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New Beginnings Part 3

mind Jan 08, 2021

Welcome back!

How is that Vision board, and thinking about your legacy going? Have you found what motivates you? Have you tried applying one thing into you life? What did you find out about it and fitting into your life? Good or bad, now you know. That is the point of trying it out, better to know now.

While the sound of a “mission statement” or a “vision board” might sound romantic, it’s what comes after that counts.

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Of course we don’t want you to just start plugging things into your day-timer but rather try one thing out at a time, and see how it works, overcome challenges, build confidence, make it your new norm, and then move onto the next item on your board.

Now that may not sound romantic, but it is realistic. Realistic is what brings lasting results.

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New Beginnings Part 2

mind Jan 08, 2021

Welcome back!

Did you have fun making your Vision board, or did you run into any challenges? If yes, drop us a line at [email protected] to share and see if we can offer you any suggestions.

If you are just joining the blog series now, to truly engage in the process please go back and review the previous blog, New Beginnings (1) as this will help you determine…

For those of you ready to move forward please pull out your Vision board and ponder it. Ask yourself:

What really motivates me? I mean what sends a tingle through my body, or gets my blood moving, or just plain gets me excited?

If nothing jumps out at you then practice this:

Focus on one photo.

Think about what your life will look like if you have that thing.

(Close your eyes an use visualization like athletes do.)

Who is there? What’s around you? What does it FEEL like to be standing right there in...

New Beginnings Part 1

mind Jan 08, 2021

Happy New Year!

Did you enjoy the festivities of the holiday season? Recovered now, and is life kind of getting back to “normal”?

For many of us, New Year's resolutions were set. How is that working for you so far?

Personally I gave up on making those years ago and took a different approach, as I found it did not take me long to lose my motivation and go back to old habits; year after year after year after year…

In my corporate career I was fortunate enough to be certified to teach Dr. Stephen Covey “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. Not sure if many of you are old enough to remember the buzz about that, but I have to admit his course truly changed my life for the better, and I’d like to share some of that wisdom with you in a few bits and bites over the next few blogs, including a twist to that knowledge that I’ve found useful, as have others.

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How do you react to a life event and your self-care regium?

mind and body Nov 20, 2020

In the last blog we talked about when a "life event" happens and throws you off your self-care regium. It happens to all of us, so how do you deal with it? For us it was a matter of "short term pain" for "long term gain".

In getting a puppy our normal routine was knocked out of whack, however 6 weeks in we now are training our walking partner to get us back on track. Knowing this will become a part of our daily routine, what a great way to commit to walking as part of our self-care.

Why it is so difficult to get back on track once we have slipped off our self-care regium?

I really started searching for the answer to this question, and what I discovered was this interesting observation.

When we try something new we have a different energy, we are excited to take on something new. It breaks us out of our old patterns and gives us something interesting to do, which activates different parts of the...

Listen to your body, and nap when you need a nap!

body Nov 20, 2020

Last blog we touched on the topic of falling off track. I had mentioned that to get back on track we need to do the following:

Just think about why you did, so you can change or remove that obstacle and get back on track.

DO NOT BEAT YOURSELF UP, that is a waste of energy, just learn from it and move on. Beating yourself up lowers your vibration and doing that brings down your energy, your spark, your light.

But it's not always that easy!

Then I started thinking about it, and in talking with different people I noticed a real trend about how difficult it is to get back on track one we have had some "life events" that take you off track.

Meet our latest "life event"...

Miss Penelope Roserrita, our precious black lab baby girl.

We have never had children, the 2 legged human kind, so we can't speak from experience about how that can turn your life upside down, but we sure can speak to raising...

Why is accountability so important?

mind Nov 20, 2020

Last time we will talked about a key component of our mindset, and in reference to the car analogy, we need more than just fuel, we also need a maintenance program to keep it running well.

That key component is commitment.

We talked about all our commitments, and how we are usually at the end of the list, therefore not self-caring ourselves.

How do we go about changing that, by setting reasonable, practicable and doable goals for ourselves, staring with baby steps.

Also remember what happens if we take no action, nothing changes, well wait...

Lets not just wait for something to magically happen.

Time to take responsibility for your life and live a better life with the aid of self-care.

Now its time for what I like to call an Accountability check in.

Most successful people have someone that can hold them accountable, as nothing like having to report to another to help keep you on...

Are you too busy driving to stop and get gas?

mind Sep 12, 2020

Self-care purpose

First of all, what is self-care, and what is it's purpose?

In a short phrase self-care is feeding your soul by doing something you love. I call this self-care.

If you look at it that way, it has a whole new meaning versus just something else to add to your "to do" list.

This is what we are going to start exploring with you each month, just one piece at a time so you can not only take it in, but start to practice it. I mean, what's the point of information if we don't at least give it a try?

As an inspirational man once said...

"Are you too busy driving to stop and get gas?"

Dr. Stephen R. Covey

When you think about that you may say of course not! I'd run out of gas and not be able to go any where.

but yet...

What do you do to your body on a regular basis?

The first topic I want to discover with you is mindset. Hiding under your mindset are your...

The C Word

mind Sep 12, 2020

First of all, what is self-care, and what is it's purpose?

In a short phrase self-care is feeding your soul by doing something you love and causes no harm. I call this self-care.

If you look at it that way, it has a whole new meaning versus just something else to add to your "to do" list.

This month we will talk about a key component of our mindset, and in reference to the car analogy, we need more than just fuel, we also need a maintenance program to keep it running well. That key component is what we will talk about next.

The C word!

The C word, could be car, carbon or fuel to run the car... ok spoiler alert, its

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