Do you spend a lot of time worried and frustrated?  Worry and frustration will take you down faster than anything else.  People who are worried and frustrated are no fun to be around – and certainly no fun to do business with.  Rather, be filled with joy, be optimisitic – allow yourself to be a breath of fresh air to those around you… and you will be attractive to others, and quite fun to do business with.

 HOW do you fill your life with joy and a positive attitude?  Decide to do it.  MMMMM, not so easy you say?  Very true.  Its like working out and eating right – its a discipline that you must practice.  But here’s a good first step:

Take a deep, deep breath.  Exhale slowly and smile – smile a big happy smile.  Its impossible to be angry, worried or frustrated when you have a smile on your face.  The very act of smiling – and I don’t mean a fake smile that doesn’t include the eyes, you gotta smile all the way up to your eyes – raises your spirits.

Try it.  Do it often.  If you’re really in a funk, try it 1-2 times per hour.  Deep breath and a smile.  Pay attention to the positive thoughts that jump into your head when you do it.

I am so excited about a new service I am offering – I can not wait to share it with the world!   There’s a lot of buzz out there right now about The Law of Attraction, but we’ve all known for a long time that visualizing your goals, and doing “mental rehearsing” to change behavior is incredibly effective.  However, most of us lack the discipline to sit down and DO it each and every day.  And, we lack the mental discipline to focus on the visualization for several minutes.  SO, I’ve decided to help people past this by creating personalized guided visualization audios!!!  Stay tuned….. 

For those who have trouble staying motivated on a day to day basis – to work on their goals, primiarily, business goals, I am going to creat a motivational meditations audio download.  I am going to have a generic one for sale, and also offer customized versions with a 20 minute coaching session with me.  How fun is that?  I’m getting started right now…

I think I have had a realization about myself and my business today.  I have felt so torn lately between wellness coaching and personal/professional development coaching.  I have always had a passion for nutrition, health and wellness – but at the same time I have a passion for working with people on improving their sense of self and taking their business or career to the next level.

I have had an idea for a while about relating the “Holy Trinity” to self.  The whole “body-mind-spirit connection” not being a connection at all but three aspects of the whole self.  And bringing that into my work.

I think I need to rework how to say what it is that I do… but I do think that bringing in all three elements, which in turn will bring in wellness coaching, personal development and professional development coaching all into one THING – but what to call that THING, right?  yowza.  At least my business name, Optimize You, works well… maybe I’m an Optimal Coach. 

Staying motivated on a day in and day out basis… How the heck do you do it? 

Some experts will tell you that you must do affirmations every day.  EVERY day.  I have tried on and off throughout the years to do affirmations.  Sometimes they feel good – but often I feel like I’m lying!  We’re told that for an affirmation to be effective, we must say it in the present tense – as if it is already true.  I’m a BIG believer in the “act as if” principle, but affirmations have always been a struggle for me because a little voice in the back of my head says, “What? no… that is not true! are you lying?”  But I thought I must need to keep this to myself – after all, I’m a motivational speaker – I’m a professional development coach – I must believe in affirmations…. right?

Recently I have been reading T. Hav Eker’s book “The Millionaire Mind” and he says exactly what I’ve always thought!  (I guess I should trust my instincts a bit more, huh?)  He suggests that making Declarations is much more powerful than affirmations.  So, I’ve tried it.  It feels more powerful.  It feels like, “YEAH! I’m going to do this, just watch me!” 

Here’s a beautiful way of looking at a Declaration:

When you Delcare something you are speaking it into existance.

 SO – tell me: What are you going to Declare today?