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Celebrate your wins

18/01/2022 • Uncategorized • by Rena

In the water at Casuarina Beach

Celebrating your wins is an important step on the journey to achieving your goals.

Pausing to congratulate yourself for following through on your new habit or goal buoys your energy and enthusiasm, and keeps you going. Think how a sporting team is inspired by cheering from supporters.

Periodically taking time to notice how far you’ve come builds confidence. Reflect on your successes and mistakes, so you can apply lessons to new goals and challenges.

Celebrate with friends and colleagues, thank them for their help and support along the way – you may even inspire them to achieve their own goals.

A little self-promotion is good thing too. It shows you have confidence in yourself and other people may want to place their trust in you.

The more you celebrate, the more you have to celebrate!

A celebration can be as simple as a daily self-congratulation for taking action to achieve your goals or following through with new habits. Then choose bigger rewards or celebrations for bigger achievements.

Celebrate each kilo lost, each fear faced, improvements in speed or efficiency and watch your commitment to achieving improve.

3 Ways to Achieve Better Health

31/08/2017 • General wellbeing, Kinesiology, Mental wellbeing, Nutrition, physical • by Rena

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When the physical, bio-chemical and emotional sides of your life are working in harmony, balance is achieved. Kinesiology uses this “Triangle of Health” to provide equilibrium and complete bodily health.

Kinesiolgists use muscle testing to detect and correct imbalances related to stress, nutrition, learning problems, injuries and energy. By looking at the whole person and the way they function and interact with their environment – rather than focusing on symptoms or named diseases – Kinesiologists can determine how your health and well-being is affected by imbalance and make necessary corrections.

Let’s look at how imbalance can affect your health. Read More…

Goal setting

30/09/2016 • Uncategorized • by Rena

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Why set goals?

Setting goals helps to give your life direction and purpose. It helps to organise your time and resources so you can create the life you want to live. They help you to focus your energy in a positive direction.

How do I get started?

A great first step to take in goal setting is to brain storm a list of what you would like to achieve. At this stage don’t think about what is possible or likely, just make a wish list.

Another of my favourite ways to find the goals to put your heart and soul into, is work out a picture of how you would like your life/lifestyle to look in 5 years’ time. Don’t get bogged down in the name of a specific location, but you can be very specific about; climate, style of home, social life, travel, employment, ability to regularly walk on the beach/bush/mountains. Make your picture as detailed and complete as possible. Read More…

Put those goals into action

30/09/2016 • Uncategorized • by Rena

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After your have written down your “S M A R T” goals. The next step and perhaps the most important step is to take action to make those dreams and goals a reality.

Take the first step

This may come as a surprise to you but motivation comes AFTER action, not before.

If you have been waiting to wake up one morning and feel motivated to get started, you are actually more likely to keep procrastinating. When you set a goal that challenges you, there will be some things that you may not enjoy doing. You will probably need to force yourself to do a little something to create the momentum to take the next step and the next. Read More…

Bike riding a lesson in courage

12/08/2014 • Mental wellbeing • by Rena

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A few weeks ago my beautiful daughter provided me with a perfect example of this definition of courage. Read More…

Running – What a mind game!

01/08/2014 • General wellbeing, Mental wellbeing • by Rena

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A couple of weeks ago I completed my first half marathon. For those who don’t know that’s 21kms of running or in my case jogging! Impressive huh! Let me tell you the actual running is much easier than the mental battle that goes along with it. Read More…

Positive Self Talk

23/02/2012 • General wellbeing • by Rena

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Today I want to write about positive self talk. Many of the people I see are suffering from a low self esteem and are unhappy with themselves and their life. Too often I hear these same people talking about themselves in a very negative way. For example, earlier today one of my clients arrived for an appointment on the wrong day. When she realised her mistake, she immediately started saying “I am such an idiot”. I asked her to stop saying that, it is NOT TRUE! She simply made a mistake. It is important to realise that we may do some silly things or make mistakes (sometimes big ones!), but that does not mean we ARE silly or an idiot, it simply means that we DID something silly or made a mistake.