Why do you think you have such a short motivation span?

You attend a seminar, listen to a motivational speaker, a workshop – and come out of it full of ideas, feeling like: “let’s go conquer the world!” And then, the next day or even an hour later that winning feeling kind of wears off; fades away and you slip back into your old, usual ways.

"Oh, it probably wouldn’t have worked anyway! Nothing changes." It’s easier to settle for the old, proven way, and explain to yourselves why things can’t work the way you wish they would. Do you hear that kind of talk in your head?

Why do you think that is?

What would you say stand in the way of positive, upbeat, motivated, active, and successful?

Is it education?

Is it money?

Is it support around them?

Is it time?

Is it something else?

What is it?

I say it’s your own mindset.  The talk you have for yourself. It’s the most powerful tool we all have.

What happens when you get a new...

I never opened that newspaper.

It sat next to my breakfast plate, like every other day. I took one peek at the front page, and something in me stiffened. Strongly, violently, in my chest. It felt like someone was holding a tight grip on my throat and I lost some color in my face.

And then it hit me.

You see, as I do most mornings (OK, I try), I finished my morning routine to prepare myself for the day ahead. It slightly varies depending on the schedule for that day. I started off with a Wim Hof breathing exercise before I even got out of bed, I then did a set of exercises to bring more blood flow to my recently tensed up shoulder and shoulder blade.

Next, a few minutes of gratitude time. Mine's simple: grateful for waking up to another sunny day, for having a loving husband. For having bonus daughters (someone came up with that term and it sounds so much better than stepdaughters). For the simple fact that we love each other even though we met later in our lives. For the life...