Planning can be a chore, but at the same time it gives us something to look forward to...

This July I will be celebrating my 40 year high school class reunion. Yikes!
Hopefully, we will still know each other, this is when you appreciate name tags. Maybe I should include some extra tags for network in my luggage. Ha!!

Do you have something to look forward to this summer? Make sure you include you on this years vacation time, reunion time or people time. Stay in the moment, and plan for days, weeks and months in advance. It' healthy for you.

Attention to your own self-care means everyone around you wins.

Have you ever given attention to your own self-care?  I mean really, really paid attention to your own needs and wants and not just to those of others?  This can feel foreign if you are not in the habit of doing what is right for you while doing for others- do both!  How?  I encourage you to look at the classes I offer by going to lifestyle-specialist .com and signing up for a group or perhaps an individual session.  I do offer a free 20 min. laser session to see what you think.  Pick up the phone or send an email, go ahead you are worth the time and energy.  Feel better, and those around you will as well.

Stay on course through my book study group-based on Marianne Williamson book, "A Course in Weight Loss."

What is one thing you wish to accomplish this new year?  If you were to take one thing to work on, what would it be?  Most people think of money, career, health issues, and relationships.  Why not work on a life of Joy?  Focus on being in your Joy by doing things, thinking things, and lining up with yourself.  For example, when I think thoughts that feel good to me, I feel good.  So if I focus only on things that make me feel good, I could ultimately create a life of happiness.  Stay on course through my book study group. “A Course in Weight Loss” by Marianne Williamson.  Sign up today email me for details or check out the event calendar at Lifestyle-specialist.

Visualize what it is that you want and live life on purpose and with purpose.

Visualize what it is that you want and really think about it in your mind.  Holding that thought for 17 seconds.  Do it again, and again, until you feel it in every fiber.  When you are aligned with your thought through how you feel, then energetically, it has to happen.  It is the Law of Attraction in action.  You are living life on purpose and with a purpose.

Can life get any better? Two things that insure success are appreciation and...

Use your mind to improve your standing.  Happiness coaching is focusing on the things that bring you joy.  Do you create happy thoughts in your mind?  Or do you think negative thoughts that bring you down?  Joy filled thoughts are much better than morbid thoughts for example.  Your mind is the ultimate tool for you to use to generate things you desire, such as happiness, money career, etc. Let your mind appreciate all that matters to you-and stay focused on the positive.

Manifest the life you desire, it is easy, find things to appreciate and keeping your focus there to generate positive energy.  Use my free mini tool kit to stay focused in the new year.

Happy New Year wish for you!

May the New Year bring you all that you desire. 

Give and take as evenly as you can in all areas of your life.  Start the New Year with visualizing who you want to become.  Make list and use my mini tool kit- your gift to start off with goals and focus tools to make your life what you envision.

Take a moment to reflect this day-blessings abound for you.

My wish for you is an abundance of Peace, Love and Joy.  I encourage you to count your blessings as little or a big as they are as it is a day to reflect, share and notice the unnoticeable.  Being with friends, family or being alone, it will do you well to take a deep breath (or two) and know you are alive.  Which is the best blessing of all- the gift of life.

Take hold of your life this day, and focus on what will make this gift the one that keeps on giving.  Happy Holidays from Lifestyle-Specialist.

What does your car have to do with your feelings?

What do you need to be happy?  Are you listening to yourself?  We all have an emotional guidance system that is a measuring stick for where we are.  Are you in touch with your own feelings?  Feelings are powerful indicators of us.  When your car reads empty you know to fill it up with gasoline, right?  What do you do when you are on low?  Do you stop and take the time you need to just say eat your lunch without gulping or on the fly?  We are all in need to “be loving” to ourselves and use this as that reminder.

I challenge each of you to do one thing you have been putting off for yourself and put you on the schedule just like any other appointment. It works and do it in pen.  Tis the season!

One little thing can reset your feelings and those around.

Happiness is a state of mind. If you do not mind who will?  It is up to each of us to be happy. We cannot make someone happy. We can assist in their happiness, but make them be happy is not our job. It is our job to make ourselves happy. 

Perhaps starting with one thing or one area of your life would be helpful.  Try taking a 5 minute meditation or maybe a 10 minute walk will allow the resistance to fall away and be replaced with something better.  Like feeling relief or perhaps a shift to a better feeling place. 

All in all, think of one little positive thing you can be do or have to create a better feeling space for you. Ultimately, you can help someone because you shifted your emotional set point. Have fun with this, that is the point.

Consider going with the flow BEFORE all else fails, and ride the wave of goodness.

Last night I spent a marvelous evening with some friends from CT (friendship category "snowbirds"), and we had a grand time together.  The one hiccup,due to a small gas explosion many of our local restaurants are closed and have no way of serving customers.  The restaurant we were going to was closed, but another was open. A nice metaphor one door closes and another opens.  Turns out that my friends have never had Thai food before and have now come to love it and the experience. It made the evening more special.  The best part was I did not have to orchestrate the situation it was go with the flow and you are always taken care of.  We laughed shared and reconnected for yet another season. Snowbirds are our friends too!!!

Friends are special people in our life.  I appreciate them every day in as many ways as I can.  Think of someone who does not live near, how can you connect with them? Let them know they are special in some way, it will make you feel good. 

So enjoy, relax and ride the wave of goodness.  Try going with the flow BEFORE all else fails.

Happiness Starts Here-Coach Ann Willis perspective to living life

Welcome to my first post for Happiness Starts Here-Coach Ann Willis.  I have been busy putting my notes and thoughts down to share.   So many thoughts so little time.  My life has been filled with many journey's which included making a decision on becoming a Certified Life Coach.
My website www.Lifestyle-Specialist.com has been designed to be a tool for my clients, but also has many tools that I have complied to share, like my mini tool kit which is a great starter package of information on focusing your life.
It is my dream to building community to support the growth of those around me through coaching tools including assessment exercises, workshops and private sessions.  The goal is to help those who are seeking happiness and well being by focusing on who they are and modifying what is keeping them from reaching what they desire.  Many posts to come and I am excited to hear back comments or ideas that  have made your life's journey enriched.
If my posts and life coaching training tools inspire.  Please share them.  Email me directly if you have a question.