Why SMART Goals

04/25/2019 by topucufinisher

Why SMART Goals

Why SMART Goals? Because achieving a goal is hard. Too often people set themselves up to fail by seeking to do something that’s far too daunting a task. They mean to do what they want to do but they fail to give themselves the proper means to obtain their goal. It’s this sort of plan that has good intentions but is poorly executed that leaves people trapped in a rut. It feels like it’s hopeless for them to be able to escape the situation they are in. They believe that they’ll never be able to overcome their bad habits and get themselves on a better path changing habits to good, and a better lifestyle.

This is why SMART Goals are such a good idea for a person looking to improve their life. SMART is the basis for being able to hold yourself accountable while giving yourself a goal that’s important to yourself and will make you feel better when you’ve done it. SMART stands Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. SMART is an excellent way for you to set goals and to have the means by which to achieve them. The SMART system is a solid one for a people struggling to break bad habits to find a way out of the rut they are in.

SMART Goals are on Target

Specific is stating your goal to yourself. You should use action words to engage your mind in the practice of preparing for the task ahead of you. “I will lose 20 pounds in six weeks” “I will record a song this month.” “I will write a novel this year.” These statements are all excellent ways to begin the process of achieving your goal by setting up a specific goal for you to work towards. These are secure ways to start your journey towards completing your goal and doing something specific that will feel like an achievement.

Measurable

Measurable is crucial because you need to be able to see your progress and to have data that shows you how you’re doing at the task at hand. You need to be able to see if the path you’re on is working or not. You should be losing a certain amount of weight a week, or have completed a section of a song in a few days, or have written an outline and some ideas for characters of your novel within a month. Being able to see progress and track your result will help you push forward towards your goals.

Achievable

Achievable means that the goal is realistic and something that you know you are capable of but you just haven’t given yourself the proper motivation and effort to make it happen. You don’t want to do something that you believe is beyond your abilities. If you’re looking to get in shape and have never weight lifted before it might not be the best plan to set a goal of bench pressing 500 pounds in a couple of months. Knowing you can achieve your goal will push you to accomplish it.

Relevant

Relevant means that you’re doing something that will really matter to your life. Losing weight to improve your health, getting better at work-related skills to try to eat a promotion. You finally get an article or story published. Doing something that you care about will make the effort doing it all the more worthwhile.

Time-Bound

Time-Bound means you have a deadline by which to achieve your goal. Having a deadline is a great way to motivate yourself to finish the project. The deadline is there to help you get the project done. It’s part of the process of overcoming procrastination and getting yourself to do the hard work of completing the task. SMART goals are the solid foundation that allows you to achieve things you’ve always been looking to do for yourself. This is why SMART goals are such an excellent tool for breaking bad habits and establishing good habits to improve your life.

How to Achieve SMART Goals

While the SMART goal system is a good structure for somebody seeking to change a bad habit or to try to do something positive for themselves, it is only that, a structure. While you understand why SMART goals are reasonable goals to strive for you also need to know the fundamental reasons why people don’t manage to achieve the results they are looking for. This is what TOPUCU is all about. Our system is designed to teach you exactly why it is that bad habits are so hard for people to break and what one has to do to be able to retrain yourself out of bad habits and into good habits.

Seven Steps

The seven top course that TOPUCU teaches begins with understanding the process of how habits form. You’ll understand what the routines are that behind the trigger that makes your brain crave the reward that your lousy habit gives you. You’ll learn the steps that are needed to work yourself out of the bad habit and how to avoid the triggers that put you on the path of bad behavior and steer you towards building better habits that will allow you to achieve the things you’re striving for. Building good habits is a process, and this first step is an integral part of that process.

Motivation

The next step in the process is understanding motivation and what drives people to change their lives and truly break their old habits. While having family and friends inspire you, and doctors or bosses tell you that they want you to make changes it’s essential to know that these external motivations are not what make people capable of making lasting changes in their lives. The drive for change must come from within. It is only personal, internal motivation that makes change possible to be sustained over the long haul. Keeping your motivation is vital to improving your life.

Why the Pain

The next step in the process is understanding pain. Pain in the TOPUCU sense is the discomfort one gets from trying to break a bad habit and the hard work you have to undertake to be able to change your habits from bad habits to good habits. There will be a struggle, and you will have to deal with the hard work of improving yourself but the pain of this process is nothing compared to the pain of a life lived without self-improvement. Knowing you are capable of great things but falling short of being able to do them is a pain that never truly goes away. TOPUCU is the motto that the only person you cheat is you and that is the harsh truth of failing to better yourself. You are robbing yourself of the better life you know that you are capable of.

Personal Transformation

The rest of the course will help you with visualization techniques that will allow you to see your better future and give you an understanding of how you’ll be able to achieve it. The skills you’ll need to understand precisely how much time you have in a day and a week and how to allocate that time to be able to do things to improve your life. SMART goals are a great way to help get yourself on track, and we at TOPUCU can understand why SMART goals are so helpful for people. We hope that using the training and skills we teach the people who take our courses will make achieving SMART goals all the easier. Personal Transformation is within your reach.

Setting Personal Development Goals

03/21/2019 by topucufinisher

Personal Development Goals

What exactly is personal development? What does it really mean to develop as a person? Generally speaking, personal development means improving yourself and becoming better than you were before: creating personal transformation. Self-improvement can take many different forms because there are so many different ways a person can seek to improve themselves and by extension their life. Self-improvement by personal development can take many forms. Some of the most common types of personal development are to learn how to be more self-confident. Being able to project confidence and show people that you believe in yourself is a great way to make people think better of you and improve your standing at work and when you’re out in social gatherings.

Two Areas for Personal Development Goals

Two other common areas of self-development are being able to become more pro-active when it comes to handling the tasks you’re dealing with in your day to day life and being somebody who wakes up early so that they are rested and ready to take on the challenges of the day ahead of them. Learning how to overcome distractions and focus on the things you need to do. It could be it working on a work project or doing something you’ve always meant to do so. If you’ve always wanted to learn another language, write a book, or learn how to play a musical instrument you know how hard it can be to force yourself to put in the hard work needed to achieve these goals and how easy it is to waste your time watching sports on TV or gossiping on twitter. You need to have mental toughness and willpower to stick to the task at hand and do what you need to do.

Getting to bed at a reasonable time and getting a restful night’s sleep are tough things for most people to do. There is that desire to squeeze in one more game, one more conversation, or one more text exchange with somebody. Having the restraint and self-control to have a good night time ritual to allow yourself to go to bed in the proper mindset to sleep quickly and have a great night’s sleep is something that can be done if you follow the appropriate personal development skills. To be able to harness and develop the right mindset and understanding that is required to be able to meet your personal development goals is vital to having success when it comes to changing your life and moving in a better, more positive direction.

Stress

Positively handling stress is another personal development goal people have. Stress can lead to all sorts of adverse outcomes that truly impact your life. No matter where the pressure comes from, be it family, work, or other settings you can often find yourself debilitated or otherwise unable to deal with the impact of stress. No matter how you live your life you will encounter moments and situations that are stressful and understanding how to react to them with a positive mindset is vital to be able to overcome bad habits and harmful behaviors. Learning to take a long walk to work off stress instead of hitting the bar and having a few beers is one way to combat stress positively.

Connecting with Others

Learning how to interact with other people better is another personal development goal that people often aspire to achieve. It’s hard for somebody who is naturally shy to be able to get outside of their shell and engage others in a friendly and pleasant manner, but this is a habit that can be improved upon by practice. Knowing you can walk into any social setting and be able to engage people and have a good time is a great confidence builder and a way to help both your social life and your career. From networking to being able to get a date, it’s all connected to being able to handle yourself in public settings with groups of people. Getting yourself to the point where you can do these things naturally can give you peace of mind that when the time comes to handle yourself in such situations, you’ll be able to do it with no problem at all.

Learning Personal Development Goals

Learning the skills that allow you to achieve your personal development goals is what TOPUCU is all about. We’re here to educate you and get you to understand precisely what it is that’s holding you back from having the better life you’ve always been looking for. We know that bad habits are a poison that can impact every aspect of your life and that they have to be rooted out and addressed so that you can finally break them and start living a better life with good habits that will allow you to keep improving yourself each and every day.

Seven-Step Process

TOPUCU’s seven-step program shows you everything you’ll ever need to know when it comes to how habits are formed, how habits can be broken, and how to begin training yourself in positive better habits. In step one, you’ll learn about habits and how they are formed. You might have come to understand that certain events in your life can trigger a response, but understanding exactly how it works and the processes your brain uses to direct you to perform your habit is what’s so crucial for you to comprehend. Once you’ve been taught the skills our program offers you, you will be able to prevent bad habits from taking over your life. You’ll be able to break them and begin the process of instilling good habits into your daily routine.

The next step of the program will teach you about motivation and how powerful being self-motivated really is. You can want to get praised by your boss, your spouse, your friends, or other people and while their motivation is helpful and something you should seek out, it is your internal drive and focus that really will inspire you to push forward and achieve your goals.

Understanding

TOPUCU will then help you understand the true meaning of pain. People think of pain as the hardship they are dealing with when they are trying to break old habits. That changing from an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthier one is painful. The truth is that the lifestyle full of bad habits and bad choices is the painful one and that by remaining stuck in it you are setting yourself up for a lifetime of pain. Changing habits and changing your life isn’t painful, it’s rewarding. The struggle to overcome that short term pain for long term reward is very much worth it. Regret is one of the biggest things people struggle with, and it doesn’t have to happen to you. You live a better life that you’re proud of.

These skills along with learning visualization, time management, and how to truly leave your past behind and move forward with your life are all taught in the TOPUCU course. You can have the confidence you’re seeking, you can be more proactive and stop putting off all your essential tasks. You can handle stress, sleep better, and have a better life, all these things are within your reach. Your personal development goals can be achieved, and we here at TOPUCU will do everything possible make sure that you achieve them.

Good Habits

02/21/2019 by topucufinisher

Good Habits – Good Life

Forming good habits is something everyone always talks about. How if you just stick to something long enough it’ll become second nature to you and help you truly get where you want to go. People speak of the framework of what a good habit is and how you can achieve it but they never really get into the nuts and bolts about how good habits are truly formed. People know that they should do good things. They should go to bed earlier, stop drinking so much (or stop drinking altogether) stop smoking, work on projects in their off time, all sorts of different supposedly good things people should do that they never truly get around to doing for one reason or another. The good habit sounds like a great idea in theory but in practice, it never gets around to being implemented. What is it that holds people back from changing habits that are destructive and improving their lives with good habits that will help them prosper in life?

Do the Right Thing

People know on some level that they should do the right thing. They should go out and take a walk or jog around the block a few times. They should take up an art class or get more involved in their local community, but finding time for these things is hard and passivity is so easy to fall back into. What is it that allows a person to quit smoking after years of being a smoker? What gets a couch potato off the sofa and onto the treadmill? How do you keep these habits going strong and not reverting back to the way you were before? It’s one thing to do something for a short period of time, but to be able to truly commit to a healthy lifestyle choice, to truly enjoy personal transformation, takes lots of work and more than that it takes understanding exactly how these sorts of habits are formed in the first place.

Habit Forming

The biggest problem people have is that they don’t truly understand how a habit forms and what it is that makes a person commit to an activity. Forming good habits is not some fluke event that you just happen to luck into. It’s an event that is brought forward by some level of determination, will power, and desire to change yourself for the better. It’s done by understanding exactly what it is that kept you doing the things you were doing previously and working to correct those behaviors. It’s learning about how the mind works and understanding that even with the best of intentions if you don’t have a solid foundation to change what you’re doing you’re going to end up failing in the long run.

External forces can help you along, a doctor can warn you about your lifestyle not being a healthy one and that you have to make changes or else face health problems that could be debilitating or even worse. A loved one can put their foot down and demand you make changes in your life to better yourself or they’ll cut you out of their lives. While these sorts of pressures can cause change its internal motivation that is the most powerful source of change a person can have. Doing things to improve your life because you want to do them is the most likely path to success possible.

Transformation

Learning exactly why you’re stuck in your bad habits and how to get out of that rut and build good habits is what TOPUCU is all about. When it comes to your bad habits and poor lifestyle choices the truth is The Only Person You Cheat Is You. You might feel like you’re letting other people down by not doing the best you can, but the truth is the person being hurt most by it is you yourself. You owe it to yourself to follow the TOPUCU process of learning how to create and sustain good habits and move in a positive direction. This is learning about how your mind works and what makes it so that a good habit can be kept and bad habits can be removed from your life.

Step one begins you on the journey of understanding what habits are and how they form. You’ll be taught about triggers that cause responses that become your routines and how your brain rewards you for following the routine. Learning this process is the beginning of understanding how to take control of situations and begin improving your life. Once you have completed step one you’ll have a solid foundation to build upon. Step 2 will go further into the motivational factors I talked about before and help you better understand how both external and internal motivations can help you meet your goals. Self-motivation is the key to achieving everything you’ve been seeking when it comes to better life habits and a better lifestyle.

Step 3 talks about the pain that comes both from having to break your bad habits and the toughness of dealing with a new lifestyle and sticking to your good habits. It also focuses on the truth that the pain you suffer from not breaking your bad habits might not seem like a big deal but in reality, it’s so much worse for you then the minor pain you have from changing your life for the better. The only person you cheat is you is not just a slogan, it’s the truth about what bad habits and a shoddy lifestyle do to a person.

Seven E’s

The Seven E’s are step 4 on the path and will better help you understand the thoughts that enter your mind and how they impact what you do in your life. Habits are a completely mental issue and being in control of your thoughts and your mind will allow you to make the right decisions. Instead of falling back on old bad habits you’ll find the mental clarity and toughness to push through and stick to your good habits. Every step of the path will better show you exactly what it is your dealing with when struggling with bad habits.

Understanding the importance of visualization and being able to do it properly is step 5 in the journey. It’s the best way to focus your mind and understand exactly what you’re seeking to achieve. Be it losing weight, quitting drinking, saving more money, or anything else, being able to see it as reality makes it so much easier for you to make it a reality. You can achieve whatever you set your mind to and learning these skills will make it so much easier.

Better Life

The final two steps will allow you to understand truly how precious your time is and make it so that you can make the most of your time at all times. Once you understand how to budget your time and handle your tasks without procrastination things will become so much easier for you. The final step will be to burn the bridge between your old life and your new life. Living your new better life with the good habits you’ve trained yourself to have will be so rewarding you’ll wish you had started it sooner. If you truly want a better life TOPUCU will help you achieve it.

What is Self-Management?

01/23/2019 by topucufinisher

What is Self-Management? We all like to think we’re capable of handling the tasks put in front of us. We all want to think we can save some money, eat better, hit the gym, and get our work done without waiting till the last moment. We like to think we can set aside time to do things we want to do and handle the projects that have been put in front of us. It’s offensive when a boss, parent or spouse is there micromanaging our every move and nitpicking all our decisions. Self-management seems like an easy enough concept to understand, but in truth, it’s not the most straightforward question to answer, what is self-management? How does one become good at it and what are the skills required to understand how self-management works truly.

Self-management is the ability to do what you say you’ll do. It’s the power to control your life and to hold yourself accountable to a standard you’ve set. It’s not making excuses for why you didn’t ask for overtime when you want extra money for a trip. It’s abstaining from partying when you know you have poor behavior when you’re drunk. It’s having self-awareness and the will to stand with your judgment. It’s that moment when you’re by yourself and accountable to nobody else, and you have the option of doing the right thing or the easy thing, and you choose the right thing. How to get yourself into that mindset and to have that willpower is the challenge. You have to be strong enough and disciplined enough to do these things.

Understanding Self-Management

It’s going to bed when you’re tired. It’s not hitting Burger King when you’re stressed out. It’s not going back to smoking after you’ve quit for a week because it’s only one cigarette and that doesn’t count as smoking. Having the ability to set out a plan and then achieve it is the pinnacle of self-management, and it’s something so very few people can honestly do. Bad habits exist for a reason. Being in a rut is something that’s so very hard to escape from because you’re pre-conditioned to keep repeating those same behaviors over and over again. Your brain recognizes bad habits, and on some level, it enjoys them even if you know they are bad. You go back to what you know even when you know you shouldn’t do it because you promise yourself it’s the last time you’ll ever do it. You’ll make a clean break tomorrow. Tomorrow’s always the best day to make changes in your life. That’s not the best answer to “What is Self-Management?”

Because it always feels like there will be a tomorrow. You’ll still have a chance to make the right decision some other day. Today’s too hard. The kids aren’t listening to you, the spouse was sick and couldn’t help around the house, and you’ve earned a drink or two to blow off a little steam after you get the kids to bed. When you finally get a good night’s sleep and have a clear head and an easy day is the day you’ll stop drinking. It all sounds so easy. That’s why the drinks keep flowing. The perfect day that allows you to make the right choice never comes, so you make the natural choice. You hate yourself for doing it, but you feel powerless to change and fix the problem. You’ve looked everywhere for help and advice on the issue, but nothing seems to help. You feel like you’re trapped, and you’ll never get free of your bad habits that are ruining the quality of your life.

Getting Started

Personal Transformation and understanding how to break these cycles of bad habits and to finally change your life permanently in a positive way can is possible. TOPUCU stands for The Only Person You Cheat is You, and it is a mantra you should take to heart. You are cheating yourself out of a better life by going back to your old habits. You could have so many good things happening for yourself if you committed to them. Of course, learning how to commit to those good things truly is the challenge and TOPUCU is here to finally show you the path to the better life you can have.

With the TOPUCU course, you’ll go through the seven steps that will allow you to see how to overcome your previous bad habits and build and maintain good habits that will improve your life and make things better for yourself. From the very first step, you’ll begin to understand precisely why it is that you’re stuck in your bad habits and start unlocking the secrets that will start the process of freeing yourself from them. You’ll understand the concepts of the trigger, the routine, and the reward. You’ll come to grips with how your bad habits are a reaction to events in your life and how to build better, more positive responses and maintain them.

Moving Forward

Then you’ll learn about how important internal motivation is, and while it’s nice to get external motivation from friends, family and support groups, it’s still you that has to find the will to motivate yourself to be able to achieve lasting improvement. You’re looking for a better life and a better future, and you can achieve that if you’re finding the right ways to inspire yourself to push forward and meet the challenges you’ve put in front of yourself.
As you move through the rest of the lessons, you’ll learn all sorts of valuable knowledge. About how the pain of staying where you are is permanent and while it’s subtle, it never goes away. The pain of changing habits from bad to good can be challenging to deal with but it is transitory, and once you’ve managed to make your way through that period, the reward on the other side of it is very much worth it. You’ll learn about how to manage your time effectively and make yourself accountable for your tasks. No longer will procrastination sneak into your life and make things harder than they should be. You’ll be the one ahead of the game and have free time to spend with others because you were focused and determined to handle your tasks without wasting time.

You can do better. You can be an expert at self-management. It might seem impossible but it’s not, success can be achieved, and TOPUCU is here to help you make it happen. Do not let your potential go to waste. Do not cheat yourself and live a life that isn’t as great as it should be. Challenge yourself to excellence and follow the TOPUCU path and you’ll be able to obtain it.

Personal Goals and New Year’s Resolutions

12/17/2018 by topucufinisher

Personal Goals

We all have something we would like to do in the upcoming year. Personal Goals to Achieve. Be it fixing some bad habit in our lives or seeking to obtain a new goal. The thing about New Year’s Resolutions is that you know you should follow through on them and stick to the plan to improve your life but finding the will, the drive, and the determination is so hard. Things start well for a week or two but then the bad habits start creeping back in. Why is it those bad habits are so hard to overcome? What makes it so hard to finally break free from those habits that hold you back?

Understanding why a bad habit is so hard to shake is the fundamental way to change your life for the better. From losing weight, ending procrastination, quitting smoking or drinking, working on the things that truly engage you instead of just sitting in front of the TV. Finding the key to unlocking how to do all these things is the key to a better life.

Seems So Simple

It all seems so simple – personal goals shouldn’t be so hard. Stop eating fast food and candy bars, go for some walks and join a gym and you’ll lose weight. Stop spending money on more clothes and gadgets than you need and put that money in the bank and you’ll save. Set aside an hour or two every night for writing and you’ll finally make headway on your screenplay. Whatever it is you’re looking to do you have the basic outline of how you’ll get it done. Yet by February, your weight is the same, your bank account is still low and your screenplay isn’t written. You’ve fallen short of changing habits.

Knowing the supposed solutions to your problems isn’t enough. It’s one thing to know what the right thing to do is, it is quite another thing to make yourself do it and then to stick to that plan and make it something that you don’t waver from. Figuring out exactly you can muster up the ability to consistently avoid bad habits while building good habits is what you need to do. That is how your New Year’s Resolution becomes the lifestyle you want to live and you finally will see the positive changes in your life manifest themselves. How to do this is the tough part.

Achieve Your Personal Goals

There are so many different guides out there that try to explain to you exactly how you should go about fixing your life and improving yourself. The self-help section of a bookstore can be overwhelming with all the different authors telling you whatever it is they think works. Search “Personal Transformation” – the internet is just as filled with all sorts of people telling you all kinds of different thoughts of what a person must do to improve their life. How do you know which people are just telling you what you want to hear? How do you know who to trust when it comes to learning this all important information?

The TOPUCU system has been proven to help people improve their mindset and to form good habits while breaking bad ones. Independent reviews of the people who have taken the TOPUCU courses has shown marked improvements in self-confidence and a decrease in destructive thinking. The vast majority of people who have taken the course also found it easy to understand and felt they understood the principles of how it works and how they could apply the teaching to their lives to help themselves moving forward.

Learning and completing the TOPUCU seven-step program will give you a greater understanding of what exactly causes you to stay in the rut you are living in and will show you how you can train your mind to resist bad habits and how to both start and maintain good habits. Following these steps is the beginning of your path towards the life you’ve been wanting but never felt like you could have. If you are a parent worried about your child’s habits know that the TOPUCU program has shown to improve grades, social skills and builds leadership qualities in young people that take root and allow them to excel in school and have confidence as they enter the workforce.

Seven-Steps Toward Personal Goals

The seven-step program begins with first understanding how a habit forms and the process your brain goes through dealing with it. From the trigger that starts you on the path to the routine, you perform once you’ve been triggered and the reward you give yourself for having done what you’re used to doing you’ll understand the way it all works and finally be able to see the pattern that is controlling your behavior. The key to this step is understanding the routine you follow after you have been triggered. Does being hungry make you overeat? Does being tired make you skip going to the gym? Does stress lead you to drink? You need to understand the triggering event and then react to it with a more positive routine. We can never truly avoid things like hunger, tiredness, and stress in our lives, but we can control how we react to these things.

Steps to Success

From this step, we go towards motivation and what drives a person to do things. We look at external and internal motivation and seek to help you understand exactly it’s so important to be internally motivated. It’s nice to have people praise you for a good habit, but to really want to commit to that good habit is what will make it stick. The third step will talk about the pain of breaking old habits and how the short-term pain of this change is nothing compared to the long-term pain of not escaping your bad habits.

In step four we’ll explain the seven E’s to you and guide you from “Entrance” to “Enveloped” to show you how change can be achieved and how to train your mind to accept better habits. Next, we’ll teach you about visualization and how it is so important to be able to see yourself obtaining your goal to make it that much more likely you’ll be able to achieve it. The sixth step will teach you about the vital skills of time management and how to focus yourself to achieve your goals for the day without procrastination or distraction. Once these six steps have been achieved you can finally burn the bridge between your old life and the new life you’re on your way to leading.

This can be the year you finally hold onto your New Year’s Resolutions and make that lasting positive change that improves your life. Let TOPUCU help you become all you can be.

Building Habits

11/15/2018 by topucufinisher

Building Habits

How do you start building habits? It can start slowly without you even noticing the habit is building. Bad habits form in insidious ways. It’s often something you don’t even notice is a bad habit. You just happen to hit the bar after work to blow off a little steam and hang out with a few friends and you all stop going to the gym. Staying up late and not getting enough sleep so instead of truly applying yourself at work you coast through your shifts just so you can get to the bar as quickly as possible. You order a burger with fries instead of a chicken wrap because everyone else is getting a burger so why not you?

You slowly gain weight, lose energy and focus, and might even start slouching towards alcoholism without even noticing what’s happening to you. You convince yourself it’s only something that’s temporary, that you’ll get back to the gym in a week or two, you’ll eat better soon enough, and you will sleep in on the weekend and finally catch up on your sleep so you’re not constantly tired all the time. Yet all these things keep being planned for tomorrow, for a mythical day that never arrives because doing the things you’re doing right now makes you happy and working to change those things will be hard and you have no idea if you’ll ever be successful at them. You’re in a rut and while you might complain about it now and again, the truth is that you’re pretty content in that rut.

Changing Habits

Yet you know you need to change, you understand your current situation is unhealthy and that you can do better. You want to lose some weight, you want to put in more work at the office so you can finally get that promotion and pay raise you’ve been seeking. Your doctor is on you about all the drinking you’re doing and you know improving your health will have a big impact on your life. It’s just that finding your way towards good habits is so hard and you’ve struggled with these problems for so long it seems impossible to overcome them. Changing habits appears overwhelming. Sure you quit drinking for a couple weeks every so often, but you always end up back at the bar sooner or later. How will you ever finally overcome your bad habits and start building habits that are healthy?

The Only Person You Cheat

The truth is something you already knew. That you are cheating yourself, you’re denying yourself the better life you could have if you would just put in the time and effort to improve your life – building habits that can make a difference. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. You do need skills and knowledge to be able to make these things happen and they can be done. It is the TOPUCU mantra that the only person you cheat is you. You’re only hurting yourself when you continue to stick to your bad habits and fail to correct behaviors that you know aren’t productive. You need to figure out the better way to live your life and with TOPUCU’s help, you’ll be able to do just that.

You know you have a bad habit but understanding why you continue to go back to that bad habit even when you know you shouldn’t is something you have to understand and address. Understand exactly what it is that makes you do what you’re doing. Are you rewarding yourself in some way? Is going to the bar your reward for making it through another day at work? Is it a reaction to stress or some other emotional trigger? Are you performing the bad habit because it’s a response to something in your life, is it a coping mechanism of some kind? These are the hard questions you need to ask yourself and discover the truth of what is going on inside your mind and how you can change what you are doing to improve your life. To make a real breakthrough and escape your bad habits and start building habits that will be good for the rest of your life.

How to Build Habits

TOPUCU will work to guide you to that better life by taking you on the seven-step path of breaking your bad habits and establishing good habits in your life. Each of these steps will allow you to understand exactly what is going on inside your mind and allow you to come to grips with the decisions you have been making and how you can change those decisions from self-destructive negative decisions to better more positive decisions that will build upon themselves. Unlike the starts and stops you’ve had in the past with failed diets, failed creative projects, or other tasks you got motivated for a little while on before going back to your old ways this is a system that leads to sustainable results. Instead of feeling like you’re building on a foundation of sand that’ll just be washed away by the next tide you’ll be building a solid and strong foundation that will be able to withstand all the temptations and troubles life throws at you. Building habits that will last.

Steps to Building Habits

You begin in step 1 and start to understand the basic ideas of what habits are. You’ll look at triggers, routines and rewards and see how your mind works and why you’re doing what you’re doing. This vital info is what begins your process towards building habits to improve your life. In step 2 you’ll begin to truly understand how motivation works and what you need to do find the motivation you need to push forwards towards your good habits and away from the rut you’ve been stuck in. In step 3 you’ll learn about pain in the sense that while you are struggling to follow your good habits that struggle pales in comparison to being stuck in the life you’re currently living.

Step 4 will teach you about the “Seven E’s” they’re how your mind operates and the ways to remove the bad habits from the wiring in your brain and to rewire your thoughts and ideas towards better habits and a positive lifestyle. Step 5 will teach you about visualization and how to truly see and aspire to your better life. You’ve been looking for this life for so long and now you can finally understand how looking towards it will help you achieve it. In step 6 you’ll learn about the importance of time and how you only have a very finite number of hours every week and you need to use those hours in the best way possible to improve your life. Finally, step 7 will teach you how to burn the bridge from your past life and your bad habits and turn towards your better life that you’re seeking. With TOPUCU you can begin building habits and the better life you’ve always wanted.

How to Gain Self Management

10/24/2018 by topucufinisher

Self Management

We all like to think with self management that we can handle whatever tasks are put in front of us. That if we are given a job to do we’ll get it done and do it well. We always see ourselves as smart, motivated, and determined people who will take on a challenge and meet it successfully. The truth is that it doesn’t always work that way. Deadlines pass without work being completed, work has to be fixed or even thrown out and started over from scratch, things you always said you were going to get around to doing end up never getting done. Life throws so much at you it’s so easy to feel overwhelmed and to put things off to some mythical tomorrow where you’ll be less stressed, less busy, more determined. It always feels like tomorrow will be so much easier than today was. The sad truth is that a lot of the time putting things off till tomorrow means never getting them done at all.

Breaking Bad Habits

Procrastination is a bad habit that is so hard to break because it feels like it’s not really a problem. Putting things off seems too easy because people have endless time on their hands. You can finish that project on your days off or on a day with fewer meetings or some other time. It’s only when management starts pushing for you to get your work done that you finally get around to doing it. Then you end up becoming micromanaged and it frustrates you because you resent the lack of trust you get from your bosses. You want to be allowed to do what you want to be allowed the freedom to get it done the way you want to do it. The problem is that earning that level of trust requires that you’re capable of Self management. Self Management is a catch-all term that can mean you’re capable of handling all the tasks given to you but there is a lot to it beyond just that. Self Management is at its core a lifestyle where you push aside bad habits, set clear goals and find the ability to achieve them. It’s about a mindset that rewards positive habits and removes negative ones from your life. Self Management isn’t just something you do at the office, it’s something you carry with you all the time.

Two Steps to Self Management

Two skills that go hand in hand are initiative and following through. Asking your boss to handle a project, or suggesting a project of your own is a great way to show you’re motivated to help the company and looking to put in extra work. The same can be said about projects in your personal life. You might want to finally get around to fixing the shed or taking up a fitness class. Taking the initiative and starting these projects gives you forward momentum and makes it so you’re no longer putting them off. No longer just sitting around dreaming about what could be and instead getting it done goes a long way towards achieving your goal.

Determination to Self Management

This is where following through and having the drive and determination to complete your task are so important. You can’t just start something and then let it slide or else nothing will be achieved. Attending a few yoga classes and then drifting away from it after a couple of weeks will just end up leaving you back where you were. Telling management about your plans for a new inventory system and then never getting around to creating it won’t be very impressive when it comes time for your performance reviews. You need to have the determination to follow through on these tasks and see them to the end. Completing tasks at your work should show people you’re capable of doing more than you’re being asked to do and can get you ahead in the office. By the same token putting in work around the home and taking care of yourself can give you great benefits. Be it losing a bit of weight or finding a new hobby that you have a passion for there are lots of different great things that can happen if you put in the time and effort to see them through.

One More Step

Another important skill you need is organization. Being organized makes everything so much easier in your life. From time management to keeping all your paperwork and important files in a location where you can access them whenever you need them. Being on top of things in your personal and professional life can go a long way towards helping you achieve your goals. Working to clean the clutter and sticking to a schedule can go a long way towards helping you get what you want out of life.

TOPUCU Helps with Self Management

When it comes to breaking bad habits and getting the results you’re looking for having the right mindset and understanding what the building blocks for good habits are the TOPUCU method is capable of giving you the results you need. People want to do great things in their lives but in the end, they so often come up short because they don’t truly understand what is holding them back. People know they are doing something wrong but understanding the underlying reasons for why they fall back into old habits and what is preventing them from being able to get to where they want to be remains hidden to them. TOPUCU casts light on these problems and highlights the behaviors and mindsets that lead a person to make bad decisions and continue to stick to bad habits even when they know they shouldn’t. Getting a person to make the right decisions over and over again to build up productive habits takes knowledge and the TOPUCU course will give you the knowledge needed to finally make the changes you want in your life.

The seven-part course will truly illuminate the meaning behind the message that The Only Person You Cheat Is You. You’ll understand that while change is hard, remaining where you are is going to be far worse in the long run. You have lots of potential and it’s time you started showing the world that. Let TOPUCU help guide the way for you.

Self Management is a goal everyone should strive for in all parts of their lives. You want to be known as somebody who keeps their word and faces problems head-on and gets results. From going that extra mile at work to learning a foreign language at as a hobby, to remodeling the kitchen at home there’s so many things you can get done if you just put in the time and energy. You can do these things let TOPUCU show you the way.

Time Management Techniques

09/20/2018 by topucufinisher

Time Management Techniques

“Time is on my side” is a famous song by the Rolling Stones, and it might have been for them but it’s that’s not always the case for you and me. Time Management Techniques: finding ways to manage one’s time so that you don’t fall behind on projects and assignments can be tricky. The desire to put things off till the last possible minute can be overwhelming at times and finding your way to better handle the things you’re supposed to be doing so that everything doesn’t end up being taken care of at the last possible second is something everyone should strive for. While meeting a deadline is a good thing not having to sweat the deadline is a far better outcome.

Being able to make a plan for how you spend your time each day and then being able to stick to it is a great habit for a person to get into. Learning how to budget one’s time will go a long way in being able to improve the quality of your life. No more stress over trying to cram everything into one long night of work. No more lost sleep from having to work even when you’re exhausted because you put everything off till the last minute. The quality of your work will improve also when you tackle it when you are well rested and full of energy. Good time management techniques make everything work out better.

Manage Yourself – Manage Time

Work isn’t the only thing that can suffer as a result of not having good time management. If you’ve wanted to take up a new hobby, such as learning how to play the guitar, how to speak Spanish, or hitting the treadmill to lose some weight. These are all tasks that require that you set aside some time for them so you can achieve your goal. It’s hard to find time to do these things with work, family, and your other interests all taking up so much of your valuable time. If you don’t develop time management techniques – you’ll never expand your skills and dreams. You don’t play the guitar for a week or two and you keep promising yourself you’ll get around to it tomorrow, but when tomorrow happens you’re distracted once again and it doesn’t happen. This is the vicious cycle that traps people with poor time management techniques, they never seem to have the time to do the things they swear they want to do.

Procrastination is insidious this way because everyone thinks they have all the time in the world to do things, only to find out that life is short and the things you gave up on are things you never ended up pursuing. Being able to find the time to do the things you’ve set out to do is so important. They say showing up is ninety percent of the battle and the same can be said about doing something – anything. If you want to be a writer, write, if you want to build a trailer, build it. Pushing away all the distractions and achieving your goal is tough, but it can be done. Focus, commitment to your goals and proper time management techniques will get you there.

Understanding Time Management Techniques

Understanding time management techniques and being able to set a schedule and maintain it are some of the very important life skills that TOPUCU teaches. Acknowledging you procrastinate and put off things until the last minute, or don’t even bother to do them at all, is vital to being able to finally change your bad habits and get yourself into the right frame of mind that is capable of dealing with all the distractions that are put in the way of you being able to do the thing you want to do. Taking our seven-step course will give you the tools to be able to budget your time in a far more productive manner and allow you to be able to finally get yourself out ahead of your work projects. Allow you to find those moments when you can practice on the guitar and be able to start enjoying the things you’ve always meant to enjoy but just never got around to doing them.

Bad Habits

Bad habits are habits for a reason, they are tough to deal with and even when you know you shouldn’t be doing them you feel almost forced to fall back into the rut. You tell yourself you’ll finally change your ways some other time, some other day. You never get around to losing weight, or going back to college, or saving money for retirement. Putting everything off until tomorrow is the easy way out. There is a reason why our motto is The Only Person You Cheat is You. It’s because the easy way out is actually the hard way to live. Learning good habits is hard work, but the reward from learning them is greater than you could ever imagine. Learning effective time management techniques is just one of many amazing benefits from following the teachings of TOPUCU.

Goal Setting for Success

06/13/201908/16/2018 by topucufinisher

Elusive Goal Setting

Goal setting identifies things we would all like to be able to accomplish. Lose a few pounds, save a few dollars, spend more time with the family, or put more time and effort into a creative endeavor. Whatever your goal is it’s something that’s likely been off in the distance, things keep cropping up to keep you from finding a way to get it done. You end up frustrated and believing that it’s just not meant to be for you to be able to do these things. This sort of defeatism is insidious as it robs you of the drive and willpower to be able to make a positive change in your life and goal setting that’s meaningful. You need to understand what is holding you back from being able to meet your goals and learn how to follow the path that gets you to where you want to be.

Goal Setting for Success

Goal setting is one of the best ways to try to achieve something. When you know what you’re looking for it’s great to set a target. Having a concrete idea in your mind of what you’re trying to achieve puts the goal into focus. Be it writing 3,000 words a day on your novel or running five miles. It’s one of the keys to success, however, it’s just one of many. Knowing the rest of the path towards your goal is vital to obtaining the success you’re seeking. Learning the right mindset, understanding why you fall into ruts and maintain bad habits, and understanding the reward system that your mind uses to keep you where you are and prevents you from going where you want to be is so important when it comes to finally breaking free from your old ways and making strides in your life.

Roadblocks to Goal Setting

TOPUCU is all about giving you the knowledge and understanding of how to finally achieve better things for yourself – goal setting is just the start. Our program is all about empowering you to overcome the roadblocks that are keeping you from success. The real trick is that so many of these roadblocks are self-inflicted, people try to skip to the end of the story without learning the proper path and that is why they come up short. Understanding yourself and truly knowing what is preventing you from the great things you seek to do is what TOPUCU’s course is all about. We impart knowledge that will give you self-awareness and let you finally begin to make the changes you’re looking for.

Our seven step program will walk you through all the different struggles and pitfalls that bedevil people when they are seeking to make a positive change in their lives. We’ll show you exactly why our mantra of The Only Person You Cheat Is You is so true. The life you’re living isn’t the one you want and staying stuck in that lifestyle is cheating yourself of the better things in life that you should have. You can be better and TOPUCU is here to make that a reality for yourself. We’re here to make sure that the next time you’re working on goal setting you’ll be able to achieve them.

Importance of Time Management

07/26/2018 by topucufinisher

Importance of Time Management

Understanding the importance of time management and making the most of your time is something lots of people want to do but few people manage to make it happen. With all the distractions that we have in today’s world, it’s so easy to spend all day binge-watching a TV show or arguing on Facebook. There are so many ways to spend a day without being productive or doing anything. Projects get forgotten, hitting the gym doesn’t happen. You never get to work on fixing the things around the house that need to be fixed. You make excuses for why you didn’t get around to doing the things you were supposed to and you tell yourself you’ll get it done later. Procrastination never seems like it’s that big of a problem and that’s what makes it so insidious. It pushes the concept of the importance of time management into a corner to be forgotten. Nobody ever thinks they are going to run out of time and that’s when things can go wrong. The problems around the house get so severe you need professional help to deal with them. Your project gets forgotten or somebody completes it instead of you and gets the credit. You stay out of shape and get health problems. Procrastination is one of the worst bad habits somebody could have.

Procrastination is Holding You Back

When you finally understand that procrastination has been holding you back and you need to make a change in your life, you’ll need to find the right tools to fight through this bad habit and start to do things without putting them off. You need a framework to make your days more productive and being able to accomplish more. Once you understand the importance of time management, learning how to budget your time to effectively and using time appropriately, is a vital skill to master. You can still have time to have fun and maybe catch a nap now and then but you have to be focused and tend to your tasks. Much as a child having to do their homework before they can play you have to handle business first before you can engage in recreation.

Importance of Time Management with TOPUCU

At TOPUCU we help you understand exactly how bad habits happen and how to start creating good habits that will allow you to live a happier, more productive life. Our seven step program breaks down the process of habits and the reward system that comes with them. You’ll start to understand why you do things and what can be done to change your mindset and get you to quit procrastinating and start doing the things you need to do. The importance of time management becomes clear and learning the skills to achieve more is at hand.

Be More Productive

Being more productive will also make you more self-confident. Knowing that you can handle whatever is thrown at you and knowing you’re responsible is a great feeling for a person to have. It is one of the biggest components of the TOPUCU system. Giving those who learn our techniques the self-confidence and will to achieve is something we take pride in. Getting people to truly believe in themselves is what we’re looking to do and fostering better habits and a better mindset is what we’re looking to achieve. You can do and achieve more. The importance of time management can become clear. TOPUCU will help you do it.