LIFESTYLE

While my current situation is not life threatening, it has been life altering. The following are my musings of dealing with a life-changing event.

Imagine being in the top physical shape of your life. Years of training, rebooting your body. You changed your food habits, you had adopted exercise habits. You found yourself enjoying working out and making the gym a daily part of your life. Through your own journey you were able to drop 120+ pounds and rebooted your body chemistry so that you were no longer a health risk to yourself or to your loved ones.

It was announced today. Your Sexiest Man Alive 2014 is… drumroll… Chris Hemsworth.

Ladies, ladies, what say you?

I’m not on the fence… this guy doesn’t do it for me.

Maybe I’m still living in the past, but this was the Sexiest Man Alive EVER for moi.

I’m sitting at the airport about to cross a few things off my bucket list this week. I’m feeling so excited, so nervous, and well, always, always butterflies when traveling far away and alone.

I kissed my boys goodbye last night and I’m off to LA now to fulfill a dream – to share my wisdom on OWN TV.

Fall is the perfect time to cozy up under the covers and get into a great book. On this week’s Global TV segment, I shared 5 great fall reads… I included something for every woman: fiction, non-fiction, funny, heartwarming, heart-pounding thriller.

Stop for a second and ask yourself, how are you feeling? If you were to finish the following statement, what would you say?

“I am ____.”

What word did you use? Happy? Anxious? Over-worked? Calm?

When I do this exercise with clients, I usually get negative statements. For a lot of us, we let our damaging views of ourselves to dominate our psyche and eventually to become the reality. There’s no shortage of evidence on how the principles of auto-suggestion (how stating things to ourselves can eventually become the reality) can work to change our lives for the better. It’s the core to Napoleon Hill’s bestselling book Think and Grow Rich, and Louise Hay credits the practice as a key element to helping her heal her cancer and take control of her health.

Take 13 minutes out of your day during your lunch break, while in the carpool lane, while on the throne! This is a lesson in defining yourself by the so-called “world’s ugliest woman.” Lizzie Velasquez reminds us that WE are the ones who define ourselves. Not anyone else. Your life is in YOUR own hands. Not one else’s. Lizze is all beauty, all radiance, and I would love to know what you took away from this.

I recently sat down with WestGroupe do to an interview on life, inspiration, making a difference, and Women On The Fence. I wanted to share that interview with you today. If you haven’t heard of WestGroupe, they are a cutting-edge eyeglass company, so if you are a glasses wearer like me, you might love some of their incredible styles.

We should probably begin by defining success.

To me, it meant spending my days doing something I loved. Having the flexibility to be present for school concerts, sick days and summers. Travel. And rarely, if ever, being told what to do. If you look at that list carefully, you will note I am basically unemployable – or as others like to call it – an entrepreneur.