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Success and your Programming

Welcome to December…we are here.

Hard to think we are rounding out another year, I feel like I blinked and it is December. I know 2020 has come with all of its challenges and certainly not here to negate the impact this year has been on many people.

But I have seen a huge shift in people and a common theme.

I wanted to share this with you today because this is some super powerful stuff.

Why have some people through one of the roughest years been successful?

Success is always the result of something else, something that leads up to it. I have been reading a fascinating book called What to Say When You Talk to Your Self by Shad Helmstetter.

In short, here’s how success works:

1.) Programming and Beliefs

2.) Beliefs create attitudes

3.) Attitudes create feelings

4.) Feelings determine actions

5.) Actions create results

The right series of the right actions will always end up making things work better than the wrong series of the wrong actions. The reason we don’t take even our own advice is because of something else that affects, directs, influences, or controls all of our actions.

This is called our feelings.

How we feel about something will always determine or affect what we do and how well we do it. If your feelings are positive and productive, your actions will follow. Your feelings are created, controlled, determined, or influenced by your Attitudes.

Whatever attitude we have about anything will affect how we feel about it, which in turn determines how we’ll act about it, and that in turn determines whether or not we will do well.

Attitudes play a huge role in helping us become successful which is determined by our beliefs.

What we believe about anything will determine our attitudes about it, create our feelings, direct our actions, and in each instance, help us to do well or poorly, succeed, or fail. Belief does not require something to be true. It only requires us to believe that it’s true.

Our beliefs are created and directed entirely by our programming.

Our conditioning, from the day we were born, has created, reinforced, and nearly permanently cemented most of what we believe about ourselves and what we believe about most of what goes on around us.

This is how our brain works.

If you want different results in your life, you can control the outcome at any time…it starts with your programming.

Later in the week, I will share some ways to help rewrite your programming with Self Talk.

Hope this got you thinking.

Have a wonderful day!

Arin

Lemon-Rosemary Melting Potatoes

Ingredients

Ingredient Checklist

2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and sliced 1 inch thick

2 tablespoons butter, melted

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil  

1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary, plus more for garnish

¾ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon ground pepper

¾ cup low-sodium vegetable broth or chicken broth

¼ cup lemon juice

2 tablespoons sliced garlic

Instructions Checklist

Step 1

Position rack in the upper third of the oven; preheat to 500 degrees F.

Step 2

Toss potatoes, butter, oil, rosemary, salt, and pepper in a large bowl. Arrange the potatoes in a single layer in a 9-by-13-inch metal baking pan. (Don’t use a glass dish, which could shatter.) Roast, turning once until browned, about 30 minutes.

Step 3

Carefully add broth, lemon juice, and garlic to the pan. Continue roasting until most of the liquid is absorbed and the potatoes are very tender, 10 to 12 minutes more. Garnish with additional rosemary, if desired.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 3/4 Cup

Per Serving:

199 calories; protein 3.4g 7% DV; carbohydrates 28.7g 9% DV; dietary fiber 3.5g 14% DV; sugars 1.8g; fat 8.5g 13% DV; saturated fat 3.1g 15% DV; cholesterol 10.2mg 3% DV; vitamin a iu 133.5IU 3% DV; vitamin c 34.7mg 58% DV; folate 25.4mcg 6% DV; calcium 29.7mg 3% DV; iron 1.4mg 8% DV; magnesium 36.8mg 13% DV; potassium 670.5mg 19% DV; sodium 318.6mg 13% DV; thiamin 0.1mg 13% DV.

 

Grain-Free Apple Crisp

 

Ingredients

For the filling

4 apples, peeled and thinly sliced

Juice of ½ lemon

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

For the topping

1 ¼ cups almond meal

¼ cup unsalted butter or coconut oil softened (you could also use ghee)

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

Pinch of sea salt

1 TBSP coconut oil, to grease the pan

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

In a mixing bowl, toss the apples with the lemon juice and cinnamon. 

In a separate bowl, mix together the almond meal, butter/ghee or coconut oil, cinnamon, and salt until completely incorporated.

Grease the bottom and sides of a 9×9 inch or similar sized baking dish with the melted coconut oil.

Place the apples in the baking dish and cover evenly with the topping.

Bake for 20 minutes covered with foil, then for an additional 25 to 30 minutes uncovered, until the apples are soft and the topping begins to brown on the edges.

ENJOY!!!

Your greatest asset…

YOU…are your greatest asset.

But you can also be your worst liability.

We can sabotage ourselves on a daily basis.

What I have found is this is typically all in our mind. We hold onto negative thoughts which lead to negative actions.

What if you believed in you and all your capabilities?

What would be different?

In these short 37 years, I have seen so many people be successful (life, career, health, relationships) and one of the best traits they have is control over their thoughts.

They don’t feed into the negative and are overall happy.

What I noticed is they:

1.) Govern their actions – live in harmony and display self-control

2.) Guard their attitudes – replace worry with prayer or meditation and focus on what’s positive

3.) Give their assets – Sharing resources and trusting that your needs will be met.

Attitude has little to do with circumstances.

Attitude can change, just like circumstances.

We can be unstoppable in our life if we let go and protect our greatest asset…YOU.

Keep your mind and body filled with positive and uplifting resources on a daily basis.

My hope is we can walk each day happy and full of purpose.

If you do not feel this way, start with you.

Exercise

Eat well

Drink water

Listen or read motivational/inspirational messages

These 4 things done daily add up to a lifetime of success.

You are your Greatest Asset.

Arin

Triple Protein Burgers

Ingredients

1 lb. grass-fed ground beef

 ¼ tsp. Cayenne pepper

½ tsp. Smoked paprika

Fresh Grilled Paleo Hamburger with Veggies and Bacon

¼ tsp. Garlic powder

¼ tsp. Onion powder

Sea Salt & Black Pepper to taste

8 strips of bacon (I use Beelers)

4 hot dogs (nitrate and filler-free – I use Thousand Hills)

½ white onion, sliced

5-6 Tablespoons mayo (I use Primal Kitchen or Sir Kensington’s)

Head of romaine lettuce

Optional toppings:  Bubbie’s pickles and tomato

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Place bacon on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and cook for about 15 minutes or until slightly crispy.

In a large bowl, mix together ground beef, cayenne pepper, smoked paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, and a little salt and pepper.  Then form 4 patties of equal size.

Cut hot dog down the middle to butterfly the hot dog.  Place beef patties on the grill and cook on both sides to the desired doneness.  4-5 minutes on each side will yield medium-rare.  You can also pan-fry your burgers in a cast-iron skillet. 

When you flip the beef patties, place the butterflied hot dogs on the grill and flip for about 2 minutes.  You can also heat your hot dogs up by placing them in a toaster oven or in boiling water.

When all meat is done cooking, place a beef patty in a lettuce leaf, top it with mayo, then a hot dog, then bacon, and all of the fixings you like.  Then top with one more piece of lettuce.

Enjoy!!!

Breaking Patterns

Hope you are having a great day today!

Ever try to eat better, only to see yourself go right back to the same things you know you need to eliminate?

One of the hardest things to do is break a pattern.

Take for example driving to work…we drive the same route, driving a different route would feel weird. But there a most likely a few different ways to get to the same destination.

We are wired to do things the same way because we have always done it that way.

When it comes to health and wellness goals, we see people be successful when they can break patterns.

The first pattern might be not exercising, they add in workouts 2 or 3 workouts per week.

Now those workouts are part of their week. We become wired to do those workouts each week otherwise we feel off.

Nutrition, is more complex, but then again it isn’t.

We have attachments and feel good sensors that go off when we eat something.

Rewiring your brain to stop having a sweet after dinner is hard, and the longer you have done this the harder it is.

BUT it can be done.

Its important to understand why you would want to make the change.

Then we need to align our actions to our goals.

We can say we want to lose weight, but if you keep doing all the things that are keeping the weight on, do you really want to lose weight.

I know this is a tough conversation.

Its important to understand what we want, then align the actions it will take to get to the desired results.

Then the magic question, are you willing to do that.

Our brain is an amazing machine and when you take control, you can do anything. What do you need to rewire? For some of us this is deeper, we need to rewire how we feel about ourselves, the self-talk we have.

Instead of thinking, “I’ll only have one cookie.” “or why bother, I won’t see results and ways…” we have to rewrite how we think and view ourselves.

“I deserve to lose weight.”

“I am stronger than my desires.”

“I love how I feel when I fuel my body.”

I could go on.

You deserve anything you want and more.

We need to align our actions with your goals – daily…kinda like taking a bath. 😉

Arin