Episode 121: Goal Setting

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Be my physician.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
He said, you're definitely ill.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Thanks to the nurse.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I've seen worse than the doctor.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Just gave me a pill.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Take one of those three times today. You don't never
stop on till you're really dead er all with better
keep out of the region children bad. The thing has
been some side effects, you mean the probably will well limits.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Of fact, can't.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'll give you one out of the film.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
On top of that, on top of that, on top
of that, on top of that, on top of that,
on top of that.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
And then he showed me his bill.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I've popped another pill.

Speaker 5 (00:36):
Welcome to When Your Health Matters. Your host is doctor
Richard Huntoon of Advanced Alternative Medicine Center located right here
in Pool of Georgia. Doctor Hantoon has been practicing alternative health,
utilizing chiropractic and many other health techniques for the past
twenty seven years to support you when your health matters.
It's his intention to offer practical advice every week for

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you to consider and to apply in your own life
to make your life and the lives of your family
and friends healthier and happier. When you have questions, you'll
get your answers from doctor Rick himself or another expert
on the show. Being empowered to make positive health choices
before problem arises is the best way to approach health,
and doctor Rick promises to have information for you every

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week that will allow you to become proactive and empowered
to take control of your health and your life.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
You are listening to the Alternative Healthcare Network.

Speaker 6 (01:27):
Welcome to this week's show, When Your Health Matters. The
show designed to empower you to better health through knowledge
and education. And I'm your host, doctor Richard Untun from
Advanced Alternative Medicine Center. And here's my partner for the show,
your health Advocate, Mark Saban.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, it's kind of hard to believe, but we are
reaching the end of twenty twenty four. So I'd like
to know, because every year we talk about having themes,
what is the theme for twenty twenty five?

Speaker 6 (01:54):
Yes, twenty twenty four. With all the challenges we face
and continue to face in the coming of twenty twenty five,
the theme for twenty twenty five is recovery to allow progress,
progress as individuals and progress as a nation. So it's
important for us to recover from all the stress, all
the hooplah, all the divisiveness, all the infighting, all the

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non rational responses to things and being upset whether your
team won or didn't win, whatever you and so twenty
twenty five is about recovering and healing the nation and
healing ourselves as individuals.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well, that sounds like a tall order, but one that
we should be ready to sort of embrace, I would hope. So, so,
what would do you consider about moving forward with this
recovery idea into the new year?

Speaker 6 (02:47):
Well, considering where you are and what you'd like to improve,
and begin to focus on how to make progress. Begin
to visualize where you want to be, how you would feel,
what you would be doing, and what you would be
Most importantly, what you would be being in the new year.
Your being. This is most important in every moment. Who
you choose to be and then focus on being there.

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Do you choose to be happy? Do you choose to
be strong? Do you choose to be healthy? Do you
choose to be abundant? Do you choose to be compassionate?
Do you choose to be kind? Do you choose to
be a good listener? All of these things you need
to choose to be and be the best that you
can be at whatever it is that you're choosing to be,
assuming that what you're choosing to be is positive.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, no, I mean last week we were talking about
a lot of the conversation turned to the fact of
stress and the fact one of the big stressors we
have is anxiety. Of course, we don't know what the
future holds. So how do you relieve some of the
anxiety you may be feeling.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
Well, get them to be present, focus on what is
real in their experience, and stop focusing on what their
mind is trying to create that they do not wish
to continue feeding. You always get more of what you
focus on. So focus on the positives and imagine them
versus the things that make you anxious. And so we
have the choice. You can choose to see the glasses

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half full or you can see that choose the glass
as half empty, and which one makes you feel better?
And most of the things that we imagine never actually happen.
It's like all the things we worry about. How many
of the things that you worry about actually come to fruition?
I generally say none of them. So it's like, okay,

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so you just get to choose what it is that
you're going to choose to focus on. And if you
don't like the way that you're feeling, you're in charge
of your feelings, so choose to feel differently.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
So, in terms of people's health, are you seeing things
and people's health that are changing overall or things pretty
much as they were?

Speaker 6 (04:50):
Well, I see all sorts of challenges with people experiencing
health issues, and we immediately focus on the underlying cause
of how they got there, and then it you can
do to help get them to a more desirable outcome.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
So I mean, are people's immune systems weakening ever since
we had the pandemic some a couple of years back.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
Well, society as a whole has been getting weaker and
weaker for the past one hundred years or more. And
this is directly related to the quality of the food
or the faux food that we are eating. The hope
is and the desire we all need to develop is
for things to get better and not accepting the status
quo or accepting the crap foods. And so we've mentioned

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this before. Yes, we just came out of a worldwide pandemic.
We're still in the process of fully recovering from that.
There's been a regime change et cetera. And so we're
going to be in the process of recovering from all
of that kind of stuff. And what I said before
COVID even hit was it was going to be a

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litmus test to understand the health of our country and
how healthy or how sick we are as a nation
fail miserably well.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
I mean at least a third of the country here
is plagued by health problems. Oh absolutely, I mean, like,
why is that happening?

Speaker 6 (06:09):
Well, people exercising their birthright to be healthy. They are
being misled with advertisements about medication and how that will
make you feel better, when in fact it creates bigger problems.
And so we need to understand that we're not focused
on health. We're focused on managing sickness, and we're getting
everybody to focus on what's wrong with them as opposed

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to teaching them how to make things right with them.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
So how do you cultivate what's right with them?

Speaker 6 (06:37):
Well, you focus on it being the goal and exercise
the steps to achieve it, making positive health steps a
priority until that's all you know. So it's it's you know,
you get what you focus on. And so if you're
focusing on improving your health, and you're taking the steps
necessary in order to improve your health to where now

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everything that you do in your life is about maintain
and managing your health in a positive way. I mean,
that's what I do all day every day. I don't
ever worry about getting sick. I eat right, I take
my supplements, I get the sleep that I get, and
you know, exercising and meditating and doing my spiritual practice

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and making sure that my circle is small as far
as the people that I interact with and get along with.
And when you bring in more and more people, well,
now you're dealing with more and more personalities, with more
and more things that are out of balance. So that
just creates more turbulence in your world. So the smaller

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you can keep your circle, the better off you're probably
going to be well.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
I Mean, one of the things that goes on with
people is as you have a certain momentum that's going
on with your life. And so if you want to
turn your health into a better direction, how do you
affect that momentum that's carrying you on the direction you're
going well?

Speaker 6 (08:02):
For starters, you have to begin by starting making it
a priority and having a plan to increase your results
and make progress. So wherever it is that you are.
It's kind of like if you want to navigate in
your car to go from where you are to I
don't know, some kind of destination that really makes you happy.

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What are you going to do in your car? You're
going to have to plug in where the destination is.
You don't have to say where you are because the
system already knows where you are, but you have to
tell it where you want to go, and then it
will map out a navigation of how you're going to
go from where you are to where it is that
you want to be. Well, the same thing with your life.
You need to determine where it is that you want

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to go, what it is that you want to experience,
But prior to doing where you want to go, you
have to acknowledge where you are.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
But I mean, I guess your job is kind of
like being that GPS. If you're guiding a person from
where they are to better health. How do you go
about doing that?

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well?

Speaker 6 (09:00):
Well, first thing we do is we do an evaluation
to determine where they are and what their current state
of health is. And once we've done the evaluation and
we've identified all the things that are interfering with their
body's ability to express its natural health. Then we develop
a plan out of that health imbalance to restoring normal health.
And then once we get them to a place called

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being healthy, well, now we give them instructions on what
they can do to maintain that health.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
No. I mean for a lot of people who are
already maybe coming to see you, may already be on
some sort of medication. And as we've talked often on
the zoo, there are side of exo medication. So how
do you affect the ill effects that you may have
the consequences of taking that medication.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
Well, at the end of the day, if you fix
the reason for why the medical professionals believe that you
should be taking the medication by addressing the underlying cause
of the problem, let's say high blood pressure. If you
address the high blood press, sure at the source of
why the body produces high blood pressure. Instead of masking
the high blood pressure with medication, they can maybe start

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the medication because their blood pressure is really high. Then
we address the reasons for why the blood pressure is high.
Now we establish them back into a normal balance, and
then they can go off the medication because they no
longer need to lower their blood pressure their bodies maintaining
it at a normal, healthy level.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Now, one of the big problems that people face is pain.
So if you wanted to treat pain without medication, is
that is that possible? Oh? It is?

Speaker 6 (10:36):
And I help people do that just about every day
because most times people come to me they have some
level of discomfort which ultimately ends up equating to some
level of pain, and so helping the person get out
of their discomfort is the focus of the care. So
it just becomes a question of well, where are we focused.

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My job is to focus on restoring a person's health
and getting their body to express what God had initially
intended for each individual.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Wel So, I mean, if you're speaking about healthcare and focus,
when did the focus turn to being about treating sickness
rather than promoting health?

Speaker 6 (11:16):
Well at its inception about one hundred and twenty years ago,
when they first started violating the Healthy Food Act of
nineteen oh eight, and when Rockefeller and Carnegie bribed the
medical schools to teaching one aspect of treatment the promotion
of using pharmaceuticals. And it's been downhill since and so Essentially,
what they said is if you want us to fund you,

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then you're going to educate people to believe in taking
pharmaceuticals because we make large profit off of pharmaceuticals. So
we want to promote a whole way of thinking to
where if you have a health problem, which you're naturally
going to have based upon the choices that we're making
food wise and the violation of the Healthy Food Act,

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you're eventually going to need something to suppress those symptoms.
That's where we want everybody to be because that's what's
going to make me the most amount of money. So
that's what I'm going to employ, and that's what I'm
going to finance, and so that's how the American Medical
Association was developed.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
So you really are defying that whole definition and moving
things in a different direction. So if somebody chooses to
work with you, you're really working against that status quo, trying
to get people to cultivate health and not treat their sickness.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
Right at the end of the day, I want to
begin by asking questions to understand the effects of a
person's health issue. How is their condition impacting their ability
to express health versus sickness? And disease. Medicine focuses on
combating the effects of disease and not addressing the cause

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of those outcomes. High blood pressure is never truly addressed
at the cause. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, or autoimmune disease
are all managed instead of addressed, and when asked about
the cause, the standard answer is is, we just don't
know what's causing this. And I think that's where our
health care industry has failed, because if the orientation of

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the Medical Association's education is to rely on pharmaceuticals as
the be all, end all solution to whatever the condition
happens to be, then they stopped being the healthcare practitioner
that everybody who goes to medical school initially wanted to be.
They wanted to solve problems. They didn't want to manage conditions.

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I chose to stop going to medical school and go
to chiropractic school because I didn't want to deal with
end stage disease every day. I wanted to actually focus
on impacting a person's health to where they don't end
up having those end stage diseases of all those different
conditions that I mentioned.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
So one of the things that you came up with that,
we want to talk to you about today is the
idea of setting up a health goals for yourself. So
is that going to be sort of at the foundation
of being able to move your health from where you
are today to a better health.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
Yeah, you need to understand where you are and then
you need to have a goal as to where it
is that you want to go, because your health should
be the most important thing that you have. It should
be your biggest priority. But we're not taught to nurture
being healthy. We're taught to manage symptoms with all the
commercials et cetera in terms of how things are set up.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
But I mean, if you're already sick, you're already sort
of going down the path that direction. So do you
have to come back all the way from the how
far you are down that path?

Speaker 6 (14:58):
Well, yeah, if you've you've gone off into the weeds
and you've veered off the road of the highway that's
going to take you to where it is that you
want to go, you've got to back out of the
weeds and get back on the road. So again, if
your health is important to you, having goals if you're
already sick is important because they can and will help

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you to end the sickness and turn the situation in
a more favorable and healthier outcome direction.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, I mean it seems like having goals. I mean
it gets it scary for some people, like you know,
am I ever going to be able to achieve it?

Speaker 6 (15:35):
Well, that's the thing. People are overwhelmed by the concept
of change, which is so near sightedness. As all life
is continuous change. We just have to tap into making
the change and that you experience as being positive. You know, again,
glass half full or half empty, It depends upon how
you look at it. And my thought is is to
always be grateful for what you do have and to

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build on what you have in an effort to create
a better outcome as to where it is that you
want to go.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, when you think about the glass being full or
half empty, I mean, is it a fear of success
or a feel of fear of failure that motivates people
or keeps people from taking action?

Speaker 6 (16:15):
Well, unfortunately we have this dysfunction within our brain. Is
that most people are afraid of success. They have always
been led to believe in their upbringing, with generational influence
stemming from times of not having enough. We push that
mentality forward into our children and into our grandchildren, and
so people are afraid to be successful. People are afraid

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to have more than what they grew up with because
that is disrespectful to their parents or disrespectful to their grandparents.
And it's like, no, I remember growing up as a kid.
My parents wanted better for me than what they had,
So for me to not exercise doing better than what
they did at the same age in their life is
actually insulting them them in terms of what their intention

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was for me. So it's important for me. It's important
for every child of every parent to be more successful
than their parent, so that now you can use that
success to enhance the parent's life as they continue to age.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's the kind of the nature of evolution is to
be keep growing further further. That arc should be moving
in that direction.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Right and be able to lift people up with your success.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah. Now, so one of the things that you have
come up with that we want to talk about today
is this idea of setting those goals for the new years.
As we're now about to end this year, we want
to set up for the next year, and so do
these goals, do the goals that you would set up
really help you do anything to get towards that goal

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of achieving better help.

Speaker 6 (17:51):
Well, yeah, so you have ample time to see the
results and set the expectations to come gradually, and by
celebrating the little wins, progress is made and sustained. So
having good goals related to your health, you know, and
you you want to get into. When we talked about

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goal setting a few weeks back, we talked about wanting
to make sure that the goal is specific, having a
general goal to say that, yeah, I want to lose
weight in the new year. Okay, you get on the
scale New Year's Eve and you weigh two hundred pounds,
And you can get on the scale a week after
New Year's and you weigh one hundred and ninety nine. Wow,
look at you. You're a weekend of the new year

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and you've already achieved your goal. Well yeah, until you
have a big meal and now you're up above the
two hundred pounds again, and it's like, all right, so
what is it that you're doing. So you want to
have a goal in mind that is something that is measurable,
that can happen within a certain specific timeframe, and you
want it to be something that motivates you and empowers

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you to want to take action.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
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Speaker 1 (19:52):
Me, Doc, how did you come up with this ten
step goal setting method?

Speaker 6 (19:57):
Well, by analyzing and understanding the profit of creating positive change.
And let's be clear, Mark, these steps aren't mine per se.
They are of many who have come before me. I
did not invent the wheel, but I do know how
to use it and benefit from it. So these ten
steps are you could probably find anywhere. But I think

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that it's important this time of year to inspire the
listener to go into the new year with a positive
mental outlook and to give them some things that they
can do to actually begin to create change in their
lives for the better.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
So is this a list of thou shalt nots?

Speaker 6 (20:40):
Absolutely not. This is a list of things that you
should be doing. Those types of lists stop progress versus
open up for progress. So we don't want to do
what you can't do. We want to talk about what
you can. And you know, since we live in the
United States of America and we're all considered Americans, I'd

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like it to think of everybody being a happy can
as opposed to a hopeless can.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah. Now, does this use a lot of visualization and
does visualization? Does that really work? Well?

Speaker 6 (21:16):
Ask anyone who takes the time to do it and
do it regularly. It sets the energy to begin to
manifest your vision. Sends a signal out to the universe,
and the universe will respond if you give it the
time and don't pinch the results off before they fully manifest.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Now, when you talk about goals, I guess it would
be best if you state them fairly simply so they're
not too complicated.

Speaker 6 (21:42):
Yeah, you want to keep it simple, and you want
to keep it in a way that, as you said,
isn't complex, because complexity creates a misunderstanding. And so the
more simple you can define a goal, the more simple,

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the easier it is to achieve that goal.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Okay, and then how is it best to express those goals?

Speaker 6 (22:08):
Well, you should always express them positively and in the
present tense, as if they're already occurring. To tell your
universe this is my reality now, and I would like
for you to continue matching it for me, please.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Okay. Can you use images and pictures and things like
that to help you sort of facilitate that.

Speaker 6 (22:29):
Yeah, pictures are representations that help you crystallize your vision
or representation of that vision to motivate you to keep going.
If you can see a picture of what it is
that you're trying to create, then that just makes it
that much more real in your mind, which creates that
much more focus and that much more pulling of the
energy to help create the manifestation.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Okay, so let's get into actually what those goals are.
What is the first of those ten goals?

Speaker 6 (22:57):
Decide what you want to accomplish. Make it as specific
as you can, which we've already discussed is being too
vague and sending mixed signals and lacking specifics for what
you're manifesting is going to hinder your progress and make
it really really hard for you to see that what

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you're trying to manifest is beginning to occur.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
I mean, it seems like a pretty obvious first step
to take that it's to define the.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
Goal well in it being obvious is why many people
skip the step and then don't achieve the things that
they're attempting to manifest, simply because they thought it was
obvious and they just skipped right over it. So taking
the step and doing the step fully. Every step is important,
and every step builds on the first step. So making
sure that you take the first step and making it

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a good first step as opposed to just glossing over
it is the difference between getting your outcome versus not.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Now. I'd also said that you really need to be specific,
because I think you gave the example if you said
to lose weight, and you lost a pound, You've lost
the weight. So have you achieved your real goal? Right?

Speaker 6 (24:06):
So you want to be as specific as you need
to be. Let's say you want more money. If you
simply leave it at that and create ten cents more money,
then you've made the goal. But if it's an extra
thousand dollars a month, that's a little bit different. And
so by making the goal specific, you know, by defining

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what the goal looks like. Okay, I don't just want
more money. I would like one thousand dollars with more money,
or I would like ten thousand more dollars in my
bank account this year at the end of the year
kind of thing. And it's like, so setting up that
and being inspired by what motivates you to actually do

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the work in order to create the outcome.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
All right, So what's number two?

Speaker 6 (24:56):
Number two is determine a deadline for accomplishing of your goal.
Leaving things open ended leaves the communication or the command
open ended. That makes it so the result could show
up at any point in the future and doesn't create
any sense of urgency. We would like to have it
done by a particular day and time because by giving

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us a deadline, that again creates the urgency of wanting
to get to work and wanting to see the change
and asking the universe to let's get this show on
the road kind of.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
I mean, that would seem like one of the places
that fear of failure could get you, Like, well, if
I choose that date and then when I have this
done by June fifth, what happens if I missed my
goal my goals date.

Speaker 6 (25:44):
Well, it may mean something really big, or it may
continue to motivate you. It's like, as you get closer
to the deadline, you seem to become more active in
what it is that you're trying to create. And so
by having a deadline, it's just going to increase the
inertia of wanting to get the goal, wanting to get

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it done by a particular time. And you know, and
we can play these games with ourselves every day. It's like, Okay,
if getting off of work happens at five o'clock, how
much work can I get done by five o'clock? I
don't necessarily know, but let me do it consistently for
several days in a row so that I can get

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an understanding of what my output is, and then I
can set my goal to be just a little bit
more so that I can can improve my output every
single day. There's a a Japanese premise. I believe it's Japanese.
It's the law of kite Sen, and kite Sen talks

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about incremental improvements. So if you can improve your results
one percent, just one percent, and do one percent every day,
at the end of a year, you will have proved
your outcome three hundred and sixty five percent. Now three
hundred and sixty five percent. Looking at it from where
you're starting may be overwhelming, but if you break it

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down into bite sized pieces, something that you can easily achieve. Okay,
you're achieving little goals towards your big goal. So you're
being positively reinforced all along the way.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Oh that's great. So what's number three?

Speaker 6 (27:26):
Number three? Determine that the goal is believable to you.
If you don't believe it, if you don't think that
it's possible, that shuts down your creative energy in the
creative process before it's even started. So you want to
make sure that it's believable. You know, do I think
it's possible that I could lose five pounds. Yeah, I

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think five pounds is reasonable to me. I think it's realistic.
Could I lose fifty pounds? I don't know. That seems
like a lot. That seems like a lot of effort.
I don't know if if I'm going to be able
to get to the fifty pound mark. Well, let's reevaluate
how we're looking at it. Five pounds seems to be
acceptable after you lose five pounds. Do you think you

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could apply the same rules and lose another five pounds?

Speaker 1 (28:16):
That does sound easier.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
And then five pounds after that. So you say to
lose five pounds ten times, then what will you have
lost after you achieved the five pounds lost ten times?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
That would be fifty pounds.

Speaker 6 (28:29):
That would be the fifty pounds. It seems overwhelming at
the time. Well, when you break it down into bite
sized pieces, well now it's not so overwhelming. Yeah, I
can tackle five pounds. Well if five pounds is overwhelming,
well what would it take to tackle one pound? Do
that five times, and then perfect doing the five times
as many times as you need to use it until
you achieve the goal that.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
You want to achieve. So yeah, so in that case,
would you set that goal and leave that goal intact.
I'm just going to try to lose the five pounds
and then wait till I've lost the five pounds to
set the goal again to lose five pounds.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
You could do it that way, but we talked about
creating a deadline so that it's not open ended, so
that there's a sense of urgency in order to meet
the goal, so that then you can start over and
meet the goal again. But you want to go at
a rate that's going to keep you motivated, you know,
because you don't want to lose focus and lose track
of what it is that you're trying to create because

(29:26):
you got too distracted by other things. You want to
stay in with your focus on what it is that
you're trying to create and make sure that you take
the small steps before you run. See the small steps
as progress, and eventually you will learn to run.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
I mean, I guess you're going to want to stay
out of the realm with false hope because that could discourage.

Speaker 6 (29:47):
You, right, Well, maybe yes and maybe no. When a
person has hope, my thought is to continue feeding the hope. Yes,
it's a dual edged sword. When you're talking about that.
In terms of things that are realistic that you can accomplish,

(30:09):
I'd ask for you to focus on those before you
try to handle the real difficult things that you may
not be able to accomplish.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
So what's number four?

Speaker 6 (30:17):
Number four is determining where you are now? Determine your
starting point like a GPS does when you plot a destination.
Within the GPS, the starting point is understood. With goals,
you need to understand where your starting point is so
that you can measure your progress. And measuring your progress
is vital for understanding how your goal is going, and

(30:42):
understanding how close you are to the finish and understanding
what kind of progress that you're making.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Well, what if I'm really discouraged or I hate where
I am right now?

Speaker 6 (30:51):
What happens then, well, all the more reason to focus
on changing your destination for the better. Use the hate
as fuel for change, Let it motivate you.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
M m m hm.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
So if I mean the other side, I could feel
like I've gone too far and that you know that
it's not even going to be possible to make the
changes that you're talking about.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
Well, change I can promise you will happen. As change
is part of life. So actually change is life, and
as more life occurs, more change will occur. So you
might as well direct the change in the way that
you want it to versus being controlled by the change itself.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
M h all right, so I guess that brings us
up to number five.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
Number five is what obstacles do you need to overcome?
Understanding the obstacles allows you to be prepared for them
and the natural resistance that change invites when creating something new.
So you want to embrace the obstacles and you want
to figure out what you need to do to overcome them.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
So this is kind of like the hero's journey that
every movie covers and every story, fairy tale and everything covers.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Well, if you see it that way, that's fine, and
then we can all be heroes in someone else's mind.
Find someone who has less than you, and you will
be their envy and hopefully will motivate them to understand
what is possible. You know, the quickest way to help
increase your income is to hang out with people and

(32:19):
to learn from and just observe what people who have
more income than you do. What do they do? And
then if you do what they do, then you'll have
what they have, and it's it's not about inventing the wheel.
It's about observing what is so. And trust me, anybody
that has a lot wants to impress you with how

(32:44):
they got a lot, So they're going to be happy
to be a mentor. Your job is to really be
appreciative of their mentorship so that you can continue to
cultivate that relationship and see it through to the end.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
And I think another thing that might happen to people
is that you would find yourself getting frustrated by the
delays that the obstacles put in your way.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
Well, yeah, what I think would be important is to
expect to get frustrated and expect there to be delays
and see them as a deeper learning and understanding on
the road to mastery. Okay, knowing that you don't know
everything when you get confronted with something that is new
for you that you don't quite understand, Okay, that's part

(33:30):
of the learning process. That's part of the cultivating, cultivating
of the knowledge that's necessary in order to get to
where your outcome is.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
But I mean, can I avoid getting in my own
way and blocking myself from achieving what I want to achieve.

Speaker 6 (33:46):
You can't avoid getting in your own way if you
allow yourself to do that. The planning and the visualization
helps this from stopping you. Why, because you're motivated to
push through whatever's trying to get in your own way
about it, and you're choosing to overcome whatever the resistance is.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
I mean, when you know, when we're talking about the
fact that you know this approach is about health goals,
and I mean this could this really relates to any
sort of goals you might want to achieve in the
course of the year, but you are particularly focused on
helping people back into health. So is this something that
I would need to be able to work with you

(34:25):
when I'd be helped by engaging with you. Is there
a way that you can become some sort of advocate
or counsel on the way to achieving my goals? Oh?

Speaker 6 (34:36):
Absolutely, if you have anything that is health related as
a goal that you want to achieve. See, everybody in
the New year makes New Year's resolutions, and the majority
of the time the New Year's resolutions stem in and
around their health. The most common being is that they
want to lose weight. Yep, Well, you got to understand
why you're not losing weight in order to change what
you're doing to have a different outcome. So you may

(35:00):
want to consult with me if weight management and getting
to a particular goal weight is what your resolution is
going to be. Cultivating a relationship with me and using
my expertise is kind of what it is that we've
already kind of touched on a little bit. Basically finding

(35:24):
somebody that's already done the work, who has the success
that you want, and doing a mentorship with that person.
That's essentially what we're asking. If you want me to
help you with achieving your goals that are related for
your health, I can certainly do that. And if that
bleeds over into other areas of your life, then that's
fine too well.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
I think that that could help a lot with things
like you know, we talked about setting the timing of
the goal, having a deadline, because it might be easy
if you're on your own with a health outcome that
you're looking for, to expect things to happen quicker than
they might.

Speaker 6 (36:01):
Yeah, that's true, and so what would be important is
going back to the realisticness of your goal and what
it takes to stay within the realm of reality. Why
you're creating the change that you're looking to experience.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Well, this has been great, This is a great conversation,
Doc Rick. We have five more goals that we're going
to cover in the next section. Uh, but before we do,
we need to pause for a commercial from our generous sponsor,
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we'll get into the last of the five goals.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
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Speaker 6 (36:38):
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not getting the results you're looking for, please feel free
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(37:02):
I look forward to serving your healthcare needs.

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Speaker 1 (37:09):
So at this point we've covered the first five of
the goals this goal setting process. What do we owe
to number six?

Speaker 6 (37:19):
Number six is what kind of knowledge or material will
you need to acquire in order to achieve your goal?
Without these being answered, and attained. You will eventually need
resources to create the change that you're looking to create.
Defining them helps to crystallize the vision for your universe
to respond.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
So I mean I may not have all the answers
to that when I start, will.

Speaker 6 (37:42):
I No, That's what the whole process is. It's a
learning process where you're going to need to potentially consult
with others who've already done the work, who know how
to do the work, who can advise you on how
to not pigeonhole yourself or fall into traps, etc. Go
down a particular rabbit hole where you're spending a lot

(38:04):
of time and resources on something that's always going to
end up at being a dead end. You know, it's
about having you know, consultant, a mentor somebody that can
who's already done the work, who can advise you on
what kind of steps it is that you need to take,
and so that's part of the knowledge. And then what

(38:25):
kind of materials might you need in order to finish
your goal, whether it's book learning, whether it's taking classes,
whether it's you know, going out and purchasing particular products
that's going to help facilitate you reaching your goal.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Whatever it is, so a lot of things involved in that.
So what's number seven?

Speaker 6 (38:45):
Number seven is what organizations and groups should you associate with? Again,
having people who have been through what you were liking
to create and what you're going through allows you to
learn from their learning without struggling like they had to
to get to where they're at now that you're striving
to get to. So it's important to again be around

(39:08):
people who are already successful at achieving what it is
that you're trying to achieve, because they'll put you on
a fast elevator as opposed to making you climb a rope.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
So it's kind of like having a support group that
you're working with.

Speaker 6 (39:24):
I can end up being a support group, it could
end up being a mentorship kind of thing. It could
be ending up you know, somebody who's successful at what
they do, if they can teach somebody how to be
just as successful as them, that's something that inspires those people.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah, I get it, so okay, So what is the
eighth commandment of goal setting?

Speaker 6 (39:48):
The eighth commandment of goal setting is is what determining
what are the benefits to you by achieving your goal
and by making it personal and making yourself a where
and understanding how things will change for you for the
better allows you to continue embracing the process and striving

(40:09):
to achieve the ultimate outcome of your whatever your goal is.
So asking yourself, how does this achieving this goal benefit me?
Either short term or long term?

Speaker 1 (40:21):
So, how is that really different than the final destination
of your goal?

Speaker 6 (40:26):
It's different in that it is further along in the process.
The visualizing is that the start of the process and
latching onto the resulting benefit allows the process to move
more forward, more quickly.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
So there are a lot of advantages on the way
to reaching the goal. So it's not even just the
goal that ultimately gives you some of those benefits.

Speaker 6 (40:50):
Yeah, and so imagining what the advantages are for yourself,
that the benefits of achieving your goal? What am I having?
What am I doing? What am I being? And more importantly,
how am I feeling as a result of achieving my goal?

Speaker 1 (41:08):
In this being true, So then we're up to number nine.

Speaker 6 (41:12):
Yes, number nine, Develop an action plan. Write down the
steps necessary to create a recipe or a map if
you will, of what the steps are so that it
becomes more real to you and motivates you to complete
the list by going through it one step at a time,
and as you make progress along the list, just it
increases your energy and makes it more vibrant and more

(41:38):
real and more exciting.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
I mean, you're bound on that journey. You're bound to
encounter unexpected things as you go along.

Speaker 6 (41:48):
You are bound to do that, and so it's important
to continue to motivate yourself to be your own champion
for pushing through whatever obstacles, whatever difficulties, whatever education, whatever resources,
whatever finances that may be involved in helping you to
achieve your goal. M hm.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
So what's the final commandment.

Speaker 6 (42:11):
Well, we've talked about it briefly. It's important for you
to visualize yourself accomplishing the goal, see yourself at the
mountaintop with arms raised, and the feeling of accomplishment coursing
through your whole being and being there completed for now,
and realize scaling one mountain will always inspire scaling the

(42:34):
next mountain.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
So that's one of the success breeds success absolutely, Yeah,
all right, So I mean it's going to be looking
at how is my life going to look different once
I've achieved it? If I want to lose those fifty pounds.
How is my life going to be different at that point?

Speaker 6 (42:52):
Right? And that is the question that you will ultimately
want to ask because inherent in that question uestion itself
is the motivation. Assuming that you're looking at the question
in the right way, you know, how will my life
look different? Don't look for things that are going to
be inconvenient. Look for how things are going to improve,

(43:13):
and how things are going to get elevated, and how
things are going to create you know, more success for you.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
So let's let's go back and just one more time,
go over what those ten those ten steps, those commandments
of goal setting are.

Speaker 6 (43:28):
So Number one, you want to decide what it is
that you want to accomplish, and you want to make
it exciting. Number two is determine a deadline for accomplishing
your goal. Creates more excitement and expectation along the way
and keeps you motivated. Number three, determine that the goal
is believable to you. So keep it quiet until you

(43:50):
have something tangible in which to share, and then when
you share it, you share it in an exciting way
because you're excited. Based upon step number two of goal setting,
step number four is where are you now. Knowing where
you are fully allows you for a good understanding of
where you're starting, what the ingredients are of where you're starting,

(44:11):
and what is the things that you have to acquire
along the way to continue to reach your goal. Number five,
what are the obstacles do you need to overcome? There
will always be obstacles. There will always be things that
you didn't think of ahead of time that will need
to be solved and need to be solved in a

(44:34):
way that allows you to continue making progress, So you
want to be able to overcome those obstacles as they arise.
Number six what knowledge or material will you need to
acquire in order to achieve your goal? Knowing what those
materials are, what knowledge that you require, etc. Knowing all
of the education and the resources will be needed will

(44:58):
naturally occur in the process of creating, and so again
just really being focused on where it is you're going
and that you have all the resources necessary to do it.
Number seven what organizations or groups should you associate with?
This will help you find solutions others have already developed

(45:18):
so that you don't have to suffer so much. So
that's very, very important. Having a mentorship of sourts if
you will somebody that can be your champion and cheer
for you while you're going through the difficult times and
give you insights on how you can support yourself through
those difficult times. Number eight is finding out what is
the benefit to you. Again, this is key. Having a

(45:41):
great anticipation of the results is so inspiring and helps
create the energy to see you through the goal being
achieved and running through the finish line, not struggling across
or just reaching up to the finish line. You want
to be able to break the tape and run right
through the finish line there, So that leads us to

(46:02):
number nine. Number nine is developing an action plan. Knowing
the steps and possibly adding to those steps is what
allows you to see the process and manage expectations along
the way, So having a good action plan step by
step action plan would be important. And then number ten,
the final step of goal setting is to visualize yourself

(46:24):
having accomplish the goal, be at the end standing and
proud of getting through the process. After all, this is
why you started the process to begin with, and the
process is really what life is all about, because life
is just one big, continuous process. So those are the

(46:46):
ten goals steps and how to move through that. And
I would encourage anybody and everybody that wants to set
goals for themselves going into the new year so that
you can change your outcomes and have a better life
going forward. And if you need help with that, I'd
ask you to reach out to me. And knowing that

(47:06):
Mark's next question is, well, how would you advise them
to do that?

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Well, even before we get to that, I wanted to
just sort of, you know, get a little bit more
sense of you know, as you go into this next
year and you're continuing to help people, are there ways
in which you're sort of evolving the practice that you
have that that are part of this same thing that

(47:29):
because we as we reach the end of the year,
we tend to reflect on what's been happening, but we're
also looking and that's why we do a goal setting show,
is to look at what the future is going to
bring and I wonder how that's going to affect you
as you move into this next year in terms of
the practice.

Speaker 6 (47:46):
Well, for me, my goal is always to try to
streamline and simplify things so that I can help more
people in a more efficient way. With coming out of
COVID and the economic downturn and what we've all been
dealing with as a nation for the last better part
of four years. There's a lot of people who are
struggling financially. They don't necessarily have the resources. Maybe they

(48:10):
got to get their car fixed before they can even
come to see me, maybe they got some other considerations.
So one of the new services that I'm going to
be offering in the new year is focusing more on
my telehealth to where I do consultations and treatments over
the phone, to where I can talk to anybody wherever

(48:32):
they happen to be as long as they have an
ability to call me. I'll spend typically an hour with
a person over the phone, will pull apart what's going
on in their life initially in this particular moment, what
the emotional reasons may be for why that's occurring, certainly
how it's impacting them emotionally, and give them an understanding
and insights with and around that. Then we'll do the

(48:56):
typical treatments that we normally do in the office. We'll
we'll be doing those exact same treatments through the telehealth method.
And so I'm excited to be able to offer people
better pricing for them to allow them to continue to
get the care that they would like to get without

(49:18):
necessarily having to come into my office in order to
get it. And my hope is if I can blow
that up and be successful, then at the end of
the day, I can potentially close down my office per
se because I can work with people wherever I happen
to be. If I'm on the road, I can still

(49:38):
help people. If I'm in an office, I can help people.
Or if I'm just sitting at home and somebody calls me,
I can take the time while I'm sitting at home
and I can help them. And so I think for
me will open up the opportunity to help more people.
And by making this available to people, I think it
will allow people to get the help that they need

(50:01):
without necessarily having to come all the way to either
Pool or Georgia or Newburgh, New York.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Well that's that's I mean, I'm sure because I know
you've treated people in the past from the far reaches
of the planet really, so you're not necessarily You've never
necessarily been limited to the office visits alone. You do
a lot of treatments.

Speaker 6 (50:22):
Remotely, right but offering that to people so that they
don't have to get in their car, and consider the
car costs, the gas costs, the time and energy to
get into it. It's just like, okay, we can set
up an appointment for one o'clock and if they get
home at twelve fifty five, it's okay. They can just
go into that quiet room that we're going to work
in and get on the phone with me when they're

(50:43):
ready and we can just take care of business.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
Well that's brilliant, and so I guess in light of that,
what are the best ways to reach out to you
and see if this is the right way for you
to move forward with your health? And maybe it's part
of your goal setting for twenty twenty five to improve
your health, and you're looking for that mentor that advocate
that you might be able to be for somebody that's

(51:07):
out there listening.

Speaker 6 (51:08):
Well, I would ask them to call me directly on
my cell phone, which is area code eight four five
five six one two two two five again eight four
five five six one two two two five. That is
my cell phone, my personal cell phone. I'll be the
one answering the phone. If I'm in a position to
answer the phone. If I'm not, please leave me a
message with your phone number and I will call you back. Uh,

(51:31):
you can text that phone, but I'm not very good
at texting. It's just not the way that my brain
works and it's not my priority in life. But if
I notice that I receive a text, I will eventually
get back to you or efficient way. Because I'm always
checking my email all day. Every day, my email actually
comes into my phone, so I'm constantly on that feed.

(51:54):
If you send me an email at doc ric d
oc ri ck doc rick at com, I will get
back to you with answering your question to the best
of my ability. And what I would encourage you to
do to start the new year off well is to
go to my website spineboy dot com. It is a
full fledged, complete website that will teach you, no matter

(52:17):
where you are within your health, practical solutions on how
you can approach that and eventually consult with me in
order to help you get back to health. So those
are the recommendations that I have for people. I want
to wish everybody a happy new year. I want to
look forward to seeing you on the other side of
the new year, and as we move into the year

(52:39):
twenty twenty five, the year of recovery, and to allow
all the progress that each one of us deserves. And
I want to thank you for your listenership. I want
to thank you Mark for putting these shows together, and
wish you a happy new year and look forward to
seeing you on the other side.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
Looking forward to it myself.

Speaker 6 (52:57):
Thanks.

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