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Respect & Honor Your Inner-Neurotic Quirky Self!

06 Monday Feb 2012

Posted by Sarina in Life Lessons, Respect and Honor, Self-limiting beliefs, Stress Strategies, Travel

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Never leave home without your almonds.

Ready – I have a confession to share with you about myself. I’m a bit neurotic. Alright, more like way neurotic with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) tendencies to help me feel prepared for the unexpected. I literally won’t leave home without water, and almonds or other snacks with me because sometimes I’m out longer than planned.

Also, it’s quite possible that you may find yourself stranded when your car breaks down and you need to wait for AAA to finally show up hours later. This has happened to me before – on several occasions. It’s very frustrating and outside your control. See, the water and almonds make perfect sense now – right? And my friends definitely appreciate it when I have some extra snacks in my pocketbook for sharing. It’s all good!

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Week 3 on How to Motivate Yourself to Succeed!

31 Tuesday Jan 2012

Posted by Sarina in Life Lessons, Motivation, Resilience, Self-determined, Self-limiting beliefs, Stress Strategies, Yoga

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Picture Yourself Walking a Red Carpet Event or at an Awards Ceremony.

Welcome back to the final week of How to Motivate Yourself to Succeed!

Previously, in the first week, we spoke about how the outcome of your goals and dreams is greatly influenced by your motivation as much or even more so then your ability, in many cases. At this time, I would like to introduce another concept to you, which is Self-efficacy. What is self-efficacy?

Self-efficacy is the belief in your ability to accomplish a task. Research tells us that even when the factor of ability is controlled, self-efficacy has an impact in performance.

Self-efficacy is different than self-esteem/confidence. Self-esteem or confidence is how you feel about yourself overall. Whereas, self-efficacy is really about how you think about yourself in one particular area. A person can have low self-efficacy in a sport or particular [Continue Reading...]

Week 2 on How to Motivate Yourself to Succeed!

25 Wednesday Jan 2012

Posted by Sarina in Determination, Embrace Change, Friendships, Goal Setting, Life Lessons, Motivation, Overcoming challenges, role models, Self-determined, Stress Strategies, Students, Success Strategies

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Are you ready to make some changes in your life? Well, I have three more Motivational Strategies for you this week to get you inspired!

Last week we covered the strategies of visualizing the successful outcome with the associated feelings, creating “healthy” competition with yourself, rewarding yourself along the way, and incorporating theme songs in your approach. If you are just joining us now, then be sure to check out the last blog article on How to Motivate Yourself to Succeed! That was the first in this series on motivational strategies for achieving desired outcomes on your goals and dreams. So without further delay, let’s continue our discussion.

Here are Three More Motivational Strategies this week for you.
5- Find a role-model and/or Engage your support team in the process.
- When you [Continue Reading...]

Focus, Strength, Determination and Action . . . And then you’re off to recognizing and embracing your Courageous & Remarkable Self!

24 Monday Oct 2011

Posted by Sarina in Determination, Life Lessons, Self-limiting beliefs, Stress Strategies, Students, Travel

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Le Chateau in Nice, France – Europe Trip 7/2011

Where we left off … I recognize it’s been quite some time since my last blog post. I’ve traveled to Europe and back during this past summer, and I’ve trained and completed my first Half Marathon in East Hampton NY despite some setbacks. I met someone on the Europe trip who I dated for a few months and this relationship has since ended. More recently, I signed up for another NYU School of Continuing Education class, Finding Your Voice on the Page, which begins early November. It’s exactly the type of class I need to take me where I want to go with my writing. I’m focused on facing my fears one at a time, developing myself, and experiencing life.

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How being Resilient can make all the Difference with Peer Pressure, Stress, School, Family, and Relationships.

26 Sunday Jun 2011

Posted by Sarina in College, Determination, Friendships, High School Students, Life Lessons, Peer Pressure, Relationships, Resilience, Self-determined, Stress Strategies, Students, TeenNewsNet

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Let’s start with the definition of resilience before we speak about it further. Wikipedia defines resilience as the ability to positively cope with stress and adversity or challenging negative situations. It’s seen as a process more so than a personality trait. So that means it can be developed by anyone at any time, and it doesn’t happen overnight. This is important to know. Starting with today you can develop resilience and build on the resilience you have created so far.

This is how thinking ahead to a certain degree and knowing how you will deal with negative situations (peer pressure, family conflict, difficulties in school, stress) becomes very beneficial. It’s about staying true to yourself and not allowing yourself to become vulnerable to the extent that you compromise your own values [Continue Reading...]