Angela Foster Performance Podcasts - Episode 27

EP 27 – How To Put Ourselves Into the 8% of People Who Achieve Their New Year’s Resolutions – with Colin Hiles

It’s a new year and a new decade, and resolutions are being made everywhere by those who want to see some improvements in their health and wellbeing. But sometimes those resolutions don’t stick. In fact, 92% of resolutions fail, but what is the best way to make sure those plans don’t slip, and that we stick to our health goals for the year?

In this episode, Angela talks to Colin Hiles, one of the top mind-set coaches on the planet, who over the last twenty-three years has coached thousands of people to achieve their optimal state of mind, and how to get the best out of themselves and gain mental toughness.

Colin and Angels discuss the art of goal-setting, the seven forces of influence that you need to master, how to use Colin’s Bullseye method and much more.

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How To Put Ourselves Into the 8% of People Who Achieve Their New Year’s Resolutions – with Colin Hiles

Colin and Angels discuss the art of goal-setting, the seven forces of influence that you need to master, how to use Colin’s Bullseye method and much more.

Key Takeaways

When we are trying to visualise the things we can do using our mind, it causes us to reconsider our limitations, and often push ourselves that much further.
We often make promises to ourselves in terms of goal-setting, but we are also often guilty of breaking those promises in search of quick-fixes. It’s about learning about the small hinges that swing the big doors that make real change.
The seven forces of influence you need to master are:
- M – Motivation
- A – Action
- S – Skills
- T – Tribe
- E – Example
- R – Rewards/Consequences
- S – Space
If you want to break through to a new level of income, you really need to associate more with people who are already there. Mind-set is contagious. By choosing your “tribe” carefully, you’ll absorb other more beneficial mind-sets.
We’re not aware of so much that we’re doing in our day-to-day lives. We are constantly being triggered by the environment and are often not consciously aware that this is so.
In the business world deadlines are everywhere and are a main driving factor of productivity. In our personal lives, we tend not set deadlines, but they can be a hugely effective tool, no matter how small, in driving our personal development.
The subconscious thinks in images, not words. When we visualise our goals, we are letting our brains know, in a far more effective way, that this is the result we hope to attain. Visualisation is extraordinarily powerful.
Finding our “why” is crucial to achieving our goals. Colin identifies “need”, “me” and “we” as the three types of goals most typical.
- Need – “I need to lose weight for a wedding”
- Me – “Achieving this goal will make me feel proud”
- We – The unstoppable goals that affect the greater good
Colin’s Big Four:
- Health – Mind, body and spirit
- Wealth – Career and the ways in which wealth is created
- Love – Relationships
- Lifestyle – How wealth is spent in the time we have
We must endeavour to think from our goals, instead of thinking of our goals. Put yourself there and imagine what it’s like to have achieved it already. Replicate the feeling of having achieved it already. Think in images.

Best Moments

’New year is a time of year when people across the globe reflect on their achievements to date and look ahead to the coming year’

‘What is the difference that makes a difference?’

‘We pay attention to our children but what about us?’

‘How many times did you put your foot on the brake?’

‘Deadlines create urgency’

’That’s the power of visualisation’

‘Children are our best teachers’

‘Health is so hard to get back’

‘You want a four way win’

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About the Host

Angela Foster

Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance.

After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind:

To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life.

Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.

About the Guest

Colin Hiles is an expert in improving Leadership Capability, developing High-Performance Teams, and Mindset Change.

He specialises in helping his clients gain alignment and commitment between an organisation and its people, ensuring that organisations can continue to grow and develop in an ever-changing environment.

As an experienced executive coach and specialist in the psychology of change, Colin supports senior executives across all industries, in the public, and private sectors, to achieve a change in mindset at the individual or organisational level.

Over the last 23 years, Colin has coached hundreds of thousands of individuals globally on peak performance technologies, on how to get the best out of themselves, and on gaining mental toughness.

He is a talented conference host and facilitator who has appeared before audiences of up to 1,500 people, as well as leading the design and the delivery of significant events which have involved multiple consultants, and full production teams.

He believes to live a fulfilling life we need both roots and wings. His wife, his boys, his journal and his inner circle provide the roots. While making a difference in peoples’ lives is what provides his wings.

Colin is married and has three sons. He lives in Southern Spain and enjoys surfing, eating fajitas, and discussing the meaning of life (but not all at the same time!).

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