v Your Vitality & Lifestyle Fitness Coach: February 2009
Your Vitality & Lifestyle Fitness Coach

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Feeling Moxie?

Moxie . It's an attitude; a way of being in the world that creates immense freedom. It's where savvy, committed, smart and highly skilled meet spunky, shameless, gutsy, and brazen. It's what some folks might misenterpret as "too big for your britches," but it's not. It's that sassy part of each of us that needs to be tapped into and this is the place to find yours!

Moxie (mok-see) noun,. slang
* vigor; verve; pep
* courage; fire; nerve
* skill; know-how
* fortitude and determination

So tap into that moxielicious part of you for motivation and verve to live out loud!

Who’s rocking their moxie?

Be Great, Glow Within, Be Moxielicious,
Rachael
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Live Juicy & Transform Your Perspective

Many of us think of exercise or working out and eating well as a “goal.”

It’s not. It’s a given, it's creating a healthy lifestyle.

Stick with me a moment here. We don’t set a goal to breathe, do we? It’s what our bodies are meant to do naturally. Changing our perspective about this is the first step in allowing our bodies to reset back to their natural, vibrant state and create a healthy lifestyle of exercise and eating well beyond a “program” or a “goal.”

Not one animal in nature has an exercise “program” or any other program for that matter. It’s unnatural. They are instinctual and don’t lay around debating if they should move, starve or deprive themselves or curse the extra padding they put on in the winter months. You are a "Juicy Animal!"

When we understand that our bodies are hard-wired for activity and actually want to move and eat nutritious foods from nature and not a box, shift happens. Our bodies begin to reset back to its natural state and making time for exercise or getting up for a morning workout before your day starts with kids, spouses, career and all our wonderful productivity will no longer seem like a chore or “what you need to do to get skinny.” It will be what you want to do in your natural, vibrant state of a healthy lifestyle.

This is a new perspective and may take a moment to digest. Notice what you thought when you read about creating a healthy lifestyle over setting a goal? Were you overwhelmed and felt like you “had to” or oh no, I’ll never be able to do that? That is a limited belief and now you have an opportunity to be curios about whatever little voice is talking back and ask “is that true?” How do you know you can’t? Have you ever been in your bodies natural, vibrant state? Our bodies naturally want to move and eat well.

I am passionate and excited about igniting shifts in perspectives towards transformation and not just providing a "program."

So what’s driving you? To achieve a weight loss goal or to create a healthy lifestyle of sustainability for the long term? Now is a good time to start with shifting your mind-set.

We are creating a juicy lifestyle and as your coach, trainer and facilitator of possibilities, Transform Fitness Camp and Verve Enterprises Coaching is designed to champion the brilliance that already exists inside you. To support resetting your expectations of who you are and living who you are meant to be with wellness, vitality and living fit, healthy and hot rather than being another “program.”

Wellness and vitality simply means this; we no longer doubt ourselves, we function from a place of source (knowing we are capable and pull the answers from within), regenerating, refueling and reengaging our energy with exercise and noshing well and taking care of ourselves as we reset our expectations and create a healthy lifestyle. One juicy day at a time.

That my friend, is "Living Juicy!" Spread the juicy word to those you love and care about!

Be Great, Glow Within, Stay Juicy,
Rachael
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Romance Yourself

In honor of February being “Heart” month both physically and emotionally, I've composed some inspiration to ignite your motivation in taking exquisite care of yourself, your vitality, personal success and fitness goals.

Keep movin’ keep choosin’! Today is a new day, choose to take care of yourself and give your body the nutritious meals and hydration with water it desires so it can in return give you vitality, energy and abundant health (and a lean body, flatter tummy and lifted booty)

Accentuate the positive; what have you accomplished since your decision to take care of you and be fit and healthy? Find sources of strength and positive change within yourself, outside your immediate circle, with regular strength training and in healthy food choices that you have a accomplished and use it as your new experience to build upon (this will aid in changing your old “picture” as well). Even the smallest change adds up, its all significant. Give yourself credit for even the smallest step.

Strengthen your resolve; The new year brings with it the “need” to set resolutions, you may have thought or even written a few (I prefer goals and intending over resolutions). Keep up with your goals and intentions by surrounding yourself and reaching out to those who are on your same path.

Be the wonder woman you CAN be” ~Diane von Furstenberg (the word "can" suggests you already are, you just have to choose to take steps and live it)

Find yours; find your personal goal, not the goal of what you think you should be according to the media or others, find what you love, what makes you happy, what makes you tick, what you are good at as it relates to exercise and moving your body, a great tasting, nutrious healthy meal you’ve made, finding your inner runner, inner athlete, inner rock star or finding your inner _________ (fill in the blank).

Say hello to your future self by creating a mantra or manifesto that has resonance for you. “I am lean, Strong and Healthy”; “I am fit and full of Vitality”; “I have become the woman I want to be for myself, my children, my significant other;” “I am unapologetically sexy, sassy and fit.” Just a few ideas to ignite your own.

Give YOURSELF a Valentine. You are deserving! “Self-love, my trusted friend, is not so vile a regrettable behavior as self neglecting" ~William Shakespeare.

Create an extraordinary day by changing or shifting your perspective. My desire is that this post has done so...

Be Great, Glow Within, Stay Juicy,
Rachael
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Monday, February 2, 2009

Mind Your Mind

“There is no starting or stopping… only doing” ~From the Movie “Peaceful Warrior”

What we think about, we bring about. In other words, if you think you can’t do or accomplish something, congratulations… you are 100% correct. Change, or transformation, comes from within. It involves a mindset. Changing our thoughts and picture about ourselves is part of change. Most of us are unaware of our thoughts and how we think and view ourselves. Someone once shared that if someone treated them the way they "thought" about themselves, they wouldn't have that person as friend. What do you think about yourself?

Mind your mind, start listening to your thoughts, being curious about them and asking yourself if they are true. Becoming aware of how we think, then we can begin to change the way we think and therefore change the way go about life and how we view things. True change happens with your mind, your thoughts. Change your thoughts and you will change your life.

A friend and mentor once shared with me the following; "Change does not take time, it takes commitment. Once commitment is made, change is instantaneous." Transition usually precedes change, and that is a whole other blog unto itself, as is resistance. Stay tuned...

Decide in your mind to be open to seeing yourself and sitautions differently, beign curious about what you think and believe. Commit to your change. It takes courage and grace to get the glory, so GO GET IT!

Be Great, Glow Within & Stay Juicy!
Rachael
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