The 11/11 Getting Happy and Well for Christmas

I decided to share some easy, daily lifestyle tips with you, as we arrive to Christmas, in just 11 days, and shortly after into 2015.  So that we may make this Christmas and New Year Season light, fun, and filled with life energy. 


Stress is among the top 5 things people mention they are experiencing most these days.  Most are simply stressed and stretched beyond limits.  They are drained, weak, lack energy, don't have time for anything.  Only thinking about adding another thing on top, makes them lose their marbles. What to do?
Move.

I know, you don't have the time.  Most people, including me, do not.  Especially not to exercise.  The only solution is prioritizing movement, putting it on the schedule.  Like you would a hair appointment, a doctor's appointment, kids' school play, and so on.  

11/11 is MOVE


Move your body.  Move the energy.  Transfer it from stuck to expended. 

Here are some ways I found worked to create time, and make it happen:

-Wake up 30 minutes earlier, before anything; just get it done
-Find a friend and commit together
-That treadmill or elliptical machine at home, dust it off, remove the clothes you piled on it (after all it is not a hamper-hanger), hop on for 15-30 minutes, first thing in the morning
-Instead of sitting at your work-desk, use a FitDesk, to make calls, Skype, etc, or when spending more time on the computer 
-Have a ton of calls to complete?  Bundle up, and do some of the call while walking outside for 10, 20 even 30 minutes
-Identify the time period in your days, when the stress tends to climb highest.  Schedule lunch, or a 15 min break, around it.  Enforce every day, twice every day even, if needed, and take it outside of your work environment. Go for a walk, go outside, get fresh air, move your body, air things out.  When you return, all the to-do's will be easier to complete
-Don't sit in traffic while commuting to and from work.  Leave earlier or stay later, find a yoga studio near the office, do a class, avoid traffic drive when it is easier to commute. Or take the train, and stand at least half way


In closing, remember.  While it is ideal to have a regular exercise regime, when life calls for pulling out all stops, it is time to get creative. If you are unhealthy, stagnant, your thoughts, emotions, body, will all work as such too.  In turn, this same is repeated in your choices, your entire life, relationships and even business.  It will all reflect this.

For more lifestyle tips follow to my portal, www.monikakovacs.com.

11/11 is MOVE

Shiny Soul

Want glowing skin, and more? 

Consider these easy tips:

WATER
Drink more water to allow for hydration, detox, proper assimilation and organ function. Which collectively will lessen stresses of the work our cells do ongoing.

VITAMIN D
Yes. The wonder drug.  Make sure this is Vitamin D3 form. Grab this from my portal: Vitamin D.

FAT
Incorporate more hormone-balancing fats into your diet.  Use a high grade, stand alone Omega 3 supplement, or one included in a complete daily multi vitamin pack. Food sources such as coconut oil, avocado, raw nuts and seeds that you can also soak.  Raw butter, organic grass fed ghee or egg yolks are also only some excellent sources of healthy fats.  High fat fish, salmon, mackerel, herring are a few high quality fish sources of Omega 3.

AVOCADO
Is also known as God's butter.  Very versatile and a daily part of my diet.

SUNSCREEN
I definitely recommend using a high quality sunblock at least SPF 15. Seek professional advice in picking the right one for you, and your family.  During the summer, and most of the year, I don't go outdoors without sunscreen.

SUNGLASSES
Protect your eyes as well, and well, see :)  It helps. 

There are many more tips, these are only a few I consider 'must'

Above all, love your life.  Feed your Soul.  Do mirror work (YES!!!).  Find things, experiences, cultivate relationships that feed your life.  Release everything and everyone, who may cloud your experience.  Get outdoors, enjoy the weather, the sun, and take excellent care of yourself every day. 

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HAPPINESS Instructions

Love mad
Laugh happily
Dream graciously
Reach for the #Stars
Move your Body
Stay aligned 
Stay active and moving all day, every day
Hold steady--your highest Vision for Your LIFE
Live Awake
Co-Create 
Be Friend and befriend
Stop Trying--Quit, or Do


Never look back!

If you love it, let it go, If it comes back …..

I am a Wellness Consultant with TRUESTAR Health, home of the Leading Online Healthy Lifestyle Resource, the #1 Ranked vitamins and natural supplements.  I first began with this company, working as a Personal Health Advisor, in 2006, when they operated within various retail locations.  I coached people through their journeys to better health, using the TRUESTAR system, combined with my own Personal Training services.  It was all I could ask for, and some.  I was doing what I loved.  I never worked a minute.  I simply got to spend time clients, sharing my knowledge, learn something new every day, and change lives.  It was amazing to have seen 100’s of committed individuals pushing through to weight-loss victories, amazing bodies, lives transformed.

There was especially one client I adored working with.  She was the Student every coach dreams of.   I will call her Kathy to respect her privacy.  I remember Kathy first coming in to our initial consultation, with all her 4’9, meaning business like I have never seen anyone before.  She signed up for my biggest packages in everything.  She was hungry.  She knew what she wanted; she was focused, open, willing, and ready to go.  Her and I had a 42-week contract.  She never missed a beat.  She never whined.  She was always grateful.  She was honest, and very open.  She shared her struggles, her joys; she shared what she could not shake, her fears and more.  She started to come alive.

Besides all the above, she worked HARD!!!!!  She showed up ready, she trusted.  She changed her life; she also lost 50 lbs.  My favorite part, as I am such a girl and stylist, I started to see her changing her outfits.  She started wearing skirts and more feminine pieces, not to mention her sweet smile of joy, and eyes of sparkle became permanent on her face.  There was so much gratitude, and the strength that can only come from KNOWING she had earned it.  As the fruits of her effort unfolded, she never stopped going for it.  This woman was unbelievable.

I had to I relocate, end that line of work, and leave my clientele behind.  My prime focus became my Private Personal Training business catering to high level performers and executives stay at home wives and mommies.  This transition, while exciting, made it difficult to part from my clients, and friendships.  I had no access to company database, hence I always wondered and missed many of my besties from the past :)

Fast Forward to 2012, February 25, 2012.  I am still a TRUESTAR Girl, and represent the best of the best, as a Wellness Consultant.  After the Saturday morning training + meeting, I had an inner push to call my mother and suggest a visit.  She wanted to meet with me mid-way, but something told me to drive out ‘to’ her farm.  It was a gorgeous Sunny winter afternoon, and I love visiting the country on a day like that.  It is like God was talking to me all while driving, I was listening to a book on audio, that seemed to have guided this entire drive and experience.

As a personal note, I am a book warm, I love to read and listen to books.  I love to learn and spend a ton of time on bettering myself, also to work on my command of the English language.  During my drive, I was listening to my latest and greatest find, which was really an almost divine slap on my face, as I was not getting the first gentle nudges, that tried to guide me to read it.  Enter SPIRIT JUNKIE--a hip new book, I was guided to get my hands on through audible.  I soaked it up ip in two days.  It was clearly ‘for me’ and for ‘a purpose’ unknown to me at the time of my purchase.  The book is based on A Course in Miracles (ACIM), a self-study curriculum that aims to assist its readers in achieving spiritual transformation.  I have been wishing to own a copy of ACIM for long, but could never put my hands on it.

As I arrived to the country, I was filled with peace.  The book I was listening to, SPIRIT JUNKIE, was really getting into those dark areas of my psyche that, needed to be opened. 

I am known to, what I call, ‘clever-task.’  I do not like sitting, not to mention, work, in one place.  Over time, I learned to get my work done wherever I happened to fancy positioning my yogic behind.  Since I am usually on the go, my tasks get done in creative ways. 

As I arrived to my mom’s farm, I had a couple of conference calls to attend to.  While waiting on these, and mom to get ready, I got online to see, if the local bookstore may have carried ACIM.  They did; I put it on hold.  As a side note, both ACIM and SPIRIT JUNKIE had been books I was nudged about, since I first learned of them.  I ignored all of these of course, until these nudges, and the circumstances of acquiring them, became too clear and inevitable.

When mom and I finally got back into the city, we had a plan where we would go first etc.  I wanted to pick up my book, ACIM, so that was first (seriously, can I be more of a child).  While at the store, I also wanted to pick up the current book I was listening to, in paperback (when I love a book a lot, I do this).  As I looked for my prey on the shelves, without success, I turned to walk towards the computers to do a search, and get myself properly allocated.  As I begin to make my way to the computer, I spotted a short lady, in store uniform.  I recognized the face, the glasses.  I knew her, but have not yet registered the identity.  Then it was clear, it was she; the one I never forgot, the face I have missed for 5 years.  The client I always remembered with so much gratitude, Kathy!!!  I could not believe my eyes.  We got excited, caught up.  She also met my mom, told her about our amazing journey together (FYI, my mom still thinks I do a cross between aerobics in pastel spandex, Jane Fonda style, mixed with some yogic moves). 

Kathy briefly shared her personal struggle and frustration since we parted ways.  I.e. how she did not find inspiration, nor support in the people who came after me.  Her body also took another downward spiral.  We re-established contact, and became beyond eager to reconnect and embark once again on a new journey to self-love, and multi-dimensional transformation.  Just before we parted, after all she was at work…oups, I asked her to assist me finding the book I wanted to get, SPIRIT JUNKIE, one of the ‘reasons’ I went in there.  Kathy, also felt the same book calling to her, and she put a copy aside for herself as well.

As mom and I left the bookstore, I had an uneasy pinch of the minus 14-Celsius outside. I suggested a coffee break.  While in line at the cafe, a lady, who stood in line, overheard our admiration of the gorgeous cakes and desserts.  We started talking and instantly clicked.  A short conversation of caloric-guilt, quickly lead to an exchange on weight loss, what I do, and of course TRUESTAR Health.  My new friend, Amy, emphasized that, ‘her ways’ were different from the conventional.  I.e. she saw body transformation as having a strong spiritual basis.  I pointed at the blue book in my hand.  We locked eyes; we both knew we were ‘meant to meet.’  Amy left to sit with her cupcake, we also took our spot.  In a few minutes, Amy tapped my shoulder.  She came over on her way out, to ensure she’d given me her name, also, affirming that, she would look forward to reconnecting and embarking on a quest of working on her spirit and body with me.

Mom and I continued our afternoon, and ended up at a COSTCO.  Of course no Saturday afternoon with mom would be complete without COSTCO :)   As we filled our cart, another TRUESTAR blast from the past, another Monika + Past client Reunion, praising the fruitful work of the past, to mom, who at this point was beaming like a light ball, still picturing her daughter in pastel purple spandex doing the grape-wine, popping the TRUESTAR vitamins. 

It was an unplanned day filled with miracles; or was it?  Were the events shared really miracles, or merely life’s summoning of itself into existence, uninterrupted? i.e. as it happens, when we step out of our own way?  I finished listening to SPIRIT JUNKIE by the time I made it home that evening.  Looking back, it was so clear to me, based on the story the author shared that, everything that, I had experienced, beyond TRUESTAR, SPIRIT JUNKIE, ACIM, have been life’s ways, to get me to where I had been heading all these years.  The lessons, the struggles, the nudges, the slaps, the joys, the sorrows, the losses, the rebirths have all served a purpose to, and of, this point.  It all began many years ago, when I was an over-weight teenager...

The body is a journey of mysteries.  What you do with it is up to you; accept assistance on your way from spirit, a coach, who can easily become a close friend and mentor you will guide you on this journey, and so much more…

PS – always leave room for miracles…..

1%

What's in the number 1?  Everything!
It is New Year. It is exciting, yet scary at the same time. So many possibilities and more than 300 chances to get it right, wit the rolling in of each new day.
I was reminded by someone, who inspires me to a great deal, at all levels, to focus on being 1% better each day.  So that, in 365 days, I will be 365% better.  This was not the first time I heard the 1% advise.  Yet, today, this simple nudge was more powerful, than any big motivational tactic I can think of, that I came across recently.
Thank YOU, my inspiration, for advising me when I needed it the most, in the most subtle yet POWERFUL way possible.

Here is to the POWER of the 1%.
Monika
xo

84 /90 Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

‎84 /90  of  Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

One last week, I can’t believe we came THIS far, all together, almost 13 full weeks!!!!!  I am so grateful for you, my role models and inspirations and followers and friends.... my first group of contenders.  I want this week to really go WELL for you.  First things first; if you have not already done so, sign up for a FREE profile on TRUESTAR: http://TRUESTAR.TV where I want you to create your own customized NUTRITION plan or DIET for this week.  

This is important to ensure you get to Christmas feeling GREAT, so that you CAN and WILL enjoy your dinners, brunches etc, together with friends, family, loved ones etc.  All while not stressing about calories, not feeling guilty, nothing like that; only pure enjoyment. This is how it will work.

When you sign up for your FREE profile on http://TRUESTAR.TV  and create your own customized NUTRITION plan or DIET for this week, you will see that there will be dozens of options for fast, nutritious, perfectly balanced breakfast options. I want you to ZONE in on these. You know this by now that the stronger the start to your day the stronger the finish, and the stronger each following day WILL be.   Make sure this week, besides waking up 30 minutes earlier for that power workout, you have breakfast.  This will balance out your energy and blood sugar level, and when you get to face the cookies and other festive temptations you will be able to say ‘no’ to them, or simply have just a bite or few, to taste, not to over indulge.  Hormonally balanced meals ARE the key to success in the body game….  More next year, we are not stopping here.

Beat the week, before it beats you.  You have all you need.  Enjoy this week!!

Love love love…..

Monika

74 /90 Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

74/90  of  Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

Only 16 days to go, we are almost there.   Are you still on track?   It is getting closer and things are getting busier.  There is less and less time to keep ourselves on our calendars.  

One way to cope is to use pre-made, customized plans for you, for nutrition and exercise.   This way taking out ALL the guess work.  All you have to do is spend 15 minutes the night before, prepare and line up your delicious meals, and another 15 before work to exercise.  That is it.  This way, you can enjoy everything the Holiday Season has to offer, and never have to worry about the exercise, the healthy breakfast etc. you *know* you should have had...  Go to TRUESTAR Health for all your needs to get you up and on with a customized plan for you.  Also, while there, check out TRUESTAR's award winning vitamins and organic supplements to really tweak your performance. 

Winning!

Day 50/90 Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

50/90  of the Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

Sugars

With the weather cooling down, we are naturally more drawn to sugary foods for comfort and quick energy.  Which, is most cases, is not so smart.  In addition to causing weight gain, refined flours and sugars can suppress immune-system function. Ie. with flus and colds being more frequent in the air, indulging in more white sugar (cookies, pop, candy, etc.), you're creating the perfect environment for illness to strike.  

Turn to naturally occurring sugars found in fruit for some sweetness.  If you crave chocolate, go for dark chocolate(minimum 70 per cent cocoa), which contains plant phenols that have been shown to lower blood pressure. Cut up squares and store them in your freezer.  Grab one or two when you need a sweet treat.

Even better, try TRUELean Extreme, the Multi Vitamin & Mineral formula, that also supports weight & fat-loss, controls cravings, supports metabolism, so you are *armed* in the face of all temptations-with an edge :)

xo

Monika

Day 45/90 Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

45/90  of the Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

‎This is the 45th day, and we are officially at the mid-point. How is it going so far?  Are you on track, ahead, behind, where you want to be?

This is the perfect time to reassess where you are right now, refine, or redefine the goal at the end point, and see what the steps need to be taken, to get from NOW to day 90, and achieve the goals you set for yourself.  

Please make great use of the World's #1 ranked Fitness and Healthy Lifestyle website, Truestar Health, and create customized meal, exercise, supplement, even attitude, and sleep plans, to ensure you will be completely set on the next 6 weeks. 

Are you still in it to win it? I sure hope so. Because...
nothing has changed.....

xo

Monika

Day 38/90 of Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

38/90 of the Mission, 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

Time for a Holiday Attitude detox: November 1st is the official start of the Holidays, the battle against the bulge, the temptations, the added pounds begins.  We start running on empty in no time, and have less and less chance to be fully present, and enjoy the weeks leading up to some of the best times of the year. 


To help you stay on track during the Holidays, I have a great solution for you: the TRUESTAR Attitude Plan.  It is never about the temptations, they are all around.  It is about your Attitude towards the temptations, that holds the key to your solution, to cruise through al the Jazz.  Get on TRUESTAR.com, and create a FREE profile.  


Design your own TRUESTAR Attitude Plan.  Show those temptations who Da Boss IS!
xo
Monika

Day 26/90 Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

26/90 of the Mission, 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

Wealth starts within....so does Health....  
Together they are SO powerful....
Only together are they TRULY powerful...


What are you doing TODAY, to make progress in those two areas? 
Ask me for ideas.....
xo
Monika

Day 25/90 Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

25/90 of the Mission, 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'


I have met with some amazing very successful people recently. One key thing I immediately registered in my heart and mind, was something they all had in common.  That is, when they set out to something, anything, great, they NEVER go in, to 'see how things would go.'  Rather, they always, ALWAYS, go FULL-IN.  Is THIS how you approach this challenge?  What about the rest of your life? 


Commit to your success FULL-IN!  Visit  TRUESTAR for the highest level supplements available in North America, to create the right action plan FOR you!!!!  Use code 551066 to qualify for an immediate discount from your ENTIRE purchase.  If you need assistance, please contact me to assist in finding your perfect match.  I am here to help as always.  


xo
Monika
monkovacs@gmail.com

Day 22/90 Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

22/90 of the Mission, 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'


Time to take yourself seriously.  Just 22 days ago, you joined, and you PROMISED to you, to me, to 100 other participants, and who knows how many more, who are the silent visitors of our FB PAGE, that you were going to work for 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack.'  
How is that promise looking, is it getting stronger by the day, is it shaping up, is it gaining momentum, or did you completely let it slip through your fingers.
Reality is, I don't need to know what is going on, you do.  I am here, of course, keeping my end of the promise alive. 


No matter where you are at, you must take a reality check:
*Assess where you are
*Be honest and truthful
*Be real


Choose what is important, not what is convenient.  


Make sure your plan is set for the week:
*Get your foods in order
*Make sure your supplements are in order (i.e. your Advanced GREENS Plus), and you are TAKING them!!!
*Ensure your life, everything in it, IS in support of your mission
*KNOW what you will do, should anything come up unexpected
*Have a plan, not drama

If you require anything further, a closer look at what you are doing, an assessment, one-on-one help, a meal plan, or a training plan, shoot me an email to monkovacs@gmail.com.  If it is coaching, that you need, to help you stay on track, and true to the promise you made, again, I am only an email away. 

Stay focused on the power of your PROMISE.  Because you were born to succeed.

Nothing has changed.....

Day 18/90 Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

18/90  of the Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'
‎This is the 18th day, and it is the 13th. You know how I feel about the number 13: http://monikakovacs.blogspot.com/2011/10/day-1390-mission-your-2011-christmas.html


".... is exactly like your inner power. Are you afraid of it? Are you in touch with it? Are you aware of it, and able to consciously use it, for your own benefit? "


Are you still in it to win it?

Nothing has changed.....

Day 16/90 Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'

16/90  of the Mission 'YOUR 2011 Christmas Six-Pack'
‎This is the third week of the challenge, with some momentum under your belt. No matter your current mind-state, you must know that you HAVE what it takes, because you have completed over two full weeks. Check your progress, acknowledge the strengths, assess the shortcomings, and plan the week. KNOW what day is what workout, make sure to schedule rest days. Time to recover is as important ad the time to give your all. Have an awesome 16th day!!!!!

20,000 Green Smoothies!!

Are you ready to kick your kale up a few thousand notches?

It’s your last chance this weekend to join a few hundred of
your closest chard chugging chums as we get ready for the
Live, Full-Support 21-Day Green Smoothie Detox 
starting on Monday!

Green Smoothie Queen

We’ll start this natural detox program with a gentle
transition week, and then we launch into green smoothie
glory!

There will be well over 300+ people on this program,
including the Green Smoothie Girl, Robyn Openshaw.  If
you’re in, and commit to drinking 3 green
smoothies per day for 21 days, together we’ll be guzzling
about 20 000 green smoothies!

That’s a lotta lawnmower pulp!
It’s also a lotta happy livers! 

Green Smoothie Queen

Livers deserve spring vacations too!  So, register now, and

get ready to renew: Green Smoothie Queen

~ your tour guide to the 20 000 green smoothie
trip of a lifetime!

xo

Green Smoothie Queen Monika 

p.s.  There will be menu planners, recipe alternatives,
educational teleseminars, online journals,
and everything you need.  I promise, the only way to fail,
is not to follow along!!!

Commit & Cleanse your way to vitality!!

Food A B U S E

Food abuse, this is a new almost trend we see daily, almost every piece of media will cover it in one form or another. What is it?  Well, any and all for of MISUSE of food-as the term is used nowadays.

As usual, let me come in a little stronger and louder.  Do you know WHO initiated the misuse of foods in the first place, who help us create our own forms of FOOD abuse?  The FOOD companies, the same people we trust to make our foods.  Want proof?  Open your refrigerator, look at the cereal box/bag, pull out the frozen dinner, even the 'ready to eat, frozen oatmeal breakfast' counts.  Look at the ingredient list.  How many of those items can you actually comprehend?  Let alone those you can pronounce and relate to, as to where those may be coming from? Not many.

While food manufacturers control what you will to be putting on your table to a large part, you are the one who actually makes the final decision.  Only purchase from manufacturers you ca trust.  Support your local farmers, and agricultures.  Visit sites, research to ensure even these people take pride and stand behind their products and produce.  Support life, put an end to food abuse. It is your job, it is mine, it is  OUR job.  Stop eating yourself to illness and old age.  Start eating for real, start eating for life, for wellness.  Eat mindfully, eat fresh, and wholesome, and abuse-free foods.  Eat for Life!

xo
Monika

Today: P O W E R

Power start your day with a delicious smoothie:

* 2 'grabs' of fresh baby spinach

*1 cup fresh or frozen berries. 

Pick cranberries, blueberries, or mix them all in

* dash of organic apple cider vinegar

* approx. a hazelnut size fresh ginger

* 6-8 ice cubes 

* 2 cups filtered water

Put all in a blender and blend to desired consistency.  

Antioxidants, Iron, fibre, and a boost of vitamins. 

What more can you ask for to start your day well?

 

 

Enjoy!!!!

xo

Monika

Exercise + Diet

Exercise + Diet = Happiness + Wellness

What if, you substituted the word Exercise for Movement, and Diet for Eating.  It feels so much more attainable, and doable, doesn't it?  It is our nature to do both.  Take the pressure off, daily commit to:

-Movement, and, get up daily, and do a little more than you think you should

-Eating, choose a little wiser than you KNOW you DO.

That is it.

We need to do both, it is our nature--with better quality choices !