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Surround Yourself with People Who Positively Impact Your Happiness

Posted by Jamie Johnson on Sat, May 11, 2013 @ 07:48 PM
  
  
  
  
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Do you surround yourself with people who positively impact your happiness? Have you noticed how you feel when surrounded by some of your friends? Do you feel overwhelmed by some people and more at peace with others and even happier with some? People you surround yourself with have direct impact on your happiness. This is Mother's Day weekend. Do you celebrate the love you have, have had, continue to nourish in your heart... for your Mother? This weekend is a moment in time to celebrate all the people you have touched with love, especially your Mother.When we have that special connection with others we nourish our heart and soul with life energy that can last a lifetime. Who are you going to share your love with today? What positive energy, from your Mother,  will you allow to fill your heart this weekend...? Let me know your loving kindness that emerges from your positive thoughts.describe the image

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Lifestyle Medicine Can Decrease Your Risk for Disease

Posted by Jamie Johnson on Sat, May 11, 2013 @ 07:35 PM
  
  
  
  
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Did you know that lifestyle medicine can decrease your risk for disease? What type of medications are you taking today? How many medications are you taking? Do you want to get off some of your medications? I strongly believe that a person's risk for diseases of diabetes, heart disease, cancers, and obesity can be prevented or improved with healthier lifestyle modifications. Eating healthy, maintaining a regular physical activity program, striving to create a healthy weight, improving your sleep habits, decreasing your stress, not smoking, and consuming alcohol in moderation can make an enormous impact in your health and well-being. Improving your personal effectiveness skills of aligning your habits with what you value is a first step. Lifestyle medicine is all about improving your habits of eating, exercising, sleeping, keeping your stress levels low, and other habits. Do you need a plan? What is one thing you will do next week to start your healthier lifestyle? Will you start eating whole grains for breakfast? Will you walk for ten minutes before you take your shower? Will you begin living the life you want to live and be the positive person you know you are capable of being? Let me know what is working for you and what your successes are.describe the image

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How Do You Inspire People?

Posted by Jamie Johnson on Fri, Apr 12, 2013 @ 06:18 AM
  
  
  
  
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“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the
decisive element. It is my personal approach that
creates the climate.
I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or
joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of
inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a
crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is
humanized or de-humanized.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If
we treat people as they ought to be, we help them
become what they are capable of becoming.”
Goethe

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Simple Action Plan for Healthy Living

Posted by Jamie Johnson on Wed, Apr 10, 2013 @ 06:14 AM
  
  
  
  
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How and when do you create a simple action plan that propels you forward into an energized day? "Never wait for the proper mood to start a thing, nor until the mood moves you. Make your own mood. Make your own spirit. How? ACT. Do something - anything. Inspiration seldom generates describe the imageaction. Action always creates inspiration." annonymous. What matters is that you begin by taking action. You can start today to do one small thing that will make you healthy. What do you need to do? Walk? Eat less red meat? Omit dairy from your diet? Increase non-genetically modified grains into your diet? Increase fiber? Today you have the opportunity to generate choices that will inspire healthy living. What have your successes been?

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What Inspires Your Positivity?

Posted by Jamie Johnson on Thu, Apr 04, 2013 @ 06:31 AM
  
  
  
  
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What inspires your positivity? Whose words bring a smile to your face, a kick to your step and energy to your spirit? "We tire of pleasures we take, but never of those we give." J. Pett-Senn; "Habits are powerful factors in our lives. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they consistently, daily express our character and produce our effectiveness...or ineffectiveness." S. Covey; "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." O.W. Holmes; "Excellence begins with an act of attention." Annonymous; "Do everything with a mind that let's go." A. Chah; "People are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them." Epictetus; "....to choose one's own attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own path." V. Frankle; "Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk." P. Noonan; To find joy and more positivity in your life, help others to get what they want...contribute to their life in a positive way that makes meaning to them. Then, celebrate what you enjoy about your life, in this moment, and go have some fun. How do you inspire your positivity?

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Speaking Candidly Allows Personal Effectiveness to Flourish

Posted by Jamie Johnson on Mon, Apr 01, 2013 @ 08:17 PM
  
  
  
  
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Do you speak candidly to enhance your personal effectiveness? Do you avoid speaking candidly because you have an assumption your emotions need to be hidden, not exposed to others? Do you believe you will feel frightened or embarrassed about what you believe? Have you ever considered...by not speaking candidly, you cheat others from learning how you care? The more you speak candidly, the more you increase your confidence within yourself. As you increase your confidence, you realize speaking candidly enables our personal effectiveness of self-expression. When you speak candidly your opportunity to contribute to other people's lives becomes a gift. It also is important to remember other people have the opportunity to accept what you say, ignore what you say or they can change what you say. When you avoid speaking candidly, your truth is dim and you choose to keep your feelings to yourself. By keeping those feelings and feedback from others, you continue to support a self-defeating, negative habit. Learn to allow your personal effectiveness to flourish by speaking candidly. Let old assumptions go (I assume people are out to get me and I feel threatened...) and decide to be that positive impact on other's lives by communicating candidly. Who will you speak candidly to today? Share your successes of what you learn by speaking candidly.

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Wellness Coaching Helps You Improve Health

Posted by Jamie Johnson on Sun, Mar 24, 2013 @ 03:46 PM
  
  
  
  
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When you are willing to learn about wellness coaching through your physician, you too can improve your blood profile (lipid profile, nutrients, A1C, glucose, etc.), biometrics (weight, body mass index, blood pressure, waist circumference etc.). Wellness coaching develops and empowers personal integrity and confidence, while striving for excellence and success. Wellness coaches and physicians partner with a client to collaborate health strategies. By equipping clients with knowledge and skills, to fit your needs for success, you can begin to learn how to make healthier choices and live the life you want. Wellness coaching provides healthy opportunities that are critical for developing an appreciation for optimal health and well-being. Wellness coaches provide leadership to facilitate change in your health strategies, build self-confidence as well as respect for others. Your health challenges that you may be facing can improve with a wellness coach. Not only do you learn how to develop critical and creative thinking skills, you improve your ability to plan, assess and execute actions that support what you want to do (your priorities). When you are willing, your wellness coach will educate you how to cultivate habits of your mind and character, personal effectiveness, which enables you to thrive and flourish. What type of foundation does your life have? Do you know a wellness coach? What are you going to do to begin living your healthiest life? Let me know your successes.

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Personal Effectiveness Inspires Physical Activity

Posted by Jamie Johnson on Sat, Mar 23, 2013 @ 07:15 PM
  
  
  
  
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What encourages you to grab your workout bag and release the endorphins (feeling good) with physical activity? Do you grab your remote and sink into your favorite chair? When you decide to enhance your personal effectiveness you will discover what type of physical activity that makes you feel fabulous. The Cooper Aerobics Clinic in Dallas, TX encourages clients to walk....walk when you are on a conference call; walk when you are working with a client; walk when you are feeling stress; walk when you meet with your lifestyle medicine practitioner; walk when your dog wants to go describe the imageoutdoors. Walking is a cardiovascular activity that enhances your health. We are built to move. If you want your children to excel in classes, if you want to feel better, if you want to reduce your stress, if you want to improve your health and personal effectiveness, physical activity will be our answer to making your life better. Physical activity makes you feel better, improves oxygen you utilize each minute, and enhances life, relationships and your future. What are you doing each day to improve your personal effectiveness through physical activity? Physical activity enhances personal effectiveness. What activity do you want to try? Walking? Biking? Swimming? Let me know what you will do for physical activity next week. What will you do to enhance your physical activity, brain, relationships, life?

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Personal Effectiveness Enhances Love of Life

Posted by Jamie Johnson on Wed, Feb 13, 2013 @ 07:24 PM
  
  
  
  
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Does your personal effectiveness enhance your love of life? When you live with the intention of being the best you can be to yourself, in your relationships and connections with people and for the good of the world...your life can flourish. What do you do to know yourself better? Awareness of your emotions, thoughts and behaviors, in any situation, will enhance who you want to be and how you want to live your best life. Do you see value in yourself? By seeing your own value, you then add value to yourself. describe the image(strengths, talents, skills and healthy habits) How often do you pause and reflect on who you are or what you need to do to be your best self? Learning to pause and reflect on life's experiences (good or bad) allows you to take yourself to your growth edge and discover renewed motivation for living your best life. Looking at your bad experiences through a positive lens of learning helps you grow. What will you learn today? Will you allow your character to grow and enhance your love of life? Creating a vision of what success looks and feels like and what you want to be doing, that you aren't doing today, allows yourself to enhance a renewed love of life. When you work to improve and grow your personal effectiveness, you also enable other people in your life to grow. What choices will you make that enhance your love of life? Let me know...

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Six Steps for Creating a Mindset of Positivity

Posted by Jamie Johnson on Wed, Jan 30, 2013 @ 02:06 PM
  
  
  
  
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Can you create a mindset of positivity for yourself? Did you know that having a mindset of positivity opens you to possibilities and transforms you? When you come from a positive place in your mind you broaden and build your path forward into the future. A path is illuminated that previously was not seen. Being filled with positivity improves your creative spirit, increases trust, improves relationships, develops a resilient spirit, and helps you to see the bigger picture. Personal effectiveness is enhanced, confidence soars anddescribe the image flourishing is promoted. What can you do to develop your positive mindset? The six steps are: 1. accept what is in the present and be kind to yourself; 2. identify and let go of your fears and guilt; (it really is your way of clinging on to old beliefs anyway...) 3. focus on and make a list of what is important to you and promotes life giving energy; 4. identify what makes you vulnerable and feel humiliation; 5. let go of controlling everything; 6. realize there are things that you are holding onto that don't serve you, let those things go by replacing them with healthy habits or healthier options. When you are able to appreciate what gives you positive energy you will be able to feel joy, enthusiasm, energy, excitement, and empowerment. your spirit will be flourishing and a more vibrant and positive way of living is yours. Let me know what personally effective skills work for you. What percent of your day is filled with learning and growing towards a more positive mindset? Let me know of your progress.

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