Can you believe it’s almost August? I don’t know where the summer has gone, but I hope you all have been enjoying it and taking time for rest and fun. In this issue I will share some advice for summer activity so you can enjoy the next month or so and develop some great habits going into fall.
I have also compiled some resources that you may find interesting. If you have any resources to share, please feel free to send them to me so I can share them as well.
I’m excited to announce my second Am I Hungry? Teleworkshop that will be starting August 22nd. The first workshop has been so much fun and very successful and I can’t wait to get the next one going.
See you next month!
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Would you like to learn how to eat whatever you want and still lose weight – without dieting?
Then I'd love for you to join me for my next Am I Hungry? Teleworkshop starting Wednesday, August 22nd.
Our first Am I Hungry? Teleworkshop is ¾ of the way through, and our participants are having amazing breakthroughs and loving their new relationship with food!
In just 8 weeks, you will learn surprisingly easy techniques to help you take charge of your weight for life. You will:
- Rediscover the secret to eating what you want when you want
- Stop obsessing about food, eating, and your weight
- Free yourself to live the happy, healthy life you deserve
- Experience the pleasure of eating foods you love without guilt
- Learn the truth about nutrition without confusing, arbitrary rules
- Never again exercise to earn food or punish yourself for eating
- Boost your metabolism effortlessly and naturally
- Increase your energy and fitness levels easily and painlessly
- Nourish your body, mind, and spirit so you can enjoy excellent health and abundant energy
So sign up today – and learn everything you need to know to become an Intuitive Eater– the kind of person who can eat what she wants and not gain weight.
I promise, the way you look at food, eating, and your body will never be the same again!
Just go to the Break Out of Diet Prison page to learn more or to sign up.
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Penny Haynes of 1stPod.com has taught me everything I know about podcasting, and she has created an amazing new way for local communities to interact on the internet. If you are looking for a new business opportunity, I recommend you contact Penny.
Community Interaction is the Key to Success
What do You Tube, iTunes and MySpace have in common? Something called User Generated Content. People don’t want to just watch anymore, they want to participate and have their say.
Internet users are spending more leisure time on the computer now, and women are participating in online shopping in the evenings. Social Networking sites, where people can have their say, are the hottest technology out there. Now, retailers are moving toward combining social networking with online shopping – kind of like a shopping trip with the girls.
However, sites like these, including Facebook, are massive. You can feel completely lost in a sea of information. Many internet users complain of information overload. Therefore, the next big thing will be “smaller”.
Niche market and local community sites are where the internet will move next. Creating social networking sites and informational sites for people with the same passion, hobby or career, or who all live in the same locality, will allow everyone to be a larger fish in a smaller pond. For the majority of local businesses that exist to serve their communities, this is good news.
By participating in a smaller community website, entrepreneurs are placing themselves in front of their actual potential clients. In addition, when people are looking for local vendors and merchants, they are not competing for attention with people from around the world. It makes more sense for many online web sites to become smaller in scope, and more focused, whether about a particular niche or industry, or for a geographical location.
The way that communities can communicate is also changing. By using a technology called RSS (Really Simple Syndication), anyone can write a message on the internet and have it re-printed on many other websites. People can also subscribe to their favorite RSS columns, internet radio and tv shows with special RSS Readers, or even through special email subscription services.
Combining both the community website with social networking and RSS is the most efficient way to build a website. Best of all, everyone who participates can enjoy increased search engine rankings, because search engine robots love RSS content. The possibilities are just beginning to be developed, but smaller is the way of the future. For an example of such a site in action, you can check out AroundCherokeeCounty.com, where everyone in the community can have their own column, radio or tv show.
So, to increase your search engine rankings and be found by your target clientele, participate in an active online community that serves that clientele. Alternatively, start your own community site and invite everyone to join with you. It can be profitable for you monetarily as well as for search engine ranking. For more information about how you can start your own online community magazine, go to OnlineCommunityMagazines.com.
Penny Haynes is CEO of Encouraging Enterprises, Inc. She has a lifetime of experience with audio, and 2 years of experience as a television producer, director and editor. Although she specializes in producing affordable audio and video for solopreneurs, her Consulting clients have included National Broadcast Media Company, Lifetime Television for Women and Standard & Poor's Vista Research. She now specializes in creating online software using audio, video and RSS technology, and training people how to create online audio and video.
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July 2007
According to Jim Gavin, Ph.D., author, psychologist and professor of Applied Human Sciences at Concordia University in Montreal, trying new forms of physical activity has the potential to do more than strengthen your biceps and hamstrings. “Long term participation in an activity conditions not only the body, but also the mind,” says Gavin. The take home message in his latest book called Lifestyle Fitness Coaching is those who have a well-established exercise habit may want to consider adding activities to their lives that strengthen parts of their personalities as well as their hearts and muscles.
So what activities might you consider this summer to strengthen parts of your personality while you increase muscle tone and burn more calories? If you are just beginning an exercise program, Gavin suggests utilizing what he calls, “strategic matching,” finding activities that match your current personality to support you while you establish a strong exercise habit, first. However, if you are a consistent exerciser looking for a new challenge and personal development, you might want to engage in “strategic mismatching,” new activities that challenge your personality and support personal growth in areas you would like to strengthen.
Below are seven personality traits that provide nine examples of outdoor activities that can be matched or “mismatched” depending on your desire for personal growth and how well established your current exercise program is.
- Sociability (from most social to most non-social): team sports, golf, racket sports (tennis), walking, inline skating, running, mountain biking, cycling, swimming.
- Spontaneity (from most spontaneous to controlled): team sports, racquet sports (tennis), mountain biking, incline skating, walking, cycling, golf, running, swimming.
- Motivation (from most internally motivated to externally motivated): running, cycling, swimming, mountain biking, inline skating, walking, golf, racket sports (tennis), team sports.
- Aggressiveness (from most aggressive to non-aggressive): racquet sports (tennis), team sports, mountain biking, running, cycling, swimming, golf, inline skating, walking.
- Competitiveness (from most competitive to non-competitive): team sports, racquet sports (tennis), golf, running, swimming, cycling, mountain biking, inline skating, walking.
- Mental Focus (from most focused to non-focused): racquet sports (tennis), team sports, mountain biking, cycling, golf, swimming, inline skating, running, walking.
- Adventurousness (from most risk seeking to risk avoiding): team sports, mountain biking, racquet sports (tennis), cycling, inline skating, golf, swimming, running, walking.
Don’t stop here, get creative! Looking to be really adventurous this summer? How about white water rafting or canoeing? For other great outdoor water fun try kayaking or windsurfing – both are fun and challenging.
Looking for risk-avoiding activities? Gardening can be a very enjoyable outdoor activity. You also get the added benefit of a beautiful landscape. If you want to make it more of a workout, try to get your shoulders and hips into the digging and shoveling – just keep moving to break a sweat. However, you can also go at your own pace and enjoy the leisure time of summer.
Stuck on what team sports might support your sociability index? Lots of people play on summer softball leagues, basketball leagues, etc. If your job doesn’t offer a team, then try the local YMCA or community center. You’ll find postings of leagues based on experience level, ages etc.
Suggested Resources
Here is a collection of resources you may find helpful or interesting:
- Women’s Online Magazine: WOM consists of a talented editorial team and individual columnists, recognized as experts in their fields, who bring you cutting-edge, multi-media content via video, audio and print. View information ranging from health and fitness, to business, to self-care.
- Stress Less in Six Steps: Free online workshop! Manage your stress with a new attitude and strategic lifestyle changes. Though some stress can be helpful toward getting things done, too much can lower your overall productivity and well-being. Find help in making simple changes to cut stress from your life.
- The best place to find books and information on all kinds of disordered eating: gurze.com specializes in information about eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder, plus related topics such as body image and obesity. They offer books at discounted prices, many free articles about eating disorders, newsletters, links to treatment facilities, organizations, other websites, and much more.
- See beauty in all shapes and sizes: JudgmentOfParis.com Inspiration for accepting yourself as you are, right now, this is a great site!
- Intuitive Eating Support Forum: Come join a tremendously supportive and knowledgeable group of people who are at various stages of eating intuitively. This is where I learned about the Judgment of Paris website.
- Women’s Health and Fitness Podcast Directory: Check out the latest podcasts and articles submitted!
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We all want to feel good in our bodies, especially in summer as we dress less and anticipate more outdoor activity in our lives. Summer brings so many wonderful opportunities to increase lifestyle activity as well as increase variety and fun for focused exercise.
Here are five strategies to optimize and leverage your summer activity program:
- Use the end of spring to lock in new behaviors. To help avoid relapse into winter habits, use the cooler days of June to lock in your new, outdoor activities when there are many more cooler hours available to establish a new exercise habit.
- Have a back up plan when the weather is too hot. Maintain some of your indoor workouts a couple times a week to support you when the weather is just too hot to be outdoors.
- Make frequent trips to the market to maintain your stock of favorite summer fruits and veggies. If you are in walking distance, make it a habit to enjoy the cooler mornings and balmy evenings with regular walks or bike rides to stock up on produce. If not, park a couple blocks away.
- Have a recipe file on hand with your favorite summer salads. Appetites decrease a bit in the summer. Have your favorite salad recipes handy and alternate meals with salad-like dinners or lunches. Always include a protein to optimize your energy between meals.
- Play it safe with the sun. Avoid heat exhaustion! Wear sunscreen daily with SPF, wear protective sunglasses, increase your water consumption and lower exercise intensity.
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