One of my strongest principles is to lead by example.
This is not easy sometimes but it is important. It gives you a goal to work toward and it is rewarding for both you and the people around you.
Granted no one is perfect you are exactly the way you are. But Reach for the goal.
To that end, I am off on a week long vacation, open air, great scenery and no email or phone.
I’ll be back in a week, with a tan and ready to get to work!
See you all then!
Oct
6
A big part of creating more success in life is rewarding yourself when you succeed. So, it’s important to reward your inner child as well. Every time you work hard to meet a goal, the part of you that just wants to have fun has to sit still and be good. However, just like any kid, if it knows it will be rewarded later with a treat, it will hang in there with you.
How can you reward your inner child?
• Take a 20-minute walk after an hour or two of concentrated work
• Go for walks in the morning with your spouse, friend, or significant other
• Take 20 minutes to listen to music and daydream
• Take most weekends totally off
• Take several weeklong vacations throughout the year
• Get regular massages • Engage in daily meditation, exercise and yoga
• Take music lessons
• Go to movies, concerts and plays
• Listen to comedy tapes and watch the Comedy Network
• Listen to motivational audio programs when driving
Oct
1
Your Invisible Power
From 1912 to 1914, Genevieve Behrend’s life focused solely on the wisdom and philosophy of the man who’s influential and compelling ideas provided much of the groundwork to the spiritual philosophy known today as “New Thought”.
As the awareness of Mental Science was taking shape, Thomas Troward (1847- 1916) imparted his personal insight to only one pupil who could perpetuate this knowledge and share it with the world.
Your Invisible Power was her first book and remains her most powerful and popular work.
Behrend presents the Troward philosophy at its best because of the way her incomparably direct, and dynamic personality relates the life-changing concepts on a personal level.
Behrend says, “We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.
“These pages have been written with the purpose and hope that their suggestions may furnish you a key to open up the way to the attainment of your desires.”
Sep
30
Myth: I know ALL of this, I have tired and I failed!
Truth: Knowing is one thing, taking ACTION is totally different.
I am not one to dwell on the negative or the failures. Great you tired and failed before, that means one less way to try it. Now is the time to try something new. This one is for you! After reading many books and websites I noticed that there is always a specific person they are talking to, I mean it makes sense, there is no way to talk to everyone.
There are some many different people, places, environments, no one person can possible reach everyone. From my brief history you read at the beginning, you can see, I am just an everyday woman, with everyday problems and challenges like you.
I would never drink my water out of a crystal wine glass, a nice thought, but not at all particle with 4 teenagers and 6 cats running around the house. I am not the kind of woman that appreciates manicured nails, what will they look like after 5 minutes in the garden. I am not going to tell you something that I haven?t already tired and succeeded at. I believe the Extreme Simplicity as just as important as Extreme Self Care.
If the action isn?t easy, I just won?t do it. Life can be complicated and it can offer up some unbelievable challenges. Actions need to be very simple in order to be successful. Now that you know and now that you know just how simple it really can be, you must certainly can pick yourself up and try again.
Now is the time to take action! One action, one step on the journey to Extreme Self Care. Success doesn’t have to be complicated. It’s about doing the little things every day. Each week, focus on making one change.
Once you get it down, focus on something else. If you improve just one thing every week, imagine the change you’ll see over the next five years.
Anyone can journey toward Extreme Self Care:
You can down load the full version of The 5 Myths of Self Care as well as the Audio of a call talking about the 5 myths here
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Sep
23
Myth: If you can’t do it all it right, don’t do it at all!
Truth: Simple Changes make a big difference.
There are some people (me included) that has some trouble with this. You maybe a control freak or a perfectionist, either way you have placed on yourself these enormous expectations. You have being doing it for as long as you can remember and you probably have no clue about where to even begin to stop.
But you can stop and you can move on from here.
First: Breathe
Second: Breathe again
Third: Pick just one thing to change
It is not possible to change everything in one day, one week or one year even, this is a process, a journey to create a better you.
Sep
16
Myth: I don’t have the time!
Truth: Creating organization gives you the time.
Sure you can keep avoiding this for the rest of your life, or you can make the time. Daily habits or rituals will help you organize your time. How much time do you spend looking for your bills at the end of the month? How much time do you spend on Saturday on doing laundry?
Now I have made a conscious effort to get up 30 minutes early so that I have time to my self in the mornings, to me the effort to get up is very little compared to the enormous benefits I get from having my day completely organized.
Here is My Nourishing Getup Ritual – Nourishing to your soul and body.
Some simple things that help, pick an alarm clock that has a nice sound or use the radio so that you wake up to music. I give myself a few extra minutes in the morning, this allows me to wake up and stretch my way awake, with out feeling the rush, rush of the day. I have made it a practice to get up with enough time to get myself up, showered and ready before it was necessary to get the kids up.
Sep
9
Myth: My Family doesn’t understand me!
Truth: Do you know how to ask for what you need?
It is not that you family doesn’t understand you…. It is that you have let them walk all over you, of course not intentionally. You didn’t know better, they didn’t know better. The generation pervious to us, grew up and learned how to live based on the “Leave it to Beaver” family. The Wife stayed home, her whole existence was to be a good wife and mother. The Husband went off to work at 7am and came home at 5pm for dinner.
Today we live in a completely different environment. It is not easy to support a family on just one income and we are working hard and longer hours just to stay above the water. Now I believe that these strong values of taking care of our value are still very, very important. I believe that we adapt to what we need to get this task done.
Sep
2
…..(Or what kind of excuses can I come up with today?)
Myth: This make me feel too selfish!
Truth: If you don’t take care of you, who will?
It is human nature to take care of others first; normally it is our immediate or extended families. It is survival right, taking care of our offspring, making sure that humanity survives the big bad world. Okay back to reality now, in North America we don’t have to worry that much about surviving. We can find shelter, food, and clothes those most basic survival needs. So we can move past the “survival of fittest” and work on self care.
What would your family do, they are expecting you to take care of things, they are expecting you to cook, clean, do laundry, mend their bodies, help them feel better, get them over heart breaks and problems.
Ask yourself this… what would your family do if you died of a heart attack? Who would fix them then?
They would mourn and miss you, sure! You are a great person, well liked and dearly loved. But they would pick up their lives and move on. They would grow up and grow old, whether you are there or not. Wouldn’t you like to be there?
Sep
1
The Path of Prosperity
James Allen was one of the forefathers of the power of positive thinking. In this book you will learn how to change your life through the way you think. This book will guide you to an understanding of how to find peace and prosperity by changing your attitudes and reactions to life’s challenges. “By your own thoughts you make or mar your life, your world, your universe. As you build within by the power of thought, so will your outward life and circumstances shape themselves accordingly.” -James Allen
Tune out, turn off: take 30 minutes to ignore your cell phones, pagers, computers, watches and other devices. Use this “techno-free” time to nap, read, visit a friend, etc.
