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Episode #126: How A Healthy Lifestyle Can Overcome Chronic Illness

May 17, 2019 By Ann E. Nelson Leave a Comment

Episode #126: How A Healthy Lifestyle Can Overcome Chronic Illness

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I am learning how a healthy lifestyle can overcome chronic illness. I don’t have the answers but the path to finding a solution is recognizing there is a problem. Overcoming poor eating habits is one of the reasons why health and wellness will secure a happy retirement for me.

What is a Healthy Lifestyle? The World Health Organization defines health as “not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being”. Finding what works for me is the main reason why health and wellness will secure a happy retirement.

Wellness has been defined more as the action an individual takes to meet the above definition of health. The older I get the larger my waistline has become. This correlates with the less activity I am also doing. I am on a continuing journey to find what works for me. When I awas young I could get away with eating anything as I was generally more active.

The more online I have become then the less I have participated in sports and outdoor activity. My health is more than what I eat. Wayne Dyer says ‘it’s what we think about what we eat’ that is important. That is why I am taking a more holistic look at myself to create a healthy lifestyle. I now think about and picture myself enjoying that healthy body again.

I thought I did not have any chronic illlnesses but apparently obesity is along with heart disease, stroke and cancer.

It’s back to the drawing board for me and educating myself on how to make appropriate nutritional and lifestyle choices. What I eat does play a role in disease prevention and according to Palemla McDonald, Nurse-Practitioner. Palema states in her book, The Perfect Gene Diet, ‘Good nutrition has a powerful effect on a person’s health, and is the number one integrative-medicine tool.’

I don’t want to end up attached to a bedpan in old age. I would much prefer the image of me attached to a backpack and travelling the world enjoying a healthy lifestyle. How about you?

Episode #125: How To Create Your Ideal Life – One Step at a Time

May 11, 2019 By Ann E. Nelson Leave a Comment

Episode #125: How To Create Your Ideal Life – One Step at a Time

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Barabara Snow, Author and Sharmanic Practioner, shares how to create your ideal life – one step at a time. How living abroad improved my creative life and other stories will be recounted in this powerful episode. Moving to Cuenca, Ecuador became the magical spot for Barbara’s spirtual energy to enrich her creative energy.

Barbara has enjoyed writing from a young age. Barbara now writes shamanic suspense novels that are part fantasy, part sci-fi, part spiritual handbook, and all riveting good tales.

When not writing visionary stories, she’s comparing notes with an Ecuadorean shaman, creating a ceremony, hiking the Cajas Nat’l Park or visiting a volcano.

Barbara lives in Cuenca, Ecuador, with Lucas, Sugar and Sasha (dog, dog and cat) near the lovely el rio Yánuncay. Learn how living abroad improved my creative life as told by Barbara when she moved to another country and continent.

For supplemental insights, free bonuses and exciting news about Barbara’s wild ride, sign up for her newsletter at her website.

If you want to know how to create your ideal life – one step at a time then listen to this episode.

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Episode #124: How To Gain Confidence In Speaking

May 8, 2019 By Ann E. Nelson Leave a Comment

Episode #124: How To Gain Confidence In Speaking

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How to gain confidence in speaking

Would you like to know how to gain confidence in Speaking? Toastmasters International has helped people from diverse backgrounds become more confident speakers, communicators, and leaders. Members get equipped to speak with confidence in work and life situations.

Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. Some of you that are self employed or work for small organizations may not have access to training to develop your communication skills. Joining a Toastmasters club is an economical way of gaining speaking and leadership skills.

I joined Toastmasters 4 years ago to learn how to structure and deliver a speech. I continue to be a member as I am challenged with the online learning program. This is continuing to grow my confidence in communication and presenting skills. A bunch of people sitting around a room can have fun speaking, giving and receiving feedback.

There are many reasons to join Toastmasters:-

improve your public speaking skills,
build leadership skills, maximize your potential,
enjoy unlimited personal growth,
work on networking in a small and supportive environment,
practice writing speeches and presenting in a group setting,
build self-confidence and self-awareness,
gain a competitive advantage in the workplace.

In this episode five Toastmaster International members share their reasons for joining, reveal how Toastmasters has helped them and their why they continue to be member. Listen to the episode and learn how to gain confidence in Speaking?

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Episode #123: The Obstacles To Retirement And How To Overcome Them

April 30, 2019 By Ann E. Nelson Leave a Comment

Episode #123: The Obstacles To Retirement And How To Overcome Them

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Tom Harrison, author, talks about the the obstacles to retirement and how to overcome them. Some unprepared retirees get to a low point when fear and desperation can turn into a great motivator. Tom outlines his finindings and key points to show you how to have a successful retirement by utilizing your time wisely.

Tom decided to retire because he had been doing the same work for about 35 years and it dawned on him he probably wasn’t going to get meaningfully better at it. The nine months between announcing his retirement and retiring gave Tom some time to start researching what Retirement would mean since he had never given it any real thought to it.

Then for about 9 months after retiring (a total of 18 months) he researched to find what others could tell him. He didn’t want to reinvent the wheel so many others had already invented so well about what to do and what to avoid to Successfully Retire.

Tom’s book Overcoming the Obstacles to Successful Retirement is about never really retiring from life. It is a major theme of the book because in essence you really can’t retire. You may do a poor job at your retired life, but done right and successfully it is a job, your new job.

The book’s subtitle Time Now to Build a New, More Exciting & Better Life is somewhat a play of words

Now is the Time – as you are on the shorter-end of Time, it is now or probably never, you now have time (since you have 40 – 50 extra hours per week);
It is time now to build a new, more exciting & better life!
the theme in a word? Better

The key message throughout the book is becoming significantly better through investments of time in developing meaningful disciplines in the key areas of life.

You are no longer motivated by “have tos,” deadlines, bosses – or being the boss. You are now relying on the necessity for self-motivation to do what you know will make you better. A focus on better and the real result provides the great motivator to improve your key life areas.

What are these key Life areas?

Mental,
Physical,
Spiritual,
Emotional,
Relational,
Work,
Rest,
Financial,
Cleaning & Upkeep,
Recreation & Entertainment,
Personal Grooming & Hygiene

Have a listen to the episode if you want to know how to have a better retirement and avoid the obstales to retirement.

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Episode #122: How To Make A Successful Tree Change In Retirement

April 23, 2019 By Ann E. Nelson Leave a Comment

Episode #122: How To Make A Successful Tree Change In Retirement

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How to make a cussessful Tree change in Retirement Eva Erhardt, horticulturalist and permaculture design expert, shares how to make a successful tree change in retirement. Learn some top tips to change your life for the better and make that transition to the country smoother.

Eva Erhardt has a Bachelor of Business degree, a Diploma in Horticulture and a Diploma in Permaculture design. For 12 years she operated a garden design and landscaping business as a consultant and project manager. As a trainer for the Australian Agricultural College Corporation she travelled throughout Queensland delivering training at various workplaces, such as commercial fruit and vegetable farms, parks and wildlife, indigenous communities, local councils and nurseries. She was a selector for Open Gardens Australia and opened two of her own gardens to the public.

Eva has personal experience of not one, but three treechanges: a bush-block retreat, a commercial organic small crop farm, and a garden design landscaping enterprise with plant nursery. Six years ago Eva and her husband made a sea-change, to a smaller property. Eva is now consulting Treechangers throughout Australia.

Eva’s aim is the change the world to be a better place: Looking after people, society and the natural environment. Her passion drives her to change one property and garden at a time. ‘I don’t want to protect the environment; I want to create a world where the environment doesn’t need protecting.’

It has been a honour to speak to Eva in this episode. This is your opportunity to get some practical advice and great tips of what to consider to ensure that making a tree change is right for you. Eva has created some tools and checklists to enable you to be able to compare properties.

Eva’s book, ‘The guide to a Successful Tree Change – How to Select the Right Rural Property for your Lifestyle’ will be out at the end of the year.

The book will answer 3 big questions:-

Why – get clear on why you are making the tree change
Choose the right Area – making consideration from work, climate, family needs to be considered
Properities – access, fencing, needs, soil, climate and much more

Learn from someone that has made the change herself and now wants to share how to make a successful tree change.

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