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Healthy Living: Your Mind + Your Eating = Healthy Living

Tip 5: To help you maintain a healthy mindset with food, change the way you look at. Most of us live to eat when it should be the other way around – we need to eat to live.

Fruit sorbets are a good way to satisfy your sweet tooth.

You can make this sorbet with any of your favorite fruits.  Sliced strawberries, peaches, kiwi, bananas and mangos work well but really you can use just about any fruit of your choice.

Homemade Fruit Sorbet

Ingredients:

4 cups fresh fruit

1/2 cup fresh orange juice

1 pinchsalt

sugar to taste

Directions: Spread sliced fruit in one layer on a baking sheet. Freeze, uncovered, until frozen solid.  Once the fruit is frozen, let thaw at room temperature for 15 minutes.  Place in a blender with the orange juice and process until smooth.  Add a small pinch of salt… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Face the reality of changing life for a healthier me

I’m on my fourth day of my healthy living series and I have come to realize that it’s a mindset issue more than anything. So I stared facing this reality yesterday when I was at McDonald’s. I chose a side salad instead of french fries when I ordered my meal. Though this may seem like a simple choice, it actually wasn’t.

As I continue my healthy living series, the reality is that if I want to become healthier that I do have to make right choices that are good for me. Having this mindset will help keep me focused on becoming healthier and truly having a life changing experience.

Have you been battling with getting the right mindset so that you can face the realities of healthy living? Then I encourage you to make the choice today to face reality and do what right for you. Living a life of… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Get accountability partners & mentors

So I got a late start today on getting my blog post for my healthy living series. Today I want to share how I determined my mentor and accountability partners. Knowing that starting a healthy living series wasn’t a favorite thing for me, I decided that I needed accountability partners who would really keep me on my toes. As for my mentor, I wanted someone who would not only challenge me but also help me make wise decisions about changing things I need to do during this series.

So one of my accountability partners is Carol Dickson-Carr (@ProfCarol on Twitter) because she has been one of my encourager when it came to starting my healthy living serious. I found her on Twitter and have watched as she share how she was working out often. The mentor that I have chose is Heather Moreno because she has been an encouragement to… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Know Your Starting Point

Failure to measure a baseline is what keeps most people stuck. That’s because they begin with an ideal picture of the end result without being fully aware of where they’re starting from, and then attempting to do too much too soon. It’s critical to know where you’re starting from so that you can take steps to make measurable improvement. 

Common baselines include measurements such as body weight, body fat percentage, cholesterol, and blood pressure. These are important measurements, but a baseline ideally measures behaviors too. Asses your current activity levels (calories burned or steps taken), your perceived levels of exertion to exercise, heart rate, schedule, stress levels, health status, likes and dislikes, and any number of other aspects specific to you.  That is your complete baseline measurement. 

Measuring a baseline of your current exercise and eating habits and certain lifestyle factors will help you put together a realistic plan to… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Determine areas of concentration

As I start my new 21 day makeover for healthly living, it was suggested to me by my co-contributors that I determine the areas of my life that I want to concentrate on. I chose only three at this time so that I wouldn’t get overwhelmed. The areas I will focus on are eating, exercise and thought-life.

Each of the areas that I chose are important to me as a business owner because each one helps me sustain my body so that I am able to function and run my business. If I become healthier in each of these areas, I feel that I will be able to produce at higher levels of performance in my business.

As a business owner, have you reviewed how healthy you are living? Are there areas that you need to improve in so that healthy living is top priority? Then please feel free to… Continue reading →

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Healthy Living: Why Start a Healthy Living Series?

As a business owner, I decided that learning healthy living good habits is important so that I would be able to sustain myself when dealing with the pressures of managing my own business. I can to this conclusion because I realized that if I’m healthy that I can live and work without having a lot of health issue. So I decided to start at the beginning and determine what I need to change in order to live healthy.

To help be during this series I decided to have one accountability partner and three co-contributors to the series so that I would have a well-rounded way of determining what it would take for me to live healthy. The people who will be part of my accountability team are:

  • Carol Dickson-Carr (accountability partner)
  • Latara Ham-Ying (healthy eating co-contributor)
  • Heather Moreno (healthy exercise co-contributor)
  • Julette Millien (healthy thinking co-contributor)

These are the areas… Continue reading →

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Business Makeover: Are You in Control of Your Me Time?

On a day when I am discussing “Me” time, I actually started my day off with “me” time. It is a Saturday morning and I decided to sleep in an extra couple of hours. I enjoyed the extra rest and being able to take my time on a day where I might busily run around doing errands.

“Me” time should be very important to business owners because it allows you to rejuvenate and refresh. Although I spoken about “me” time briefly in this series, I decided that it would be a good idea to expand on it today.

If you are constantly going and not breaking for “me” time you can stress yourself and maybe have a negative impact on your business. I say this from personal experience because I learned the hard way when I crashed and burned during an important time with my business a few years ago.

It was… Continue reading →

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Business Makeover: Being a Giver

As I write this post I’m thinking about all the people who have been givers in my life. I feel fully blessed because my life has been impacted so that I became a giver too. Being a giver is living the practice of giving to others without expecting anything in return.

An example of me being a giver in business is my practice of paying it forward on Twitter. For my birthday in 2008, I had two people who asked their followers on Twitter and Facebook to follow me and wish me a Happy Birthday. It was declared “Kim Beasley Day” and many friended me and sent me greeting. The two people who did this for me wasn’t expecting anything in return but they gave a great gift that impacted my life. The two people I’m talking about is Coach Deb (@coachdeb) and Warren Whitlock (@WarrenWhitlock).

Their powerful example of… Continue reading →

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Business Makeover: Getting Over The Hump

When making habit changes, sometimes we run into a “hump” that we feel is blocking the way of success. Yet some choose not to the press on past the hump and get stopped in their tracks. Others choose to fake it and make it look like they have gotten over the hump and drift along on a wing and a prayer. Then there are the successful people who actually choose to deal with the hump by defining what it is and determining the best way to beat the hump.

Where are you in dealing with your “hump”? Have you identified what it is and created a solution to getting past it? My hump has always been hidden procrastination. This means that I start big and then I say that things are going as planned but in reality I’ve run out of a plan and I seem to loose the unction… Continue reading →

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Business Makeover: Setting Up Accountability Partners

Yesterday I made a business decision to ask for accountability partners as part of my business makeover. I sent a request out to Twitterville* and three of my tweeples** answered back to let me know that they would hold me accountable. The three who will be my acccountability partners are Latara (@LataraHamYing), Christine (@neosoulsister), and Dee (@deegospel).

Why did I ask for accountability partners? I did this so that I will have someone who would check on me to make sure that I’m following through with my plans. It is always important that you not only have a mentor, who will guide you in the right direction, but you also need accountability partners, who will hold you accountable to what you have decided to do. Having accountability partners is not something new but if you don’t have at least one, you are doing yourself a disfavor.

When determining who your… Continue reading →

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