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Dec
6
Practicing Safe Stress for the Holidays & Any Day: 25 Tips to Good Moods
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Some people, it seems, are just born with a more optimistic attitude and outlook, while others focus on the gloom and doom. The research on optimism fills volumes and I wanted to give you some quick tips on practicins safe stress, being more happy and how to be in a better mood for the holidays and every day. It may take more effort during the blustery gray, rainy/snowy days of winter amidst the holiday bustle; but well worth it for your own well-being and for the sake of others in your path. Our energy is contagious – just ask Ceasar Milan – the Dog Whisperer – our energy is everything to a dog…and to your neighbors, co-workers and your spouse and friends.
Since your time is short, I’ll make this snappy:
- Get moving – I prefer to think of it as “activity” vs. “exercise” – it just seems more palatable to people to releve stress and release endorphins. It can be a full-blown cardio/strength/flexibility workout or a brisk walk in the park or even mall walking (before the stores open and before the crowds arrive). If you haven’t tried Zumba or hip hop classes – the music alone will put you in a good mood, even if you’re out of breath.
- Eat breakfast and include protein – some research says eating 60% more protein if you’re lifting weights – donutes don’t count.
- Be smart about your diet, less white stuff, more color, more water-content food/drink, variety and healthy. Enjoy some of your favorite good mood foods in moderation – whatever that may be, cookies, mac and cheese, eggnog, dark chocolate…. think comfy food.
- Hug it out – physical affection and the power of touch helps with happiness – petting a puppy or kitten can help lower blood presure and calm your nerves.
- Get outside – breathe in fresh air, get out in the woods and catch the negative ions from the pine trees -leave your cell and texting activities in your pocket – this is about nature and you communing and not about you tweeting that you’re in the woods.
- Be in the moment, experience it fully and decide what types of moments you want to have. Don’t like crowds – then avoid the mall, aggitated in line – change the time of day for this activity. Stressed over the big holiday feast – suggest a nice restaurant or change it up. Financially stressed about all the gifts you need to get – let everybody know you’re opting out of unfettered consumerism this year and want a pot-luck social gathering instead – don’t fret about the future. Choose wisely where your brain is and focus on the here and now.
- Be grateful – fear goes out the back door when gratitude walks in the front door. Decide to be in a state of grace and gratitude and you will be granted more things to be grateful for.
- Say nice things to others – compliments share positive energy and that’s contageious. Help make the holiday bright with sincere positive praise.
- Focus on making happy memories – invest in experiences and bring others along for the ride. Shared experiences amp up the positive vibe.
- Listen to upbeat music, dance, sing.
- Play with your pet or visit a dog park and delight in their bouncing energy.
- Smile more and stand/sit up straight – good posture promotes elevated spirits. Smiling stimulates the thymus gland, which produces T-cells, which means people who are smiling get sick less often and feel better than those who don’t smile. Smiling is also contageous. At least a hundred studies on how smiling can actually lift your mood – it fakes out your body into thinking it’s happier.
- Wear comfortable shoes – comfy clothes too. Comfy doesn’t equal sloppy or baggy – when you feel better about your looks and your looks feel better, everybody is happier. A recent survey found 41% of women felt happier when they felt prettier. I’m guessing the men felt happier too.
- Cashmere, cashmere, cashmere – who couldn’t be in a better mood when you slip on some cashmere?
- Friends, friends, friends – in any way shape or form of personal contact and socialization elevates our energy. Choose positive friends and be a positive friend – nobody likes being around negative people.
- Avoid over-obligations and over-scheduling, especially during the holidays. If you need a holiday from the holidays, you missed the point.
- Laught out loud – cultivate your sense of humor. As a Certified Laughter Leader who studied how laughter and fun affect us in positive ways; it actually changes your brain chemicals and changes the chemical make-up in your blood. They’ve found markers in your blood which change even when you anticipate a good time or a funny movie or fun activity – even days before the activity.
- Be kind – kindness also changes your blood chemistry and raises serotonin, which counter-acts depression. Whether you are the giver, receiver or witnessing by-stander, kindness works.
- Positive self talk – its a tried and true tip to blast yourself with positive self talk and avoid beating yourself up through your self talk. Our mindset is EVERYTHING. Our behavior starts with our thoughts – choose wisely to change your outcomes.
- Try something new – enjoy beginner’s brain again and experience some wonder and awe in your life – discover something new you didn’t know how to do before: cooking, weaving, skiing, dog-sledding, volunteering, wearing red lipstick, painting, riding a unicycle or Zumba.
- Upbeat live entertainment: comedy clubs, kareoke, theatre, ballet, concerts, coffee shop guitarists and children’s plays.
- DECIDING to be in a good mood – just change your mind to change your energy and you can change your life and also change the energy of those around you. Your collegues and friends will thank you.
- Get plenty of sleep, or take naps. Most Americans get far too little sleep – no wonder we’re a nation of tired and cranky people. It’s hard to be in a good mood if you’re completely exhausted. Can you get help, delete some of your chores, set boundaries, close the door, do not disturb.
- Keep a check on what you watch on TV or view on your computer or listen to over the airwaves – we’re bombarded with negativity.
- Outsource the things you don’t enjoy or are not comfortable doing, barter or negotiate something different. Hire somebody to do whatever is not in your zone of excellence or genius and pay them for their skills to make both of you happier.
- Volunteer to help out your community, a favorite cause or favorite place – being of service serves all involved and puts you in a better mood to feel needed and worthy and that what you’re doing matters.
That’s enough to get you stared on the right path to save yourelf this holiday and every day you want a little mood lifter. A happy life is just a bunch of happy moments and good moods all strung together. I invite you to create your own list or maybe cut your list into strips and put in a jar. Whenever you’re feeling low, grab a piece of paper with one of your activities or ideas on it and do it right then.
Here’s to happier holidays by praticing some safe stress and being purposeful about putting yourself in a good mood. Everybody else wants you there as well. Cheers!
Feb
17
Your Place of Purpose & Brilliance: the Tingle Test
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Uncovering your brilliance isn’t a puzzle to solve. Rather it’s a puzzle to dis-solve. It’s distilling some of the bigger picture things you do when you’re in flow and identifying precisely what you’re doing when you’re in the zone. Being in the flow is when time disappears and you’re so caught up in the activity and absorbed mentally, that you don’t notice how much time has passed.
Discovering your brilliance can come as subtle hints. Glimmers of insight are good. Pay attention to how you feel and what you’re doing when you’re firing on all pistons. When you’re operating at optimum brain capacity and the challenge meets your unique skills, but doesn’t overshadow your abilities; you’re in flow.
Identify what you’re doing when you’re in your flow and then dissect it and dissolve it down to the pure activity where your unique knowledge, skills and abilities mesh with your sense of purpose. For instance here’s how it may look: enlightening others to discover their purpose and uplevel their work and their lives. Distilling further using my unique abilities: creating innovative ways to wake people up to themselves and attain further self actualization to better serve others. And even further filtered: as a mentor and messenger – creating artful, fun, experiential methods/activities to incite insight in entrepreneurs and execs to live/work in their potential and purposeful place of brilliance and live fully expressed to improve the world.
Some easy ways to find out if the work you’ve chosen is intersecting your purposeful place of brilliance is the Tingle Test. Do you get tingles of excitement when you think about your current business or does it leave you flat? Do you feel energized or exhausted from your work? Does time fly or does it drag on when you’re doing your work? Are you feeling success or strife and struggle? Do you feel fulfilled or frustrated? Are you feeling more or less fully expressed when you’re finished doing your work each day?
If you need guidance in figuring out your place of purpose and brilliance; I can help you uncover your purpose through a scientific method that was put in your hands – your personal GPS, Greater Purpose System. Take the time to write a list of your unique abilities, and the activities when you’re in flow and what you believe to be your purpose and reason for your work. Start the flow of ideas, brainstorm on paper and get the ideas incubating, then contact me to crack the code to your calling and decipher your life purpose to guide you toward the right path so you can pass the Tingle Test.
Check out www.YourRealPurpose.com for more insight into unveiling your true purpose. It’s in your hands. Send me an email to set up your session which will help you set up your life on the right track. You’ll get two coaching sessions as a jump start to your place of purpose living in the full expression of your brilliance. More later on living at upper levels or lower levels of your capacity.
Jan
13
Are You in Alignment?
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Just as your car needs adjustments and realignment when you start feeling vibrations, hearing creaks, feeling rattled as you roll down the highway; so does your body and your life.
You know the feeling of being out of sorts, creaky, cranky, sluggish and slightly out of balance. There are some quick fixes and then there are some root cause interventions. One of my favorite quick fixes is spa time, massage and a chiropractic re-adjustment. It’s incredible how the knots build up and they won’t go away. They need to be worked out or else your body binds up, tightens up and you feel lousy.
Putting your life back into alignment, or getting it there in the first place takes more work, it’s a journey and not a quick fix. One of the main ways to get and stay in alignment is to know how you should be aligned in the first place – with your life purpose, your calling. When we’re doing the work we were put on Earth to do, we’re more in flow and it comes easier. We have clarity and more ease than dis-ease. We’re more healthy and less fearful. We just know.
When we’re doing God’s work that we’re supposed to be doing, we have all we need to get it done. We wouldn’t be put here to do a job and not be provided the tools to do it. Cracking the code to your calling just got much easier. It’s scientific. It’s in your hands. It’s in your fingerprints and everybody has their own purpose because everybody has their own unique set of fingerprints.
If you’ve been wondering about what you’re supposed to be when you grow up and how to get re-aligned so you’re doing the right work, your heart work; then join us for our preview call at 6pm PST on Wednesday, 2 February. Call in number is 218-339-7777, pin 7668800#. The call will be recorded for future use. I’ll have more details on my Facebook Pages (Gail Hahn, CEO Chief Energizing Officer and on our Energized Entrepreneur Network Group Page).
Join me and Margaret Shebalin as we discuss how your life’s work can unfold in the palm of your hand as you discover your life school, your life lesson, what could be holding you back and what the heck you’re supposed to be doing this time around. We’ll be offering a special bonus for our listeners – so stay tuned on how you can claim your spot in Cracking the Code to Your Life Purpose. See you there!
Jan
1
Refresh & Renew: Enjoy Your Journey & Celebrate Your Accomplishments
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Happy New Year’s Eve. I’ve been taking a self-batical from blogging and being plugged in this month. It was a perfec time for a girlfriend getaway and a time for reflection, re-energizing and renewal. A time to re-focus on the future and remind myself of the present journey and the journey beyond.
How I love to renew is outdoors. Sometimes solo and sometimes with great company of people who get it and who get me. It gives me breathing space and a place to connect wit the divine in an organiz way. A place to reconnect with myself and my body and breathing. Although I do my daily morning mileage in my ‘hood, nothing compares to the magnificent, majectic National Parks and outer limits of undisturbed outback to reawaken the senses and lighten the load.
We selected Zion and Bryxe National Parks and Angel’s Landing to be specific.
Although we’re not blood and guts hikers any more, we’re not candy-asses either. What we like is a good challenge for women who are fifty, fit and fabulous! We encountered at least 31 switchbacks and a smidgen of knife-edge trail 1450 feet above the valley floor. We’re wise enough to know when we’ve reacked our peak experience. Which is to say that it doesn’t necessarily need to be the peak of the mountain to be a peak experience. We’ve earned our wisdom and know when renewal and recharging our batteries turns to regret. We came for enjoyment and enlightenment and not endangerment or encroachment on our comfort. Just enough push to get us out of our usual comfort zone.
No more camping on the ground – we opted for a yummy cabin with a roaring fire and down comforters with a rain water show head with mule deer and wild turkeys frolicking outside our window. We opted for delicious gourmet breakfasts and sumptuous dinners with keoki coffee and ended our tour du outdoors with a decadent spa day and evenings at the theatre on the Vegas strip to see Lion King and a Diva Drag Show. It was a fabulous feast for the senses at all levels.
What I’ve learned is to enjoy this moment, this journey, this adventure right now. We can turn around any time we want, but the great views are reserved for those who climb a little higher than most. What are you doing to enjoy your journey all along the journey? Are you living to enjoy each step and each swtichback? Are you taking time to look back at where you’ve come or are your blinders on to only look forward full speed ahead. We often had to take a break to breathe on our trek to Angels Landing. We also realized we were looking down so much at our footing that we needed to look up and look around and enjoy the view all around us, which included where we’d come from. We celebrated at different points in our journey and enjoyed ourselves immensely.
What are you doing to enjoy yourself along your path before you reach your peak? What if you don’t reach all the way to the top? What if you get very close but not all the way? Will it be OK? Will you re-calibrate once you see what’s up there and make different choices? How will you celebrate? How will you know you’ve arrived?
Let’s take time to celebrate where we’ve been, how far we’ve come and where we are right now. Let’s not wait until the absolute pinnacle and just toil away while we’re getting there. Take a breath, breath in the fresh air, look around, look up, look back and look ahead too. As I learned while backpacking for 30 days in the Colorado wilderness with Outward Bound, it’s not where you go on the map that matters, it’s where you go in your head as you travel that matters. How are you clearing your head and making room for better things, clearing your schedule to make room for you and clearing your path to make room for your journey? Happy New Year!!
Aug
8
New Energized Entrepreneur Internet Radio Show with Energy Expert, Gail Hahn
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If you’re feeling overwhelmed, overworked and overdue for a personal energy overhaul or need a little boost to your personal or professional life, get a quick energy injection with my new internet radio show The Energized Entrepreneur.
New shows are uploaded each Monday on The Women’s Information Network. I’m part of a line-up of other Experts on a variety of topic areas that benefit both men and women in all aspects of energizing their work, wealth and well-being. We bring you insights, information and inspiration on how to run your business, run your life, run around with kids and spouse and job in balance and not run out of steam in the process.
America is in an energy crisis, a personal energy crisis. My coaching clients, audiences and readers have confirmed this for years and years. This radio show is my way of giving back to my community and followers the results of my research into personal and organizational energy for a couple decades. You’ll get quick energy inserts 10-15 minutes for each show so you can quickly get it and go. Think of it as your drive-through motivational moment when you need a shot of inspiration to help you revitalize your work, wealth and well-being.
More in-depth ideas and inspiration can be found in my ebook Keys to Energize Your Life for $20, send me an email Gail@GailHahn.com to claim your copy. Or grab your free copy of the 50-page ebook Energizing Your Work Wealth, Workplace & Well-being at Funcilitators.com or arrange for your personal coaching session with a $250 scholarship for 90 minutes for just $125. Get energized, get revitalized and get going to create the life you love at whatever level you choose. I’d be delighted to help you get there. Cheers to your FUNomenal success!
