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Making Work Into Life

I am paying the price this week for my all out assault on cleaning the house.   The garage itself is completely finished but not heated, so in the colder months it tends to accumulate all of the things that we just couldn’t throw away.   Well, that all changed […]

Making Work Into Life

Recipe: Mexi-Cal Breakfast Tacos

Here’s another one of those great recipes from Team Beachbody.   Join the Team Beachbody Club for great eating and great living! It may say “breakfast” in the name, but these tasty tacos are great for lunch or dinner too! Tofu and fresh vegetables mingle with savory Mexican spices for […]

Recipe: Mexi-Cal Breakfast Tacos

What Are You in the Habit of Doing?

“Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.” Brian Tracy To me, personal development coaching is learning how to be fit, healthy and prosperous by changing your body and your life.   It is about […]

What Are You in the Habit of Doing?

Power 90 Almost Done – From Mark Gandy

“Loved it.   Great ride. I’m in my self-imposed recovery mode this week.   I’m mainly doing Fat Burning Express and numerous Ten Minute Trainers.   I’ll do at least one Sweat 3-4 too. I’ll weigh myself on Thursday, and I expect the scale to be 186’ish.   Last week, […]

Power 90 Almost Done – From Mark Gandy

Bad Days and Your Workout Schedule

What happens if you have a bad day and miss a scheduled workout or don’t feel like you put in a good effort?   Yesterday I was scheduled to do P90X Shoulders & Arms and even though it was 6:00 am, I was already having a really bad day. In […]

Bad Days and Your Workout Schedule

My First $100,000.00

I passed a milestone on Thursday when my commissions as a Team Beachbody Coach surpassed $100,000.00. The only reason that I am telling you that is because I want you all to know that it is possible to make money with Team Beachbody. With daily effort, passion, perseverance and patience, […]

My First $100,000.00

Weekly WOWY Winners Cash In

The WOWY Super Gym can help you get fit and healthy, plus you can win cash and prizes for doing it! Just get your body moving with the physical activity of your choosing – yoga, hiking, swimming, biking, running, or any Beachbody fitness program – and log it into the […]

Weekly WOWY Winners Cash In

Is What You are Doing Empowering?

How do you feel about where your life is going right now?   I am currently on my sixth day of another round of P90X and I already feel empowered.   I feel stronger and fitter and have a better mental attitude because I am going in a positive direction […]

Is What You are Doing Empowering?

Creating the Foundation to Carry Heavy Burdens

P90X day 5 is Legs & Back and I loved it!   I didn’t need Tony Horton to motivate me or inspire me like he did yesterday with Yoga X.   Today was exactly what I wanted to do – work my legs hard to give me a strong foundation […]

Creating the Foundation to Carry Heavy Burdens

Featured Product – Performance Formula

Do I have a secret weapon that I use to keep my busy schedule with parenting, working , working out and living life to the fullest each day.   It is no secret that my faith is an integral part of my life, but is there anything else that I […]

Featured Product – Performance Formula

Mental Images

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” – Proverbs 23:7 Your mental images manifest in your physical world. Here are some questions you need to ask yourself: 1. How can you become lean, fit and healthy if all you think about is gaining weight and eating your […]

Mental Images and Success

Yoga?  P90X Day 4…

Honestly if I am doing another Beachbody workout program in between rounds of P90X, I don’t think much about the order of the P90X workouts.   I auto schedule them in WOWY and whatever comes up in the first week is what it is. Today, when I saw that it […]

Yoga? P90X Day 4…

P90X Day 3:  Shoulders & Arms – No Sweat

Compared to yesterday’s Plyometrics X workout, today was no sweat – or at least I wasn’t sweating like I was yesterday.   I woke up with sore legs and knowing that my body had moved in ways that it wasn’t used to after yesterday’s workout. After listening to Tony Horton’s […]

P90X Day 3: Shoulders & Arms – No Sweat

What is the WOWY SuperGym?

The WOWY SuperGym is where I work out every day and where currently over 7,000 people a day work out.   Of those 7,000 people, many are personal friends who gather every day in the online gym that rewards you for working out. Not only do we get to work […]

What is the WOWY SuperGym?

Have You Been to X City?

Are you ready to go to X City? Plyometrics X is just one of 12 workouts that over 90 days will take you from where you are today to where you want to be and beyond with better cardiovascular fitness, huge gains in strength, improved flexibility and coordination and a […]

Have You Been to X City?

P90X Day 1 – A New P90X Journey Begins

Life brings lots of changes and challenges and how we deal with them defines what we are made of.   I once remember reading, “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.”   Life got tough and I got going.   My passion for running was boxed up and […]

P90X Day 1 – A New P90X Journey Begins

5 Reasons to Sleep Your Way to Better Health

Wondering what the big deal about a good night’s sleep is? You can sleep your way to better health and a better you. When your mother told you to get your beauty sleep, she may have been on to something. From babies to adults, studies show that the amount of […]

5 Reasons to Sleep Your Way to Better Health

The Sleep Solution: 4 Ways to Get the Rest You Need to Boost Results!

Did you wake up rested and refreshed this morning? If not, here are 4 sleep solutions to make tonight a better sleep night. Sometimes, people get so caught up in hammering workouts and cutting calories that they forget that half of getting great results is recovery. And one of the […]

The Sleep Solution: 4 Ways to Get the Rest You …

Self Concept and Self Sabotage

The Hidden Reason Why You Sabotage Your Diet and Fitness Efforts Just When the Going Gets Good (and What to Do About It) Tell me if this has ever happened to you: You decide you want to improve your body and live a healthier lifestyle. You read all the books, […]

Self Concept and Self Sabotage

Make Your Goals Magnificent

The most common hindrance to setting and achieving meaningful goals is our tendency to make them too small and uninspiring. If we become too careful, realistic and rational, we run the risk of setting goals that have no power to stimulate our enthusiasm and excitement. A mediocre goal will not […]

Make Your Goals Magnificent

7 Ways to Find Time to Work Out

How to find time to work out is one of the questions that we get most often.  The perceived lack of time is one of the main reasons people give for not exercising regularly. Even those of you who have discovered the wonders of in-home fitness still find it difficult […]

How to Find Time to Work Out

29 Tips for Keeping Portions Under Control

When it comes to food portions, size matters. In a world filled with “supersized” options, all-you-can-eat buffets, and extra-large pizzas, it’s no wonder people overeat. Have you ever found yourself in one of these situations? Eating snacks straight out of the bag while watching television, or even grabbing a second […]

29 Tips for Keeping Portions Under Control

Expense vs Results – The Cost to Benefit Ratio

Simple question:   are you getting results from your gym membership?   I hope the answer is yes because given the cost, you should be.   Plus, you have all of the equipment available to you to get those results.   But what if you are not?   What is […]

Expense vs Results – The Cost to Benefit Ratio

Good Day Sunshine

Your alarm goes off and it’s dark, cold, and all you’ve got to look forward to is another day at the office. Getting out of bed, frankly, sucks. So you hit the snooze button, turn over, and snuggle back into your pillow for five more minutes of bliss. But ouch […]

Good Day Sunshine

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