Anxiety and Paralysis of Analysis

Have you ever noticed that if you aren't in the right place mentally you also suffer physically and vice versa?

Your Environment is EVERYTHING!

When I say environment, I'm not just referring to where you are geographically. I'm referring to your mental, physical, and emotional environment.

What is your mental environment like? Have you developed a positive, productive, and proactive mental environment? Do you take responsibility for where you are right now?

What is your physical environment like? Are you dedicated to eating clean? Training Hard Consistently? Do you drink enough water? Do you get enough rest?

The same questions can be applied to your Emotional Environment.

If any of the 3 are out of whack, you will have trouble achieving happiness, success, balance, and so on.

Sometimes before you can move forward, you have to go backward. What I mean by that is you need to understand why you do what you do. Why you think what you think. Why you feel the way you feel. And then understand that these things are in your direct control.

Control your Environments. Choose to be in a good place.

Life is too short to live reactively. Take responsibility for where you are right now, and then CHOOSE to make the correct changes.

Action alleviates anxiety.

Its all in your head.

Thats all I got!  Have a great weekend,
Anna :)

Is CBD good for you?

Here are 7 things you may or may not know about your body (and why its amazing to be ULTRA)!

1. You and all animals with a spine have an endocannabinoid system (ECS), we iust didn’t know it until the 90’s.  
2. Its job is to balance every single other system in the body.  So, The ECS regulates your entire body, every single system🤯⠀
3. We already produce cannabinoids and now we know many of us with symptoms are deficient so our ECS is out of balance!
4. The body senses changes in & around it and the ECS is activated to CORRECT it!⠀
5. The ECS works on specific problems & does NOT take a general approach.⠀
6. Therefore, if the ECS is activated to a specific problem, it actually does so by balancing all your systems which triggers the system with the problem to then correct itself. 
7. The body is BRILLIANT✨⠀

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The Truth and Lies about MLM

With the quarantine and the movement of our world towards all things Social Media marketing, I wanted to take fa few minutes and share some truth and lies about MLM.  It is not the magic bullet for everyone so its important to hear some unbiased truth.

having built 2 businesses predicting multiple millions in the health and wellness space(one MLM) and looking forward to build another MLM among other endeavors, I wanted to take my resources of 1000s of hours and dollars of paid training and 10, 000 more in unpaid training and experience and multiply that into people who it will add value to.

Therefore..... if you are looking at MLM, this video is for YOU!

The questions I cover are:

1. Do you have to sell?  Yes and No, I define selling and give some realities.
2. How does it compare to starting a Brick and Mortar (pros and cons)? There are so many similarities.  And some key differences.  One I didn't mention in the video that I will here is that with a Brick and Mortar you are now in real estate and its now about dollars per square foot no matter if you'e selling food, doing hair, have a coat shop, a travel agency, or you are a Doctor's office.  You do have to think differently there.  
3. Is it really easy money? It is pretty simple and with enthusiasm you can be successful, it will take skill to keep that success and grow it.
4. Do I have to sell to my friends and family?  There is a big requirement to answer this.
5. Do I have to invest weeks on end watching and attending every training to make any money?  You will need to do some basic things, but you may find this approach simplifies your life if you do decide to take the next step.

There are so many questions but these are recurring in my experience talking to people looking to know more.  I hope there are some gold nuggets in here for you....remember its just my experience and my opinion after all.  Make your pro and con list and factor in YOUR needs and goals and please share additional questions with me below!  I expect there are alot more questions and opinions out there!  Best, Anna

Check it out on my Facebook Page here

Fitness Update and Strategies for Sanity on a Pineapple

It is hard to leave the day behind don't you think?  Especially in this COVID-19 world where we are at home working and trying to find sane routines without the natural travel that usually occurs between each phase of our daily lives, acting as kind of the period to end of each sentence that makes up the paragraph of our day.  The jokes about the commute from one room to the other to "work" are kind of funny not funny these days.

I have worked from anywhere and home for the better part of 15 years so I have learned ALOT of lessons serving me right now.  For example, a meal hits totally different if you haven't mentally left whatever you were doing prior and still have things to do after it!  Even the best meal with a glass of your favorite wine drowns in all of that.

I love a workout for a period at the end of a workday.  Today landed me on the end of this pineapple to recover.  And my personal strong preference is to work and be done early afternoon.  I have no plans for a career that keeps me tied up all night.  I have had deep talks with alot of fellow soloprenuers who feel exactly this same way.  In fact the entire reason made the gut-wrenching decision to sell my brick and mortar business in favor of an online business was because of the lack of control over my time and my personal preferences - even tho I LOVED THE WORK!

So while Im not deadlifting 200 pounds anymore, I can now not just do more than 10 squats without a back spasm for 3 days, I can do 200!  No weight, but still.  I can move, and mentally, that is a MUST.  I've also re-adopted an old obsession.  Before I was a private personal studio owner, I was a yoga enthusiast.  I did 4-5 hours a week and even found myself at some amazing retreats just for Yogis.  I am finding that love again and it started with 10 minute videos.

So when I say I am rebuilding my physical self from ZERO... I ain't EVEN kidding!

After 2 years of trying to walk our dogs 1-2 miles a day, that walk has gone from the meat of my "workout" for the day to an after workout walk.

So even at the injured, fatigued, mentally fogged worst, I still pushed, its just the version of pushing myself (10 squats and a 1 mile walk) was humbling.  Being injured, then depressed, then overweight then losing a business is NO JOKE on the ego.  But, while I was pushing a boulder up a mountain, I managed AFTER YEARS to gain momentum.

For my entrepreneur friends, what a tall order to be able to leave a day behind.
Im working very hard to create this next chapter using ALL the lessons I've learned so that I am not serving my own creation but the other way around.

I hope you are too!

Its all in your head (I used to sign my very first blogs building my first busies this way!  I think I'll use it again!

Anna

10 Imperfect things about me

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HI TO THE NEW PEEPS 👋🏼 It is introduction day for the new followers on the gram and the whole crew here. Here are 10 Imperfect things about me to get to know me:) Does any of this resonate with ANYONE? Please and introduce yourself to me! And because one of the things that holds me back is how IMPERFECT I am, I wanted to start using that as my mesage. My EGO wants me to stay hidden so that doesn’t show. But if I want to give more and add more value then I have to step into all of that. Here is to UNCURATED content!⁣
and so for fun, here are 10 imperfect things about me⁣
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I have a huge case of imposter syndrome. I feel incredibly mediocre in every way even tho I see legit greatness in everyone I know.⁣
Yet I have confidence in what I know about fitness and nutrition and business. So I am confident about what I know, less about what I can do? Weird!⁣
I worry that all my ideas are just that person who talks but doesn’t walk (hmmm…see #1)⁣
I have no idea what Im doing as a parent, I worry every day!⁣
I am genetically predisposed to be overweight from every angle, from how my body craves food, metabolizes what Im genetically designed to want, and how it uses it and even how predisposed I am to burn fat in exercise including genetically low energy levels coupled with a low response to caffeine! Its comical, really!⁣
I can be ridiculously LAZY. I really want to write books about all I’ve learned yet the effort and fear of irrelevance stops me.⁣
I fell in love with self-development from the first book I read and it changed the course of my life and how I view myself, simultaneously think it can become a crutch and an obstacle to real action plus all the rah rah and garage in the space makes me want to stay far far away. Including those who “coach” on things they have no track record for helping others with or haven’t at least done personally. ⁣
No matter how much money I make or have, I always worry about money. I think the least worried I will ever be is when I have none, so I have nothing to lose if that makes sense… NO IT DOES NOT but its true!⁣
I can be super social and love new people and can also hav social anxiety. I struggle with anxiousness and can channel it into achievement or lock down and hide out. ⁣
I struggle with burnout that can lead to depression, usually just leads to hiding out and makes me feel like an imposter —full circle to #1!⁣
BONUS: I literally have no idea why I have a great husband and great marriage. I have put less “effort” into that than other things and it seems to be one of life’s gifts. I’ve been asked to share more about that but I always say its because I married the right guy! ⁣
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Bonus 2: I don’t have the patience to correct typos. I’m working on it. It’s a long story I just accept my apologies in advance! 😇

Uncommon Optimism

🖐🏼 - 5 years. ⁣
⭕️ - Full circle. ⁣
Even more gratitude. ⁣
Even more focus⁣
Even more wisdom. ⁣
❤️Even at this time. ⁣


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Orig. Post 2015:As a 40 year old Im sure if were to have worked with discipline and focused on my goals then like I do now - there would've been a much different result both financially and physically. Absolutely. Because while time and age were on our side in our 20s- I personally was so focused on ****what I was getting and not who I was becoming****, so there was no real curiosity in it. Im so curious now about what I might learn from the failures along thew way. If that makes any sense at all. And as I press with obsessive focus towards a few key goals, it is all about figuring out who I want to be. What kind of person do I want to be? Not what I'm actually getting - the "goal". That's almost a pawn in the game, now. ⁣
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I think the greatest form of gratitude to is to not take for granted the air we breathe, the freedom we have, the country we live in, the family we have and another with day the sun shining on our face by not trying. To me, to wallow in self-pity and not try for something, anything that lights you up is just lack of gratitude. I feel ungrateful if I'm not trying. I feel like it's my job to pursue, to learn, to dream--otherwise I'm just sitting here breathing the air and wasting my time worrying about myself. To me having dreams or goals or to always be looking for the next exciting things and chasing them is just showing gratitude. Putting in the work is my homage of gratitude that I have the chance. There are people in other places who have no options, no chance. I'm grateful for every day and I plan to use it to maximize myself to help others. Otherwise, I feel like I am just sitting there consuming⁣
... Time ⁣
... Air⁣
... Gifts I've been given⁣
This is really what gets me up and motivates me every day. Not the goals themselves really. But life. Or rather, living life. ⁣
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Author C. D. Jackson observes that “great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.”⁣
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Not that this is a new idea or great by any stretch of the imagination. It just needed a landing s

Not all YOGA is created equal!

This is for that person who is starting from ground zero to gain mobility or rehab an injury. Share and let’s help people progress instead of hit yet another brick wall trying what they think is gentle ... yoga is NOT necessarily gentle!

When I was first rehabbing myself - yoga was suggested 7 million times because its assumed yoga is “gentle”. Having a little bit of yoga study in my background I knew beginners yoga for rehabilitation and the you tube videos labeled beginners yoga were WORLDS APART!!

If a beginners yoga video is 40

Minutes with forty eleven vinyasa (standing to lying in seconds) and inversions... that is NOT a beginners video or class.

So I want to suggest *IF YOURE REHABILITATING YOURSELF - or working through pain and limited mobility ...

Choose yoga videos/classes that:

1) are 10 minutes to begin. Try this every other day for a while before adding time or frequency.

2) most of the session should be you low to the floor. Getting off the ground and back down several times is your next level not this one.

3) use a towel folded or rolled for achieving sitting cross legged and for supporting you anywhere else. Most people starting out actually can’t sit “Indian style”. I get it! Start sitting on your towel and one day you’ll just not need it. And if you need it forever - who cares. You’ll get results by doing it no matter what.

I’ve compiled some short videos to start with. Because people who this speaks to are going to do this AT HOME.

AND - People are quitting before they start because of the mislabeling of the videos.

Avoid any class/video described as:

*Weight loss

*Vinyasa

*Energizing

*Power

*ashtanga

*indicates fast moving big moves

I recommend also caution if it says “for Back pain” - a lot these I tried at first were too intense for a beginner and can trigger spasm of youre prone to them!

I’ve helped a few friends really overcome this problem of trying “gentle yoga” and it HURT THEM

TOO!! Until they used these guidelines. Now they not only feel better but are loving it and have moved on to other things.

Good luck! Comment your thoughts and share to help more people.

10 minute beginner yoga

https://youtu.be/VaoV1PrYft4

10 minute yoga for self care:

https://youtu.be/VpW33Celubg

10 min yoga for beginners:

https://youtu.be/h6VlXmmhciU

10 minute stretch for beginners

https://youtu.be/ChHxbJuUR9Q

5 min morning yoga:

https://youtu.be/4C-gxOE0j7s