PJs are good but...

Have you ever wondered what the hell you're doing in your job or life?

Have you ever got lost for a couple of years?

Got a nagging feeling your work or life could be more fulfilling?

Maybe you just feel pulled in different directions.

Do you want to change but you don’t want to get out of your pyjamas?

ISN'T IT TIME FOR YOUR BEST YET?

You won't be able to resist just blurting out your story and hearing your solutions!

I'm a health maven.

I'm an expert on wellbeing, vitality & energy.

I live it.

If you're working with me, you can expect a few signature dance moves...

like feeling alive and sexy again, and

knowing how to get back on the horse.

And maybe the occasional invincible moment.

And while I can't place a guarantee on anyone's destiny, I can undeniably promise empowerment and hope to everyone who commits to working with me.

That's my public declaration and I'm sticking to it.


12 x 60 minute modules
3 per month
4 consecutive months
$125 per 1:1 velocity module
upfront monthly payment of $400

Food & Health Workshops 2014

$125
WHOLE DAY EVENT

Coming to Brighton*, Queensland, Australia in 2014. You're going to get your heart tugged to health. Pick a word from the HEART (there's a link here too!).

Maybe you'll unfurl.

Maybe you'll recover or discover.

Whatever your dream, start dancing towards it.

The benefits are yours for the choosing.

JUST START WITH FOOD.
It's magic juice I tell ya!

The benefits I choose for you:

1. Easy Pickings food selector to get good nutrition every meal EASILY! Amaaazingly easy! Your body gobbles your fat doing it this way, BTW.
2. A published Wellness Index book that outlines your own self-nominated requirements, within evidence-based parameters, for good health. Forever yours.
3. The company of wondrous human beings who want to be closer to their optimum. They can be forever yours as you agree. The sum of the benefits of the group energy are greater than each of us individually.
4. A cosy, comfy, relaxed, studio environment to access your best.
5. My lived experience of wellbeing and my formal qualifications.
6. You also have the opportunity to take up further coaching with me to really get to learn to look after yourself food wise and health wise... and sustain your drive.

When in 2014:

Saturday, 9am to 3pm

February 22

May 17

Aug 2

Oct 18

Yep. Just $125 and you're in.

Call: +61 4 2299 8946
0422 998 946 in Australia.

Email: getsmartcoaching@me.com 

*Sandgate is Brighton's big sister. The view that can be seen on the still shot beginning the Sandgate tour movie clip is towards Brighton. Bramble Bay  is the oh-so-cute name that covers both Brighton and Sandgate.

Bangs

I love cutting and colouring my hair.

Just another way to be creative.

Start with your fringe.

http://youtu.be/IywTbRDFxMM

Sea Change

A friend of a friend of a friend of mine, always puts the IF condition on her happiness statement.

e.g. I'd be sooooooooo happy IF I had a house by the sea ... the surf ... not just the bay.

Have you ever caught yourself doing that? I bet you're not happy after saying it!

Notice what happens when you turn it around.

e.g. It'd be really amazing if I could have a house by the surf. Fortunately, it is not required for happiness.

I don't know about you, but after I say that turnaround pair of sentences, I get a thought with a smile that goes something like this... 'O yeah, that's right, now what was I going to do?' I'm happy and I move on to DO something. Now that's gotta be good.

Your turn. Fill in the gap with your IF condition for happiness, then go DO something. And leave a comment below with your thoughts about it all.

“It’d be really amazing if I could __________________.

Fortunately, it is not required for happiness.” alexandrafranzen.com

Tour de France cancelled

I'm raising my cycling game. I'm returning to the commuting world.

Today was to be the first day of cycling to my new work site. I had my flash new recycled bike and bits ready to go.

BUT I ALLOWED MYSELF TO BE PUT OFF BY FRIENDS COLLEAGUES PEOPLE who acted shocked surprised doubtful that I would could do it!!!!

So I was flexible. I thought I would drive some of the way with the bike in the back of the car and then ride the rest of the way.

But NO. I couldn't get it in the car easily. Slight stamping of feet happening at this stage until I gave in and took the dog for a walk and put off the cycle commuting re-entry.

I thought I had sorted it out in my head and was comfortable cycling next week until I noticed I was mumbling f^@> and shaking my head and not noticing the sunrise over the low tide revealed sandbanks while walking said dog!!! 

Why did I do that? Why did I let myself be persuaded to think I shouldn't have a go at this? By now I'm really getting pissed off at self!

Geez, it's not the freakin Tour de France.

I wasn't even going to wear lycra pants.

So... thanks to someone/something that helped me to notice that I do that to myself - stop myself from doing something that I want to do because other people think that I can't do it.

Thanks also to me noticing my angry/frustrated behaviour and acting on it in a proactive way without harming others (not even slightly like with a dark scowly sort of look). 

Has that ever happened to you? What did you do? What do you now do so that you can keep doing what you want to do?

I'm grateful that I noticed it and I'll be better prepared next week!

Please leave a comment. Thank you. xo

Chocoholic

I just decided to not be a chocoholic anymore.

Just like that.

How brilliant is that?!!

I really can do it.

I did it.

I'm not a chocoholic anymore.

I think the trigger was when a colleague described me to a new staff member. Now I like to think of myself as many things, but I didn't get off on the fact that chocoholic was the first thing that came to her mind!

Within hours of this decision, I saw an ad for Michelle Bridges' book, Losing the Last 5 Kilos: your kick-arse guide to looking and feeling fantastic. I bought it.

Page 35 got the sticky note bookmark. She compares motivation and consistency. Motivation is about feeling, but consistency is about doing.

She has a special term to remind her of the steady, relentless action to see a journey to its end - the action of being consistent.

She talks about JFDI!. Just _ Do It! The exclamation mark is mine!

So what will you JFD this day? What's been getting up your nose about yourself for too long? Put a JFDI! sticky note on your computer for a giggle and JFDI!

LEST WE FORGET

ANZAC DAY 2013

Renovator's Delight

I love my little house by the sea... well, walking distance to the sea. A renovator's delight.

I'm at the point where I'm wondering where I should stop.

I'll have to keep working the rest of my life to pay it off if I keep going with the 'finishing touches'!

I thought about that. I thought that would be the worst thing that could happen (not counting deaths of loved ones). No free time to do whatever you're supposed to do after you stop working.

And then I thought, nope, worse than that would be to not have your health to be able to keep working.

Get to the bottom of what's meaningful to you right now.

What's the worst thing that could happen to you?





... and then, what would be worse than that?




... and then, make a small change to appreciate what's most meaningful to you.

I discovered my health is most meaningful to me. With my physical, mental and spiritual health in top form, I can access all that I love.