Want help in focusing on Abundant Healthy Living! Here's a recap of AHL Actions from previous weeks. Pick one or two that speak to you and go for it!
November 1, 2010 - GOALS!
Look at your goal list. Are they measurable and attainable?
If they are - how are you doing so far? Is there cause for celebration?
If they are not - how are you doing so far? Is there cause for correction?
October 18, 2010 - Keeping your Word to YOURSELF
October 11, 2010 - Sometime the Message Catches You Off Guard
Look through your baggage before getting on your bright train. Decide what bags you can leave at the station.
Spend a day aware of each situation and your reaction to it. What direction does your mind go to? If it's negative, catch yourself and switch the moment to a positive. What happened?
November 1, 2010 - GOALS!
Look at your goal list. Are they measurable and attainable?
If they are - how are you doing so far? Is there cause for celebration?
If they are not - how are you doing so far? Is there cause for correction?
October 18, 2010 - Keeping your Word to YOURSELF
- Take one day this week and honor yourself by keeping your word to all of your intentions.
October 11, 2010 - Sometime the Message Catches You Off Guard
Look through your baggage before getting on your bright train. Decide what bags you can leave at the station.
Spend a day aware of each situation and your reaction to it. What direction does your mind go to? If it's negative, catch yourself and switch the moment to a positive. What happened?
October 4, 2010 - What you think you are...You Are
- Start with the phrase: "I am in the process of..." Write out 3 or 4 healthy fit statements and begin and end your day reading these.
- Sometimes it's easier to listen to the words someone else says than to listen to your own words. Take time to really listen when in conversation with some else. Do you hear limiting thoughts expressed? Do you recognize those same thoughts in yourself? Find a way to open the converstion to rephrasing these thoughts to more empowering statements. After all, friends exist to build each other up!
September 27, 2010 - Trade Secret, Sleep
- Determine if you need to add activities to help you transition to sleep.
- Make a list of actions that might help you. Here are some suggestions ... prayer, meditation, journaling, stretching, a warm bath, a light snack, reading a chapter in a book, etc.
- Will you commit to doing them for one week?
September 19, 2010 - Okay
- Buy or borrow Cheryl Richardson's book The Art of Self Care. Plan to do each monthly exercise.
- Remind yourself everyday that you are okay and that this day is going to be special.
- Share the love. Tell someone else something nice about them. Help them get to okay.
September 13, 2010 - Healthy Fit Thinking
- For one day, just be aware of whether your feeding your body and mind Poison or Fuel. No judgements. Just awareness. Just taking the time to be aware can create new possibilities.
- Challenge yourself to go for one day eating and drinking only FUEL for your body. How does it feel? Is there resistance?
- Check out our AHL Mindset List under the Healthy and Fit Mindset Tab
- Print it, read it and put it to work for you.Place it where you will see it often, on your mirror, in your car, in your planner, wallet or purse, where ever you will see it often.
• spend some time learning or reminding yourself about the principles of clean, local eating. The library, the bookstore, the Internet
•go to a Farmer's Market, or your own garden and come up with meals using only the ingredients found there. A delicious plate of grilled veggies - onions, squash, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers - sprinkled with Old Bay. Delicious!
•Make up some oatmeal bags. Go to Trader Joe's and check out their individual packs of dried fruit and nuts. Prepare yourself for when you are not prepared! :-)
August 23rd, 2010 - Life's Elixer
- For one day, write down how much water you are drinking. Simply observe and record.
- If there is a gap between how much water you are drinking and what is recommended for you, use the Plus One technique to gradually increase your consumption of water.
August 16th, 2010 - Falling Off the Wagon
- Set a new measurable goal to meet by August 31st!
August 9, 2010 - Exceptions
- think about the times where you are likely to make an exception. Devise a "plan B" or "option 2" that you can have in your back pocket when you feel an exception coming on. For example - do you always make an exception for dessert? Well, then perhaps your plan B is to always order the fruit or the sorbet. Then you have satisfied your interest in dessert but in a more healthy way.
- if you've been making a lot of exceptions - then it's time to recommit.
August 2, 2010 - Sneak Eating - Who Are We Hiding From?
- think about the times where you are likely to make an exception. Devise a "plan B" or "option 2" that you can have in your back pocket when you feel an exception coming on. For example - do you always make an exception for dessert? Well, then perhaps your plan B is to always order the fruit or the sorbet. Then you have satisfied your interest in dessert but in a more healthy way.
- if you've been making a lot of exceptions - then it's time to recommit.
August 2, 2010 - Sneak Eating - Who Are We Hiding From?
- Make us of one (or more) of the techniques we’ve shared on this blog when you find yourself sneaking. Ask yourself ‘Is this Poison or is this Fuel? Decide to wait 5 minutes and see if the desire is still there. Drink a glass of water first! Share what you try on the blog!
- This week, commit to that ONE new action to stretch your comfort zone.
- Think of a small goal. Spend a day wishing for the power (willpower) to achieve the goal. At the end of the day, how successful were you? Then spend another day working toward the same goal with a firm plan, an open heart and a spirit of success. Compare the results.
June 27, 2010 - Helping You to Stop and Go
- Pick a healthy activity that you currently do and apply the Plus One technique. Use this technique to increase your activity just a little bit. Depending on the activity, add a little bit more each day or every few days. You’ll be surprised at how much progress you’ll make by doing this!
- Choose to use a 5 minute mission on some task or action this week. Use a timer, if it helps.
- Pick something where you could take some action, right now. Blog about it.
- Pick a day this week to challenge yourself to make short bursts of progress in as many areas as you can.
June 27, 2010 - Howdy Partners
- Pay attention to the different aspects of your life? When do you feel most supported? Why? How can you replicate that across all areas of your life? How can you make having Empowerment Partners standard in your life?
- Here’s a challenge. Every morning, for at least a week, look in the mirror, look into your own eyes and say: I love you exactly as you are. Repeat it more than once. Notice how your body feels after you say this a few times.
June 14, 2010 - Abundant Healthy Living Goals
- Create a short term goal ... perhaps July 30th
- Create a long term goals ... perhaps year end
- Share your goal/s on the Blog to empower both yourself and others
- Schedule your fitness time into your calendar. For example at 5:00pm everyday your calendar reminds you that it’s time to go for a walk/run/swim/stretch.
- Find time to sit with yourself for five or ten minutes to breathe deep and find your center. This could be on the subway, in the shower, or anywhere.
- Jot down the times you found yourself pushing aside your needs to fulfill someone else’s. Blog about it. Was it really necessary to put them first? Could they have waited while you walked for 20 minutes?
- Reward yourself when you make it through a whole day full of self care and love. A fresh tomato with pepper and salt from your garden, fresh flowers, an extra chapter in your “beach book.”
May 31, 2010 - Choose An Empowering Outlook
1. Make a list of stories/beliefs/thoughts that don’t serve you. Take one and rewrite it. Imagine yourself using a new pair of glasses to see an old problem or challenge from a fresh perspective. How might a wise grandmother deal with the issue?
2.When talking with a friend, do you notice when they say something limiting about themself. Use this as an opportunity to say…what about thinking about it this way…sometimes by helping someone else rewrite their story we increase our ability to rewrite our own.
May 24, 2010 - Life is a Self Fulfilling Phophecy
1. Ask a trusted friend or your partner if you are putting negative messages about yourself into the world. Ask them to share one with you.
2. Journal about the Abundant Healthy Fit lifestyle you see yourself living.
May 16, 2010 - Recommit
1. When you feel as if you have lost your focus - allow yourself to sit with what it feels like. Are you frustrated, disappointed, angry? What is going on in your world that was a precursor to the loss of focus? Commit that information to memory. Learn from it. Blog about it. Journal about.
2. Challenge your self to go one day without the need to recommit. Then go one more. And one more. When you reach a week without recommitting, take yourself for a "love me" activity - a pedicure, a massage, a walk in the park, buy a bouquet of gorgeous flowers for yourself. Then, sit with that feeling of accomplishment. Blog about it. Journal about it. Compare the two feelings. Awareness is key.
May 10, 2010 - Poison or Fuel?
- Be aware of everything you eat – ask yourself – is this poison or is this fuel. Start out by increasing your awareness of what you normally do. Remember, no judgment, only awareness.
- Challenge yourself to go one day eating and drinking ONLY fuel. How do you feel at the end of the day?!
May 2, 2010 - Healthy Fit Thinking Precedes Being Healthy and Fit
- Create a list of how you think an Abundantly Healthy Fit person thinks or you can just borrow the one we have created and posted on the AHL ACTION PAGE.Create as much awareness around the list as possible. Read it each morning, put it on the fridge, the pantry, your planner, your mirror or even in your car.
- Pick at least one day this week to make every choice a healthy fit choice or thought! If it goes well, keep adding days. We can't wait to hear about this on the Blog!
