Using Positive Self Talk to Change Your Mind and Your Actions Negative self-talk impacts your life in many more ways than you can ever think or imagine. Without even realizing it, we can become our own worst enemies, stripping ourselves of self-confidence and peace of mind. If left unchecked, this lack of positivity in our lives can start affecting many areas of our health, leaving us worried and stressed, sometimes sick, and unable to relax. Fixing it? It’s not an impossibility. It can become an inevitability. This is actually easier...
read moreHow To Get AND Keep Your Tranquility It’s May so it’s Mental Health Awareness Month. So you’re working toward inner peace, which is invaluable when it comes to our mental wellness. Perhaps you’ve already settled into a harmonious routine, and you feel like you’ve already found the tranquility you’ve been seeking. Just know your journey doesn’t end there. Nope, it’s gonna be a lifelong endeavor of maintaining your happiness and fulfillment, meaning some days you will feel strong in it, other days it will feel spotty at best. It’s...
read moreReclaim Your Confidence Like a Boss Winston Churchill once said, “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” The problem is: enthusiasm can be hard to come by, especially when yours has taken a beating. Setbacks and disappointments have a way of knocking it down. Without support or encouragement, we can start doubting ourselves and lose sight of who we really are. Without confidence or at least borrowing someone else’s belief in us until ours kicks in, it becomes impossible to try. It should go without...
read moreIdentifying Common Culprits Corrupting Your Self-Communication We like to think we’re optimistic, positive people. After all, no one wants to be considered a grump. Besides, isn’t that what we’re taught from the time we’re children: to smile and think the best of those around us? In truth, we don’t always quite hit the mark. We might mean to be positive, but those negative thoughts have a way of somehow creeping in, especially if we’re tired, nervous or anxious. Strong emotion has a way of derailing us, as do the negative influences around...
read moreToday is World Mental Health Day. This year has been exceedingly difficult for so many people in so many ways. Maybe now more than ever our mental health is under a constant barrage of sorrows, heartaches, heartbreak, disappointments, and any number of dispiriting things that are bound to take it’s toll. Here are 10 ways you can help improve you mental health. You don’t have to do all 10 at once. Pick one and get really good at it and then add another the next week or the next month. Either way these are 10 bullets you have to...
read moreWhy is it so much easier to give grace or even forgiveness to others while we prolong the beating of ourselves? Many of us are more likely to extend grace and patience to those around us far more readily than we allot ourselves. Have you noticed that this is especially true when you’re trying to accomplish a big goal that really only you can control. When you’re trying to regain control of your life, specifically your health, by not only eating right and exercising properly but also getting enough sleep and staying hydrated while also keeping...
read moreHelen Keller: One of the Greatest Stories of Resiliency You probably learned about the story of Helen Keller in grade school. She was a person who went deaf and blind at an early age in life. At the time, doctors did not know the reason for her loss. The cause of that hearing and sight loss is now thought to be due to her contracting Meningitis. It freaked her out at first. She withdrew and became violent as a child. Her parents didn’t know how to help and had lost all hope. That was until they found someone who could get through to Helen....
read moreAfrican Americans and Mental Health, an excerpt from the Mental Wellness chapter of ‘B.O.U.N.C.E- Be Outstanding Understand Nothing Comes Easy’ … now available on Amazon and Kindle.
read moreValuing diversity, much like charity, should begin at home then spread abroad. Unfortunately, as a country, we appear to be barreling toward more chaos over color as character collides with community far too often. Recent murders by those who are supposed to protect, serve, and defend challenges the recorded murders of the many defenseless for media coverage. Respect for others is spotty, and seemingly, we can only come together when things go wrong…… ...
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read moreHarness the strength of self-awareness for holistic well-being. In my two decades helping people fix their relationships with food, I’ve come to understand that true transformation in dietary habits goes hand in hand with heightened self-awareness. Helping clients become attuned to their dietary choices and emotional triggers involves a multifaceted approach that merges nutritional expertise with psychological insight. Here are some methods and exercises I employ to guide clients toward greater self-awareness: Food journaling:...
read moreTips to Help Turn Around A Day From You Know Where We’ve all been there: woke up late. Alarm was set for PM instead of AM. Ran out of gas. Wrong date for the meeting you subsequently miss. Client cancelations or worse. Here are some ways to salvage even the most hellacious workdays. Reframe and Reset: Start by reframing your mindset. Understand that a challenging morning doesn’t dictate the rest of your day. Take a moment to reset your perspective and focus on the opportunities and possibilities ahead. Prioritize Tasks: Assess the...
read more5 Questions to Learn More About Reaching Your Goals So, as you can imagine, I am exceedingly proud to be a coach. These questions make great journaling prompts to get to know yourself better! Consequently, if you want more help after you’ve answered these questions or perhaps want to go deeper, go to www.calendly.com/billboardz360 today.
read moreHow to Rid Your Mind of Worry and Keep Moving Imagine some unforeseen uncomfortable situation and just like that, you’re frozen stiff. You don’t know what to do or how to move forward. Do you even really want to? Your thoughts circle like vultures or the Grim Reaper, waiting for your inevitable demise. It’s only a matter of time. Worry has a way of derailing everything about your day whether it be physically, mentally, emotionally, occupationally, and even spiritually. Using mindfulness, though, is a quick and easy way for you to get things...
read moreSeeing is Believing and Achieving What do you want out of life? More importantly, how do you intend to go about getting it? We all have so many wants. Some are very simple, such as wanting to lose five pounds in time for swimsuit season. While others, such as changing to a new career, are more complex. What’s interesting is that you can use the very same technique to get precisely what you want, whether your goal is big or small. Visualization is the technique of picturing a goal in your mind in detail so that you can manifest this change in...
read moreUsing Challenges to Develop More Discipline One way you can develop more discipline is to use challenges. This makes it more like a game and less like a cumbersome chore. Also there can be the element of competition with others and having others help hold you accountable which improves your odds of success. Challenges are very popular and you can find them in many places. Or you can make up your own and share it with a group of people. You also can make your own challenge or use one from someone else to just challenge yourself. However you...
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