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Waste and What You Need To Know About Landfills

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Waste & What You Need To Know About Landfills

When we dispose of our trash, we are simply moving it.  All garbage is sent to landfills where it piles up in large masses.  When you consider that oxygen and water are in short supply in landfills, it takes a long time for garbage to completely break down. But in this process of decomposition, new types of wastes are created. Leachate and two greenhouse gasses, carbon dioxide, and methane are created. A leachate is any liquid that, in the course of passing through matter, extracts soluble or suspended solids, or any other component of the material through which it has passed. [Read more…]

Transitioning to a Healthy Organic Diet

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Transitioning to a Healthy Organic Diet

If you want your client to actually create lasting changes in their quest to live healthily we have to push for them to be honest with themselves. Only then can positive changes begin to take hold.

At times, our clients say that they are not aware of what they need to do in order to make changes.  This isn’t new in coach-client relationships.   But at the root of this thinking is a benign type of ignorance that we all have.  What if you were to ask a client to answer the following question as part of their assessment: “What am I pretending not to know?”

This direct and honest question can get things started.  You can be more efficient if you can cut through the unknown factors and dive into understanding why knowledge and awareness are being ignored.  Have clients think of ways to apply this to every aspect of their life, beginning with health behaviors and food choices. This allows your client to take full responsibility for, and control of, their efforts to live a green and holistic life. [Read more…]

Coaching 2021: A Summary

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Coaching 2021: A Summary

Time is such a powerful force, it even trickles into the coaching world. There was a time when a coach could skate by through working with clients, without any formal education! If you are already certified as a coach currently, you know how crazy this is. But this was how things were 20 or more years ago.

But advances in coach training do not come at us as quickly as advances in other areas, say, for example, science. Changes in the coaching profession come from either different techniques and training and how coaching services are delivered, or they are changed by events like our current pandemic.  This results in a shift, whereby millions of people are forced to – literally – look inward at their own health.  But the pandemic has also slowed down the already trickle speed of coach training. We didn’t really get to learn too much in 2020 apart from COVID19, we were focused on survival. But now that 2021 is nearly over, we’ve learned a few things in hindsight. [Read more…]

Are Toxic Chemicals in Our Food Making Us Fat?

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Are Toxic Chemicals in Our Food Making Us Fat?

One obvious factor is our change in lifestyle. Americans move less in our day-to-day lives than in the past, but we often still eat the same amount of food. These excess calories are then stored away as fat.

Recent research, however, reveals a more complex causality for the obesity epidemic, with science suggesting that environmental chemicals also play a role. Certain chemicals are suspected of altering when, why and how much the body creates fat cells or stores fat in existing cells.

Chemicals found in our food, home and work environments and in the products we buy are among the substances linked to how our body creates or stores fat. [Read more…]

Can a Green Living Lifestyle Help Prevent Disease?

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Can a Green Living Lifestyle Help Prevent Disease?

The truth is, most of us would not be able to afford to pay for medical expenses directly out of pocket but when you combine our current healthcare crisis with this fact, it becomes unsettling to think of what might happen if our client needs treatment for a serious or terminal illness. This is why we have to look at taking our own health and our health care needs into our own hands. This involves becoming our own health advocate, of sorts, and to become familiar with the term “preventative medicine” in the more immediate sense. [Read more…]

Reasons That Going Green and Sustainable Living Makes Sense

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Why Going Green Makes Sense

There is a variety of reasons to go green, but most come back to supply and demand. We have a limited amount of resources available and more and more people using them up. If we want our future generations to enjoy the same standard of living we’ve experienced, we need to take action.

Green building is a great place to start, as buildings consume 14% of potable water, 40% of raw materials, and 39% of energy in the United States alone (according to the US Green Building Council). That’s 15 trillion gallons of water and 3 billion tons of raw materials each year! If that’s not enough to convince you, here are some other reasons to go green:

For The Environment

Want to make the world a better place? Implementing green practices into your home or office can help reduce waste, conserve natural resources, improve both air and water quality, and protect ecosystems and biodiversity. [Read more…]

What is Green Living?

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As always, we want our clients to be healthy.  For most coaches, this means that we begin by inspiring clients toward end goals that support healthy lifestyles and behaviors. But many times, we overlook a few things. 

Specifically, it is very easy to overlook our client’s homes and the surrounding environment when evaluating their health.  How does this happen?  [Read more…]

How to Nix Negative Thoughts and Replace Stress with Happiness

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How to Nix Negative Thoughts and Replace Stress with Happiness

Our thoughts become our reality. It may sound silly but studies show that the things we most often think about ruminate in our subconscious and emerge by effecting our communication, our health and our productivity — virtually every aspect of our lives.

Research reports that 40 percent of our overall happiness is controlled by our thoughts. This is likely because a ton of what happens in our brain translates to our attitude, our actions and our behaviors.

For example, if you’ve ever overslept your alarm and woke up frazzled, you might have thought to yourself, “How could I have missed my alarm? What is wrong with me? I am so unprepared for the day!”

And then, maybe later on you important phone call or been unprepared for a presentation that same day. If that’s happened to you, it’s because you allowed a negative mindset to become your reality. Too many of us do this constantly.

But before you freak about your noggin’s negativity, I’d like to make a few connections between certain types of negative thought and the ways they effect our daily lives. Also, you can balance a negative with a positive — so, I’m going to share some powerful positive strategies to negate negativity, eliminate the stress it causes and improve your overall happiness. [Read more…]

Master Health and Wellness Coaching Overview

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Mastering Coaching: The Mindset of a Coach

For a lot of coaches, this initial material may be a review, yet an extremely relevant launch point for coaches of all levels.  Sometimes it can be a good idea to regroup and think about the foundations of coaching.  What is even more important to know from the onset is – what really makes you a coach, and why do you want to take it to a master level?

One of the main objectives we want to reach is to get a really good understanding of what the core values of coaching are.  We want to repower you to employ the right mindset or perspective of a Health and Wellness Coach, functioning at a Master level.  This is important to understand due to how we bring our mindset and perspectives to the coaching scene, and it helps to build meaningful and very powerful interactions.  Therefore, we must completely understand the core values of coaching.  When we say core values, we’re referring to coach behaviors such as being skills.  This is a long list and includes being mindful and an empathetic personality – or to grow this part of your personality, if you don’t have that mastered yet!  So, in part, it’s the being skills that will make up a large part of our program in the beginning – how we behave, where we come from in our perspective and what we project to our clients. [Read more…]

How to Become a Speaker and Book Your First Speaking Gig

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How to Become a Speaker and Book Your First Speaking Gig

As a professional coach, there are a variety of different ways you can build your authority in order to attract new clients and new opportunities. 

One of the most powerful ways to take your personal brand to the next level is to become a speaker. Public speaking is not only lucrative; it establishes you as an expert in your field. 

Once you’ve broken in to the rewarding world of speaking, you can 

  • charge more for your services
  • increase your hourly rate
  • participate in joint ventures with others at the top of your field 

Here are 13 ways you can become a speaker and book that first speaking gig fast:  [Read more…]

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