Hey everyone! I made this quick video this morning about self reflection that I hope will allow you to better start your day. I would love to hear what you are thankful for in the facebook comments below! Thank you for all the support!

I just finished reading a book called Success Intelligence by Robert Holden and wanted to give a quick review over the book and just some take away points that I got from. The book itself covers a wide array of topics within the category of success. In terms for this review whenever I say success I will be referring to it in the sense of authentic success. So what is authentic success you ask? Well it is something that no one can define specifically for you except for yourself. One quote by Jamie Walters hits home for me. She says “Authentic success is woven from that which has real heart, joy, and meaning for us. It’s an expression of our deepest purpose “. Success Intelligence is designed to help you not only better understand authentic success, but also guide and assist you in finding your own. Here are some of the main points that really resonated  with me. Read more…

Welcome back to overcoming workout excuses part three of this series. In the last part I talked about how you should not let previous workout failure influence your decision to workout again. I gave a few examples on how you can combat this and talked about how your mindset was a critical component in being successful with any workout. Check out overcoming workout excuses part two if you happened to miss it. Today is going to be all about another very common workout excuse and that is money. Money is huge when it comes to working out. Between having to pay for gym memberships, equipment, or home workout programs money always seems to play some sort of role in why working out is just not possible. Well with that said I want to dig a little deeper into this topic with you and maybe give you a different perspective on why this really is just another workout excuse. Read more…

Welcome back to part two of this series. In the last part of overcoming workout excuses we talked about the excuse of not having enough time. I went through and explained how time should not be a factor on why you are not able to workout. I also gave a few examples of how you can better manage your time so that you will be able to get your workout in without sacrificing other things in your life. Go back and check out overcoming workout excuses part one if you happened to miss it. Moving on to today I want to talk about another common workout excuse and that is FAILURE. So what do I mean when I say failure? What I mean is have you ever started a workout regiment or tried to get back into shape or lose weight and you just absolutely failed and gave up? Well what happened the next time you wanted to try and workout again? You probably had a moment where you said “Well why should I try this again, I failed last time so what the point?”. This is definitely a workout excuse and I want to go into some more details on not only how to avoid this, but how to conquer this! Read more…

Let’s just go ahead and be completely honest with ourselves, everyone at some point in their life has made a workout excuse. Whether you are ridiculously out of shape or a very active and healthy person we have all had them. Just to make sure we are all on the same page see if some of these sound familiar to you. I will workout later today when I have more time. I have always been overweight, working out isn’t going to make a difference. I just can’t afford to workout right now, it is too expensive. I tried working out before and it didn’t work, what’s the point. Working out is too hard, I just don’t feel like doing it. Do any of these sound familiar? They certainly do for me because I know I have made some of these in one form or the other. Obviously no one is perfect and I am certainly not saying you have to be a perfectionist when it comes to your workouts, but if you are truly unhappy when it comes to your health you have to be willing to make a change or else you will always be unhappy. I want to give you some tools, tips, tricks, advice or whatever else you want to call it to help you overcome some of the most common excuses that you can come up with in this series, so pay attention and let’s overcome some excuses! Read more…

Words of encouragement are always more than just words. They are pick me ups and fuel to a dying fire. They can be at the perfect moment and also the most unexpected moment. Bottom line is that we all need words of encouragement sometimes to keep on reaching for our hopes and dreams. Our initial motivation is pushed by desire for success and happiness, but what happens when it takes longer than you expect? What do you do when progress seems to have halted and you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel anymore? Do you go back to the way things were floating from moment to moment on a whim? I certainly have had thoughts of doing this as of late and it is because of some words of encouragement from some friends that I have been pushed to continue on my path towards my hopes and dreams. I was not always driven and so easily motivated though, which brings me to a story. Read more…

Words of motivation! People seem to be always searching for these! I was inspired to write this post about words of motivation after watching motivational youtube videos this morning.  After going through video after video and hearing the same movie quotes re-bundled and played over and over again I had a revelation.  Why is it that we watch these videos in the first place? Obviously it is because we look for something to be stirred up inside of us. We search for a sentence or passage that really hits home for us to get us heading in the direction that we want to go. Well here are my words of motivation and I hope after hearing them you will realize that you already have all of the motivation you need! Read more…

In a day and age where people are constantly looking to stay motivated for their workouts, starting a fitness blog is often overlooked. Some people may think that blogging is stupid, or why would anyone care what I have to say anyways right? Well I want to give you five reasons why starting a fitness blog may be the key to your success with your workouts. The funny thing about the five reasons I am going to tell you is that some of them may not be exactly what you were expecting. There is much more to starting a fitness blog then meets the eye and I am going to bring that into the light for you! Read more…

I wanted to give a post Insanity review about my first experience that I had when I put my Insanity training to the test.  I just finished Insanity a little over a week ago (check out my Insanity results) and had pretty great results after two months with the program.  I gave a full review of the Insanity workout as well (check out my Insanity review) to wrap up my experience with Insanity. It had been a little over a week and I was ready to see what I could do since I was feeling pretty freaking good about myself after finishing Insanity. However after putting my training to the test I realized the next day that I had made a mistake! Keeping reading and find out in my post Insanity review what mistake I made. Read more…

I just finished reading a book called The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss.  I wanted to give a review of this book and let you know whether or not it is worth a read. First off if you are reading this you may be wondering what this has to do with personal development or fitness. Well as some of you may know I am a Team Beachbody Coach. I love what I do which is helping people get into the best shape of their lives.  With that being said being a Team Beachbody Coach is also a business and I treat it as such. The reason I read this book was to help develop myself and to better the way that I run my business. So if you are interested in making money online then take a quick look at this book review. Read more…