Where to begin to achieve a healthy mind and body? This puzzle is simply and easy to follow and with the pieces you create a core to build from. This core will allow you build a more happy, positive and healthy mind and body
Exercise:
– What we do — or don’t do — with our bodies influences our mind. Regular exercise and healthy eating habits lead to both physical and mental health.
Mindfulness
–Intentional activities, mindful actions that you can use to achieve a healthier happier life. Live in the Moment and give yourself Permission to be Human. Become keenly aware of your surroundings and flourish and encourage mental health.
Sleep
– Adequate sleep is also important to both your physical and mental health. Improves your cognitive skills and physical performance –makes us feel better and more vital and vigorous.
Investing in Social Connections
– Hugs make people happier – touch naturally calms the body.
If we observe genuinely healthy happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how healthy and happy we are, over and above. Learn the habits of a healthy happy person.

Promote physical and mental health through wellness education. Learning how to achieve optimism, self esteem, creativity and improved cognitive skills will provide your people with the skill to understand their core values and discover innovative ways to incorporate their values into their every day.

A Simple 4 Piece Puzzle to Wellness

Recently, I conducted a 1 hour “Healthy Mind/Healthy Body” workshop for 75+ participants at law firm with offices locally and across the US. Some of the participants were in the room and the others were connected via the web. We discussed the 4 core pieces of the “wellness” puzzle and how they fit into a healthy, happy and productive life.

• Exercise
• Mindfulness
• Sleep
• Social connections

Although the “cost” to the firm in employee time was considerable, the long term benefits will outweigh the short term cost, especially if they continue to reinforce the message with ongoing training and support.

Healthy Lifestyle Motivation is dedicated to positive rituals, self-respect, healthy habits, and keeping your body as clean as your conscience. Our ultimate goal is to transform your life, inspire inner peace, and allow you to be fully engaged at all times.

Here you will find products that have been hand selected to support your Skin, Body and Environment which are natural, organic and healthy. Each of our product lines is designed to promote creating rituals – rituals which become part of a daily routine to increase healthy habits. Using these products daily will bring you lasting change. We want to help you achieve small incremental changes through healthy rituals that result in lasting transformation.

We are starting with two product lines, Isis Essentials and Pure Inventions, and will continue to fulfill our goal of having others that will allow you to enjoy the best of the best.

Click here to visit the Healthy Lifestyle Motivation website and Store.

Remember, your purchase of $100 or more will come with complimentary shipping!

Isis Essentials are essential oils selectively blended for their properties to promote and support healthy skin function. These products were developed using the information I have gathered regarding botanical healing. These face and body blends helps you achieve skin that is healthy, clear and glowing. The essential oils in each blend were hand selected to deliver to you the highest performance, aromatherapy and cosmetic benefits and results. I have designed a face blend: Illuminate using only ancient oils to combat wrinkles, rejuvenate and tone and 3 body blends: Vitalize to promote fat burning and lymphatic stimulation, Detoxify to encourage toxin release and support the reduction of cellulite and Replenish to rejuvenate your body and support cell regeneration.

Isis Essentials is a passion and I know you will enjoy the therapeutic, aromatherapy, and cosmetic benefits of each hand-crafted blend in our initial launch. I am committed to researching and crafting additional face and body blends to support your skin needs.

Remember, your purchase of $100 or more will come with complimentary shipping!

Click here to visit the Isis Essentials website and Store.

A customized 360 feedback report measures executive and personal leadership competencies in a wide variety of areas, including decision-making, communication, customer and service orientation, innovation, strategic planning, industry knowledge, change leadership, teamwork and collaboration, directing and inspiring action, listening, conflict resolution and more. Customized to measure the high-priority leadership competencies you value or which are highly valued in your organization.

3 major types of 360º Assessments:

• Personal Leadership
• Executive Leadership
• Organizational Climate

What is a 360?

Tool for creating a personalized coaching program for executives, individuals or organizations

• Confidential input from a variety of sources on the subject
• Comparison of responses from the subject and respondents
• Way to uncover a person’s blind spots

Emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of our own emotions and those of others, in the moment, and to use that information to manage ourselves and manage our relationships optimally.  The 24 EI compentencies depicted in the four-quardrant model are described below. 

Definitions of Competencies

Personal Competence
These competencies determine how we manage ourselves

Self-Awareness
Knowing one’s internal states, preferences, resources, and intuition

• Emotional awareness: Recognizing one’s emotions and their effects
  Accurate self-assessment: Knowing one’s strengths and limits
• Personal power: A strong sense of one’s self-worth and capabilities; self confidence

Self-Management
Managing ones’ internal states, impulses, and resources

• Emotional self-control: Keeping disruptive emotions in check
• Integrity: Maintaining high standards of honesty and ethics at all times
• Innovation & creativity: Actively pursuing new approaches and ideas
• Initiative & bias for action: Readiness to act on opportunities
• Resilience:  Perseverance and diligence in the face of setbacks
• Achievement drive: Striving to meet a standard of excellence
• Stress management:  Working calmly under stress and pressure
• Realistic optimism:  Expecting success; seeing setbacks as manageable; persisting in achieving goals despite obstacles and setbacks
• Intentionality:  Thinking and acting “on purpose” and deliberately

Social Competence
These competencies determine how we handle relationships

Social Awareness
Awareness of others feelings, needs, and concerns

• Empathy: Sensing others’ feelings and perspectives, and taking an active interest in their concerns
• Organizational awareness: Reading a group’s emotional currents and power relationships
• Service ethic: Anticipating, recognizing, and meeting customers’ needs

Relationship Management – Social Skills
Adeptness at inducing desirable responses in others

• Developing others: Identifying others’ development needs and bolstering their abilities
• Influence: Wielding effective tactics for persuasion
• Communication: Listening attentively and fostering open dialogue 
• Conflict management: Negotiating and resolving disagreements
• Visionary leadership: Inspiring, guiding and mobilizing individuals and groups; articulating a clear, compelling and motivating vision for the future
• Catalyzing change: Initiating, managing and leading change
• Building bonds: Nurturing and maintaining relationships, cultivating a wide network; connecting with others on a deeper rather than superficial level
• Teamwork & collaboration: Working with others toward shared goals. Creating group synergy in pursuit of collective goals
• Building trust:  Being trustworthy and ethical when working and relating to others; ability to establish a bond of trust with others

If you could take a “Wonder Drug” that has no negative side effects, was legal and free –

Would YOU?
This “Wonder Drug” makes you feel good, enhances your self-esteem, induces calm, improves thinking, makes you more attractive and improves your love life.

The 4 Elements to this drug are:

• Exercise
  3 times; 30 minutes / week
• Mindfulness
  Meditation, deep breathing, yoga or just sitting for 15 minutes / day
• Sleep
  7-8 hours / night
• Touch
  12+ hugs / day

This “Wonder Drug” is your prescription to HAPPINESS. It will kick in after 3 weeks to 1 month and is your natural intervention.

DiSC is an assessment tool used to discover you primary behavioral style through self-awareness and personal effectiveness:
D – Dominance; i – Influence; S – Steadiness; C – Conscientiousness
DiSC assessments are Classic or Classic Plus. Both assessment reports are rich and full of useful information.
The Classics assessment reports on your unique behavioral style based on your answers to 23 questions. You learn about your primary dimension, tendencies, needs, preferred environment and strategies for effectiveness. You are provided an intensity index highlighting adjectives about your strengths and weaknesses followed by a more detailed explanation for the adjectives in each dimension. Your classical profile pattern is also revealed portraying your behavior with a specific blend of the four DiSC dimensions.
The Classic Plus begins with the DiSC Classic. Plus takes your primary dimension and classical profile and generates 6 supplemental reports. These reports are:
• Strategies for a Creating a Positive Relationship
How to communicate to the you
How to compliment you
How to provide feedback to you
How your deal with conflict
How to deal with your problem-solving style
How to deal with your decision-making style
Strategies for Positive Relationships Worksheet
• Relating to People and the Environment
How you tend to communicate
How you tend to make decisions
How you tend to manage time
How you tend to solve problems
How you tend to handle stress
Relating to People and Environment Worksheet
• Strategies for Managing
Developing you
Motivating you
Complimenting you
Counseling you
Problem solving for you
Delegating to you
Correcting you
Decision making for you
Communicating to you
Management Action Strategy Worksheet
• Approach to Managing Others
Communicating to others
Delegating to others
Directing others
Developing others
Decision-making style
Managing time style
Problem-solving style
Motivating others
Management Style Worksheet
• Strategies for Sales Management
Developing you
Motivating you
Giving recognition to you
Coaching / Counseling you
Communicating to you
Problem-solving for you
Delegating you
Decision-making for you
Sales Management Action Strategy Worksheet
• Natural Approach to the Selling Process
Planning
Opening the call
Interviewing
Presenting
Responding to concerns
Getting Commitment
Servicing
Sales Management Style Worksheet

I’m in a dilemma about the “door opening ceremony”. Some women like it when you open the door for them and some consider it an affront to women’s liberation. What’s a guy supposed to do?

Dear Confused Door Opener,

Like many aspects of proper behavior, the “door opening ceremony” is evolving over time. The traditional woman (born before 1946) was brought up to expect a man to open the door for her. Millennial women (born between 1981 and 1999) expect gender neutrality in the workplace. The women in between range from one end of the spectrum to the other. 

Since you can’t always tell where a woman falls age-wise, the best you can do is look for signals in body language. If a woman falls back as if waiting for you to open the door, then you are probably safe in opening it. If a woman doesn’t hesitate when approaching a door, it’s probably safe to let her open it herself.

That said, you likely won’t always be able to read the situation accurately. The best you can do is always show respect and then most people won’t interpret your behavior as offensive. There’s one rule that always holds true. If you are hosting a business guest, the host always holds the door open regardless of gender.

Jill Murphy
Modern Business Manners
— The Competitive Edge

by Katherine Abbott
www.abbottcom.com

1. Set the learning environment – Do everything possible to make your students feel comfortable.
2. Don’t assume – Learn what your students do and don’t know before teaching your material.
3. Have a learning objective – Teach from what you want your students to know at the end of the training session.
4. Speak clearly -Define terminology, acronyms and speak at a comfortable pace.
5. Structure your material – Teach the material in sections to help the students grasp the information one small piece at a time.
6. Use vivid examples – Make your material applicable to this particular group of students, using examples they can relate to.
7. Use a variety of delivery methods – Teach the same material different ways to meet the needs of your students learning styles.
8. Review your material often – Find different ways to review the material to understand what your students have and haven’t learned.
9. Be flexible – Have a plan, but be willing to modify it according to this group of students.
10. You are in charge – You need to manage the time, the equipment, the students and the environment for optimal learning.

Bonus – Have fun!

Please feel free to contact me and/or post your comments and questions below.