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The Importance of Micro Goals

HAVE YOU MADE YOUR MICRO-GOALS?

We are drawing to the end of January. January the time for new years resolutions. Big Goals like “Save Money” “Lose Weight” “Be Healthy” are thrown around… yet people forget how profound the small little goal is.

Save Money – How?
Are you just going to retire your bank card?

Lose Weight – How?
Stop eating?

Be Healthy – How?
Spend your life savings on every healthy eating fad out this 2016

Today I sat at an event hosted by Green for All Seasons founder Victoria who discussed with her panelists the concept of micro-goals and how they help us achieve the small goals for big wins

Victoria the founder of Green for All Seasons started off with some of her advice. Her website advocates introducing the green way of life. For example: replacing your skincare products for organic and natural products. She scared us by saying an alarming 11% of products out of the 10,000+ deemed safe for use by humans have actually been tested. Now this may ring alarm bells (as it did with me) but she said…and this is the important bit… Start to change your products to the green version but do it step by step. When one runs out – replace it with a greener product. By doing this micro-goal you are making the small changes without drastically changing anything.

Are you starting to see the logic?

(beautiful nibbles from Green for All Seasons)

We then moved on to the delightful Chessie King

She is such a positive ball of light – saying that her attitude to health is her attitude to happy.
Its how it makes her feel – no pressure – no force – just what makes her smile

“Take yourself of an adventure everyday”
Instead of seeing exercise as a chore – on your lunch break get up and explore your surroundings… what’s down that alley, whats behind that door – get out and explore.

This small micro goal turns a Big Goal like LOSE WEIGHT or EXERCISE MORE into a small achievable fun thing that you and a colleague could do everyday

My colleague and I adventure ended up walking into a make up store and trying on the latest matte lipstick (gaining 3000 steps in the process!)

(YSL – lipstick)

Chris Sandel (author or The Health Trap) spoke next

Chris spoke passionately that health and wellbeing is about looking at the person in front of you. No one person is the same. Something that one person swears by may not be what works for someone else. Small wins that make you feel great is what is important.

Keeping your micro goals personal

Dana Elemara the founder of the brand arganic – specialising in 100% pure argan oil.

Raised in a healthy mediterranean household: she never realised how healthy her food was as it was abundant.

Her mother would fill her plate full of colours and only use good meat.

She was very passionate about her cause: She inspired me to really think about what I put in my body.

“It doesn’t have to hard to be healthy”

Her micro-goals are ones that I am pinching

Always eat colourful foods

ONLY EAT WELFARE MEAT

Perfect.

Finally we met Ed Foy one of the founders of PRESS

This hyper-active passionate individual spoke of his life changing moment of experiencing meditation.

He was miserable even though his life was happy and full of healthy products

By taking 15 minutes a day to meditate: it game changed his view on life.

“Happiness is chemistry not circumstance”

“Giving time is the only way to achieve anything”

You can spend all day thinking about being healthy, doing more exercise, practising meditation, and engaging with the ones you love but until you give them time – the thoughts are redundant.

So to conclude this wonderful talk.

You can have many different goals in life but until you break them down into small bite-size steps – you are just going to stress yourself out and worse… feel like a failure.

If Eating Healthy is your goal start by something small…
“I will have an apple instead of crisps with lunch”

If Exercise More is your goal start with something small…
“I will walk to work”
“Take the stairs”
“Get 10,000 steps a day”

Don’t make your life any harder than it needs to be. Start small to make big wins

Throughout this talk we sipped on Tea by the amazing PositiviTea

Who provide teas that invoke your chakras and focus on the nurture your body may need.

For all those people running around stressed in the office or at home… find your perfect tea to re-engage and let go.

Recipes

Maximising your Metabolism

We all have those events when you are looking to drop a few pounds or get ready for a holiday. We go in with high hopes only to hit 11am and the morning stomach grumble is there.

I have recently trialled out Arbonne Evolution Set

Now for people who know me – will know that I am not a big supplement person. I have the mentality of “if you can grow it or kill it then you can eat it” but after having a long conversation with the consultants at Arbonne I agreed to try this product out as part of my prep towards my up-coming holiday.

So what is it:

The set is made up of a Tablet and a Powder.

The Tablet:

Ingredients include green tea extract and green coffee bean extract. These are both extracts that some of the Made in Chelsea crew have advocated for their slimming. Unlike other caffeine based tablets – this one did not leave me with the shakes. In fact I didn’t really notice much. However, my normal cravings around 11 and 3pm had diminished. With all other factors in my life being equal I have to hold my hands up and maybe say this could have been the reason.

The Powder:

The powder I would liken to Crystal Lite if you have tried it. You mix the Kiwi- Watermelon flavoured powder into water and neck really quickly half an hour before food. I had mine first thing in the morning as I made my morning green smoothie. The ingredients contain Glucomannan which is given to people with type 2 diabetes for blood sugar control. As it helps reduce spikes in your blood sugar this also helps reduce those intense cravings that low blood sugar can cause. What I would say here tho… reduce your sugar and have low gi foods and this will also reduce those pangs. As with the tablets with all factors remaining equal I noticed that I was only eating three meals a day. My need to snack had significantly reduced and when I was hungry I was not having those little voices in the head to go the naughty treats in life…it was general hunger for nourishing food.

As I have said before – I am usually not an advocate for these types of supplements but I am pleasantly surprised.

The consultants I worked with Maysoun (maysoun_wahbeh@yahoo.co.uk) and Victoria (victoriafan@live.co.uk) kept in contact with me throughout my trial. They offered advice and their own experience and sent me fact sheets when I questioned more about the products.

If you do need a little helping hand for keeping the cravings at bay when starting a new phase to become a healthier version of you… I would recommend speaking to Arbonne or these girls. My questions were answered, there was a face to the product and no worries that something nasty may be arriving at the door which can often happen when purchasing products off the internet.

A vegan and vegetarian friendly company

I was happy to trial this product.

With all supplements you must consult your doctor before taking anything. What might work for one person may not for an other. These are my opinions and my review. Please seek your own advice before taking a product.

Diet and Fitness will always be the ultimate in reaching your goal