

What Have I Enjoyed?

What have I Learnt?

Celebrate your wins, take the lessons, learning and discoveries from the past year into your plans for the new year ahead.

Focus on Your Vision for the Next 12 months.

Now it’s time to focus on your intentions, plans and aspirations for the new year ahead.

The truth is most people spend too much time thinking about what they don’t want, that they don’t given enough focus and attention to what they do want.

So, I’d like to create your vision for the next 12 months and even the next decade. If you look back in the next 10 years, what do you want to have achieved, enjoyed and experienced?

Once you have done that, then look at the next 12 months and decide what you want to accomplish in the next 12 months that will move you closer to your 10 year vision.

Once you have some clarity on what you want, I’d also like you to think about why you want these things. Your why is like your emotional fuel/charge to make it happen.

Our resistance to doing and achieving anything, always because of lack of clarity, how can you achieve your best year yet, if you don’t know what that would look like for you.

It’s often said we get more of what we think about, so allow yourself some time to think picture and imagine about the things you actually want.

So, allow yourself some time to get clear on what do you want to enjoy, experience and achieve in the next 12 months, Maybe break it down into the next 3 months, 6 months, 9 months & then 12 months.

Your action for today is to ask yourself, how best can I make the next 12 months my best year yet?

Then Create your do list of the top 5 things you want to achieve and then focus on doing the actions that will help make it happen!

Whether you’re watching this in early January or any other time of year, if you are ready to make a change, you can make it happen regardless of what the date is.

Wishing you all the very best for an amazing 12 months ahead!

Remember - What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

Christian Baker

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Your End Of Year Review - End Of Year Questions To Ask Yourself

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Do this before you set your goals for the new year a head.

Your end of year review to help you achieve your best year yet.

As you reach the end of the year and the end of a decade, it’s a wonderful opportunity to have a debrief with yourself and reflect on the 12 months just past.

In this episode I share with you how you can use the lessons, learnings from the past, to help you prepare and get yourself

It’s that time of year, as we reach the end of the calendar that we often start to look at the year ahead. But before you do, I’d like you to stop and reflect upon the lessons, learning and discoveries from the 12 months & the decade that’s just passed.

Too often we focus too much on what we didn’t do, or what didn’t go so well.

So, I’d like you to look back with on your highlights and to help you, I have 3 questions I want you to ask yourself to help take the lessons, learnings and discoveries from this year, into the brand new year, ready to help you have your best year yet!

You may want to get a journal, or at least a pen and paper, as you allow yourself to have a debrief with yourself on the year just past.

Firstly – What am I grateful for?

In the year just gone, what are you truly grateful for?

Secondly - what have you enjoyed?

What are your happy memories from the past year?

If you keep a regular journal, or take lots of photos, maybe you could look back through them and help remind you of the events and experiences you have enjoyed this year.

Thirdly – What have you learnt?

What have your learnt from the year’s experiences?

What have you learnt about yourself?

If you don’t acknowledge these areas, you will never develop and grow.

These questions help, because we get more of what we focus on, and even the last questions enable you to highlight and focus on the areas you can improve.

So, allow yourself time to focus and reflect on the year just gone, before you turn your attentions towards getting ready for the next 12 months and how you can make it your best year yet!

In the meantime, feel free to hit subscribe, leave a comment letting me know what your GEL answers are?

Remember, what your mind believes you will achieve, so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the life you want!

Christian Baker

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Christmas Calm Guided Meditation

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Free Guided Meditation to help you de-stress at Christmas and enjoy some Christmas Calm.

Do you enjoy Christmas?

Do you find Christmas Stressful?

Christmas can be a such a special and magical time, but it can also be stressful for many.

Either way would you like to enjoy some Christmas Calm, to help you enjoy a Stress Free Christmas?

Whether you would benefit from taking some time out to relax and de-stress, or you love Christmas and it’s one of your favourite times of year, stay tuned as I take you through a short guided meditation to help you focus on what you enjoy about CHRISTMAS, while enjoying a few moments mind quiet, as you take some time out to relax and enjoy a guided meditation, a mini mindset re-set to help give you some Christmas calm.

Please note each experience can be different and the more you listen to it, the easier it gets, so feel free to come back and listen to it as often as you like.

If you know anyone who would enjoy or benefit from this Christmas Calm Meditation please feel free to share this video with them.

I hope you enjoy the experience, please leave a comment below the video and let me know what you enjoyed about this video and what's your favourite part of Christmas.

If you enjoy Christmas, please feel free to return and listen/watch as often as you like throughout the year to help you enjoy a few minutes mind quiet ,while you enjoy your magic of Christmas.

Remember – What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian

All the best

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How To Believe In Yourself - 3 Ways To Build Your Belief In Yourself

Mon, 16 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Do you lack self-belief, would you like to know how you can believe in yourself more?

Coming up in this episode, I’m going to share with you 3 ways to help you build your belief in yourself.

If you feel like you are holding back, that you’re not achieving your potential, or you’d simply like to strengthen your self-belief I’m going to share with you 3 ways you can help yourself believe in yourself more!

Firstly, I want you to think of your mindset like a muscle you can strengthen. As beneficial as these are if you do them once, you’re going to get the most benefit from doing them consistently, just like achieving and maintaining your physical fitness. Think of these ideas, as ways of developing your minds fitness.

So, here are 3 ways to build your belief in yourself,

1 – Change your focus - Instead if focusing on what you don’t want, focus your mind on what you want and how you want to be.

Picture, imagine, think about what this would be like for you.

When we focus on the negatives, it brings us down and erodes your positive self-belief.

2 – Celebrate, Celebrate and focus on your strengths and achievements, what are you good at, what have you achieved in your life so far. Remind yourself that you can do it.

When you acknowledge your wins, no matter how small, this trains the mind to do more and helps build and charge your self-belief.

Whereas, if you focus on what you’re not doing, or worse comparing yourself to others, (don’t compare yourself to others), it has a negative effect on your self-belief.

3 – Change your mindset – if your really don’t believe in yourself change it.

Sometimes we are running to out of date programming. So, do something every day to re-programme and condition your mind, do it every day and this will help you change your mindset.

Some ideas for you; Reading, Professional coach/therapist listen to one of my programmes, or take one of my courses, watch motivating YouTube videos, listen to podcasts.

Another simple way you can help yourself is to adopt positive language and statements.

I’d like you to come up with 2 or 3 positive statements that you’d like top be true, and use them as affirmations, look at them every day, say them to yourself out loud and in your own mind.

Remember if you want to make a change you, you must decide and commit to it, make e a commitment to do this every day & notice what positive impact it has for you.

Thanks for tuning in, please subscribe and share with anyone you know who may benefit from this.

And remember - What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian

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Enjoy A Stress Free Christmas

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

How To Have A Stress Free Christmas

3 Tips to have a Stress Free Christmas

Would you like to enjoy a stress free Christmas, below are my 3 top tips to help you avoid Christmas Stress and enjoy a Stress free Christmas.

Christmas can be such a special and magical time of year, but it can also generate a lot of stress!

Self imposed pressure of making it all perfect, kitchen stress of cooking for more people than you’re used to, financial stress, stress and upset of missing loved ones.

So here are my top 3 tips for a stress free Christmas…

Number 1 – Keep Calm its only Christmas . Enjoy some Christmas Calm, do what you can, to keep calm and be more mindful. Help keep your mind in the here and the now stop thinking and worrying about the past or the future, the things you can’t control, and just enjoy the here and the now more.

And regardless of how stressful it gets, just remember it’s only 1 day, it will pass, so put it into perspective, it’s only 1 day!

Number 2 – Relax and take some time out, whether that’s for yourself, or with loved ones. Avoid the stress and madness, by making sure you take time out to relax. This may include going for a nice walk, taking a relaxing bath, doing a puzzle, listen to some uplifting music, watching your favourite movie.

Just allow yourself sometime to naturally get out of your own head and enjoy some downtime.

Number 3 – Focus on Fun – focus on what you enjoy about Christmas, focus on what make Christmas fun and special for you, focus on doing more of the fun things. We get more of what we focus on so, ensure you allow yourself time to focus on the good things.

I sincerely hope you enjoy a calm, relaxing, fun Christmas.

And remember – What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life and the Christmas you want!

All the best

Christian

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A New Day Guided Meditation

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Please enjoy this free Guided Meditation, to help you relax and unwind.

(Note - Do not listen to this while driving or operating machinery, or anytime when it not safe to close your eyes to relax)

Do you have stress in your life?

Do you have a busy mind?

Do you struggle to switch off and Relax?

Give yourself 11 minutes and I’ll guide you through a free guided relaxation exercise, to help you quickly and easily relax your mind and your body and take a break from the busyness of your day to day life, allowing you to feel rested, relaxed, refreshed and recharged.

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Please note each experince can be different and the more you listen to it, the easier it gets, so feel free to come back and listen to it as often as you like.

I hope you enjoy this short guided meditation to help you relax and calm your mind and your body in less than 11 minutes.

Please click here to leave a comment below the video, to let me know how you get on and what you enjoyed about this video meditation.

All the best

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Every Day Is A Fresh Start

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Every day is a fresh start, a new opportunity, to refocus, to learn, reset and move forward

Coming up we’re going to look at how you can use this to help you achieve the life you want.

There are many quotes that talking about a new day being a new opportunity, presenting you with new strength

So, in this episode we’re going to look at how you can use this idea constructively to achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Too many people are living their life on auto pilot and rarely think about where they are going, until something happens in their life, losing someone or something, a loved one or a job. Or maybe once a year when a new year begins.

But you don’t have to wait for these things to happen, to learn, grow and develop.

I want you to view each day as a new opportunity to refocus, to learn from yesterday and use that to help you take action towards your tomorrow.

Your future depends on what you do today, so take the learning from your experiences, both positive and negatives celebrate your success & progress and take positive purposeful actions that will help your move closer towards what you want, not focus on things that will move your further away from it.

Ask yourself what can I do today that my future self will thank me for?

Now get to it and make it happen!

Thanks for tuning in, please subscribe and share with anyone you know who may benefit from this.

And remember - What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian Baker

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Change Your Mindset - Change Your Life

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Change Your Mind and Change Your Life!

If you’re not achieving the life and the goals that you want, maybe it’s time to change your mindset!

When you change your mind everything else follows, so coming up in this episode I’m going to share with you how you can simply change your mindset to help you change your life.

I often work with clients who say they know what they should and shouldn’t be doing, or they know what they want, but they don’t seem to be able to do it. This has nothing to do with intellect, desire or motivation, but simply our own BS, our belief system your subconscious programming our mindset.

The good news is, once you are aware of your programming you can change and update your mindset! Think of your mind like the most sophisticated computer around, but it’s only as good as its programming.

Think of the 1st phone or computer you’ve ever used, at the time it was probably brilliant, but now a year, 5, 10, 15 year later, it would be out of date, not right or wrong just out of date, think of your mind in the same way.

Sometimes we find ourselves frustrated simply because we are running to out of date software.

So, is it time to update your programming?

Here are 3 ways you can change your mindset;

1. Make a decision – be aware of your current mindset, decide what you don’t want, decide what you do want and decide why you want it!

Make these 3 decisions and that will really help you change your mindset.

2. Train Your Mind – work on your mind fitness. I often ask new clients, particularly Sports Performers, how important mindset is, and they will often say 80-90%, which I think you will agree this is pretty high. But when you ask what they do to develop and work on this, the response is usually nothing! So, don’t leave your mind fitness to chance. Work on your mind fitness, train your mind to think feel and focus on the things that you want, rather than what you don’t want

3. Re-programme your mind – over time these 2 will help, but if you really want, to help yourself, get some professional help and support, from either a 1:1 Coach/therapist. But you can also help re-programme your mind by investing in courses to help change your mindset, as well as investing your time in reading, listening and watching supportive audios, podcasts and videos, that help develop the mindset you want.

If not, change it, make a commitment to yourself to do something every day to help change your mindset so you can change your life.

Thanks for tuning in, please subscribe and share with anyone you know who may benefit from this.

And remember - What your mind believes you will achieve – so think differently, believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the life you want!

All the best

Christian

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Learn How To Relax

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Just relax!!

That’s the advice given to so many people struggling with stress, or anxiety, but so often people don’t know how to do it.

So, in this episode I share with you some simple steps for how you can relax and unwind, your mind and your body.

These following steps are the same steps I take my clients through and similar to the steps on my audio downloads, and if you haven’t already, you can register for my free master your mind course and you’ll get a complimentary copy of my relax and unwind guided relaxation audio. (It’s always good to have someone else guide you through the steps)

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The Achieve Podcast with Joe Vitale

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 05:00:00 +0000

In this episode I share an interview from my archives, with Joe Vitale one of the lead contributors to the hugely successful book and DVD, the Secret. This interview is taken from a telesummit I hosted a few years ago, around abundance, wealth and prosperity, and our mindset around money.

The interviews are no longer available, but I wanted to share this one with you as the content is still as good today.

Please excuse the audio quality, this was a recorded telephone conversation luckily technology has come a long way from then but be assured the quality of the content is most definitely worth a listen, so stay tuned!

The Achieve Podcast

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Hi, I'm Christian Baker from ChristianBaker.net welcome to The Achieve Podcast, you're listening to the first ever episode.

This is the welcome episode, I've also launched The Achieve Podcast with 2 further episodes, so you can listen & get a flavour of the type of podcast you can expect.

The plan is to release a new episode every Monday and Thursday

The podcast, will be a mix of episodes, including a short solo episode every Monday, where I share mindset, techniques and strategies, and then every Thursday I'll bring you a 30min special guest interviews.... where I interview a variety of guests to share their insights & expertise and their personal success & achievements & all things mindset related ... to help inspire, motivate & encourage you to achieve the life that you want.

Why podcasting - Podcasting has been on my radar to do for some time. I already share content on my blog http://christianbaker.net/blog/ & my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/christianbakertv, and a few years ago I ran and hosted a number of virtual teleconference events, where I interviewed over 60 experts on topics around mindset, weight loss, business, success, personal development, wealth and abundance, and I really enjoy doing them, so I decided to it's time to get back to doing some more interviews and podcasting seems a great fit for doing this. and best if all it's free, you can get access to the episodes on any app or platform that supports podcasting

Simply, I love helping people be the best that they can be and I'm passionate about helping as many people as I can to believe in themselves, to take action, so they can achieve the life that they want.

But there's only one of me and only so many hours in a day, that I can see people for private personal 1-2-1 sessions, so the aim of the Achieve Podcast, is so I can reach, help and positively impact the lives of as many people as I possibly can.

For year I've been telling my personal clients " What your mind believes you will achieve"

If you look in the dictionary, the definition of Achieve - is to successfully bring about, or reach a desired objective, or result, by effort, skill, or courage.

And the aim of this podcast is to share insights, techniques and strategies to help inspire, motivate and encourage you to think differently, to develop your mindset, so you can believe in yourself more, take positive action, so that you can achieve the life that you want. and simply be the best that you can be.

As a consultant Hypnotherapist, mindset and performance coach since 2001, I've helped thousands of clients change their mindset and improve their lives for the better, by helping them stop doing the things they don’t want to be doing... but more importantly start to enjoy and achieve the things that they do.

I’ve had the pleasure of working with some amazing people from all over the world, from househusbands to household names, celebrities and personalities, from the worlds of Sport, TV, entertainment & Music and entrepreneurs in the business world.

I've also appeared and had some of my work featured on a variety of radio and TV shows, like the xfactor in the UK, where I was a consultant called upon to help some of the contestants with their performance mindset & confidence.

And although I help with a wide variety of issues, fundamentally I help people to change their mindset, to think differently to believe in themselves!

Because you know Once you change your thinking everything else follows. Your thoughts lead to feelings - feeling lead to actions. So, if you want to achieve anything you need to change and develop your thinking& your mindset.

“All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind.” W. Clement Stone

And I think it's so true...

I often liken it to physical fitness, we can develop and enhance our minds fitness in the same way we can improve our physical fitness, and it’s something that’s ongoing and ever evolving, there's always more we can do to improve.

In the same way as if you decide to get physically fitter, you don’t go to the gym, have a PT session or go for a run once and then that’s it, you have to continually and consistently apply yourself to improve and make progress and your mindset is the same.

So if during any of these episode of the achieve podcast you here and idea or strategy that you have heard before, please don't dismiss it because you already know about it, instead ask yourself if you've ever applied it consistently to your life and if not ask yourself how best you can apply it to your life now.

If you're already curious and interested to find out more about ho you can develop your mindset and how can master your Mind and your life,

Free Master Your Mind Video Course

This also comes with a complimentary copy of my relax and unwind mindset re-set audio, simply visit http://christianbaker.net/free-training/ to get instant access and start developing your mindset, so you can design, create and achieve the life that you want.

I really want this podcast to be beneficial to you, so if you have any feedback, if you have any topics, you'd like me to cover, or any guests you'd like me to interview... let me know & I'll see what I can do.

Feel free to come say hi and let’s connect on your favourite social media channel and let me know you're a listener of the achieve podcast using #theachievepodcast or #TAP

Until next time, thanks for listening and remember what your mid believes you will achieve - so believe in yourself, take action and you can achieve the life that you want.

All the best

Christian

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