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The Silent Destroyer

August 19, 2017 By Barbara Mencer

It makes your blood pressure rise. Makes you crave carbohydrates. Makes your blood sugar rise. Causes you to “burn up” your calming and repair nutrients, such as vitamin C, the B vitamins, zinc and magnesium.

It suppresses your immune system, playing a role in the development of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and diabetes, while increasing your risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s.

It turns damaging free radicals loose in your system. It inhibits the collagen production your connective tissue needs to sustain and rejuvenate itself and causes your cells to age faster. It not only stops the production of new brain cells, it damages your brain at the structural level of your DNA and puts you at higher risk for mental illness.

It compromises your ability to regulate your body’s immune response over time, resulting in chronic inflammation. It cuts off production of the master hormone responsible for growth and repair, DHEA.

All this makes you old before your time and shortens your life. This stuff is trouble.

And those aren’t all the problems it causes.Read More

Filed Under: Health, Life Coaching Tagged With: health, life coaching, peak performance

What’s Important To You?

February 28, 2017 By Barbara Mencer

People do things for two reasons … to maximize pleasure and minimize pain.

Don’t’ want to have Alzheimer’s … otherwise known as Type 3 Diabetes … when you’re 60? Then don’t eat sugar and empty carbs. Pain averted.

But wait. Eating sugary baked goods definitely maximizes pleasure in the moment.

Choices!

So, which will it be?

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Filed Under: Health, Life Coaching Tagged With: fitness, life coaching, wellness

Tick Tock

December 16, 2015 By Barbara Mencer

Tick Tock.

Whoops … there went a fraction of your life.

Whoa … there went another. A tiny fraction to be sure, but … gone forever.

Let me just say thank you for spending these moments with me. I mean, I know you have a lot of necessary and important things to do.

Like what?Read More

Filed Under: Business, Life Coaching Tagged With: balance, life coaching, Time Management

That’s Not Acceptable

May 11, 2015 By Denise Hedges

Someone from my family of origin who I was very close to growing up and trusted my whole life just isn’t that “best friend” and protector anymore.  This person has betrayed my trust and behaved very badly.

It’s hard to acknowledge it when you see someone changing in front of your eyes, but life experiences can sometimes alter who they are to the point you don’t know them anymore. The person I knew is gone.

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Filed Under: Life Coaching Tagged With: life coaching

An Automatic “No”

March 9, 2015 By Denise Hedges

I have to tell one on myself.

I noticed recently that my response to suggested changes in the way we were doing things or plans we had in place had become an automatic no.

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Filed Under: Business, Uncategorized Tagged With: business coaching, life coaching, life lessons

The Imperfectly Balanced Life

February 19, 2015 By Barbara Mencer

There’s really no such thing as a balanced life, at least not a perfectly balanced one.

And what’s more, you wouldn’t want one. And you know what? I’ll go one step further. A balanced life isn’t for everybody.

What?!!!

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Filed Under: Health, Life Coaching, Uncategorized Tagged With: life coaching, life lessons

Seeking Validation

January 12, 2015 By Denise Hedges

Let me ask you a personal question.

What do you have to do to prove yourself in this life? What’s required of you?

Do you have to behave a certain way? Do you have to accomplish something notable?

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Filed Under: Life Coaching Tagged With: life coaching, life lessons

Slowin’ Your Roll With A 3 Year Old

December 15, 2014 By Barbara Mencer

Little kids say some funny things. And sometimes, our little ones say some really profound things without even knowing it. My grandson said something last week that really got to me.

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Filed Under: Health, Life Coaching, Uncategorized Tagged With: life coaching, life lessons

A Classic Miscommunication

December 1, 2014 By Denise Hedges

Have you ever offended someone without meaning to? Well, read on. The screw-up in our second story today takes the cake.

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Filed Under: Business, Life Coaching, Uncategorized Tagged With: business coaching, life coaching

Admire It Back

November 17, 2014 By Denise Hedges

When my partner Tom’s brother, Jim, was just a little guy, their mother told him about the tradition of certain Native American tribes.

If someone admires something of yours, it was considered the gracious and generous thing to do to give it to them.

She’d related the information as an interesting bit of information without really thinking what effect it might have on a five year old.

It wasn’t good.

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Filed Under: Life Coaching Tagged With: life coaching, life lessons

Let Me Tell You A Story

November 3, 2014 By Barbara Mencer

Remember bedtime when you were three?  What did you want?

You wanted to hear a story.

And now that you’re an adult, what’s changed?

Nothing.  Stories still capture our attention.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: business coaching, life coaching, life lessons

Thank You Robin Williams

September 8, 2014 By Denise Hedges

Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day, make a wish, and think of me. Make your life spectacular.

– Robin Williams from the movie Jack

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Filed Under: Life Coaching, Uncategorized Tagged With: life coaching, life lessons

The Original American Dream

August 11, 2014 By Barbara Mencer

Do you know what it was … the original American dream?  I had no idea myself until I read an article recently from financial writer, Chris Mayer.

It seems the phrase was coined by a guy named James Truslow Adams in 1930, and the dream wasn’t about getting ahead and having the house and car and boundless opportunity in the land of the free.

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Filed Under: Business, Life Coaching Tagged With: business coaching, life coaching, life lessons

Fast Takes Longer …

July 8, 2014 By Denise Hedges

Business Breakthrough Institute

Fumbling.  Bumbling.

That’s what happens when you try to go fast, and instead of gaining an advantage, you wind up in worse shape than if you’d taken your time.

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Filed Under: Business, Life Coaching Tagged With: business coaching, life coaching, life lessons

Choosing Happy

June 12, 2014 By Barbara Mencer

We all want to be happy.  Then, why are so many of us not as happy as we could be or just plain unhappy?

Is it because things haven’t worked out for us the way we’d hoped … or is it because we’re not consciously choosing to be happy?

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Filed Under: Health, Life Coaching, Uncategorized Tagged With: life coaching, life lessons

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