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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…]

7 Ways to Make Money as a Personal Chef and Meal Prep Expert

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7 Ways to Make Money as a Personal Chef and Meal Prep Expert

Did you know we offer you a complete training system, certification and turn-key business in meal prep and personal fitness chef services?

When people hire a personal chef or meal prep service, they do so for 2 primary reasons.

1) They either want to save time (and add convenience to their busy lives), or (2) they want to drop some unwanted weight.

That’s it!

So, if someone has a choice between a “regular” personal chef or a “Certified Personal Fitness Chef” who does meal prep, the choice is clear.

You will be surprised when you learn all the ways to build a highly successful niche business.

Check this out….

Here are 7 ways you can enjoy a fun, rewarding and financially secure career as a Certified Personal Fitness Chef and Meal Prep Expert: [Read more…]

How to Train Your Mind and Build Mental Strength Daily

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How to Train Your Mind and Build Mental Strength

Building mental muscle is the key to feeling your best and reaching your greatest potential. Just like it takes time and practice to become physically strong, building mental strength takes dedication as well. Here are five things you can start doing now to make yourself mentally stronger:

Don’t Let Your Emotions Control You

Putting a name to your feelings will decrease their intensity. Whether you’re feeling sad, anxious, angry, or scared,  you should acknowledge it. Pay attention to the way those emotions can affect your choices. When you’re feeling anxious you may be less inclined to take risks. When you’re excited you may be more impulsive.  [Read more…]

The Benefits of Creating a Personal Routine

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Why Create a Routine?

Establishing a positive daily routine is an investment in yourself. Following a daily routine can help you establish priorities, limit procrastination, keep track of goals, and even make you healthier. It lowers your reliance on willpower and motivation habits are actions that you take on a repeated basis with little or no required effort or thought. [Read more…]

Fresh Coach and Client Perspectives: Hitting the Reset Button

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Fresh Coach and Client Perspectives: Hitting the Reset Button

Written by Mark Teahan. This article was originally published in Issue 13 of Personal Trainer Magazine. You can download the newest issue and all past issues here.

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) did no less than 3 membership surveys in 2020, mining for information from Coaches during the pandemic.  It became a common response within a chaotic period, everyone wanted to know how others were shifting around during the first waves of COVID. Still, there was a fair amount of Coach training discussed, mostly for how the industry would rise to meet the challenges of coaching during a time when we needed it most but were least able to provide it.  [Read more…]

Benefits of Using a Sleep Journal

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Benefits of Using a Sleep Journal

Whether it’s not getting enough sleep, getting poor-quality sleep, or issues falling asleep, we’re undeniably a sleep-challenged nation.

While you might have heard the classic tips for promoting better sleep habits, like avoiding eating late at night, turning off your screens, and developing a nighttime routine, you’re probably not familiar with a tool commonly used by sleep science coaches and experts: a sleep journal. Just as it sounds, a sleep journal is a sleep log of your sleep-related behaviors and patterns. [Read more…]

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