New year, new resolutions? So get back to activities! After seeing how to get back to sport without getting hurt, we will see how to recover after a session in 3 points. Just to continue on a good start !

1/ Drink a lot of water

So it is ! Although we must initially drink 1.5L of water a day, during an intensive physical activity it is necessary to hydrate the body. Why ? First, to compensate for sweating, and therefore the dehydration of the body. Then, this dehydration increases the blood, which takes longer to circulate in the dilated vessels. It is necessary to compensate for this by an increase of the blood volume thanks to the water. Finally, to help the kidneys eliminate toxins more easily, instead of storing them.

2/ Stretch properly…

… and for a long time! Two minutes of sloppy stretching are not enough. On the contrary, you will think you have helped your body, and be disgusted the next day at the onset of aches. Yes, you will certainly have some, especially at the beginning. But you can limit them. With the absorption of water, you have to stretch at least 5 minutes per worked parts. There are tutorials on the internet, or PDF to help you. To recover well after your session, do not leave this point aside !

3/ Cover yourself, take a hot shower and eat

Avoid eating, especially eating too much, before your session. But, you have to feed your body after an effort. So, of course, with a healthy meal (even if a fast food is nice sometimes) ! Do not think either that, as you are hot, you must discover yourself. Especially not ! Your body is getting colder, and being weakened because you’re tired, and you’ll get sick if you don’t cover you. So, on the contrary: take a good hot shower and cover yourself.

I hope these tips will help you continue your fitness!

See you soon !

Clotilde – @lesvolutesdeclaudia

Get back to sport ? That’s great ! Without any injury ? That’s so complicated ! Indeed, going too fast or not taking any precautions for your body, the exercise turns directly to the drama.

Why ? Because, when you’re not doing sport during one, two, three months… or three years, the body can feel an aggression, exhausts easily and inevitably tries to regain flexibility it no longer has.

Results: At best, huge body aches that will make you suffer for three big days. At worst, a tear or a breakdown, and you wouldn’t move at all. Conclusion: a disgust of the effort, a project that is delayed and finally falls into oblivion.

So, what can you do ? It is very simple ! If you used to run, don’t run more than half an hour for a few sessions, before gradually increasing. For the abdominals, it’s the same. No big sessions at the beginning, otherwise you will not be able to move ! Start with a series of each exercise, and then increase gently. All with a warm up, stretching, and drink a lot of water for recovery.

In all cases, getting back to sport is not the most easy thing. You need a good part of motivation, and during a gloomy month like January, it’s always complicated ! So, try in a small group of two or three people. There are groups every weekend in different cities to go running, walking or other groups. Do not hesitate !

Good luck ! See you soon

Clotilde – @lesvolutesdeclaudia

Healthy ideas for this early 2019 ? We say YES! It is necessary to relieve his body sometimes by a detox cure, in addition to a balanced diet. This eliminates toxins stored during excesses, during holiday meals or alcoholic evenings, but also ones caused by stress and a period of rush. But how does it work ? Here are some ideas that will help you !

1/ Drink more water

That’s true ! It can seem silly, but it is essential to drain the body of all bad substances. Normally we need to drink at least 1.5L of water per day. For a good detox, do not hesitate to drink 2L for the day. Warning ! It is better to drink more water in the morning or during the day instead of in the evening before going to bed. Otherwise, you will keep it more easily.

If you do not like water, if it tastes bland for you, you can still flavor it with a few ingredients. For example, add to your bottle some slices of cucumber and mint. Or, carrots with rosemary. Or just a few slices of lemon yellow and green. This gives immediately more taste !

2/ Prefer tea instead of coffee

Coffee is not necessarily harmful to health, but the instant effect of caffeine – this that gives the desired “kick-off” – is not the best for your body. Tea has more effect on the duration, and lasts longer. The must is a sugar-free green tea, natural or mixed, rich in antioxidants that will relieve your body. For my part, I’m also crazy about some herbal teas such as thyme-mint mixture.

3/ Stop bad fat and sugar

There are two types of fat: saturated and unsaturated. Of course, it is better to eat unsaturated fat. And it’s not necessarily foods you don’t like ! For example, cheese is a very good intake of fat. Meat too, bringing also proteins. Avocado, dried fruits… There are plenty. It is just necessary to know when you should eat them – in the morning or at noon later – not to store them.

About sugar, I obviously talk about “pure” sugar: cakes, sweets, soda…

4/ A good sleep… Not too much, but enough !

Too much sleep will not help your body to recover, it is quite the contrary. If you know your number hours of “perfect” sleep, do it. The majority of people are between 7 and 8 hours of sleep needed by night. Do not sleep enough will tire your organism that can not find a healthy routine …

5/ Move, move and move !

The key is physical exercise. No, I don’t say you need to sign up in a gym. You just need to adopt rules in everyday life: taking the stairs in the subway, or walking in the escalators; favor the dynamic walking by exiting one or two stations before ; take the dog out a little longer… And trust me, even him will be delighted!

If you have other healthy ideas, feel free to share them with us. See you soon !

Clotilde – @lesvolutesdeclaudia

Being proud of your body, being in harmony with yourself… A lot of “normal” or “perfect” people could tell you this kind of weird thoughts. It is always easier to be proud of your body and love yourself when you look like the perfect model of your era: high, slim and beautiful for women. High, fit and beautiful for men. That’s right, nowadays, we can work and make a lot of things to change some details… We can do sport du get slim or fit. But, we can also watch out our food.

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About me, for example, I could stop feeding myself, I will never be as slim as Kendall Jenner or Cindy Crawford. Despite doing sport everyday, diets and all my desires, I will stay curvy. With strong breast, wide inches, big bottom. Because, that’s what I am. I am a simple curvy woman.

So, why does the nowadays society force people to be twins ? Whereas advertisements and brands tell you to stay yourself. Then, why are androgyne, flat and almost dead women the only models ? A woman is normally supposed to be shiny and healthy. Finally, why do you refuse your body as it is, tall or small ? Slim or curvy ? You are unique. You are yourself. So, be proud of your body ! And love yourself.

I know, it is an easy speech. But, nothing would change your bones, your size and your morphology. Miracles doesn’t exist, magical operations neither. Only your mind, your brain, can make you accept who you really are.

Time will be your friend: days, months, years… However, you will be fine. You can manage it. For some of you, you need to find open-minded people. For others, living without any judgement. Don’t let you break by “perfect” pictures. Because, nobody is perfect. You just have to live happily with yourself. You need to believe in yourself, to be surrounded by open-minded people who love you. And finally, always remember that you are unique.

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Self-confidence is a vital part of everyone’s well-being. And today, the well-being is becoming more and more important every day: you can note it by reading magazines or books. Speaking with your friends or your family members. Some specialized reviews have been created in the last ten years, to allow everyone to acquire a minimum of psychic happiness, despite the ups and downs of life.

However, after a shocking personal or professional event, this happiness may be clouded with doubts. And unfortunately, the first element that collapses is self-confidence. How can you always have confidence after mockeries or remarks ? How could you always believe in your mental or physical abilities, after such a harsh criticism ?
Some people have had problems with confidence from a very young age. And it is often accentuated by relationships.

Today we are going to boost ourselves. We will establish five essential rules to offer us a little of happiness. So take notes, because your vision of life will change, and for your greater good !

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1 / Make the point on your physical and mental state, and your life

First of all, well-being and self-confidence can’t be without making a general statement about your current health and psychological state. Thus, it is essential to weigh the pros and cons of your life, and ask yourself questions. For example, “Do I feel good physically ?” or “Did I have many sad moments in the week ?” Once these questions have been asked and answered, it is easier to establish an aim. For example, if you conclude that your psychic state is sullen because of your body, you will have to work on the cause. If your heart, head and body are fine but you are extremely stressed, you have to find a way to evacuate it or calm yourself, for self-confidence.

2 / Try to see the glass half full rather than half empty

Then, here is certainly one of the most difficult exercises. When you lack self-confidence, it’s very hard to see life in pink. Shades are often around gray, neutral colors or black. However, with each situation, it is necessary to remember that everything could be worse.
Take an example: in your work, you are terrified by terrible anxieties (which often seem unfounded for your friends). To have a more optimistic vision, you can already see that you are in good health. You have a home, and you are surrounded by your friends and family. Although these moments are hard to pass, this power should not be underestimated. And you have to look far away, with your head held high, and with pride in front the way already traveled.

3 / Surround yourself and calm yourself with people you trust

These people can be the ones you want; a lover, some family members, some friends or others. From the moment that you trust them, and they bring you joy and relaxation during your meetings, do not hesitate to “create” time to see them. You have to know how to talk about yourself. You have to learn to say what you feel, and especially not to believe that people are bored by you, or judge. If it’s the case, then you can realize that they are not trustworthy people; then, go to other people.

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4 / Have fun !

Then, do not take your lack of self-confidence as a fatal sentence. And for that, don’t hesitate to please yourself; do a manicure, spa, some shopping … Or organize a trip to get fresh ideas. Everything is possible and nothing is unthinkable! (As long as it stays in your budget). Even a small thing, like going to the barber or the hairdresser can make you feel good, you give you a self-esteem and self-confidence.

5 / Take resolutions and love yourself

Finally, this last step is the key to success. Loving yourself: knowing who you are, how you are. How to react in some situations and not to be ashamed of yourself … Then, to take resolutions: to walk without shame, to consider yourself as the same level as others. Or don’t be afraid of yourself, be dynamic and stop being a follower. All these little things, classified in TO-DO list, are essential to give you back self-confidence. So, give yourself aims and follow them, it is the best !

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Thus, you have all the cards in hand to make your future much better … Go for it! And do not forget to love yourself because you are unique!

“One of the keys to success is self-confidence. One of the keys to self-confidence is preparation. “
Arthur Ashe

See you soon !

Clotilde – @lesvolutesdeclaudia

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When it comes to running a business, there are certain qualities you should develop for it to be a success. The most successful entrepreneurs have developed certain traits that made their business a very successful one. They keep developing more business qualities to keep their business successful and to make it even more successful. This is why you need to study certain business people and emulate what they do so you can be just as successful as they are, if not more. Here are some of the best qualities to develop to have a successful business.

1 – Motivation

Many successful business people are motivated every day to keep their business going. Although they have money in mind to keep them motivated, they also have other things like raising their family, keeping food on the table, giving their children a good education, and investing in their business to make it even more successful. Use these things to keep you motivated or find something else that is important to you for motivation and you will have a successful business as well.

2 – Being Creative

Being creative in business is important. If you have clients who depend on you to come up with your own ideas for the work you need to do, it helps to be a creative person. It also helps to be creative to give back to your business. This means investing in it to make it more successful. Think of some great ideas, being a creative business owner, and your clients will keep coming back to you for more.

3 – Have a Vision

Having a good vision of what you want your business to be like is a good idea. Sit down and decide where you want your business to go, create a plan while you have the vision of what you want it to be and where you want it to fo, writing everything down as you go. Set small goals at first, reach those goals, and every time you do reach them, set a little bigger goal until you get to the biggest goals, reaching them as your vision comes to life. Setting goals, although small at first, will allow you to grow your business to be as successful as you want it to be.

4 – Be Persuasive

Being persuasive in your business is good when you need to negotiate with someone. For example, you have found a new client and you are negotiating a rate for your work. Be as persuasive as you can and start at the highest price, working your way down little by little, until you come to an agreement. Make sure the rate is something you are willing to work at. Don’t let them talk you down too low. Don’t forget, you are a business person and the only way to be successful is to be as persuasive as you can. Your business is your bread and butter so don’t let things get too low on your end. Also, your business runs on money, not air.

Using these different awesome qualities will help you become one of the most successful business people in your area. Also, make sure to always be grateful for what you have, even if business is slow at times.

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When it comes to thinking, positive or even negative, there is power in both of these ways of thinking. Positive thinking is a good thing. However, some negative thinking can help you too. How is this possible, you wonder? Keeping a balance between the two ways of thinking can help you be an emotionally healthy person. All of your emotions are natural, whether they are good thoughts and emotions or bad thoughts and emotions, if there is a balance between the two, this means you are an emotionally stable person, which is a good thing. Keep reading to find out the benefits of both of these different ways of thinking.

How Negative Thinking Can Actually be Good for You

Yes, that’s right! Some negative emotions are good for you. Although you wouldn’t think that thinking bad thoughts would be good for you, it is a good thing to think negative at times. How? Having some negative feelings and emotions can warn you of something bad that is coming your way. Negative emotions warn you of a threat. But, how is this possible?

Let’s talk a little about fear. No one wants to experience fear but it is a normal part of life and a natural way of thinking and feeling. The emotion and feeling of fear can warn you of something dangerous letting you know you need to do something to protect yourself.

What about anger? You may experience anger when someone or something makes you mad. Did someone step on your toes and take something from you by jumping in front of you for a job? If this has happened to you at one time in your life, this can cause you to feel angry which then means you need to stand up for yourself and act on your own behalf to stick up for yourself.

What about sadness? Did something bad happen that made you sad? Did someone die or get sick in your family and you are really sad? This is also a healthy negative emotion and when or if this happens to you, let the tears stream down. You will actually feel better after you have a good cry for yourself.

Although these emotions are a normal part of life, get them out and don’t dwell on them too much. If you do, you will start to feel negative more often and this can cause negative things to happen to you. Negative thinking causes negative things to happen and you don’t want that, do you?

How Positive Thinking Can be Good for you

Now, we are finally at the happy part and we are discussing the positive side of things.Positive thinking can make you happy. However, don’t be overly positive because this can cause you to irritate others. No one likes an overly happy person that acts like nothing in this world can bother them!

Positive thinking has a lot of power, however, and a healthy balance between the two ways of feeling and thinking will be good for you overall emotionally and physically. A healthy dose of positive thinking can increase your awareness, your attention, and improve your memory.

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In life you have the choice: either you want to progress, to discover new things about yourself, to improve your life on a daily basis… or you can just wait that something magic happens to you.

Choose right now to decide a part of the fade of your life, and I guarantee you that your life will improve every day.

You just need to implement these 4 top ways for improving yourself and getting what you truly want and desire in life.

1- Have a Daily Exercice Routine Habit

Choose a moment during your day, where you know you will always have the time to do at least 10 minutes of exercises.

You are working with your mind every day, your body also needs a bit of training, if you want to stay healthy.

Choose whatever activities you like the most: running, swimming, going to the gym…

2-Read Every Single Day

Books are an amazing source of knowledge to improve your life and really focus on what makes you happy.

Almost every successful people are reading a lot.

Here are 3 good books you can start to read right now:

-The Way of the Superior Man
– Think and Grow Rich
-The Power of Now

3-Wake  up as Early as you Can

When you wake up early, nobody will bother you. Thus, you will have all the necessary time to do whatever thing you want to accomplish.

You are totally free to do it.

Morever, you will teach your mindset to continue to stay productive during the rest of the day

Do not limit yourself to these 4 ways of improving your life, and choose whatever things you need to go further.

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The most successful people in business these days are the ones who formed the best habits to be as successful as they are. They get up early in the morning and set their goals. Although they tend to do the same things every day, they are successful because of this. However, they tend to do one thing different every day to keep their life and business from becoming boring. Once your days become boring, you won’t want to work on what you need to do during the day. However, they still have formed the best habits in order to be successful in their business. Want to learn their secrets? Keep reading to learn three of the best habits to have for a successful business.

1 – Wake up Early Every Morning

Many of the most successful business people wake up early in the morning and make this a habit to do every day. Although, some people are not morning people and tend to sleep until noon most of the time, this isn’t a good thing to do for your business if you want it to be successful. However, if you are not a morning person, don’t worry, there is something you can do to make this a habit. Gradually wake up earlier every morning. Try waking up 15 minutes earlier every morning for up to two weeks until you gradually get used to getting up earlier every morning. Although it is totally up to you at what time you wake up in the morning, especially if you work from home, most of the successful business people wake up around 5:00 am or 6:00 am every single morning. Try to make it a goal to wake up at the same time every morning and as early as you can.

2 – Plan Your Day Thoroughly

Besides waking up early in the morning, you also need to form the habit of planning your day thoroughly. Planning how your day is going to go will help you get everything done when you need to get it done. Write down everything that needs done for the day and go from the top of the list to the bottom. Everything at the top should be the most important that needs done first. For example, if you are a professional writer and are running your own writing business, it should be as a first come, first serve basis. This means whoever ordered work from you first, gets their work done first.

Whatever business you are running, planning your day is a good thing to do. That should be the first thing you do in the morning after waking up and going through your email.

3 – Get Your Work Organized for the Day

After going through email and planning your day, you will want to get everything you need to do organized before you get started. This will help you get things done on time, every time. Organization is a very important thing to do if you want your business to be successful. First, organize your email. Everyone goes through their email inbox before working for the day. It is important to do so in case you have a very important email that needs your attention right away. Label and archive email from most important to least important to clear your inbox. Clearing the clutter in your inbox will clear your mind for a better workday expeience.

Developing these three best habits when starting your day will help you have a very successful business for many years to come. Once these turn into good habits for you, you can start developing more good habits to help your business become even more successful and to reach the bigger goals you have.

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When it comes time to workout, sometimes we could use a little extra motivation. This also goes for eating healthy every day. There are so many temptations in front of us all the time. However, if you want to be healthy and stay healthy to live longer, you will need to stay away from temptation.

Getting motivated and staying motivated is easy to do if you really put your mind to it and stick with it. If you really want to lose weight and stay healthy, you will do whatever it takes to do this for yourself. Remember, this is your health and you must have control over it.

In order to stay motivated and keep healthy to be able to live longer, you will need to push yourself and keep telling yourself that you can do this. You Got This! Here are some great ideas to stay motivated to work out  and eat healthy every day.
 

Put Your Workout Clothes On for No Reason

You might think you don’t have a reason for putting them on because you don’t feel like working out. However, once you have them on and notice how nice you look in them, this will motivate you to get yourself in gear and get that workout started. Not only this, but once your family and friends see you in your special workout clothes, you will have to work out because if not, they will wonder why you are wearing them. You don’t want that to happen because it could be embarrassing for you. So, get out there and get your workout done!
 

Write Down How You Feel After Your Workout

Writing down how you feel after each workout can really motivate you to get your workout in every single day. How does this work so good to motivate you? Because when you wake up each morning, read the paper you wrote down how you felt when working out on and it will make you want to workout even if you don’t feel like it as soon as you wake up. This is because working out makes you feel great afterwards and if you read the text, you will remind yourself that you will feel really good once the workout is done.
 

Keep in Mind Why You Started in the First Place

Keep in mind and remember why you started in the first place. Do you have goals? Did you start working out for weight loss, building muscle, or just to be healthy all around? Whatever the reason for your workouts, keep the reason in mind and make sure to always think about that reason every time you try to get out of doing a healthy workout. Write your reason down if you need to and keep that paper or whatever you wrote it down on with you all the time, especially when you are trying to talk yourself out of getting your exercises done.

Keeping these tips in mind when needing to ensure you stay with your regular workout and healthy eating routine is very important because these tips can help keep you on track.

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When it comes to personal development, sometimes it can just be for fun for some of us. However, for most of us, we can achieve our own personal development goals better and easier if we have some important reason for wanting to improve ourselves. Keep reading to learn the steps you can take to manage your own personal development.

Create Your Personal Development Vision

The first step in managing your own personal development is to create the vision for it. This means to determine where you want to be in your career in five or ten years or how many pounds of weight you want to be down within the next month or two. Once you create the vision for your own personal development, you can then start planning for it.

Make a Plan for Your Personal Development

Get your notepad and pen out or open up a new document on your computer and create your plan for how you will get to where you want to be in your career within the next five or ten years or the weight you will want to lose within a month or two. You get the idea. Writing your plan down will help you keep going with your personal development goals and this will also help you achieve them.

Start Your Personal Development Process

Once you plan, now you can start. You should first take baby steps in trying to reach your personal development goals. Don’t push yourself into jumping in with both feet unless the goals are realistic. If you try to push yourself too fast, you will fail quick.

Make sure to do whatever you can within your own power to start the process of personal improvement. If this means, having someone you know to be your own personal cheerleader, then find someone close to you who will want to help you achieve your personal improvement dreams and goals.

Keep a Record of Everything You do for Your Personal Improvement

You want to record the process of improving yourself so that you can look back at that note you wrote or listen to that recording you made and pat yourself on the back for achieving the goals you have met already. This will also allow you to want to keep going with trying to improve yourself.

Review and Edit Your Records

Review the records you have kept often and edit them as necessary to really reach your goals. Make sure to edit it as you see fit to ensure you get to where you are going. Review, edit, and repeat as necessary to keep developing yourself personally.

Repeat Steps as Needed

Repeat the last five steps as needed for each different goal you have for yourself. Also, if you fail, don’t let it get you down because we are all just human beings and we all fail at things sometimes. Don’t let it depress you. If anything, let it make you stronger to keep reaching your goals.

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Many people may be wondering, although it is true and a fact that happiness is good for your health, can it also be bad for your health? Yes, to both! Being happy doesn’t only give you a better quality of life and a healthier life, it can also be bad for your health in some ways. Read more to find out how happiness can be both good and bad for your health at the same time and how to find a balance between the two.

How Happiness is Good For You

It is good for your heart. Those who are happy, have a lower heart rate and a lower blood pressure. Meaning, they don’t have problems with high blood pressure which can lead to a whole lot of different health problems, including stroke and heart attacks.

Being happier in life is also good for your immune system. It actually makes it stronger. Have you ever met someone who is always in a bad mood and also gets sick a lot? This is because they stress over too much and this can cause them to get sick. A research study was done and it found that those who thought more positive thoughts, were less likely to even get a little cold. This is compared to those who think negative more often, who also get sick a lot more often as well. It actually makes a lot of sense, if you think about it.

How Happiness Can be Bad for You

Although being truly happy is associated with better health and a better overall quality of life, there are times when being happy can be bad for your health too. I know it doesn’t sound like the two should go together. However, being too happy can lead to you being less creative, and even less safe or cautious about things.

This actually makes sense because if a person is too happy, or is experiencing mania, which is a high level of energy, they can get careless, thinking they can tackle anything that comes their way. They also tend to think less creative and are not able to solve problems as good as those who experience moderate levels of happiness.

Being happy is not suited for every situation either. This means that if you are in a spot where you should be experiencing anger or sadness, but you are happy instead, this means you are too happy and need to take it down a notch. We often experience times and things that make us mad or sad and this is a normal part of life.

Looking for happiness can cause you to find the opposite. How does this work? If you are trying too hard to make yourself happy, you could make yourself feel just the opposite.

How to Balance it All Out

One thing is for sure, too little happiness is just as bad as too much happiness. Because of this, you should find a good medium and just be a regular happy person who doesn’t think they can conquer the world every single time in every situation. Secondly, there is a time and a place for being happy. If you are in a situation where you should be mad or upset about something, let these emotions come to light. It is a healthy balance to be mad, sad, and happy when the time calls for it. The saying goes; there is a time and a place for everything and everything has a place.

What do you think about this?

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We all say we are going to do something…then we don’t do it at all. We make New Year’s resolutions and then don’t achieve them. Why do we do this to ourselves, though? It is all about giving in to temptation and we are also a bit lazy. We are human, after all, and humans are lazy, at times, well all the time, really.

There are some ways we can actually achieve our resolutions and reach our goals, however. Keep reading to learn some ways around this temptation and laziness.

Take Baby Steps

The problem with resolutions and not reaching those goals we set for ourselves is that usually they are not realistic enough. One thing you should remember is to push yourself into reaching your own personal development goals one step at a time. Take baby steps, not giant steps. If you push yourself to go from zero to sixty in sixty seconds, you will crash and burn. However, you can take some baby steps and reach small goals at first. A little bit at a time is all it takes to reach your goals and to improve your own personal development.

Have Someone Close Hold You Accountable

When we are held accountable, we tend to want to achieve our goals to make those around us happy for us and proud of us. This is why you should have someone, a close friend or family member, hold you accountable. Have them put a little bit of pressure on you to achieve your goals. You can also do this by joining online groups and forums or by joining local groups in your own neighborhood. As long as you have someone who will be there to push you even a little, you will want to keep going to reach your goals. One baby step at a time.

Don’t Let Failures Get You Down

It is sometimes alright to give into a little bit of temptation but when or if you do, don’t let the feeling of failure get you down. Instead, get back up, brush yourself off, and get going again to reach your goals.

Keep Yourself Motivated

Do things to keep yourself motivated. If you set these goals for yourself, you will achieve them if you really desire to. However, you have to really, really want to reach them in order to do so. You can’t just tell yourself that this is something you should do so go do it. You have to actually want it for yourself and be positive with yourself in order to achieve your goals in life.

Keep telling yourself you’ve got this! Keep going and never stop trying to reach your goals. You are better than you give yourself credit for. Also, once you achieve your goals, you will feel great about doing so.

Keep the above tips in mind when you are trying to achieve your own personal development goals. Don’t ever give up and never let anything or anyone stop you from achieving your dreams.

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The answer to this question is a definite, YES! Why is it, that getting more sunshine can make people happier? There are several reasons for this and not only does it make you happier emotionally but increases your physical well-being as well.

One major reason is that when we are outside in the sun doing different things like gardening, playing games and enjoying sports, and fishing and swimming, we are happier because we are enjoying ourselves whether we are alone, or better yet, with other people who also make us happy. However, there are other reasons, as well. Have you heard of SAD? Or Seasonal Affective Disorder? SAD is a seasonal depression that happens to people in the winter months. The reason we are subjective to SAD during the colder months, isn’t because of the cold, however. The main reason many of us experience SAD during the winter months is because of the lack of sunshine we get.

Often times, we would prefer to stay under the covers rather than going outside to deal with the cold. Although many of us cannot do this because of work and life overall, some people do stay in bed all day. It isn’t just because we don’t want to deal with the cold, though, but rather the problems that come with SAD. SAD is a form of seasonal depression and being depressed makes us prefer to sleep all day.

Health, Happiness, and the Connection to the Sun

Not only does being outside doing different things either alone, or with other people, make us happier, but the increase in sunshine also provides the serotonin we need to improve our moods. Thing about it this way, once our brains recognize sunshine, our levels of serotonin increases, making us happier. However, once the sunshine is gone and it gets darker outside, this is when our levels of melatonin increases, which promotes sleep.

Not only does sunshine make us happier but it can also make us healthier too. This is because getting our daily dose of sunshine provides us with our daily dose of Vitamin D as well. Vitamin D can promote bone health and growth and cell health and growth.

Another reason for getting more sunshine making us healthier and happier, is because it makes us want to eat better for making ourselves feel better, overall. Promoting a healthier diet can make anyone happier because being healthier by eating right can give us more energy to do the things we need and want to do throughout the day. This makes us feel accomplished which is yet, another reason we are happier and healthier.

Although it can be easy to forget about getting more sunshine because of the advancement in technology these days, it is detrimental to living a better life. Make sure you get outside more often, getting out in nature. Although with the invention of synthetic light, we often forget to do so. However, getting outside in nature is more fun, don’t you think?

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Can a positive attitude and being an overall happier person, make you live longer? Is there is a connection between being a more positive, and happier person, and living a longer life? Yes, there is a connection! This is great news for the optimists in the world!

According to a study done at Carnegie Mellon University, those who are happier and overall, more positive people, can increase their chances of a longer, and better quality of life. Why is this true? The main reason is because you don’t worry as much as those who think negative and are not happy with their life. In other words, because you get over things faster than those who make mountains out of molehills, and don’t stress as much as those who tend to stress about every little thing that goes wrong with them, your body doesn’t swell up as often or at all, for that matter and you don’t get sick that often.

When this study was done, many people were given the cold and flu virus while participating in the study. According to the study, those who received the cold and flu virus and those who thought positive more often about life, got healthier faster. This is opposed to those who thought negative more often whereas, they tended to stay sick longer.

Inflammation and Being a Positive Person

Not only did the study find that those who thought positive more often, get better quicker than those who thought negative more often, but the study also found that if you tend to worry a lot, stressing over every little thing there is, your body tends to swell up and this is inflammation. Inflammation can cause people to die sooner because our bodies retain water and this can go to our hearts and kill us. However, those who think more positive about their overall life and just the same as those who are happier, tend to be healthier without the problem of inflammation, meaning their bodies don’t swell up as much or at all, and they tend to live a longer and better quality of life.

It does make a lot of sense if you think about it. It makes perfect sense because when we stress over even the smallest of things, we can easily get sick and stay sick. Stress can kill people! It has been proven many times. Stress is a bad thing overall for our hearts, our emotional well-being, and our lives, period!

How You Can Leave Stress Behind and Live Longer Too?

There are a couple of easy ways to leave the stress behind, which makes us sick and can easily kill us if we get too stressed, and live a longer, and happier life.

One way is to count your blessings every single day for at least one month. Every day, sit down and think about what you are most thankful for in your life, and write these things down. Read them over and think about each thing and why you are thankful for them. Doing this every day for one month can give you a better outlook on life.

Another thing you can do is, instead of making mountains out of molehills, try the opposite for one week. Try making molehills out of mountains instead. In other words, don’t sweat the small stuff!

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Wake up early and your life will never be the same.

I promise you that.

Easier said than done ?

Yes, if you don’t know yet the tips I will give you now.

1- Wake Up Early by Making this Promise to Yourself

You have to have deep inside you the need to become better.

It is crucial

By really knowing that getting up early is something that will
tremendously help you, you will be happier doing it.

Remember some people wonder every day how they
can live longer.

But you can already do that !

Imagine the benefits for you of having 2 hours more
each day to do what you want.

You win a full YEAR of life every 12 years !

That’s around 5 years more in your lifetime !

Imagine all the things you can do in 5 years…

Let’s start now.

2- Decide How to Fill your New Morning Hours

What do you want to do ?

Sports ? Cultivate yourself ? Read ? Meditate ?

By knowing very clearly how to fill your new precious time,
it will get you even more excited to do whatever you want.

Because when it is early in the day…

…nobody can bother you !

So choose now what you want to do, whatever it is.

3- Stay Positive Whatever the Hours of Sleeping  You are Getting

You can sleep whatever hours you want: if you consider that
when you wake up you won’t have enough sleep, you will
wake up very tired.

Even if you sleep 9 hours and you tell yourself it won’t be enough,
guess what ? You desire comes true. You feel bad when you wake up.

Just tell yourself you will be fine and begin to change your associations
in your mind by feeling within yourself positive vibes.

It works very well.

4- Have a Morning Ritual to Help You to Wake Up Early

Your morning ritual is key because it allows you to transform the
process of waking up early into something automatic.

You won’t have to do any kind of efforts after to wake up early.

It will be automatic.

Example:

-5:30 = Wake Up
-5:30 to 5:45 = Meditate
-5:45 to 6:00 = Read an Inspirational Book

And even it is basic actions such as drinking water, write
them down because it is important at the beginning to have
a good process really installed in you.

5- Put Your Alarm Clock Very Far Away From You

If you place your alarm clock far away from your bed, you will have
to get up to turn it off.

By standing up, your brain wakes you up very quickly putting you in a
different state.

After this I advise you to enter directly in a other room to further
the process.

Now if you do already wake up early but you want to have more focus:

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Why should you stay focused ? Why is it so important to focus ?

Because the first step to achieving your goals and dreams, you have to stay on your own road.

If you go all over the place, nothing gets done and your true priorities are left behind.

Here we will see how you can really focus.

1- Focus by Avoiding Distractions at All Cost

If you want to really focus, your greatest enemy is distraction.

For example, when you exercise or go to the gym, please don’t look continually at your phone or your surroundings.

If you want to look around to see what everyone is doing or worse to ask yourself what everyone is thinking about you, you
will never be focused very long.

Same thing at home, I know it is very easy to do it nowadays with smartphones, but don’t check your emails or your social network every minute.

These are BIG distractions.

2 – Don’t multitask To Focus More

You may have heard that multi-tasking is very good because you can do everything at once.

Sorry, but it is not the case.

The truth about multitasking is that it brings you a lot of confusion to your brain and slows you down a lot.

Because you will never be totally engaged in one task, and thus lose your focus.

A lot of studies have been made about multitasking and they globally find that people who multitask perform more poorly that people who don’t.

So althought it can be tempting, don’t fall into the trap of multitasking.

3- Don’t procrastinate

Procrastination is also a big enemy of your focus.

If you delay continually your projects or your activities, things will never be really done.

It will always be the next day, the next week or the next month,… but deep inside you, you know that nothing is changing.

You may say you work best under pressure. This is something that can be good, just to set a deadline.

And once you have accomplished your task, it’s important to reward yourself.

This way you will make a positive reinforcement for yourself, which means more motivation for you

Once you begin to have more focus, you can combine it with the power of visualization

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You have to create a sense of urgency in your life, coming from the realization that you do NOT have forever.

You can often be caught up in your so called “thoughts about improvement” and you know that deep down inside you, you will never take any real steps to improve.

If you lack a true sense of urgency, trust me you will face the danger of living in unfulfilled dreams and you don’t want that.

1- Setting Deadlines Help you to Implement a Sense of Urgency

You can not allow yourself to put your dreams or goals aside.

By instauring deadlines, it will help you a lot to create a sense of urgency and to get your things done.

Deadlines will allow you to prioritize what you want to do because your time is so limited in your life.

It will also push you through all the steps you need to do to accomplish your goals.

As deadlines can be  constraining, the best thing is to reward yourself each time you acheive one of your deadline.

This way you will keep your motivation along the way.

2- How Do You Create in yourself a Sense of Urgency ?

Here are some steps you can already implement to create this within you:*

• Think on a constant basis that your life goes fast and you don’t know how many days left you have to life.
• Watch and regiter your progress along the way. Then adjust and do the changes that you need
• Find your own actions and strategies for raising your urgency levels.
• Take a lot of action and always stay focused on what is important for you
• Monitor progress and adjust where and when necessary.

The choice is yours. Either you waste your life by watching your life as a spectator or simply create RIGHT NOW a true and

unique sense of urgency within you, allowing you to truly live your life.

Using Visualization will also help you a lot:

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The most successful persons use visualization every single day to accomplish their goals.

I really want to show you that you can use the power of visualization everyday to obtain whatever you desire.

1-Why Visualization is so Important

You can really program your mind and your body to do almost anything that you desire, with the power of your imagination. Now of course as humans, we have some physical limits like breathing under water or flying in the air.

But apart from your physical limits, you are only limited by your mind.

You just can’t have something in your life without first visualizing or imaging it.

It’s not «  I will believe it when I see it. » like you will hear all the time, it is exactly the opposite. You will see it when YOU BELIEVE IT.

2-How does Visualization Work ?

As weird as it can be for some people, your brain does not distinguish the difference between the image of the event and the actual event.

For your mind, whatever you imagine becomes your reality. That’s why some people have everything they want in their lives, because they have a complete trust in their own imagination and their own abilities.

The more you add sensations, feelings and emotions and the more powerful your visualization will be. It doesn’t really matter if you can’t always get a vivid image, but what is REALLY important is that you really have to FEEL your experience.

3-What Can I Do to Improve my Visualization ?

First you really have to relax yourself, relax every part of your body: your neck, back, chest, arm, thighs…

Make yourself really confortable, lying down for example or sitting and cut all distractions possible. Also Breathe deeply.

With a little training, you can really improve your visualization.

Then start by imagining yourself in a place that you already know. The more familiar the environment, the easier it will be for you to begin with. And after, little by little, you start to add things that you want in your visions. Don’t limit yourself. It is your mind and your life. Put here whatever things you want to have.

At the end you really have got to go into the details. The details of mental imagery is very important, even often more than the vividness of an image.

The more details you add, the more real it is for your unconscious mind.

Use and practice visualization and imagination everytime you can. You have to really do it.

I will show and teach you later in other articles or videos advanced techniques.

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How can you get more motivated in your life ? Are you lacking some motivation ?

If you want to create motivation within yourself, you have to know what you really want in the first place.

Don’t think yet how you will get it, that comes later.  Just decide what you REALLY want, being as clear as you can be.

Then you have to think about WHY you want it. Your WHY has to be found deep down inside you, like a burning reason.

Stronger and more powerful than anything, whatever people may think about it or about you.

With these 2 actions, you will have your motivation that is only personal to YOU. Your OWN motivation.

You know now what you want and why. Most people don’t. But not YOU, you will have a clear path towards your goals now.

So here is the sum up of these 2 simple steps you can easily follow:

1-Get Motivated by Finding what You Truly Want (Step 1)

You have to be totally clear about it. Your clarity of vision is key here before moving to the second step.

You can begin by making a list of the top 3 things you actually want right now. Write everything down.

It will help you to have something concrete on paper and makes it more real to you.

You will be able to look at it regurlarly, like a reference point.

2-Get Motivated by Thinking WHY You Really Want it (Step 2)

If your reasons to want it are big enough, the “how” does not really matter at the beginning. Even you don’t know how to

have it, just desire strongly. Creating a strong motivation inside you comes much more easily when you really know what you desire at first.

Your habits will also change accordingly.

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It is so important to stay completely focused at the gym during your training. The more you learn to have a good focus, the more the results will come.

It is a learning process and very worthwhile.

Here are some quick tips to have a very good concentration:

1-Learn your Best Way to Be Focused

To learn your best way to be focused, you have to know yourself a minimum.

Do you have mental pictures of your goals in your head while you train ? Does listening to your favorite music motivate you during your training ? Do you prefer to perform alone or with other people ?

I would like you to remember a time when you felt very focused, with no distractions whatsoever. Remember the conditions of that event, and see if you can pick some elements for your training.

Focus internally on your motivation, confidence, behavior and your emotions and feelings and you will have a very good control on yourself

2-Be Focused More By Getting out of your distractions

Right before your training and as soon as you  begin your workout, you must have a clear picture of your goal. Why exactly are you here ? What is important for you by doing your activity ? Find it out.

Please don’t use your phone. Don’t be the person who’s checking social media apps during the training. You will have all the time in the world to do so later.

Don’t be distracted by other people in your gym, even if it is crowded. One way it’s to stop talking that much. It is ver easy to get stuck in a conversation, so don’t begin one

3-Be Focused Completly on the Process

When you decide to focus completly on the process of doing your sport, you will have less distractions and doubts in your mind.

You have to be totally in the present moment. Any thought that does not contribute to perform what you is ineffective and useless.

Instead be focused on the actions you very need.

Focusing on the process allow you to focus on what you can control

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Habits are Very Important.

Almost all successful people have very strong habits, which they can rely for every single day.

More than 90% of your doing every day are just routines, including your nutrition and sport ones.

What you eat, how much you eat, when you eat, how long do you exercice and how often… on a daily basis, will dictate the shape of your body.

1- You Become What you Do Daily With Your Habits

A lot of people think that being successful is how much your work. Or they may say that it comes from intelligence or natural talents.

But nothing will beat persistance and determination.

When you are very self-disciplined and organized, you can really shape your whole life to an extend you can’t even imagine.

By implementing new good rituals in your life, you will be able to have consistent and purposeful actions toward your goals.

The good thing is that you choose your habits and do new routines that will allow you to reach what you truly want.

2-Create New Fitness Habits

A lot of people have difficulties to create their habits. That is because you don’t break your old bad ones. You just replace them with good ones.

So the good habit will replace and overcome the bad one.

Now comes what I want you to do. Write a list of all your bad habits that you want to change. Like for example eating junk foods, not training enough, not eating well in a restaurant…

Once you are done,  do the same with the good ones you would like to have such as controlling your hunger, exercising regularly, eating healthy fats…

3- Putting your New Good Habits in Action

Now that you know what fitness routines you want to implement, you have to set a goal. You need to have a broader vision. It can be : losing 10 pounds, gaining 15 pounds of muscle, getting rid of my belly fat…

Are the good habits that your wrote directly linked to your goals ?

If so, it’s perfect, and if it’s not you have now to write new good ones that are directly link to the realization of your goal.

If you goal is to lose fat, your new habits might be to eat only 50 carbs a day, to perform fasted cardio 4 times a week and to do intermittent fasting.

Then you have to stick to what you wrote. Be totally committed and to track your results every day, because you are what you do everyday.

Let me know in the comments what routines you would like to implement in your life and how you plan to replace your bad habits.

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