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The party season is upon us and if you are single it’s a great opportunity to meet some hot new people! If the thought of that fills you with dread or your idea of flirting is gazing into your raspberry martini then read on. Following are some top tips to sparkle your way into someone’s life!
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So you know the scoop: aerobic exercise -- or cardio work – is probably one of the best things you can do for yourself. The benefits are plentiful including calorie burning, strengthening of heart and lungs, lowered blood pressure, and stimulation of bone growth (through high-impact aerobic activities such as jumping rope). But perhaps most important, to harried women everywhere, cardio work can make you look and feel fabulous!
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From the minute my eyelids lift each morning, I’m scrambling: the kids are demanding breakfast, the dogs need to be let out and preferably walked, a load of laundry needs to be moved from the washer to the dryer (keeping on top of the laundry is a 24/7, 365 day a year endeavor: no holidays in the world of laundry management), and it would be nice to get a shower in at some point. As the day progresses it rarely gets better: dashing from one commitment to the next. Inevitably I’ll be late picking up a child when I realise I forgot to go by the market to get something for dinner…again. Sound familiar?
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Christmas is sneaking up on us!! I have spent the last few weeks working on plans for the future of Create Yourself. Michael and I are continually working on our brand, thinking what improvements we can make and services we can sell to be able to help you live a life you love even more. When running a business it is really important to be clear about what your niche is, what you really want to specialise in. Up until now my coaching as been fairly generalised with a constant element of building on peoples self confidence and belief in themselves.
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Create Yourself publish a free monthly podcast discussing loads of different topics based around health and fitness, life coaching and personal image.
Welcome to the Create Yourself Podcast for November 2008. In this month’s podcast we catch up with Mark Scales a visually impaired runner training for the London 2009 marathon. Michael Staddon offers some essential tips on how to achieve that washboard tummy so many of us dream about and Louise talks about why it’s important to set goals and how they can positivity influence our day to day life. Louise also offers some great tips and tricks on how to look great this Christmas!
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Run London 09 is a program designed by Create Yourself to help people increase their confidence and overcome challenges within their own life. Through Life Coaching, Personal Training and Image workshops Create Yourself encourages individuals to build their own self confidence and achieve exactly what they want out of life; to create them self.
We start our first of many in video the series covering Mark's progress towards the London Marathon in 2009 at The Royal London Society for the Blind in Sevenoaks where we speak to Mark Scales about his running, co-founder Michael Staddon about the Run London 09 program and Amanda Tucker from the RLSB.
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“Make up gives every woman the potential to be beautiful. Not because I believe you need to disguise yourself to look great, but more because i think you need to feel great to look it, and playing with the magic dust of make up makes you feel just that.” Juliet Cohen, Vogue Make-up Artist
There are so many opportunities with cosmetics these days that you can literally change your image, just by changing your make up. Some of today’s most powerful female icons use make up to be a chameleon in their professions and create different characters. Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Kylie, and girl-band Girls Aloud for example, all embrace the power of make up to transform themselves throughout their careers.
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Ok so let me think…the dinner dishes are cleaned and put away. Tomorrow’s lunches are assembled, packed and appropriately labeled. The kids were read and sang to and are now snug in their beds. The dogs were fed and walked. And I just put the last load of laundry in the dryer so it won’t get moldy and smell like the previous one. Great, now it’s “me” time! Too bad it’s 11:43pm and I’m so tired I can barely remember to breathe. But I don’t care; this is my special part of the day. Now is the time I can completely devote to myself: no children are clamoring for my attention, no boss is haranguing me for an overdue project, no dinner needs to be made, and it’s all about me and what I want to do. But, truthfully, what I really want to do is sleep.
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There, that doesn't sound too bad does it? I’ve been waiting a while for this day, for the moment I become the less well known super hero HALF MARATHON MAN. That's the dream come true, fantasy, make-believe idea anyway. I wasn't the only one with this dream, as I soon found out when we arrived at our destination; my shadow had become eclipsed by the huge army of runners that had invaded the park. All this time it was just Michael and I doing what Michael and I do, train very hard for this momentous occasion. This was different, felt like someone had opened the door, inviting thousands of people to come in, this was no longer a race for the lone hero to be, this was going to be a race for the people of London.
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A brand new fitness programme influenced by yoga, Pilates and dance that are suitable for all levels of fitness. Improves balance, fitness, co-ordination and muscle tone. Features a 'Warm up', 'Salute and Strength', 'Core Strength and Flex' and 'Standing Yoga and Dance', finishing with a chill out meditation to relax and relieve stress. All to a background of chill out music that includes Bent, Deepest Blue, iio, Jakatta, Lost Witness and The Thrillseekers.
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I can go days without remembering to floss or use sunscreen or even fill up my petrol tank, but I never, ever forget my caffeine fix. My morning cup of coffee – or jug depending on the previous night’s events –is a daily ritual that has become mandatory to my survival. And, I love it: the sound of the grinder as it pulverises that day’s beans, the smell of the coffee as it brews, the warmth of the mug in my hands and the feeling of the hot liquid as slides down my throat filling me with warmth and overall happiness. But as a busy, over scheduled and sleep-deprived woman, I not only inject my caffeine via morning cups of coffee, my days are also filled with diet soda, tea, the occasional energy drink and of course chocolate. I admit it, I’m a caffeine fanatic. But, is that really such a bad thing?
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Whether it’s calling important clients, dealing with customer care issues, asking for a pay rise or having to give a presentation at some stage in our careers we might hit something that doesn’t feel totally comfortable for us to do. Following are some suggestions of ways to increase your confidence in the workplace:
What are your beliefs?
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Well the last thing you need when training for such an event is to get ill. Tetanus injection, that's all it was, apparently I'd not had one for eleven years and now was catch up time. I suppose it was just one of those things, could never have predicted the consequences for doing the right thing. You see the nurse informed me that there was a seventy percent chance that I would suffer some side effects from the serum, fortune telling now jumping out as her next promising career. Bang, Whack, Wallop, it hit me for six, felt so weak I struggled to walk to the loo, never mind running anywhere. The whole ordeal took me a good few days to get over it, don't know why people say that, a very weird figure of speech that one, "a good few days", believe me there was nothing good happening during said days, I felt huge fatigue, several bouts of boredom and between you and me (everyone else reading this, whoever you may be), I found the whole duration increasingly and incredibly frustrating. Wanted to run but was told to rest, even my girlfriend told me to take it easy and I must admit, I find it's best if I do what she says.
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Before I know it will be Christmas!!! Michael and I have been busy this month preparing our new podcasts for the next few months to give you a clear idea of that the business is all about and the chance to hear feedback from some of our fantastic clients. I’ve loved recording the podcasts in the Capital Radio office at Leicester Square, its lead me to quite fancy having our own Create Yourself radio show......a proposal which I will be putting together soon!
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I just finished the race. What can I say? It was amazing! I had so much fun! I admit it; I’m hooked! In fact, I’m already planning my next race. I’m just sad that the “tri-season” is wrapping up out here and just when I’ve caught the bug. Although I just found out there is a “Chilly Cheeks” run/bike series with biathlon races held throughout the winter, which should keep me sated until the spring.
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Create Yourself publish a free monthly podcast discussing loads of different topics based around health and fitness, life coaching and personal image.
Welcome to the Create Yourself Podcast for October 2008, this Month Michael Staddon will be talking about the the often forgotten essential part of fitness - flexibility. We also speak with Victoria and find out how Create Yourself Life Coaching has changed her life. Tristan, a Personal Training client of Michael's identifies what he enjoys most each week. Louise also talks about the latest trends and styles for Autumn and Winter 2008.
Autumn/Winter Fashion 08
This season there is a real eclectic mix of fashion to choose from and have fun with. Following are some of the key trends to look out for…
Louise’s Top 10 Recommended Personal Development Books
There are so many personal development and spiritual books out there that it’s often hard to know where to start. Following are a few of my favourites that I often recommend to people I coach.
A funny thing happened on the way to the biathlon
A funny thing happened on the way to the biathlon: I got fit! I’m probably in the best shape I’ve been in, in years. The thing is, I thought I was fit already: I teach several group fitness classes a week, work with private clients training them and lead a very active life. I was the picture of health and fitness; or so I thought. Then I started training for this biathlon and I realize now, 9 ½ weeks into it, how not fit I really was.
Anyone who said that running is easy should be shot
Anyone who said that running is easy should be shot. Now who was that now? Oh yes I remember, NOBODY! No one would dare tell me that travelling in a forward motion, both legs bent and moving one after the other, sometimes at speed i.e. RUNNING! is easy. That's because it's not, but what is these days? No, since my last marathon and during the first few weeks of training this time around, I have come to realise that it takes a great deal of stamina, commitment, dedication, motivation and coming to terms with the fact that it's not going to be an easy ride( no chance of anybody giving me a ride, I’ve still got to run), it's going to be an extremely mental and physical and at times, emotional challenge.
