What is a Lifestyle Coach?

September 17th, 2008

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If you have decided to adopt a healthy lifestyle, whether it be to lose weight, to prevent an illness, to reduce stress, to start feeling better, or just to achieve more from your life, a Lifestyle Coach can help you find answers.

No matter what your age or where you are in your life today, it is never too late to improve your lifestyle, to make the most of your health and wellbeing. Developing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle will change your life, and this will be for the better.

Healthy Lifestyle Coaching coaches you to meet your personal goals, within a healthy living framework encompassing balance of nutrition, exercise, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health. You choose the goals you want to work toward, and your coach, works with you to develop the tools and strategies that work best for you. Hiring a coach means you are not alone in your quest.

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What is a Healthy Lifestyle?

August 2nd, 2008

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I and many others are promoting the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle, but what does that actually mean?  In general, most would agree that a healthy person doesn’t smoke, is at a healthy weight, eats a balanced healthy diet, thinks positively, feels relaxed, exercises regularly, has good relationships, and benefits from a good life balance. 

Maybe I should start by trying to look at a few definitions for the word - lifestyle. A definition in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language says : ‘A way of life or style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group’.  

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PROMISE YOURSELF

June 28th, 2008

THE OPTIMISTS CREED

I’m sure many have found this before me. For those of you that haven’t, I just had to bring it to your attention. I love this - so I thought I’d share it with you.

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I ATTRIBUTE MY SUCCESS TO THIS - I NEVER GAVE OR TOOK ANY EXCUSE

June 25th, 2008

We all have the ability to change and improve ourselves and our lives. I started this blog so that I could contribute my knowledge on healthy lifestyles, playing my small part in offering people the information to make their world a better place, 

Moving from an average to a brilliant life will require you put in a load of effort. It isn’t easy. But it’s possible. You have to change your mindset, your behaviour, actions an habits.   To be brilliant you have to take responsibility for your own life, thoughts, behaviours and actions. But many people run away from their personal responsibility, by using one very popular word… EXCUSES. 

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I’M BACK!

June 25th, 2008

Many apologies for not writing for many, many days. A month, that long, ooops. Yes, I know — many of you have probably given up on me by now. Unfortunately, a number of things have caught up with me over the past month, here’s just a few of them:

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MOTIVATIONAL MORNING RITUALS

May 13th, 2008

 

THE LONGEST JOURNEY STARTS WITH THE FIRST STEP 

I just wonder if you’ve ever experienced the following situation. That when your morning starts badly for you, everything seems to go downhill from there. You end up being in a negative frame of mind most of the day, you lose control of your healthy eating intentions and end up eating more food and making wrong choices, and the whole day feels like a losing battle. Just because you had a bad start to the day. So is this something you’ve experienced. If not, congratulations, you’re pretty unique. But if you have, isn’t it time you took control of your day. Facts are, if your morning starts well, the rest of the day will follow through with a positive outlook. So what can you do about it?

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ACTION STATIONS

May 11th, 2008

Our Healthy Lifestyle plan starts with the steps to creating a successful day right from the start of each and every brand new day. I am sure we all want to be more productive and achieve success, and set out every morning to make the best of the day ahead. But isn’t it also true that sometimes we find it difficult to motivate ourselves to take action–especially first thing in the morning. 

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Knowledge to Action

May 7th, 2008

For most of my adult life I had an interest, maybe even a fascination with personal development. As I’ve already said I read many a fantastic book, and a few pretty pathetic ones too if I’m honest.  My car was a library on wheels. More often than not, every journey I took, I would listen to personal development audios. Anthony Robbins ‘Get the Edge’, ‘The Secret’ were the two that I think had the biggest impact.  The most memorable seminar event I went to was Anthony Robbins Unleash the power within in London 2001. That’s where I completed the fire walk. 

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The 12 steps of a Lifestyle Plan

May 2nd, 2008


My version of the 12 steps to avoid confusion has nothing to do with the original 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and other Addictions programmes. These in their own right are unique and make an enormous contribution to helping change peoples lives.

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A Healthy Lifestyle Plan

May 2nd, 2008


In the twenty years I have been working actively in the fitness industry I have never ceased to be amazed by the things I have seen and heard in relation to lifestyles that people come to accept as the norm when, in fact, their quality of life is far less than they deserve or should expect, no matter how it has been occasioned. 

Too often people who have been diagnosed with such conditions as arthritis, rheumatism, diabetes, depression, back problems or stress, seem to immediately start their descent down an imaginary slippery slope.  They see, feel and believe their life to be on a descending spiral.  

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