Happy Friday!

Weekends can trigger emotional eating for 2 reasons:

Uno: If you’re a social person you may find yourself in situations where there is a lot of food and you don’t know how to control your urges.

Dos: If you wish you had social engagements and don’t, the weekends can be a time of loneliness and isolation.

No matter what category you find yourself in, pausing before you eat and asking yourself if you’re really hungry, makes a world of difference.

If you’re not hungry, what are you hungry for, and how can you take a step towards getting it?

Uno, dos, tres! Uno, dos, tres! Ask yourself what you’re really hungry for and you’ll eat…less!

…my nephew, Landon, was born. Happy birthday little guy!

One year ago! Cray! Zee!

Milestones like birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays always make me reflect on where I was the year before – which can turn out to be a very exciting or depressing reflection.

Where do you want to be a year from now? Crazy thought, huh?

Thinking about where I want to be in a year from now is a very daunting and overwhelming task.

I have no idea.

But, I know where I don’t want to be…

I hope you’re rocking so far today!

Unfortunately, there are many things we ‘have to’ do and not as many things we ‘get to’ do.

For example, if you want to ‘get to’ feel amazing throughout the day you ‘have to’ eat healthfully.

If you want to ‘get to’ feel energized you ‘have to’ exercise.

Do I love exercising? Do I love eating healthfully?

It’s okay. It has its ups and downs. Sometimes, I love it. But I don’t necessarily love it all the time. I mean I’d be lying if I said I don’t love me a hamburger and fries with some ice cream to top it off.

But what I absolutely love is how I feel when I’m done exercising and how I feel all day long when I’m eating healthfully.

A client asked me if I love running. Again, I don’t mind it. Sometimes it does feel great. Sometimes I’m dragging. But I do love how I feel afterward, always!

I truly feel incredible!

So therefore, if I want to ‘get to’ feel incredible, I ‘have to’ run. If I want to ‘get to’ feel vibrant and healthy, I have to eat natural, whole and nutritious foods.

If I want ‘get to’ feel energized and alive, I ‘have to’ exercise.

Every action has a consequence.

When you break down all of the things you ‘get to’ do you realize all things you ‘have to’ do, too.

Whether you have a dream job or not, we all have things we look forward to doing. We all have things we have to do to be able to get to do the things we look forward to.

Do you love packing for vacation? I hate it. But if I want to ‘get to’ go on vacation I ‘have to’ pack.

Do I love doing all the admin stuff for MBT? Not really. But if I want to ‘get to’ help people I have to.

When you start to look at all of the things you ‘have to’ do so you ‘get to’ do certain things – it makes the ‘have to’s’ a lot more appealing!

What do you want to ‘get to’ do or feel for the remainder of the week?

What do you ‘have to’ do now in order for that to happen?

In my never-ending quest to understand what makes successful people so successful, one of the things I find time after time is how much support successful people have.

Along the way, I’ve encountered many (unfortunate) people that just can’t get over this fact. They feel they have to do everything all alone. It’s their ginormous egos that get in their own way.

As connected as the World is in 2010, it’s interesting how disconnected so many people feel to other people.

I think this causes many people to live their entire lives in their own head AND nothing but their own head.

But the problem with that is we tend to get overwhelmed or anxious or fearful and we don’t have anyone else to let this pressure out on.

So, here’s something we can all do more of:

Live out loud!

What does that mean? It means stop keeping everything to yourself.

It means be a little more vulnerable – not everything has to be perfect. It means opening up a bit more. It means letting more people in. It means sharing what’s really going on in your life with others.

(In fact, vulnerability is a huge key to likability.)

Just because you feel alone doesn’t mean you have to be all alone with your thoughts. Even just writing your thoughts and worries and fears on a piece of paper can help tremendously!

Just get some of them out of your head.

The less you live inside your head, the more you’ll be able to deal with reality and the less likely you’ll be to reach for food to suppress those feelings, emotions, etc.

Bottom line: Live out loud and while you’re at it, you might as well laugh out loud more often! (Is that laughter as contagious for you as it is for me? I die every time I watch that!)