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Setting targets for the new decade: Beyond the New Year's resolution

When you pause and reflect over the last ten years you look forward to a new one, it makes you realize how short life, how time is precious and how quickly time can you pass by – with nothing to show for it, if you do not expect otherwise.

Therefore the passage of another decade may feel like a wake up call as much as a new beginning: By looking at the technological wonders that surround us, this year I can not help thinking that feels like science fiction.

In fact, modern technology is one reason why some people have managed to transform the body while others have failed.

I am always impressed by the Web. The satellite navigation system in my car amazes me to whenever I drive. I can store a library of books in a device that fits in my pocket. It blows my mind that we can talk to each face to face via live Internet video. This is straight out of Star Trek! And these are only small things of everyday life.

History Cover of National Geographic Magazine, January is entitled, "Rights and Fusion" machine – it's about bionic limbs company. Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic has unveiled two spacecraft and prepares to launch in Civilian Space Flight in orbit.

It is the largest time to be alive in human history! Unfortunately, the modern conveniences of today have made a dark side us.

Rising obesity accompanied the March of Technology. The chair-bound, desk, computer, car, Elevator, based television today's society contributes to millions of people fat and lazy.

Our current lifestyle is less than a century, yet our biology has not changed for tens of thousands of years. Our bodies were designed for move and work, not sit and click.

We have become spoiled. Laurels. In charge. And we pay a price for it. We are larger than ever before in human history. Over two-thirds of Americans are now overweight. One third are obese.

People are dying because they are too fat.

Ironically, none of our new technology can solve our problems of body fat. There no easy solution. No pills. No machine. No drugs. More knowledge does not help. We have the most responses. We know more on the human body than ever. But all this is moot.

The problem lies in the fact. You must do the work – in the gym and kitchen. Work hard.

We are a quick fix. This is part of human nature, but technology makes us more anxious. We have products delivered to us with a click and even do so from our cell phones. We have instant versions, movies on demand, and drive through coffee shops. We get our food manufactured and delivered in a few minutes while we sit in our cars, and it is still not fast enough. Internet is blazingly fast, but most people leave a webpage within seconds if it has not loaded. This is no different with fat loss. We want six pack abs yesterday.

Simultaneously fight the pull of human nature and the convenience of new technology is not a task easy. But there is a solution: Future Direction

The most successful people in the world today are those who have a long-term. They plan 5-10 years ahead and beyond. They know how to enjoy and live in the moment, but they take action and make decisions based on their vision of the future.

The passage of another decade makes you take stock of yourself and your achievements, or lack thereof. "What have I do over the last 10 years? Am I a better person today than I was in 2000? "

If you do not answers, then it is time to finally serious about your future because the next 10 years are underway to fly faster than the last 10 as the pace of life and society becomes even faster.

To succeed in the new decade, think beyond the New Year's resolutions. Thinking beyond Objective 12-week fitness. As you write your goals this year, do not stop with3 months or 1 year's goals.

Project yourself in the future, 3, 5 and 10 years. For each, to dream, fantasize, imagine if your body, your health, your performance were physically perfect in every way, what would it look like? Describe in vivid detail.

With our inveterate propensity for quick solutions, we often estimate what we can achieve in the short term and set unrealistic deadlines on our short term goals. But the reverse is that we often underestimate what we can achieve in the long term, so we set long term goals too low. You realize that people are gone Broke from the billionaire in 10 years? In this era of Internet, some have even been faster.

My challenge for you this year is to start thinking about your body and your life with the same type of creativity that led to our greatest technological advances:

Not the same thoughts as before. Not only positive thoughts. No thoughts, just bigger. NEW thoughts! Creative thoughts! Modern thoughts! New thoughts will flow new targets, new initiatives and new achievements.

Objectives of fitness should not take over your life, they should reinforce all the other parties thereto. Take this opportunity to achieve a balance by setting long term goals for all areas of your life – health, fitness physical, financial, career, relationships, experiences, travel, wealth and spiritual growth.

Most people have set no target 10 years ago. They are among the masses who are in the same place today as they were ten years ago.

Some people only set goals in the short term, so they have done some things, but then stopped, as if a goal was a final destination rather than a step along a path.

Other people set goals but did not acted on them. They have forgotten that the goal setting and achieving the goal are two different things.

Do not fall into these traps.

Average, people make resolutions. Smart Set well trained objectives. But long-term goals are goals that almost everyone forgets to define.

If you have not done this exercise ten years ago, do it now. If you do, I guarantee that in 3 5 and 10 years, you'll find not only your life to a whole new level, you will find yourself living in another world – one of your own creation.

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