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The Healthy Entrepreneur: 8 Tips to Stay Fit and Focused

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When You Neglect Your Health, You Pay the Price!

Remember freshman 10 (or 15)? The extra weight you supposedly gain in your first year of college from partying, drinking, and eating junk food? I never saw it. I lost weight in college. I wasn’t into partying and electrical engineering was not exactly a walk in the park. Whatever little exercise I did helped to keep me sane while I burned the midnight oil on both ends to survive college. I was a skinny little thing!!!

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Dealing with Success Envy: How to Shut Up the Inner Ego

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Suffering from Success Envy?

Do you watch others who are more successful than you and secretly envy them?
Do you find yourself daydreaming about another person’s life and wish you were them?
Do you see things and feel captivated by their aura, wondering why you were dealt such a bad hand of cards in life?

In other words, do you suffer the insufferable inner ego or have you shut it up already so you can get on with the business of your own life?

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Beyond Fitness and Weight-Loss: The Miracles of Exercise

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What if you could transform your life with a natural, accessible, and powerful solution that really works? What if the answer to your questions and your struggles was simpler? What if you could put a mini-revolution into your body AND your business or career?

The miracles of exercise, baby, are revolutionary if you are willing to allow it. Sure, exercise is amazing for your body, your mind and your well-being, you already know that along with the whole planet thanks to a tad bit of marketing and advertising in the last few decades, and that should be incentive enough for all of us to get our daily dose of exercise as vigilantly as we get the daily dose of water and air! [Read more…] about Beyond Fitness and Weight-Loss: The Miracles of Exercise

Overwhelmed with Self-Improvement? Defeat It with 5 Power Tips

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Twice now I have heard this feedback  – one from an email subscriber who shared it sadly as a reason for leaving my mailing list and another from my devoted client during our 1:1 coaching sessions:

“Feeling overwhelmed with self-improvement and personal development.”

Oh I can more than relate to these feelings; personal development bloggers feel this way too; if they don’t, they are not pushing the envelope hard enough. So today, I decided [Read more…] about Overwhelmed with Self-Improvement? Defeat It with 5 Power Tips

Finding Strength in Yoga Arm Balances

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You might have noticed that I love yoga.

In fact, it is one of the few passions which I aspire to infuse into everyone because I truly believe that every human body can benefit enormously from yoga. You can certainly do additional great work on that body but infuse it with yoga. Yoga and yoga alone is the universal language of loving your body through the years. There is a magic about yoga which preserves your youth by preserving everything from the health of your spine to the capacity of your lungs, from the strength of your core to the stillness of your mind. Yoga is the timeless and flawless answer to pure health and vitality.

2014 UPDATE: My greatest meditation discovery that I now do with my yoga is a program I love and trust: ReAwakening (my affiliate link). As you may know, I have a hard time meditating and staying still. The soothing voice of Angela and the calming music are great but MOST OF ALL, ReAwakening goes through a powerful system with the story telling that guides you into a meditative zone where you go deep into a heavenly zen state. Grab your own copy of this incredible meditation program!

3 Pillars to your yoga practice: Strength, Flexibility, and Balance.

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Building blocks means you start from the ground up. It does not imply that you need to be strong or flexible or have perfect balance. If I had a penny for every time I heard, “But I cannot do yoga because I am not flexible.” That is the ideal reason to do yoga. You open up the body and find space you did not know existed between your muscles. You discover a sense of balance which initially blows you away. You watch flexibility unfold layer after layer and you get closer to the glorious core one practice at a time.

Yoga Asana Arm Balance Peacock Variation

Alas, we can at most inspire others to dab into the passions we ourselves find fulfilling.

With inspiration at the forefront and a new excitement about boundaries I am breaking with the yoga practice at my back, I created a quick video focusing on the theme of Arm Balances, where you balance the weight of your body on your arms, either your forearms or just your hands. Arm balances demand so much at first – strength of the arms and shoulders, followed by a seriously strong core (belly strength) and flexibility of hips for most of lower body positions – and get oh so much easier with time and practice.

Here’s to sending you the most inspiration, motivation and encouragement you can embrace from the yoga flow series.

So, any epic health goals this year for you darling readers out there? Share away in the comments below and inspire us all with your own journey and exploration to health in 2011.