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Change Your Life Part 3: Change Your Looks

===Spice Up Your Looks===

We are our own walking billboard, how we look is a representation of our confidence poise and how we see ourselves in the world. A simple haircut or new outfit can completely change the way we put ourselves out there!!! Here's my tips on changing your looks 😎

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The Mask

===The Mask===

The mask we wear prevents us from showing our true authentic self!!! Its not halloween anymore... Take that mask off!!!!

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Change Your Life Part 2: Change Your Attitude

===Changing Your Circumstances===

One of the easiest and most effective ways to change your life for the better is to change your attitude!!! Watch this vlog to find out how!!!

Live in the Present Moment

Be Positive

Don’t Criticize, Yourself or others

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===Changing Your Circumstances===

1.       Change your routine. Remember that your reality is a result of the things you do on a daily basis, from what you eat for breakfast to where you go to work or school. If you're going to change your life's circumstances, you will have to change the things you do every single day. Making even the smallest changes to your daily routine can help you feel less bored with life. Take a different route to work, eat something new for breakfast, try to exercise before work rather than after. Small changes like these will make your life more fun and interesting.

2.       Ask Yourself: Is what I am doing (or not doing) helping me get where I want to be? If the answer is no than change something!!! Make sure that what you are working for is in alignment with your core values. What are your passions, interests, and goals? You can start by asking yourself what kind of legacy you want to leave behind. This question applies not only to your career, but to your relationships as well. How would you like to be described and remembered by other people?

3.       Determine whether or not your lifestyle is aligned with your core values. Chances are, to some extent, your life and your values conflict. What could you be doing differently to help you reach your goals? You may want to consider changing your career path, changing where you live, or changing the way you manage your time and money.

4.       Improve your relationships. No matter how much money you make or how great your accomplishments are, you will not be able to enjoy your success if you don't have loved ones to share it with. Work on the relationships you already have. Be sure to spend quality time with loved ones, and treat them with compassion and understanding. If you have been neglecting or arguing with a loved one, then devote some time to reconcile the relationship. You must be willing to make compromises and even admit that you were wrong. Make new, meaningful relationships with others. If you are feeling lonely, then you will have to stop waiting around for others to approach you.  Put yourself in social situations, strike up conversations, and remember to always have a smile on your face. This is the best way to attract other people.

5.       Try to do something you've never done every single day. Go to a show you've never been to, talk to a new person, eat something new. You never know when you'll discover something or somebody who will end up making a life-changing impact on you. Pick up a new hobby or travel to a new place. If you play an instrument or a sport of any kind, push yourself above and beyond what you would normally do. Run that extra mile, take a different trail when hiking, and explore new artistic styles.

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Leaving A Legacy After coming from a beautiful funeral service I began to wonder what would be said at my own. What kind of a legacy am I leaving for the world after I am gone. Will I be excited about what they say, or will there be a little regret. I began to write my own eulogy but the only way that eulogy will be read at my funeral is if I GO OUT AND LIVE IT!!! My Challenge for you this week is to write your own Eulogy... then live it each and every single day! Lets Leave A Legacy Worth Remembering Until Next week... Keep Achieving Your Best  

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Have You Hit The Wall?

“The Wall” is when we push and push and push to accomplish our goal or dream and just don’t seem to get anywhere. The wall is what separates those who succeed from those who don't, and believe it or not, it is just part of the process when achieving our personal best!

The last time we spoke I was moving into my brand new house, in my dream location, with the love and support of my family, everything was going my way!!! I was unstoppable!  A week later, my dad passed away suddenly from a heart attack. My #1 support system, my go to guy... and unbeknownst to him, my Life Coach. After losing my dad just the thought of building my business just pissed me off! I would stare at my screen, trying to think of the words to say in my weekly blog posts, and I just could not force myself to make it happen. After a couple weeks of trying to plow through what was once easy for me, I asked myself, “Jenny, what would you say to one of your clients, or swimmers if they were facing a similar situation?” I took my own advice and finally gave myself permission to step back, to just rest for a bit and take some “ME” time and get my life back together after losing one of the biggest players on my team.  I re-evaluated what was working and what was not in my business, I regained perspective and passion for what I originally set out to accomplish. I knew that if I kept plowing away and not making any progress I would inevitably give up on my dreams and feel like a complete and utter failure!

My dad and I used to go mountain biking when I was a kid… he would take my sister and I on these excruciating long, rough terrain bike rides.  My sister and I would ask him about every 10 minutes “are we there yet!?!?” and he would always reply with this fiendish grin “just around the next corner where you can’t see!” My sister and I would cringe at the words, because we knew that maybe it was around the corner, but more commonly it was not just around the next corner, maybe it was two or three, OK let’s face it, it would be at least 30 more minutes before we reached our destination. But we kept going, because we knew we had already come this far and wherever our crazy father was taking us… There were always the most beautiful views making all the hard work worth every drop of sweat!!!  

Your dream, your goal, your next personal best, is just right around the next corner where you can’t see! When you are working so hard for your dreams, sometimes it is hard to see past the tears and frustrations that are right in front of you… it can be hard to see the finish line.  Remember to keep your end goal in mind! If my sister and I would have turned back when the road got rough, when our legs were trembling from fatigue… we would have missed out on the incredible view from the top!

After almost two months of rest I am back with MORE MOMENTUM, MORE ENERGY, AND MORE PASSION for what I set out to accomplish to begin with!!!

If you've hit your wall, whether in business, in your health, or a relationship... give yourself permission to back off and rest, but ALWAYS try again, because often what we can't see, is just on the other side of that wall is your goal, your dream, what you have been pushing so hard to accomplish!

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What To Do After You Accomplish A Goal!!!

Congratulations!!! You just accomplished a big goal and you want to know what to do now!!! Maybe you reached your goal weight, exceeded your financial goal, or bought your dream home? Too many times I see people achieve a big goal, and afterwards they have a major let down, fall back down their old comfortable path, and return back where they started!

I want you to succeed and continue to move forward, so here are my tips on what to do after you accomplish a big goal!

#1 CELEBRATE!!! 

Take time in gratitude for your hard work and dedication paying off! Everyone's idea of celebration is different, for me if I reach a health or weight goal I like to buy a new outfit or go out to dinner with my friends, others find a trip or event to be the most fun way to celebrate! There is no right or wrong way to celebrate but DO IT! Celebrate the heck out of your win, and then...

#2 SET A NEW BIGGER GOAL!!! 

Sit down and think about what else you want to accomplish, what do you want to bring into your life, what areas you feel lack and discontent, and set your new goal around those areas. 

#3 SPRINGBOARD OFF THE GOAL YOU JUST ACCOMPLISHED: 

If your goal is something you can add too, for example if your goal was to start your own business, springboard off of your last goal and set a new goal for your business such as, gain 3 new clients this month, or hire an assistant. Use your momentum from your current goal to help you achieve another bigger goal related to your first one. 

#4 SET A GOAL UNRELATED TO THE ORIGINAL GOAL THAT FULFILLS A CHILDHOOD PASSION: 

I see this so many times with successful business types, once they climb the ladder and feel they have no where to go but down, they turn their attention to something totally unrelated that fulfills their childhood dreams, not only does this add fun and excitement into their lives, but they return to their previous business refreshed, and rejuvenated with a fresh perspective and drive!

#5 STAY INVOLVED:

Once you achieve a goal the best way to prevent let down is to help others achieve the same goal! If you reached your goal fitness level, step in and mentor someone trying to achieve the same goal! When I left collegiate swimming to return to my hometown, I began coaching the local swim team. Not only did it keep passionate about the sport, but I was able to mentor young kids to reach and achieve their goals as well! I could relate to them more since I had once been in their position and gone trough their same struggles when I was the athlete. 

#6 DON'T BECOME VICTIM OF THE SLOW DEATH

The biggest struggle my clients face after reaching their goal is keeping it up! take weight loss for example once you lose the weight and feel great you don't want to go back to your old habits or the weight will just creep back on! the same goes for starting a business, don't be satisfied once you open your doors, you want your business to thrive!!! If your goal is something sustainable you will want to keep at it so you don't wake up one day and wonder "what the heck happened!?!" 

Achieving Goals will become an addiction for you! Once you achieve one goal, there will be another, and another, until ultimately you will be holding your dream as reality! So take this time and revisit your goals... keep plugging away and celebrate your successes!!!

Until Next Week,

Keep Achieving Your Best

Jenny

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The Top 5 things every parent of an athlete needs to know!!!

I LOVE this week’s topic because I have been on every leg of the athlete triangle, I’ve been the athlete, the coach, and now am transitioning into being the mom of the athlete!!! I would have to say the transition from Athlete to Coach was difficult but the transition from Coach to the Mom of the Athlete was the hardest! Being the mom of the athlete was HARD!!! I didn’t just have to juggle my schedule anymore I had to make sure Sydney made it to practice on time, was well fed, and oops I forgot I have two kids what is Kaia up to where does she need to be… the list goes on and on!!!  It took me awhile to get into the swing of things and to figure out how to best support my little athlete in the best possible way, while keeping my sanity! That being said, being the mom of the athlete has also been one of the most rewarding legs of the Athlete Triangle!!! I have been able to simplify my life and become more productive, while making sure Sydney is performing top notch at all her games and swim meets! It didn’t happen overnight but today I want to share with you my Top 5 Things Every Parent of An Athlete Needs To Know!!!

1.       Nutrition Education. I get it!!! You’re busy running from field to field, across town down and all around, but nutrition education is not just important for fueling your Athletes Body to have energy to keep up with their teammates, but proper nutrition is key for injury prevention!!!   

When I work with my coaching clients we strive to find quick easy meals that their kids like jam packed full of nutrition, but also food that travels well! When you are sitting at a tournament all weekend you don’t want to be feeding your athletes fast food, and soda pop… unless you want them playing pretty crummy!!! In order to fuel them properly at meets and games, their snacks have to be nutritious AND travel well in a cooler or backpack!

2.       Simplify Your Routine. Not only does simplifying your routine help to make your day easier and less stressful, but also leaves you with more time to spend with the ones you love!!! Before I simplified my routine, so many times I would run around like a chicken with my head cut off just getting by everyday… usually late for my next task, and shamelessly eating taco johns or a pizza on the way home so we could get the kids to bed on time! Now I’m not saying my new routine is perfect, but it is perfect for my family! The key to a simple effective routine is to make it unique to your family.  Although my clients have tried to copy my routine, usually by the end of the week we need to tweek one thing or another so it is the perfect fit for their family!  A simple and effective routine with absolutely change the life of an athlete’s family! So go ahead give it a try, and enjoy that extra quality time spent with your family!

3.       Balance Primary Foods.  What feeds you… off your plate!?!? What do you love? What are you passionate about? Things such as your hobbies, social life, or career.  This is by far one of the biggest struggles I see working with parents of athletes. When I ask what they are passionate about, or what they love they have no problem answering… but when asked “WHY aren’t you doing it!?!” They tell me “I’m so busy chasing kids around I just don’t have time for my own life!”  Often times when we have little athletes, their lives become our lives, and before too long we don’t even remember who we were before our kids began competing! Don’t let that be your excuse for not going after your passions! You have to find a way to separate your hobbies from your kids’ hobbies, even if it is going to the local day spa with your fellow hockey moms, or joining a bowling league. Find some way to create that separation to prevent burnout from not just you but your athletes as well!

4.       Find Time For Self Care. Make sure that you are taking care of yourself so you can take the best care of the ones you love! A sick, tired, wore out mommy won’t be able to enjoy her family to the fullest! My favorite way fulfill my need for self-care is to get a massage once a month, sometimes more if I really need it, I also like to take hot baths, read a book in a quiet room, and daily meditations.  Find something that makes you feel good and helps you unwind and feel beautiful!!!

5.       Goal Setting. In my 7 years of coaching swimming I observed the parents who were involved with their athlete’s goal setting process produced the most successful athletes! I absolutely feel goal setting is essential not only in athletics but in our everyday lives. In order to get what you want in life you must know where you’re going and have a roadmap of how to get there! If you know how to successfully set goals and go after them, you will be better equipped to support your athlete on and off the field! We also are the biggest role models for our athletes whether they will admit it or not. When they see you setting goals working hard to accomplish them and fulfilling those goals, it will motivate your little athlete to do the same! Pick a goal that scares you a little, I have also observed that goals that are just outside of our comfort zone that we don’t know how to achieve, are the goals that give us the most motivation to work towards. They are also the most rewarding to cross off your list!

Well there it is! My Top 5 Things I That Every Mother Of An Athlete Needs To Know!

Until Next Week,

Keep Achieving Your Best!

Jenny

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I have had really great conversations lately about what I will be doing now that I am officially done coaching swimming, and am phasing massage therapy out of my business! It’s so excited that as I life coach, I get to fulfill my passion of helping athletes achieve their personal best in water on a much larger scale! I get to help my clients push past what they thought was possible and achieve their personal best at LIFE!!!  

I believe each of us are meant to live passionate purposeful lives filled with good health, fun and adventure. We aren’t meant to be unhappy in our careers, to be sick and overweight, or in relationships that are hurtful and abusive!!! I have developed my program specifically to help those who want to be happy healthy and in control of their own lives, and my program gets you there quickly. Its really not about me or my services, but rather about you taking a step toward your dreams. Most people spend more time planning their vacations than they do their own lives! You don’t want my program… you want my RESULTS!!!

We aren’t born champions, we have to work for it… and we cant do it alone! Think about what all great athletes have in common… they have a really great coach telling them what to do when to push harder, when to back off, and helping bring out the best in them!

So how do you pick the right coach for you? If you were in an accident and your life were on the line, would you want a general surgeon doing the procedure… or do you want the specialist? I am a life coach specialist!

I am someone who knows how to make things happen I know how to break through when you hit the wall I have been able to achieve dreams that seem impossible!

I want to give you the best shot at success, and that is why I am offering you a FREE coaching session! Let’s spend one hour with my eyes on your dream, Email me today at [email protected]

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Visualization is one of the most powerful Mind exercised you can do, and Creating a Vision Board is one of the most effective and valuable visualization tools!!! A Vision Board serves as a road map to create your future, it also represents your goals, dreams, and your ideal life!

Because everything in our lives is created twice, first as a thought and second as our reality, what you think about good or bad becomes your reality. What the Vision Board does is reinforces positive thoughts about the life you want to create, so you create positive reality!!!

Thoughts and emotions are the vibrational energy that activates the Law of Attraction, we want to make sure we are matching the vibration we want! SO HOW THE HECK DO WE DO THAT!?!?!?! We want to create to create a powerful Vision Board that WORKS!

FIRST YOUR BOARD SHOULD FOCUS ON HOW YOU WANT TO FEEL NOT JUST THINGS YOU WANT!!! 

For example I have a picture of my college relay team and I on the podium receiving one of our All-American honors. I don't have this picture on there because I want to go back to school and start competitive swimming again, I have that picture there because every time I look at it, I remember the feeling of accomplishment, of success, and being able to share that with my teammates! It was a point in my life when I felt an all time high, finally seeing all my hard work and dedication pay off! The picture is on my Vision Board because that is the success I want to bring to my clients lives, and every time I look at that picture it brings back those emotions, matching my vibration with what I am trying to create.

Next I have 3 rocks sitting next to my vision board, rocks that were given to me by a classmate of mine, whom I took a transformational retreat with. When I look at those rocks it reminds me of the gratitude I felt for my classmate, and the retreat where I found clarity and direction for my life, and the feeling of being surrounded by amazing energy and supportive people!

I also have inspirational quotes, as well as my goals for the year which I hand write. I encourage everyone to hand write their goals, there is just something energetic about handwriting your goals. I have other momentos from when I felt the happiest, healthiest, and most successful, and I encourage you to college a few items that bring those same feelings for you!

THE #1 RULE WHEN CREATING A VISION BOARD... you cant screw it up!!!

Set aside 1 hour to put anything on your board that inspires and motivates you. Think about what you want to create in your relationships, career, health, travel, finances. Then find pictures, and magazine clippings to pin to your board. You can use a pin up board, posterboard. Get as creative as you'de like with your board, this is your chance to create your unique picture of what you want your life to look like!!!

WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR BOARD ONCE ITS CREATED

Place your board somewhere you see OFTEN! Mine is in my office, whenever I have a few minutes of down time I spend extra time in my Vision, I close my eyes and imagine myself already living my dream life! Some people put theirs on their nightstand so it is the first thing they see when they wake up and the last thing they see when they go to bed. The Key here is to spend time everyday visualizing, affirming, believing in your Vision and Dream! Read your affirmations out loud no matter how silly you feel!

And one last thing... DON'T TAKE THEM OFF ONCE THEY ARE ACHIEVED!!!

Use the pictures as affirmation that you are one step closer to living your dream life! Spend some time each day in gratitude for what you've already accomplished, and know that your next Personal Best... Is right around the next corner where you cant see ;)

I would love to see your Vision Boards... post your picture of your vision boards in the comments below!!! 

Until next week, Keep bringing your best!

Jenny

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I have been talking a lot lately about our big move coming up! 1 because I’m so excited to finally be taking steps towards my dream… and 2 because I keep hearing over and over, “oh I could never do that” “I wish I had your courage” I feel too many times we get trapped inside our comfort zone, we have dreams and aspirations but we never go after them afraid of failing, of not having enough, or afraid of what others might think! It was Michelangelo who said... “the greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting your aim too low and achieving our mark.” I know as a Coach, Achieving your personal best, living a passionate purposeful life comes when we set goals that we don’t know how to achieve – goals that both scare us… and light us up at the same time. The truth is… In my 7 years coaching our youth in Newcastle I have observed a few things! I encourage my swimmers and clients all day long to set goals that scare them, and I coach them to meet and exceed those goals... But then, I come home and I’ve heard myself tell a different story. I ask my children what they want; or what they want to do; and then I spend the rest of the time telling them what not to do! I give them a dream and I immediately take it away. With words like “That’s too expensive” “I don’t have the time” “Money doesn’t grow on trees” “let’s be realistic” “you better have a back up plan” and my personal favorite “don’t quit your day job”. My mamma bear instincts want to protect them from failure! I was afraid they might not have what it takes because I couldn’t see it for them, so I talk them into dreams that were mediocre and comfortable… But, imagine for a second if we were to raise our kids in a community that instead of “protecting them from failure” would plant the seed of hope, and belief, no matter how big their dream is! And IF they fall short of their dream, imagine we help to pick them up and say “what’s next?” Why not be the creator of our own dreams, and let the community be the nest that nurtures and feeds us on the way… until one day we fly!!! What is a phrase that you often heard regarding your dreams? Or what is a phrase you have said to someone you love, trying to protect them from the hurt and disappointment from failure? Now picture what your life would have been if you would have tried anyway. Maybe you wouldn’t have achieved your dream… BUT, what would it have felt like to succeed!!!! The past is the past, we shouldn’t regret our past because we simply didn’t know what we didn’t know! Are you willing to pledge starting Today, that no matter how silly or childish our dreams are… to try anyway? Do you pledge never to crush the hopes and dreams for the ones we love, and to always celebrate each other’s successes? Are you willing to let the ones you love fail… only to promise to pick them up when they need you? This is how we grow stronger communities, because it is our failures that we use as jumping off points to get to our dream!

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I have been hearing a lot lately from friends and family who have already given up on their New Year's Resolutions, their biggest complaint is not having enough will power to do it alone! Well in the last 7 years of being a coach and a life time of being an athlete one of the biggest things I've learned is that even though we have to do the work ourselves, we can't do it alone... and we aren't meant to!!!

In 1930 Andrew Carnegie commissioned Napoleon Hill to study successful people. What Hill discovered was that successful people create Mastermind groups; a group whose focus is to help each other to achieve bigger goals than what they are capable of doing alone.

What a Mastermind creates

Someone who believes in you when you have a hard time believing in yourself

Someone who will back and support you and who believes and/or shares your vision for yourself

Someone who will push you past what you thought was possible

In the same way I had coaches who believed in me when I didn't believe in myself, this is exactly what I get to do for folks! Supporting them when they have a hard time believing in themselves, pushing them past what they thought possible, and helping them bust through whats held them back in the past. I encourage you to find YOUR coach - whether its me or someone else, find yourself that person who helps you live into and form everything you are meant to be! I know this for sure... That ANYONE who has turned their dreams into reality has done so with the support of someone else who saw the potential in them and who helped them realize that potential!

Take a moment and get out a pen and paper, write down who is that person in your life that has been part of your team? Who has supported you and pushed you past what you thought was possible? Who believed in you when you didn't believe in yourself? Spend some time in gratitude for them, maybe write them a letter and let them know how they changed your life!

Have a great week, and until next week keep bringing your BEST!

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