Category: Success Strategies

Cheryl’s Tip: How To Be “Well” With Small Steps

What does “wellness” mean to you?
We hear the word frequently, yet I wonder if we understand its meaning on a personal level.
How do you make these connections in your daily life?
Some say wellness is merely “the absence of disease.” Others are focused on prevention, taking measures to varying degrees in order to adopt a healthful [...]

Kevin’s Personal Fitness Tip: Number 11, The Squat

Today we posted Kevin Szymanski’s 11th training video, this time focusing on the squat.
This is a more advanced workout.
Again, it’s important to check with your doctor if you have not been working out on a regular basis. Kevin is one of the top personal trainers at Healthtrax in East Longmeadow, Mass., where my wife and [...]

Cheryl’s Tips For Stress-Free Living: Giving Feedback

This is the last of my February blog articles which have focused on having a healthy heart more from the emotional perspective. Emotional wellness has to do with being skillful in our communications to create positive relationships.
Have you been in a situation recently where you needed to give feedback or offer constructive criticism to someone?
This is [...]

Cheryl Learning And Teaching Being A Good Listener

One of the goals I have is to become a better listener. My own perception is that I am a good listener, however my daughter has recently told me otherwise.
Do you consider yourself to be a good listener?
Do you ever get impatient while other people are talking? I do. Sometimes I feel impatience and sometimes it’s [...]

February: Healthy Heart Month

February offers us two special days that focus on the heart. Valentine’s Day is centered on loving relationships and romance…our emotional health. Go Red for Women raises awareness of cardiovascular disease and stroke…our physical health.

What does having a healthy heart mean to you?

We’ve all been educated about what it takes to have a healthy heart from a physical perspective. We know that we need to engage in regular cardiovascular exercise and we need to stay away from fatty foods.

What we haven’t heard much about is how to create a healthy heart from an emotional perspective. So the theme of my February articles will be communication. The intention is to help you to improve your relationships

New Year’s Resolutions: Time To Check In With Yourself

How is it going with your New Year’s resolutions, intentions and goals?
At this point you’ve been making an effort to establish healthy new behaviors for about a month, which makes this a good time to check in with yourself.
If you are meeting your goal then your new behavior is becoming a habit. You may be ready [...]

Cheryl’s Tips: How To Stay In Balance

I don’t know about you, but I’ve just about heard enough about ‘balance’. It seems to be the buzz word these days.

All I can picture is the plate spinner from the Ed Sullivan Show. I know I’m dating myself now!

I imagine each of the demands of my daily life to be a plate spinning on the top of the stick. And I’m the one in charge of running from stick to stick swirling them to keep the plates from crashing down around me. I’m stressed just thinking about this! Sound familiar?

Make Your OWN Choices

Do you move through your day on automatic pilot unaware of the choices you are making?
We all do this to varying degrees.  It isn’t possible to be ‘awake’ every minute of the day.  When we are unaware that we are choosing, we have a general sense that life is happening to us.  We feel as [...]

Cheryl’s Tips To Achieve 2010 Goals

New Year, New You: Achieve Your Goals in 2010!
This is the time of year where we all make New Year’s resolutions, set goals and create intentions. In this article I’d like to share some strategies to help you succeed!
Start by asking yourself these five powerful questions. 1) What do you truly want? 2) What about this [...]

Cheryl: Closing 2009 Properly

I’ve planned my work schedule so that I can take off the rest of this year. During this time I will visit family and friends. I will also spend time relaxing at home and enjoying solitude. This balance is important for me.

Over the next ten days, I will contemplate the things that happened this year for which I am grateful. I’ll celebrate my accomplishments and acknowledge my failures. I will begin to create my personal and professional intentions and goals for the New Year. For me, it’s about bringing consciousness to both the end of one year and the beginning of another.