Category Archives: Personally Fab

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4 Simple Steps to Make this Year Your BEST Year!

connect with your spirit (1)This week is my birthday week and if there is one thing I LOVE–it is birthdays!! Yes–I struggle a bit with the whole getting older bit (go away wrinkles and cellulite!!) but overall, I am enjoying my life and happy to celebrate another year on this amazing planet.

I also love the fact that my birthday falls during the middle part of the year because it makes for a good time to do some reflection and re-evaluation regarding the intentions that I had set for myself at the beginning of the year (to read about my awesome mid-year personal audit process click here). Regardless of whether I am on track with my goals or I need to do some re-calibrating, one thing that I have learned is that it is never too late to make the current year your BEST year yet and July is the perfect time to get back on track if you’ve drifted off course a bit.

If you are committed to living your most FabYOUlous life, then that means that you need to start having some pretty FabYOUlous years. In order to get the ball rolling and make this year, your best year yet, try these four FabYOUlous suggestions…

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31 Questions for 31 Days

July 2016

If you’ve studied any philosophy in high school or college, you’ve no doubt heard of The Socratic Method. It is a form of inquiry (named after the classical Greek philosopher, Socrates) that is based upon asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to illuminate ideas.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been one to ask a lot of questions. I’m sure that this sometimes annoyed my parents and exasperated my teachers, but asking questions is how I learned to satisfy my curiosity about the many interesting things in the world around me. Once I was in college however; my academic advisor taught me the value of asking questions in order to gain understanding not just of the world around me, but also of the things that were going on inside of me. Not only did this help me to finally decide upon a major–it also helped me to become more connected to my inner being and more sure of the direction that I wanted my life to take.

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30 Questions for 30 Days

June 2016

If you’ve studied any philosophy in high school or college, you’ve no doubt heard of The Socratic Method. It is a form of inquiry (named after the classical Greek philosopher, Socrates) that is based upon asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to illuminate ideas.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been one to ask a lot of questions. I’m sure that this sometimes annoyed my parents and exasperated my teachers, but asking questions is how I learned to satisfy my curiosity about the many interesting things in the world around me. Once I was in college however; my academic advisor taught me the value of asking questions in order to gain understanding not just of the world around me, but also of the things that were going on inside of me. Not only did this help me to finally decide upon a major–it also helped me to become more connected to my inner being and more sure of the direction that I wanted my life to take.

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Are You Hard-Wired for Success?

If not, it's time to make some changes...

Wired for SuccessDNA. It’s the stuff we’re made of. It holds the code that determines who we are, how we behave and what conditions we are predisposed to.

What about success though? Is success “in your genes” so to speak? Do you come from a long line of successful individuals, marriages, families, etc? Or, do you feel like you were trapped in an elevator somewhere and missed out on the success gene when it was being handed out?

Those who appear to be naturally hard-wired for success have six common traits that seem to be ingrained into their DNA. If you’re not one of these fortunate few, don’t worry–the good news about these traits is that even if you don’t feel as though you were lucky enough to have naturally inherited them, you can still learn to develop them.  

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Get Out of a Rut and Into a Groove

Four Fab-YOU-lous Tips for Busting a Rut

Get out of a rutThere is a huge difference between being in a rut and being in the groove and no doubt we’ve all experienced both instances at one time or another–I know that I certainly have.

When I’m in the groove, I’m feeling good, things are flowing and life seems full of promise.  I’m able to accomplish numerous things without even breaking a sweat and (most importantly) I’m happy.

When I’m in a rut however; it’s just the opposite.  When I’m in a rut, things are HARD.  It’s a chore to get out of bed in the morning and head to work.  It’s difficult to make progress on my goals (even the easy ones) and the days seem to drag on forever without much significance.  In short–being in a rut SUCKS.