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A Different Approach to Health…Thriving Beyond Food Intolerations

31 Tuesday Dec 2013

Posted by Sarina in Adventures, Anxiety, Clean Living, Determination, Embrace Change, Facing Fears, Fitness/Wellness/Health, Goal Setting, Green Juice, Happiness, Healthy Lifestyle, Liberation, Life Lessons, Motivation, Overcoming challenges, Resilience, Respect and Honor, role models, Self-limiting beliefs, Stress Strategies, Success Strategies, Yoga

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Even after going through a series of colonics appointments, adapting a more clean living lifestyle (mostly vegan foods and green juicing), I was still having some digestive issues. Though no longer dependent on coffee to help me take care of my morning business in the bathroom. Rather hot lemon water and green juice was all I needed. For someone like me with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), this was a huge triumph!

However, it wasn’t until my colonics practitioner suggested that I get tested for food allergies, that I seriously considered this further. It was time to get to the bottom of this. As flushing my system out of what was irritating it with regular colonics appointments, didn’t seem like the end all be all solution. This led me to ask my [Continue Reading...]

Learn to Love Something You Hate –Shift Your Life!

18 Wednesday Dec 2013

Posted by Sarina in Adventures, Anxiety, Career, College, Embrace Change, Facing Fears, Fitness/Wellness/Health, Goal Setting, Happiness, Liberation, Life Lessons, Overcoming challenges, Relationships, Resilience, role models, Self-determined, Self-limiting beliefs, Stress Strategies, Success Strategies, Travel, Workplace

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9/2013 Cow Harbor 10k Race - Northport, NY
My 5th running season & 4th time running this challenging race!
Sarina + Amanda (sister) + Annemarie (HS friend!)

Today I want to share some life-changing insight with you from a book that made me realize that everything I’ve ever achieved was because of the principles behind it. I recently finished reading The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy, publisher of SUCCESS Magazine and NY Times bestselling author. Of course, I highly recommend you get yourself a copy of this book.

There were so many ah-ha moments in this book that just explained why when I had approached life or a challenge in a certain way that it either worked for me or against me. One ah-ha moment for me was the fact that overnight success is not how it happens, but it sometimes appears that way to others.

Rather it’s about staying with something [Continue Reading...]

Part 2 of Being a Force to be Reckoned with!

14 Thursday Nov 2013

Posted by Sarina in Adventures, Anxiety, Career, College, Determination, Embrace Change, Facing Fears, Fitness/Wellness/Health, Goal Setting, Happiness, Hay House Authors, Healthy Lifestyle, Liberation, Life Lessons, Motivation, Overcoming challenges, Relationships, role models, Runner, Self-limiting beliefs, Stress Strategies, Students, Success Strategies, Travel, Workplace, Yoga

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Previously, I had shared the approach of Becoming a Force to be Reckoned with! At this time, I have a few more life-changing, create a revolution resources/books to share you! So much abundance available to us when we are open to receiving. This is the first year I’ve read so many books for leisure/development purposes, as opposed to academic reasons.

I just can’t stop myself. About a week ago, a box arrived from Amazon with five new books! Last weekend, I attended the NYC Book Launch party for a fellow BSchooler, Christina Rasmussen, Seconds Firsts: Live, Laugh and Love Again. My sister says the living room is looking like a library these days with books stacked on the edge of the couch. As if that’s such a terrible thing? Maybe she’ll [Continue Reading...]

Performance Reviews & Keeping Your Self Worth!

15 Tuesday Oct 2013

Posted by Sarina in Anxiety, Career, Embrace Change, Goal Setting, Happiness, Liberation, Life Lessons, Motivation, Overcoming challenges, Self-determined, Self-limiting beliefs, Stress Strategies, Success Strategies, Workplace

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It’s performance appraisal time in the workplace. Don’t you just love being judged on what you’ve accomplished? Ah, yeah, not so much.

Truth be told, as a HR professional, I used to dread and really dislike the entire process –self-appraisal, performance review with my boss, how I was measuring up to my boss’ expectations, and receiving constructive feedback.

As a Recovering Perfectionist, I definitely get it. I wanted to be a Super Star in every aspect of my life, which isn’t possible. I wanted to achieve “exceeds expectations” rating basically on every objective, while demonstrating the values & behaviors. I was making myself crazy and causing unnecessary stress for myself.

Performance Review process would almost always leave me thinking, “Was I good enough in my role and for this organization?”

I had [Continue Reading...]

How to Conquer Disappointment and Show it Who’s Boss!

30 Monday Sep 2013

Posted by Sarina in Anxiety, Determination, Embrace Change, Facing Fears, Fitness/Wellness/Health, Happiness, Healthy Lifestyle, Liberation, Life Lessons, Motivation, Overcoming challenges, Relationships, Resilience, Runner, Self-limiting beliefs, Stress Strategies, Success Strategies, Yoga

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Disappointment is part of life, that’s reality. However, with the right practice, you can conquer it! You can turn disappointment into a positive, life changing experience with the potential to catapult you into a place in life you never even imagined. For some, this could be you, if you choose, disappointments become this energy or motivation that drives you to take a different approach, learn more about yourself, and come back even stronger, more resilient and compassionate with yourself.

Therefore, the way in which you perceive and respond to disappointment makes all the difference. Realize that disappointment and any lingering self-limiting beliefs don’t need to hold you back!

That’s right! In today’s blog article, you’re going to learn exactly how to keep disappointment from getting the best of you. Before I share [Continue Reading...]