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and jump onto your goals list. Goals can either be to achieve positive things, like training to run a marathon, or combating negative things, like overcoming comfort eating.

ACHIEVE

Most athletes use mental techniques to train and compete. In many cases all the participants in a competition may be fairly evenly matched in terms of their physical ability, where they get ahead is their mental approach. Just sat where you are now you can immediately help yourself just by changing the way you think.

Avoid negative viewpoints.

A very commonly occurring example of a needlessly negative viewpoint is the phrase "I have BAD concentration". Whilst there are people who have problems with concentrating to a large degree the chances are you aren't one of them but you may well not have the ability to concentrate for long periods of time or be able to do so as well as you would like to.

The problem occurs with attaching this word "bad" when we really mean "human", no one can concentrate indefinitely. Most people work better in either short bursts of concentration, taking a more multi tasking based approach, and others work better by taking on one task at a time and sticking with it to completion.

Neither method is wrong and neither method is in essence better but they can present advantages or disadvantages in different situations. Ideally you will find ways to utilise your skills so that they are strengths and not weaknesses. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that because you can't do what everyone else does in the same way that your skills are in fact disabilities.

Instead of saying to yourself "I can't" and "I'm not good at" use "I prefer" and "I am better at". The way you think of your own abilities during the day consciously and subconsciously is hugely important and by using negative viewpoints you can often be acting as your own worst enemy.

Success phobia.

Most people think that they can't possibly be scared of success, especially if they are aiming for it, but how often do you hold back from grasping opportunities or take less of what is rightfully yours because you feel like something you can't quite pin down is stopping you?

It could be that you're given an important number to call, delay a few days and miss your chance or that you dawdle over signing up for a course you've wanted to take all your life and are sure you will do well at. Whatever excuses we come up with the real issue is usually that we are scared of the changes that success will bring us. It's often

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