Do your personal effectiveness skills turn back the aging clock? What are you doing now to live your best life in your later years? As you age, your eating and drinking, exercise, emotional and social intelligence, stress resilience, and sleep habits need to evolve the longer we live. Decisions you make in your early twenties will impact your life later. Healthy habits can begin today with your eating, exercising and how you make connections with other people. Eating whole, natural foods that are all the colors of the rainbow, doing physical activity every day, maintaining a positive, and resilient spirit towards any opportunity life brings you and being able to make healthy connections with all the people in your life will turn back the aging clock. A healthier, happier, more zestful life can be yours. What is one personal effective habit you will upgrade this week to begin creating the new you?

How happy are you? Do your personal effectiveness skills create sustainable happiness for you, helping you to flourish and live your best life? Positive emotions (1) of joy, contentment, curiosity, vitality, and pride all add to the stream of intrinsic motivation. When we motivate ourselves to experience bouts of positive emotions, we fuel our sense of optimism and hope for living each day with renewed sense of purpose. When you create happiness with a variety (2) of habits that align with what you value, personal effectiveness becomes more authentic. Do you have positive, encouraging, personally effective, emotional support (3) from your friends and family? Being able to confide in your friends and family can significantly reduce stress within your mind and body.  How much committed effort (4) do you intentionally put forth and practice, so you can create a new, challenging yet enjoyable experiences? Is your self-commitment fleeting? Then, so will your happiness be…fleeting. When you are determined to establish healthy habits (5) through which you can savor, enjoy and ultimately be grateful for life, you can begin to create personally effective strategies that drive sustainable happiness each day of your life. What habits are you cultivating that will matter most for sustaining happiness in five years?

 Have you planned any strength training exercises? Adding thirty or forty minutes of strength training on Monday, Wednesday and Friday is great, but where will this happen? Did you know you can do strength training in your own home without any equipment? Simple exercises might include the front plank, the side plank, push-ups, when standing do leg lifts in all four directions. Of course there are many more options, but the key is, have you started to become more active? By simply choosing to become more active, you are improving your self-efficacy which your mind says, yes, I can do it and as we know, success begets success!

 Being able to maintain this change is tough, but when you have an authentic reason for becoming more active you will make ‘being active' a lifelong commitment. I know I want to be one of the few people that will not be taking medications as a result of the poor lifestyle choices I could have made in my life. This simply shows that coming from a strong foundation of integrity and respect for my self can have enormous impact on my personal effectiveness and it can start with being more active.

Your positive attitude, healthy body, higher productivity level at work, feeling less stress, and your ability to have genuine relationships (your personal effectiveness) reflect who you am.  Your lifestyle choices will reflect your passion of valuing your self and creating your best life possible. Harvard Medical School has developed The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, http://www.instituteoflifestylemedicine.org/ where you can learn more about their mission of helping people create healthier lives. You also can obtain more information from http://www.exerciseismedicine.org/ to learn more about the benefits of physical activity and living your best life. How does your lifestyle choice of being physically active reflect your personal effectiveness? I would like to know more about your success stories. You can e-mail me, Jamie@personaleffectivenesslifecoach.com describing what works best for you.

Did you know that simply changing your diet and lifestyle you can improve you personal effectiveness and create radical changes:

• in your health;
• the health of your arteries;
• the quality of your life and...
• develop more confidence to become the master of your well-being?

In Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn's book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, he recommends abandoning the toxic American diet and implementing plant based nutritional changes that can have profound effects on lowering your cholesterol levels, and the development and progression of disease.  Diseases include cancers, strokes, hypertension, osteoporosis, heart disease, and adult-onset diabetes to name a few. He also states, "Physicians and researchers increasingly agree that lifestyle changes - controlling high blood pressure, stopping smoking, reducing cholesterol, exercising and modifying diets are essential to overall personal effectiveness and health." By adopting healthier lifestyles and sustained nutritional changes, you too can become the master of your health and well-being. Go to http://www.heartattackproof.com/ to read about The China Study and for more information.

Understanding the principles of personal effectiveness are the cornerstones that guarantee your self-esteem will flourish, your self-confidence will soar to new heights, inner peace will thrive and great success and life fulfillment will be abundant each day you are alive. Happiness, joy, and positivity can be yours to cherish today.....take the short questionaire at www.authentichappiness.com and...

you will be able to identify your strengths and watch your best life come alive.