Programming Yourself for Success

By Brian Tracy

Your mission statement is always written in the present tense, as though you have already become the person that you have described. It is always positive rather than negative. And it is always personal.

Program Yourself Correctly
Your subconscious mind can only accept your mission statement as a set of commands when you phrase it in the present, positive and personal tenses. "I am an exceptional martial artist," is a perfect example. After every class, you should quickly reread your mission statement and ask yourself if your recent behavior was more like the person you want to be, or less? As a top martial arts performer, you are always comparing your activities against a high standard and adjusting your activities upward. You're continually striving to be better. Every day in every way, you are deliberately working to become more like the ideal person you have envisioned.

Determine Your Mission Statement
Your goal is that, a year from today, when one of your co-workers has lunch with one of your friends, and your friend asks your co-worker to describe you in detail as a professional, your co-worker will recite your personal mission statement voluntarily. The way you have acted, lived, and performed will have been so exemplary that your co-worker will describe you in the most glowing of terms.

Compare Yourself Against Yourself
Once you have developed a mission statement like this, you can read it, review it, edit it, and upgrade it regularly. You can add additional qualities to it and more clearly define the qualities you've already listed. It becomes your personal credo, your philosophy of life, your statement of beliefs and a guide to your behavior in all your interactions with others. Each day, you can evaluate your behaviors and compare them against the standard that you have set in this statement.

Shape Your Own Personality
Over time, a remarkable thing will happen. As you read and review your personal mission statement, you will find yourself, almost unconsciously, shaping your words and conforming your behaviors so that you are more and more like the ideal person you have defined. People will notice the change in you almost immediately. Over time, you will find that you are actually creating within yourself the kind of character and personality that you most admire in others. You will have become the molder and the shaper of your own personal destiny. After you have applied the ABC Method to your list, you will now be completely organized and ready to get more important things done faster.

First, imagine that one of your co-workers was going to meet with one of your friends. What would you want him to say about you? How could you behave with your co-workers to assure that they say these things?

Second, talk to yourself positively all the time. Feed your mind with positive messages that describe your goals and the person you want to be.


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Mastering the Art of Parenting
By Brian Tracy

The most important single role of parenting is to love and nurture your children and to build in them feelings of high self-esteem and self-confidence. If you raise your children feeling terrific about themselves, if you bring them up full of eagerness to go out and take on the world, then you have fulfilled your responsibility in the highest possible sense.

Why Parents Don't Love Enough
There are two major reasons for the failure by parents to love their children enough. First, the parents do not love themselves. Parents with low self-esteem have great difficulty giving more love to their children than they feel for themselves. The second reason that parents don't love their children enough is they often have the mistaken notion that their children exist to fulfill their expectations.

Children are Not Property
The starting point of raising super kids is to realize that your children are not your property. Your children belong to themselves. They are a gift to you from high above, and a temporary gift at that.

Children are a Precious Gift
When you look at your children as precious gifts that you can only enjoy for a short time, you see your role as parents differently. When you celebrate and encourage the special nature and personality of your child, he or she grows like a flower in sunshine. But if you try to get your child to be something he or she is not, your child's spirit will wither, and his or her potential for happiness and joy will shrivel like a leaf on a tree in autumn

Love Makes the Difference
The most important consideration in raising super kids is the amount of love they receive. Children need love like flowers need water. A continuous flow of love and approval from the parent to the child is the child's lifeline to emotional and physical health. Love deprivation is surely the most serious problem that a child can suffer during his or her formative years.

Unconditional Love and Acceptance
Make it clear to your child that nothing he or she does could ever cause you to love him or her less than 100 percent. The most wonderful gift you can give your child is the absolute conviction that you love him or her completely, without reservation, no matter what he or she does and no matter what happens.

Praise and Encouragement
Give your children continual praise and encouragement for the positive things they do, even small things. Praise and reinforce what you would like to see repeated. Praise them to build their self-esteem and self-confidence.

Action Exercise
Ask yourself what it would be like to be your own child. Put yourself in the position of your child or your children, and then evaluate yourself as a parent. What are your strengths and weaknesses? What do you do well and what do you do poorly? What are some of the thing that you do that might be causing your children to grow up with lower self-esteem than you would like? What can you do, starting today, to be a better and more loving parent?

3 Secrets to Slimming Down

Sure, we know that eating less and exercising more is one simple, tried-and-true weight loss strategy. But here are three weight loss secrets you may not have heard of.

Secret number one: Turn down your thermostat a smidge. Sounds odd, right? Yet studies indicate that cozy indoor temps may inhibit calorie-burning because your body will burn extra calories to keep warm. But not if it's feeling toasty. Research suggests that keeping temps below 68 degrees Fahrenheit may help fire up your metabolism.

Secret number two: Go to bed early. A lack of sleep throws appetite hormones into gimme-more mode. Poor sleep also affects blood sugar and insulin levels in a way that can increase the risk of excessive weight gain. Your goal: 7 to 8 hours of nightly shut-eye, day in and day out.

Secret number three: Cut down your dinners out to once a month. In the study, eating just one restaurant meal per week upped the risk of obesity by 50 percent. Preparing meals at home allows you to control fat, sugar, and salt content -- and let's you know exactly what you're eating.


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This month we will be holding our
Belt Presentations on a special split schedule;

Children: Lil Dragons & Goshin Juniors will be presented on
Friday 29 July 2011

Adult Martial Arts & Jiu Jitsu testing will be held on
Saturday 23 July 2011 and belt promotions will be awarded during class on Saturday 30 July 2011.

Please review the testing schedule, exam roster, and upcoming events to see how it may affect you by visiting our website @ http://www.americanblackbelt.org/student.html

JULY BBC DATES !!

FRIDAY 8 JULY 11

FRIDAY 15 JULY 11

FRIDAY 22 JULY 11



DON'T MISS IT !!!

DEMO TEAM

The Demo will be observing a summer break schedule and try outs for new Demo team members will be conducted in the fall.

"KIDS ADVANCED SKILLS CAMPS"

AMERICAN BLACK BELT ACADEMY is always striving to improve our service to our members and attract quality new students. As part of our Quest to be the Best...

Summer is here and it's time for kids camps, but this year our kids camps filled up quickly and some students didn't get signed up, but due to our expansion NOW WE HAVE MORE SPACE...... So we've added MORE spots for our kids camp.

Our kids Sparring Camp was a huge success and now we only have one more camp remaining this summer;

JIU-JITSU CAMP - 11 -15 JULY 2011
------------ 9:00 am am - 12:00 pm

WE'VE ADDED ADDITIONAL SPACES at your request, SIGN UP AT THE FRONT DESK !!!
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+ Summer Post card Contest

Going on vacation? Taking a summer trip? Just because you're leaving the Martial Arts School doesn't mean you're leaving the Martial Arts behind. During your vacation activities take a moment to send a post card to the school and at the end of the summer you could win a prize.

SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 2009

At the Academy open House We'll be awarding prizes for the post cards you sent to include;

♦ Funniest Postcard
♦ Coolest Postcard
♦ Postcard from the greatest distance away

+ Vacation Buddy Program ......

Hey Lil Dragons going on vacation ? This summer when you go take a special friend along. Kiai the karate fox, take him along take pictures of the two of you at exciting places having fun together and each time you bring him back, he gets promoted.

So help Kiai earn new stripes and belts while you both have lots of fun......

LOGO on LOCATION

Every year we have an array of summer contests just for the kids ...........

Well once again this year the summer fun isn't just for the kids. Just pack your American Black Belt Academy Logo T-shirt any time your away from the academy.
Going on vacation, taking a summer trip, out of town on business ........

During your vacation or travel activities take a photo of you in your Academy Logo T-shirt in a scenic location, by a notable landmark, or doing something cool, exciting, fun, or with a celebrity. Post your pic on Facebook and at the end of the summer you could win a prize.