I hear this all the time. We are all guilty of uttering this phrase. I want lose weight, but is it okay if I still have pancakes and bake 
apple pies on Sundays? I mean they are homemade, not store or restaurant bought. If you are looking for me to validate this it AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN! (more…)
This year you will set resolutions, you know that you will even though you VOWED never again. You know deep
down you are setting a few. Ok let’s call them goals instead of resolutions, I think everyone needs goals. (more…)
On my Facebook page, I have been doing the 12 days of Fitness, become a 
Fan so you can check out the first 9 days.
Day 10 — I recently read a great book called “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There“ the author laid out 4 commitments that I am going to apply to fitness.
If you put one crab in a bucket without a top it will escape, but if you put 
a bunch of crabs in a bucket, they will not escape, they will claw away at each other so that not one crab can escape.
Are you surrounded by crabs, you know those people who know matter what new thing you try in life, they always have something usually negative to say about it? The key to anything that you do, is to surround yourself with people who will support you and help you build on your strengths and not tear you down when you are trying to spread your wings and grow.
Have a story about a crab in your life? I would love to hear it.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That’s what makes you a winner. Venus Williams — tennis star
This is too funny. I think I may have ESP. I have been reading this Elizabeth 
Potts Weinstein’s blog for almost a year and she always seems to read my mind. Today I was going to sit down and write a blog about stepping up and embracing your moment. Well Elizabeth PW did it so wonderfully, you deserve to read it.
My moment happened in December and I pushed it in the corner because I was to0 scared and thought that I wasn’t worthy okay let’s call it what it is SCARED SHITLESS of my moment. Could I be bigger than I am today, could everything I want really want come happen if I stood up to my fear? Anyone have those thoughts? Not sure about you but my negative thoughts SCREAM!
Well — I am no longer hiding. Next week I leave to attend a seminar with Alwyn and Rachel Cosgrove. Prior the event they sent a 3 page questionnaire that really helps you get you mind straight and ready to hit the ground running once you go there, but also want actions will you take once you get home.
Don’t let fear, money, time what have you get in the way of your moment. Someone once told me — NOTHING WORTH HAVING COMES EASY!
Have you had your moment?
Guess what, I don’t. This past weekend I competed in the NE Classic it was my first show since July 2009. I worked hard to get 
to this show after a few false starts this season. My goal was to debut my new fitness routine at this show, but it just wasn’t coming together so I decided to just do the bikini round and get my stage legs back. No sooner than 5 minutes after the show I was already critiquing how I did and what changes could I make before the next show in July.
SERIOUSLY!!! Kim you placed in the top 5 and you couldn’t take 5 minutes to give yourself a pat on the back before you were moving onto the next thing. OK, here is my moment to savor and relish my accomplishments. I placed top 5 and it feels great. I did work hard to get to this show and it was also nice share my hobby with 2 women we are new to the sport, Stacey S. and Jenn F. they both had great attitudes and hope they enjoy competing as much as I do. I also got to see 2 great people that I haven’t seen in years and they just made me smile so much and it was so nice to be around them for most of the day. Dottie you are awesome and are such a inspiration so glad that we got back in touch. Melissa loved the crazy hair!!! You rocked the stage.
But the best thing that I should savor is that after 5 years of doing shows and having to put up with all the pre-show, show and post-show madness, my husband turns to me and says that he is proud of me. Now that is something to savor!
Do me a favor whatever your accomplishments are stop and enjoy them because guess what for each goal you achieved someone else has given up. Keep reaching for the stars because the only person who can hold you back is YOU!!!!
Memorial Day weekend is upon us and we all have visions of summer vacations dancing in our head. Already this weekend, I’ve heard so what are your summer vacation plans. Which is funny because this morning I was watching one of my favorite shows Sunday Morning on 
CBS and they were discussing the concept of vacation. We all know as Americans vacations is a dirty word, in fact in these tough economic times how many of you have forgone your vacations so that it wouldn’t look like you weren’t a hard worker. I’m SO guilty of that. Instead of taking a 1 full week, I’ll take a long weekend so that I won’t miss THAT much work, but guess what we are only fooling ourselves. The question they posed on the program is vacation a perk or a necessity.
I think vacation is a necessity. Personally I love to plan a vacation a few months in advance so it gives me something to look forward. I like thinking about how am I going to spend my downtime. When I’m not on vacation, I am a very structured person and my calendar rules my life and vacation is one of the few times that I wake and decided what am I going to do today. It could range from just sitting on my butt and being catered to or something active if the moment feels right, but hey I just follow my intuition.
It’s also one of the few times that get to spend a lot of time with my husband. For two people who live together we don’t get spend enough quality time together. Yes, after 8 years of marriage I still enjoy spending time with him. LOL. Back to the topic.
Bottom-line, I think if you work hard you deserve some well earned downtime and should be respected for knowing when you need to unplug. When I say unplug, I mean UNPLUG — no email, voice-mail, nothing but enjoying yourself. If you are doing any of those things you run the risk of seeing or hearing something that may cause you to be sucked back into the world of work. Remember you deserve and EARNED the downtime. I know when I get back from vacation, I’m more relaxed and focused and can’t wait for the next one.
This year, I’m taking a quick trip to Florida, then heading to Vegas for a competition and Block Island. What are you vacation plans this year? You earned!!! Now plan it.
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I spent 6 weeks in a class that started with a visualization. After the visualization we were all asked to speak about what the visualization meant to us. Well, I found out that I SUCK at visualization. Each time we did it for 6 weeks, NOTHING! People would come back on the line after the visualization and say that their visualization was better than Cats, they laughed, they cried, etc. But if you give me a good quote, it can hit me like a peppermint patty. After each visualization exercise I would look at a this quote on my wall.
“What will I learn from this to make me better?” — Mary Anne Radmacher
Now when you hear that, you can’t help but to visualize! Below are my top quotes that I have posted in my office. (more…)
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. That was this weeks challenge. How’s it been 
going good. I take public transportation and often times we get packed in there like sardines. I carry a rather large gym bag and get looks for it. I usually roll my eyes when someone give me a look when they get hit with my bag, but instead I just smiled and said excuse me. Did that kill me no, did combust on the spot no. My takeaway — if you want to be a miserable shrew that your prerogative, I am not going to sink to your level. I will just kill you with kindness. As my husband always says you’ll catch my flies with honey than with vinegar.
