Time to Speak Your Truth
I’m so proud of my friend, Andrea Costantine, that I just have to blog about this!
It is rare to come across a book or piece of work that is so very raw, real, and inspiring. That is why I have decided to participate in sharing this work with you today.
Today is the launch of her book, Speaking Your Truth: Courageous Stories from Inspiring Women” – a powerful anthology of which I am an advocate for.
Speaking Your Truth has 49 stories for women by women. These stories are heart-wrenching and inspiring. The stories are based on love and healing, family matters, spirituality and much more.
Here are some things people have said about this book:
“Speaking Your Truth sizzles with brave energy. These amazing stories are a powerful testimony to the strength of human spirit, and a source of hope to all.” Sharon Lippincott
“Read one of these stories and you’ll keep turning the pages for more.” Susan K. Elliott
“The courageous stories of these women proves that there can be triumph over tragedy. What an inspiration to read their remarkable stories of resiliency in overcoming difficulty.” Danielle Waagmeester
“Speaking Your Truth is like a bowl of grandma’s soup on a cold day.” Sara Ortiz
Find out more now and order your copy today of the Speaking Your Truth anthology. Get your copy (and perhaps a copy for a friend, your mother, or a colleague) here.
If you choose to support her, and get courage to speak your own truth, awesome! Thank You and Congrats ahead of time!
xoxo
Kim
Redefining Success
What does success mean to you?
I know that most people have a canned response. “Success means having lots of money, wearing expensive clothes, travelling around the world and driving a fancy car.” Notice that all of those things are external? They are all things that you “get” outside of yourself, and most of those things don’t make you happy for long.
Crazy idea…If your house were to burn down, what would you take? You’d take the photo’s, the babybooks, family pet…you wouldn’t head to the closet to get your favorite pair of shoes or that designer dress.
WHAT IF you defined success from the inside out?
So start this process with a quick exercise. What does success really mean to you? What do you want to do with your life? Write it down, not editing or worrying about others might think. Then look at the difference between what you say you want, and what you currently have. Create a “backward” map. That is, start where you want to be and map out a backward trail until you end up where you are now. Since you are where you are now, start there and take the next logical step to living a successful life.
Byron Katie–I’m too fat
A friend of mine shared these videos a couple of months ago and I resonated so strongly with them that I knew I had to share with you. Of course I forgot about them until recently when I realized that they were a perfect fit for my upcoming Happiness & Self Premium Membership call (these videos also go very nicely with several topics in my “Letting Go” Premium Series, starting in August.) I invite you to join us as we discuss self esteem, self love and self discovery on July 19! Learn more at http://kimberlyenglot.com/being-the-perfect-sized-you/
Talk about getting it…You are the perfect sized YOU!!!
If you are unhappy regarding your own physical appearance, take the time to watch these videos! Take to heart what Katie has to say. (Part 2 is my favorite–“You’re not too fat to be you…and in a perfect Universe, someone has to be you!” Love it!!!– but make sure you watch Part 1 first or it won’t make as much sense)
Byron Katie: I’m too fat. Parts 1 & 2
Being the perfect-sized you
I know that weight and dress size is a contention for a lot of women, and that we’re not supposed to focus on the numbers. But that scale (and the dressing room mirror) doesn’t lie…or does it?
Keep in mind that you have a pre-conceived notion about what you look like. You look in the mirror and probably don’t see the same thing that other people see when they look at you. 
Because of that very thing, you need to lose the weight in your HEAD before it comes off your body. I know because I gained a lot of weight after I got married (25 lbs on my relatively small frame), and lost 35lbs 6 months later…and even though I was smaller, it wasn’t enough. Being in the 130’s should have been perfect. It was my goal…but I was still of “fatty mindset” because it wasn’t good enough. That “fatty mindset” took me back up 10 lbs, still in a normal healthy range and the weight I’m currently at, I am more comfortable here because this is where I remain and I am happy with it.
Which takes us back to my main point, you can by “skinny” according to someone else’s standards and “fat” according to your own. It’s all about perspective and perspective is something you have COMPLETE control over. Weight goes up and down normally (to a certain extent–I believe approximately 5 lbs) but your thoughts on what you look like don’t change as easily. Ask anyone who has dramatically changed their appearance or lost a lot of weight (more than 50 lbs), the mindset is harder to get over than the weight.
I am sharing some tools to help you in my next Premium Membership call on July 19, 2010.
You can join us and find out:
- The #1 thing you can do right now to change how you feel about your body, even if you think you need to lose weight
- How to ACT THIN when you feel frumpy and ugly
- 7 Easy Steps to IMMEDIATELY activate your confidence (great for those situations when you need to fake-it-to-make-it)
- Abraham’s take on health and weight loss (gotta get some Law of Attraction perspective in there
) - And of course, much more.
This call is the 4th and final part in my Happiness Series and is available ONLY to Premium Members (luckily, it’s really affordable and you get access to the rest of the series to help you find harmony in Health, Career and Wealth too, for the price of ONE MONTH’s Membership!)
I’ve taken a lot of the content from my Perfect-Sized You action guide: Eat, Shrink and Be Happy. You can get the total scoop on “authentic weight loss” at http://eatshrinkandbehappy.com
How to Guarantee a GREAT Day, Every Day
Guest post by Chris Widener
Every Monday morning I have a standing radio interview I enjoy very much. But you can imagine that it can become routine. To prevent this, the host doesn’t tell me the topic before we go live on the air—now that puts some excitement into it!
This week, he asked me: How can a person guarantee that they will have a great day, every day? Some may find that hard to answer, but for me it was easy. You see, I believe we can control our destinies and create for ourselves the kind of lives we desire. People who live based on these principles achieve what they desire, while people who live reacting to circumstances do not.
Here are the principles for having a GREAT day every day:
Focus on today only.
Yes, long-range goals are important. But our focus must be on today. My equation is that your short-term tasks, multiplied by time, equal your long-term accomplishments. With that in mind, it’s imperative that we focus on short-term because, when multiplied by time, it will eventually equal our long-term goals. Don’t worry about tomorrow. Make today the best day you have ever had. Realize that when you lay down to sleep tonight you will have just given up the only shot you will ever have at today. You only get one shot at your today, so focus intently on making it all that it possibly can be. Focus, focus, focus! When you focus on making today great, you are helping guarantee that you will make your day GREAT, every day!
Embrace your power to choose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice—their choice.” When your today becomes your yesterday, you will look back and realize that day was a result of your choices. “But wait Chris, what if my boss controlled my day? That isn’t my choice!” you might say. But it is your choice to work for someone else. You chose to let someone else tell you what to do. But you can control your own destiny. The moment we realize that we can exercise a powerful gift from God, namely the gift of free will and choice, is when we begin to create for ourselves a GREAT day each and every day! Take ownership of the direction of your life. Make your choices and carry them out!
Your attitude is up to you.
Yes, bad things may happen in your day. The pitcher for “Team Circumstances” may have a tremendous curveball waiting for you, and you cannot control that. You cannot control what others may do or say. But you can control your attitude. Your attitude about whatever happens to you is up to you.
When something happens to you, you have the choice: Will you let it get you down and depressed, keeping you from forging ahead and making the day the best one ever? Or will you say to yourself that, no matter what happens, you are on the path to success and no obstacle will keep you from it? Will you say, “Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose—I guess this time I lost”? Will you say, “Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn—I can really learn something from this!”?
It is all in what attitude you choose. Your attitude is up to you, and when you choose to have a great attitude, you are choosing to guarantee to have a GREAT day, every day!
Live out and act on your priorities.
So far, we have dealt with internal perspectives, and that is indeed the place to start. But the practical place is in our priorities. If we want to make our days great, then we have to live out those things that will by definition make our days great. And those things are what are important to us. They are our priorities.
So each morning, start out by asking, “What things are important to me today? What are the things I need to accomplish in order for me to lay down tonight and know that I lived a GREAT day?” Then put those in order of most important to least important.
Don’t do what is fun. Don’t do what is easy. Do what is IMPORTANT! Live out your priorities. When you do, you will guarantee that you will make your day GREAT, every day!
Tomorrow, when you wake up, go through the four following points and see if you don’t make tomorrow a GREAT day:
* Focus on today only.
* Understand that I get to choose how today will go.
* Remain in a positive attitude no matter what happens.
* Live out and act on my priorities.
Do this, and you will guarantee a GREAT day, every day.
About Chris Widener
Chris Widener is a businessman, author, speaker and television host. A prolific writer and producer of CDs and DVDs, his most recent book is The Art of Influence. Widener is the host of the national interview show, Made For Success, and co-host of True Performance with Zig Ziglar. The Chris Widener newsletter is one of the most widely distributed on personal and professional development. Chris’ motto is, “Turn your potential into performance, succeed in every area of life, and achieve your dreams.” He very definitely gives you the tools you need to do that and delivers results-oriented programs designed specifically to help you achieve your goals!
Read more posts from Chris HERE
June’s Premium Call: Happiness & Health
Get Happy! Live longer by eating, sleeping and drinking your way to happiness
Being healthy is an important part of being happy. And being happy is an important part of being healthy! These states of being are intimately connected, and without one, the other cannot function optimally.
YOU are in control of your happiness, and your health. Your body does not have a mind of it’s own, you have the mind, and what you think about creates the resistance which is what creates the aches, pains, excess weight etc…
(NOTE: If you don’t believe in the Law of Attraction, you’ll think I am crazy…so you can stop reading this right now.)
What are your dominant thoughts? Do you even know? Chances are that if you have any kind of “dysfunction” in your body, it’s the reflection of negative thoughts/word in your head, and you’re not aware of it. Now, this doesn’t mean that if you have a cold, you were thinking about catching a cold (although that could be the case)…but it does mean you had enough negative energy in your body to “attract” a cold. That is, you were tired, run down, stressed and just inviting in the virus. That’s just a simple example.
If you want to get further to the bottom of the health-happiness cycle, join me LIVE June 21, 2010 at 6pm ET/3pm PT for June’s Premium call.
I am covering:
- The importance of de-stressing and detoxing your life (and exactly how to start)
- 4 Anti-aging tips that don’t involve weird food, plastic surgery or expensive creams.
AND:
- Tips for sleeping better, why 4 days is all you need to get started losing weight and keeping it off, and the beverage you should drink every day to slow down the aging process (it’s NOT water!)
And to get you working toward more happiness AND health until the Premium call, I have a few tips for you to feel better.
The #1 thing I can suggest is to get enough sleep! Sleep rejuvenates and vitalizes the body, without it, you eventually go crazy. And even just a small deficit of sleep is enough to make even the happiest a cranky, snappy mess! It isn’t always easy to increase the quantity of your sleep, I can however share with you MY own personal tips to get better quality.
- Create a routine. I have a shut-the-office-door-and-close-the-laptop-after-9-pm rule…unless there is an emergency of some kind (usually pertaining to a client or my website). I have a shower, climb into bed with my cat or my dog, maybe run-through my tarot cards for the next day, and read something light and inspirational. This routine puts me in a “happy” mindset. And if you were on April’s Premium call, you know that going to be happy means you wake up happy! Create a routine and stick to it the best you can.
- Go to bed earlier. In Marci Shimoff’s book, “Happy for No Reason” she notes scientific research that states the hours before midnight are worth two times (sleep-quality wise) as the hours after midnight. This means that if you go to sleep by 10pm, in those 2 hours, you are getting the same quality of sleep as from Midnight to 4 am.
- Make the effort. This is all on you, if you don’t make the effort to change, you’ve got no one to blame but yourself. Yes kids, work, laundry are calling you…but they’ll still be there in the morning. If you can’t take the time out to care for yourself in the short-term, you’re going to find yourself with a whole new set of problems in the long-term.
So make Happiness & Health a priority this month, and sign up for the FREE LIVE call on June 21, 2010 at 6pm ET/3pm PT.
If you know that you want this info, but can’t make the live call, you can become a Premium Member and get the mp3 recording, access to the previous 2 mp3s in the Happiness Series and all the actions guides/ secret resources that go with the calls.
Learn more about Premium membership.
Mind Programming
I was asked to be part of yet another book launch. This one I couldn’t pass up and was immediately intrigued. 
For those of you who like science and like learning about the behind-the-scenes “operations” of belief, intention, forgiveness etc…I have a resource for you. This book is NOT for the faint of heart!
If you’re looking for a light-hearted, self help book, this is not for you. However, it goes deeply into brain-washing techniques that marketers use to get you to buy things (how unauthentic!) and ways that our minds have been programmed by the media.
Sounds scary, however, the entire second portion of the book is dedicated to teaching you how this works so that you can take your power back!
The book
It’s by Eldon Taylor and is the brand new paperback release of his International Bestseller, Mind Programming.
Mind Programming is really two books in one. The first half of the book is the tell-all story that uncovers the unseen influences that are so pervasive, penetrating and effective. The second half of the book is all about the tools and technologies you can use to cleanse your mind of the non-sense you may not have even recognized as being present before reading this liberating book.
Think about it. How many original thoughts do you really have? How many thoughts are about your limitations, your fears, your anxieties, the things you want, and so forth. You will learn that from sickness and anxiety to the way you comb your hair and dress, and so much more, are all a part of what you have been trained to think and choose. You will also learn some very simple easy-to-use tools that can free your mind and empower your being.
You can learn more at http://tiny.cc/MindProgrammingJune2010. It’s a Hay House book, comparable to Virus of the Mind by Richard Brodie, if you’ve read that one. Like I said, a dark (but great) resource for helping you continue to Dump The Junk!
Romancing Sleep
I was asked to participate in another book launch for this book: Romancing Sleep. 
I didn’t read the entire book, but I read enough to know that this could be a valuable tool for anyone who is having problems sleeping, and if that is you, check it out. Sleep is so important to life. A good night’s sleep means energy, vitality, patience and zest! A bad night’s sleep means grouchiness, anger and a short fuse with your kids.
When you suffer from any sort of sleep disorder nothing else seems so important as a good night’s rest.
And even if you THINK you’re getting a restful sleep, studies show it’s probably NOT the sort of deep, DEEP sleep that can provide the greatest life-enhancing, age-reversing, and energy-boosting benefits.
Want the solution? Take a minute, use the link below to go to the website and get all the details for yourself.
http://www.romancingsleep.com/promo/
Romancing Sleep” is your guide to quickly and easily overcoming any number of emotional, environmental, nutritional, and other factors that commonly lead to a lack of sleep.
The Launch of Authentic Self Expressions…TV
Season 1, Episode 1
DUMP THE JUNK! Yes, I’m yelling there, but only because I’m excited. This is the perfect time to launch a new avenue in my business…a “TV” show. It’s the video version of my podcast and you’ll find weekly webisodes here, from me.
I’m still working the bugs out…software wasn’t cooperating for me, so it cuts off weirdly at the end. This just wasn’t enough for me to say, “screw it” and scrap the episode though so you’ll just have to deal with that little snafu!
Dump The Junk video
Dump The Junk…and be happy!
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