Black Belt Living Challenge #1
03/7 2010 Posted in Blackbelt Living, Blog | 0 comments
HERE WE GO!! This is my first physical challenge for 2010 – 30 push-ups! Just like in the Army. In less than 2 minutes you’ll see if I succeed or let the chatter win-out. You can check out my gym here.
Must See – Christy Atlas’ Social Media Tip
03/7 2010 Posted in Blog, Random Stuff | 0 comments
In this post Christy Altas shares a unique tip I’d never heard in ANY training regarding social media. I met Christy this week at the BNI Leadership Training. Christy stays abreast of social media’s uses for marketing your business – so you don’t have to! As Gary Vaynerchuk (look him up if you don’t know how he’s CRUSHING IT) says: Social Media = Business. Period.
Christy KNOWS! Watch this video and then check her out at www.MarketingDirection.com
Living Deliberately with Greg Pinneo
02/28 2010 Posted in Blog | 0 comments
I had the pleasure of spending the weekend with my good friend and mentor, Greg Pinneo, from Seattle. Greg’s a very successful real estate entrepreneur and leader of some great educational programs. He was down in Tampa hosting a 2 day event. I’ve been working with Greg for a number of years, and he has guided me to new levels of personal and business success. I had the opportunity to get some thoughts from him after wrapping up his event today. You can find out more about Greg and team at www.reachreturns.com.
It’s called “Crush It!” Crush what?
02/21 2010 Posted in Blackbelt Living, Blog | 0 comments
I recently spent some time with Gary Vanderchuk, a successful entrepreneur who’s just published a new book, called “Crush It!” It’s a great how-to on marketing the best brand you’ve got – YOURSELF! It was one of the reasons I started this blog. So if you think Twitter’s stupid like I did, check out this book. I think you’ll find it valuable. Full disclosure – clicking on the link and scoring this book means Amazon might pay me enough to buy a packet of zucchini seeds to plant in my garden!
Enjoy and talk soon…
Mister Keith L. Brown Keeping it R-E-A-L
02/11 2010 Posted in Blog | 0 comments
Keith L Brown spoke to students at Tarpon Springs High today and blew their socks off! Chin up! Pants up! Grades up! Don’t be deceived by what you see in the movies – that’s r-e-e-l. We’re talking about r-e-a-l life here.
Perceptions & the new car
02/3 2010 Posted in Blog | 0 comments
Truthfully, I never really considered how people would look at me based on the car I drive. I suppose it stands to reason, like what you wear.
Well let me tell you, people do treat you differently when you pull up in a Mercedes. I had no idea. Case in point – I’ve been buying supplies from this company for maybe three years. I pull up in the new car recently and for the very first time the manager carried my purchases out to the car! I had to chuckle! I get tons of compliments on the car…and it’s not high end either. It’s fascinating how our belief systems influence our thoughts. Wow, Mercedes – she must be doing really well, a highly sought after coach, very successful. Well true, but that doesn’t have anything to do with what I drive.
Those thoughts happen in an instant, at first glance, courtesy of our subconscious mind. We all do it, and we do it automatically, based on our belief systems. Tony Robbins calls them our BS. “It’s just your BS.” Then he looks around the room and people are like, say what? That’s a little rude, isn’t it? And he smiles and says, Belief Systems.” LOL! They can serve us or hold us back in our quest for success and happiness.
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Life Makeover
12/27 2009 Posted in Blog | 0 comments
Life Makeover Exercise (inspired from internet marketing success guy Frank Kern’s Mass Control seminar)
This is a little visualization exercise that Frank did a few years ago, and when he found the pages he wrote answering questions like these a couple years later it blew him away to see he was actually living that life. Truly a demonstration of the power of visualization.
So go through this exercise and include as much detail as possible when you answer the questions. Just use your imagination, describing what you see, hear, smell, touch, etc. Incorporate all the senses as often as possible. Include how you feel. And something really important – do it all in the present tense. “I am, I have, I do” etc. That’s critical, because you want to train your mind to think it’s happening now. And while I’m on the subject of present tense, you always want to do the same thing in goal setting – always say something like, “It’s March 15 and I am a healthy, slim 140 pounds and exercise 4 times per week,” instead of “In 3 months I will have lost 10 pounds.” You end up setting yourself up for failure because the goal is always 3 months away…
OK, go ahead print out this page and work through it. If you’re giving it your all you’ll have 10-20 pages written!
With no limitations or consequences, my perfect, average day looks like this:
Limitations = financial, geographic, health, limiting people, etc. Consequences=stuff I could get “into trouble” for. Average=I could do it every day and not get sick of it or die in the process.Where do I live geographically?
What is my house like? (visual, smells, sounds)
What time of day do I wake up?
What are my first thoughts of the day?
What are my first words in the morning?
What do I do in the morning? What does all the morning mundane stuff look like?
What do I have for breakfast? Where do I eat? Who do I eat with? What do we talk about?
What do I have for lunch? Where do I eat? Who do I eat with? What do we talk about?
What do I have for dinner? Where do I eat? Who do I eat with? What do we talk about?
What do I do at night? Who do I do it with?
What are my thoughts as I fall asleep?
What are my friends like?
What do I do for personal fulfillment? Spirituality, health, etc. Where do I do these things?
What life purpose do I strive towards?
What is my business?
Where is my business located?
What time do I start work?
What do I do at work?
What are my clients like?
What is my relationship with my spouse/family like?
What do I love about them and what do I feel they love about me? What do we do together?
Mind Over Matter (Black Belt Living Challenge 0.5)
You’ve heard the phrase, Mind over matter. I have always thought of it from the perspective that the mind could overcome a situation or challenge. Webster’s Online Dictionary has several definitions for the word “matter.”
1 a : a subject under consideration
b : a subject of disagreement or litigation
c plural : the events or circumstances of a particular situation
d : the subject or substance of a discourse or writing
e : something of an indicated kind or having to do with an indicated field or situation
With “enough” mental toughness you (I) could get through or overcome any situation. Mustering the appropriate grit anyone could get through any hardship or challenge. And if you (I) didn’t overcome the situation it was simply because sufficient “intestinal fortitude” wasn’t mustered – try harder next time.
When I attended military school in college, we used to say, “It’s mind over matter. I don’t mind, and you don’t matter.” (We were young, thought it sounded clever and physical hazing wasn’t allowed.)
What I’ve learned recently from many of today’s greatest philosophers is that the mind is so powerful that thoughts can manifest – “Thoughts are things.” This philosophy incorporates another meaning:
2 a : the substance of which a physical object is composed
Quantum physicists talk about the mind’s ability to shape the outcome of experiments. Philosophers talk of the power of manifestation – the mind’s ability to create substance – more on that another time.
What I’ve experienced is that “Mind over matter” also pertains to the mind’s power over the body. If you’ve seen the video from my first physical challenge of 2010, you’ve seen me do 33 push-ups. Good old fashioned, Army regulation push-ups. I started with the goal of doing 30 and knocked out 33. This after an hour and 45 minutes of intense workout, including over 100 push-ups in class. Push-ups were never my strong point in the Army. Pretty good, eh? Ya, and here’s where the mind comes in: when I was at push-up number 32, with my friends cheering me on I thought, “I’ve got the strength to do 35.” AND IMMEDIATELY, “I don’t think I ever did 35 in the Army, I can’t be stronger than I was then.” I got one more push-up out of those still-strong arms – and then collapsed. Mind over matter.
I’ll go you one better. What I didn’t post was the video of my first attempt an hour prior, after only 45 minutes and before an hour of blackbelt training. I was knocking them out and feeling strong; while I was thinking of a disagreement I’d had that week. I was imagining what that person would think of me if they saw the video. “Maybe they’ll wonder why I don’t work as hard at other things as I do working out.” “Maybe they’ll think I’m a showoff.” And that’s about all it took to only do 19 push-ups. MIND OVER MATTER.
So let me ask you, “What’s YOUR mind doing to your MATTER?”
Looking for first Toast Masters Speech
Hi fans,
I have a team from 60 Minutes searching for the video of the very first speech I made to Toast Masters. When they find it, we’ll post it! Full disclosure here folks.
Myers-Briggs Test Link
Mash the image and you’ll be redirected to “Your Life’s Path” where you can take any number of great assessment tests. (Think of Walter Cronkite as you read, “In the interest of full disclosure, Mojo Restoration will receive a small ‘thank you’ when you buy a test on this site. Thank you and good night.” 
Black Belt Living Challenge #1
HERE WE GO!! This is my first physical challenge for 2010 – 30 push-ups! Just like in the Army. In less than 2 minutes you’ll see if I succeed or let the chatter win-out. You can check out my gym here.
Must See – Christy Atlas’ Social Media Tip
In this post Christy Altas shares a unique tip I’d never heard in ANY training regarding social media. I met Christy this week at the BNI Leadership Training. Christy stays abreast of social media’s uses for marketing your business – so you don’t have to! As Gary Vaynerchuk (look him up if you don’t know how he’s CRUSHING IT) says: Social Media = Business. Period.
Christy KNOWS! Watch this video and then check her out at www.MarketingDirection.com
Living Deliberately with Greg Pinneo
I had the pleasure of spending the weekend with my good friend and mentor, Greg Pinneo, from Seattle. Greg’s a very successful real estate entrepreneur and leader of some great educational programs. He was down in Tampa hosting a 2 day event. I’ve been working with Greg for a number of years, and he has guided me to new levels of personal and business success. I had the opportunity to get some thoughts from him after wrapping up his event today. You can find out more about Greg and team at www.reachreturns.com.
Our cat “the Bo”
This is our cat, Amy. We call her Amy, Am-Bo, or just “The Bo.” Her mother Tina adopted us when my husband and I lived in Honduras in the 90s. Tina became pregnant and one day she showed up all skinny, and we wondered, hmm, well where’s the kittens? So we followed her to a neighbor’s generator shed and found 3 squeaky little bald littens all curled up around one another. I gathered them up in my shirt and brought them to our house for safekeeping.
Our caretaker told us he already had promised one of the kittens to a neighbor, who had a rat problem. He took one before she was weaned and a month later brought her back, thinking she might die. She was all bones and full of fleas. We cleaned her up and put her back with Tina who was still nursing. She was half the size of the others yet grew rapidly with the proper nourishment. This was her a couple weeks after her “rescue.” 
Pretty scrawny looking thing, huh?
We decided at that point she’d never leave us again.
I coordinated a spay/neuter clinic on the island and brought down a vet from Houston, Charlie Evans. Charlie and her assistant, Mike worked non-stop through the week and spayed 97 dogs and cats. Charlie and Mike were just awesome! Sadly we lost touch with them after we moved back to the States and would love to find them. Anyway, we definitely lowered the population of feral dogs and cats on the island. Amy was one of the first patients.
Notice the hand vac for hair after she was shaved. We were a high speed operation!
Ruth and Charlie Evans at the “clinic” in Oak Ridge, Roatan, actually underneath somebody’s house (circa September, 1997).
Now Amy’s 13 and was just diagnosed with kidney problems. We are taking the holistic approach and not giving her any drugs. She gets raw food and herbs that help cleanse her body and strengthen her kidneys.
So if you have an older cat and notice she is drinking a lot of water all of a sudden, it’s quite possibly the first warning sign of kidney problems. Get her checked out and formulate your plan of action. Here’s a site that has some great information http://www.holisticat.com/Home.html
It’s called “Crush It!” Crush what?
I recently spent some time with Gary Vanderchuk, a successful entrepreneur who’s just published a new book, called “Crush It!” It’s a great how-to on marketing the best brand you’ve got – YOURSELF! It was one of the reasons I started this blog. So if you think Twitter’s stupid like I did, check out this book. I think you’ll find it valuable. Full disclosure – clicking on the link and scoring this book means Amazon might pay me enough to buy a packet of zucchini seeds to plant in my garden!
Enjoy and talk soon…
My name’s Ruth and I’m a coaching ROCK-STAR! You can’t see me through all that smoke, but that’s me up there on stage! Well OK, maybe I got a little carried away...I CAN tell you I am a professional life and business coach who is so grateful to have found my passion years ago - changing people's lives. So I decided to get with the 21st century and (ask my husband to) put together this site to offer some thoughts into living a life you love. Thanks for visiting! 
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