Motivation And Encouragement

Sometimes you just need to laugh and be silly. Laughing decreases stress, raises your vibration and is actually good for your health. No one wants to be around a Grumpus. Athena and Debbi get into the health benefits of humor and laughing. Athena recommends her favorite funny movies and her favorite cult-comedy YouTube hit series. Debbi talks about the benefits of humor in a relationship. Athena admits to her love of silly and inappropriate humor. Athena is in awe of Mark’s ridiculous heater joke. Wait, so who is Mark? Listen and find out! It doesn’t get much better than this, folks. Recorded May 28, 2016   For more information: Debbi’s life coaching services and personal growth seminars: Committed2Growth.com Athena’s book, Bring Him Closer, 7 Easy Steps to Meeting the Man of Your Dreams Using the Law of Attraction, and upcoming online course: BringHimCloser.com/courses

Who am I? Where am I going? Who will be with me on this leg of the journey? These are some of the questions that Debbi and Athena discuss today. Life is a journey and everyone is busy. At least once a year, take INVENTORY of your life and see how you are doing. Debbi created the acronym PEST, for checking in with the Physical, Emotional, Spiritual and Transitional areas of life. Don’t let life just happen. Even a little bit of adjusting the sails on your sailboat can get you to where you are trying to go. Athena admits to being in the medical field, but not going to the doctor (not taking care of the Physical aspect). Debbi reveals that she is super-healthy and has gotten a clean bill of health on all her recent health exams. Athena decides not to procrastinate and make some appointments, since Debbi tells her it’s better to know what’s going on than to worry about something because you don’t have the information you need. This episode may be just what you need to get moving on something that you need to take

Athena and Debbi ask each other questions about dating and relationships, since they both have experience dating and getting married after the age of forty. Debbi and Athena talk about what methods they used to meet and date single guys. Athena starts asking questions her coworkers submitted, but only asks one before she gets sidetracked. (More Q&A’s to come!)  Athena asks Debbi about life coaching and the life changing personal growth seminars that she teaches. Athena reveals the most important thing that she learned from Debbi’s seminars, which was a game-changer for her. For more information: Committed2Growth.com.  Debbi asks Athena about her book, which is part of her online course, Bring Him Closer: 7 Easy Steps to Meeting The Man Of Your Dreams Using The Law Of Attraction. Athena shares why she wrote the book and created this online course. This course is opening soon. For more information: BringHimCloser.com/Courses.

We don’t know how long we are actually going to be here. (Like, how long we’re going to be alive on this planet!) We all tend to sleep-walk through parts of our lives instead of paying attention to the moment. This is an episode about strength, appreciation and enjoying the little things in life. It’s the little things that make us happy. Debbi talks about Committed 2 Growth, the personal development seminars she teaches in Sacramento, California. Athena gives tips to be present and fully enjoy all the “flavors” of life. This episode is about not taking things for granted and appreciating your life. Recorded May 28, 2016

How you talk to yourself is critical to how you feel and has so much to do with how happy you are. Sometime we don’t realize how badly we talk to ourselves. Athena and Debbi discuss the four types of negative self-talk and how to stop this happiness-squashing behavior. Debbi gives 7 tips to stop the negative self-talk. Get ready to be your own cheerleader and let nothing get in the way of your own success and happiness. Recorded March 25, 2016

Your attitude is a choice. You decide how you react to the situations and circumstances in your life. You can go through your day grumpy and unhappy or you can grab these awesome actionable tips and instantly feel better. Recorded June 19, 2016

Prosperity and growth come from the strangest situations. Debbi and Athena share times when they’ve gotten knocked down in life, proceeded to panic, but then got back up – better than before. Great good coming from perceived tragedy? Yes! Sometimes it’s all how you look at things. Also, 5 tips to identify difficult blessings in YOUR life. Recorded February 25, 2016

  It’s your life, not someone else’s life.  Only you know what is best for you.  It’s exhausting because you can’t please everyone.  Stop worrying about what other people think, because you can’t control it. Life is too short to be concerned about other people’s opinions.  You can’t do anything about what other people think about you.  It will keep you from your dreams. Recorded March 18, 2016

6 tips for banishing negative self-talk and becoming your own cheerleader.  How you talk to yourself is critical to raising your vibration, which affects your happiness and your success in life.   Stop the negative self-talk.  Stop complaining.  Be around positive people. Decrease exposure to energy vampires.  Express gratitude for what you have.  Stop living in the past.   Create some goals and a plan to accomplish them. Recorded February 6, 2016

Confidence is attractive and magnetic. Everyone can use more of it. These 5 actionable tips will have you acting and feeling more confident as soon as you put them into practice.  Act the part. Fake it until you make it.  Dress the part. What you wear affects your confidence and attitude  Speak assertively.   Think and act like you will have success.  Create small bite-size goals and work on achieving them.  Recorded January 29, 2016

Debbi and Athena talk about their origins and the problems that they’ve overcome. They also reveal how they met. It’s not all serious, don’t worry.  Recorded January 22, 2016

Why is change so hard? Debbi and Athena talk about handling change and why we are so scared of it. Nothing stays the same, so learn how to adapt to change and be happier. Recorded January 15, 2016

Debbi and Athena pick words to focus on for the year instead of resolutions. You can achieve higher levels of success in life by claiming a word or focus for the month, quarter and year. Recorded January 8, 2016