A Belief Is Just a Thought You Keep Thinking...

When's the BEST time to plant a tree?  20 years ago.  When's next best time?  RIGHT NOW!  I just heard this in a seminar this week and it's SO true!  It's not too late to DO what you should've DONE!!  It's not too late to be the person you always knew you could be.  Believe in yourself.  One of my favorite quotes from Abraham Hicks is... "A belief is just a thought you keep thinking."  Change your story, change your beliefs about yourself right now if they are not the beliefs that make you the best you, the happiest you, the most empowered you that YOU can be. I'm in the process of learning how to do this for myself and it's amazing how much happier I feel throughout my days.  If you learn how to love yourself MORE...not from an "ego" place, from a place that makes you BELIEVE that you're worthy, that you're capable, that there's nothing that can stop you from living the life others only dream about.  The only person holding you back is you.

Think of something you KNOW you should have started a long time ago.  Take a moment to think back when you were younger...what were your dreams?  What did you WANT out of life?  So many people lost sight of their dreams...so much so that they forget what they were or that they even had them because "life gets in the way".  Most people can say what they don't want instead of what they do want.  That's okay!  That's actually a great place to start.  By knowing what you don't want....you can decide what you do want.  That's the first step.  That's the beauty in the "contrast" we have in life...without it we wouldn't be able to truly LIVE our dreams.

Do something different today....change your story today....make a list of all the things you WANT out of life today...and watch what the universe starts to deliver.

How the "Cuddy Pose" can increase your chances for success!

I first heard of the Cuddy Pose on Ted Talks...Have you seen TED talks?  I only started watching them since we've had Netflix...they are a non-profit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.  Many of the TED talks I've seen are very interesting but I saw one recently that really spoke to me.  It was a talk by Social Psychologist Amy Cuddy and she demonstrates this...Don't fake it until you make it, fake it until you BECOME it! She explains how assuming a power pose...imagine Wonder Woman standing confidently with her hands on her hips...for just two minutes can change the levels of testosterone and cortisol in the body SIGNIFICANTLY.  It was amazing the scenarios that they put people in that proved this is true!  Her own story was really moving...how much she has accomplished in her life when the odds were stacked against her and everyone told her what she COULDN'T do.  Well, she faked it until she BECAME it...and now she's teaching others to do it too...at Harvard!

We know that body language can impact the way OTHERS see us....but can it impact the way we see OURSELVES?  She proves this by running tests that show a significant change in the brain's chemistry after only TWO minutes of just holding a simple pose!  This is such a great tool that I wish I would've known about sooner!

The next time you feel like you need a confidence boost, put your arms up in the air over your head or open your arms in any way for 2 minutes!  Here is the full video, take the 20 minutes out of your life to watch it.... it just might change your life!!

http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are?language=en

I think you will find it extremely interesting and useful...it might just have an impact on your chances for success!

Amy Cuddy demonstrating a power pose.  The Cuddy Pose.

Lose 5 lbs of Bloat...in a Healthy Way

We all have felt that "bloated" feeling coming on, especially during that special time of the month!  I wanted to share what works for me...to lose that feeling of retaining extra water weight...it's SO easy.

  • Get 60 oz of distilled or pure water
  • Add one Dandelion Root tea bag
  • Add 1 Tbsp 100% pure unsweetened cranberry juice
  • add 2 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice

Drink the 60 oz every day for 7 days.  (Yes, you still eat normally;)

This recipe works because it helps flush out excess water weight you are carrying around in your body and...

You'll lose 5 lbs or more in 7 days depending on how much excess water weight you're carrying around.

This recipe originated from Jillian Michaels and is intended to lose 5 lbs of bloat in a healthy way...use as needed!

Are you a hero? The book that inspired me toward something I never thought I'd do.

My husband and I LOVE going to bookstores and browsing the magazine and books...it's kind of our "thing " we love to do on a Sunday afternoon if we don't have anything else going on. To tell you this story, I need to backtrack about 11 years, before I even met my husband. I was at a place in my life when I was "unsatisfied". I had a good steady job, but it wasn't my passion. I made enough to get by on my own, but not nearly enough to feel secure. I was frustrated and couldn't see a way out of the life I felt "stuck" in.

One day, I wandered into Barnes & Noble, not looking for anything in particular...right away a book caught my eye. I picked it up, read the back and it said it was a book about "feeling". Oh, a self-help book...NOT. I had never bought one of "those" before. Back on the shelf it went, and off I went to explore the fiction I was used to...  As I walked around, I couldn't seem to get that book out of my mind. It was the strangest sensation, I know it sounds crazy, but it was a very strong feeling that I needed to read that book. So, reluctantly, I went back over, picked it up, and looked it over again. I didn't understand it at the time, but I WENT WITH IT.....

Well, long story short, this is how I came to learn about The Law of Attraction. My life has never been the same since. I know now without a shadow of a doubt that I attracted that book into my life. That book was called "Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting" by Lynn Grabhorn. To this day, I have read other books on the subject that have blown my mind, but this book remains my favorite for that reason.  Just as I am writing this, I looked up how to spell her last name and learned that Lynn Grabhorn died shortly after that book came out.  She definitely touched my life and I think that is exactly what she set out to do...help people... so to me she lived a very full life.

My life made an amazing shift for the better after reading that book...and FAST. Things started to fall into place. Solutions for problems started to come easily. I was fixed up with my husband. I became excited about life again. Things CHANGED...for the better.

Today, my husband and I are very aware of the Law of Attraction. We read about it, listen to seminars and workshops about it, and practice it...and it does take practice. We feel so grateful to have the knowledge that we have control over where our lives are headed. When we have things that are unwanted in our life, and we sometimes do...we KNOW why. Just knowing that is everything...because we know how to get back on track.

So, that brings us back to present day. My husband and I walked into Barnes & Noble recently and I walked up to the first table near the entrance with all the new releases...and I picked up a book. It was called "Hero" by Rhonda Byrne. I looked it over, somehow knew I was going to buy it, but as I went to put it down, I noticed that there were NO others like it on the table...so I held it in my hot little hands. At that exact moment, I remembered that day 11 years ago, and smiled to myself. Was it happening again? Did I attract this book for a reason? This time I KNEW. That's what can be so fun about the Law of Attraction...when you're aware of it and can feel it in action, it's exhilarating. As my husband was looking at magazines, I browsed the bookstore, giddy and excited, and didn't see another copy of that book ANYWHERE on any the display tables...nowhere in sight. I knew that one copy, at that moment, ended up there for me to find. I just didn't know why yet.

We went across the street to a coffee shop and after sitting down in the window with my hot tea, I opened the book to a random page and I read..."Something good is just about to happen." Wow. I felt excited. I read about 30 pages and as we left to go home, I couldn't wait to finish this book.

The next day, on my chalkboard wall in my dining room, I erased my grocery list and wrote, "Something good is just about to happen." Each morning over the next few days I'd see it and get excited to start my day, KNOWING that something good was coming my way. One evening, my husband and I were excitedly chatting, having a glass of wine, just overall excited about some things we had coming up. I don't even remember how it started, but all of a sudden he said, "You could help people, you should share what you've learned about health, and fitness, and style, and staying young, and the Law of Attraction, and goal setting..." That was it. At that moment I knew that was exactly what I needed to do. I know that there's someone out there that I am meant to touch. That very night I started putting together this blog Happy WifeStyle.com...knowing nothing about how to do it, learning as I went, excited to help someone to be happier and healthier than they are right now...I don't know what's to come, all I do know is that I feel more passionate and excited about THIS than anything I've ever done before. Am I a writer? No. But that's not stopping me. I know this is what I'm meant to do. Just yesterday, as we flew to Maui for an amazing week of training with our Chiropractic and Life coaches, with some of the most amazing, inspiring people I've ever known...one of my very best friends is sitting right behind me on the plane. Guess what she was reading.....yep, Hero. There it was again. We hadn't even discussed it. I just smiled to myself...this is going to be one extraordinary week.