Ep #15 | How to Create New Year’s Intentions You’ll Actually Stick To
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This New Year’s episode is a special one that aims to help you pinpoint your goals and intentions for 2019 the right way. Grab your pen and paper, and prepare a “Soul soothing” drink (find the recipe below) to really synch-in with what this episode is about.
New year’s resolutions bring great expectations that usually don’t last long and leave us with a feeling of failure, coming hand in hand with procrastination. We make it too complicated!
Find your balance: you can make your own choices. Even though we will encounter many situations that we cannot change, we can always decide how we react to them, and what perspective we use to interpret what life throws in front of us. We have choices today, pick the ones that will serve you and your purpose.
How do you decide your intentions for 2019?
- Find the motivations behind your goals.
- Identify how you want to feel.
- Find how you can keep your energy focused on achieving these purposes.
- Ask yourself: Are these goals yours, or they are someone else’s?
- Do not limit your dreams, anything is possible, but it is important to be honest with yourself.
Mindset First
Get in touch everyday with your motivation. Send love messages to yourself, reminding yourself what matters to you.
Ask yourself who is getting into your mind and how their energy affecting your mindset.
Nutrition
Nutrition is the foundation for everything, it is even more important than exercise. A healthy nutrition is the key to healing, repairing and truly seeing the results of your training.
Sleep
Sleep is where all the healing takes place. Getting proper sleep is enough to start losing weight, most of the time.
Supplements
I suggest my “Foundational Five” which is a whole food complex (Juice Plus is the one Jenn’s family uses), Vitamin D, probiotics, magnesium and omega 3. Also you can add a methylated B complex and collagen.
Organizing and decluttering
Your space needs to be organized if you want to be able to focus. Clear out your home, and free up space! Your calendar needs to have clarity and simplicity too, Jenn uses Google calendar for all the family and personal activities, separating different activities with different colours.
Finances
This can be one of the biggest areas of stress. Use a spreadsheet, including all the income and all your expenses. Call everyone of your providers (internet, cable, insurance, online subscriptions) find out what you are not using, what can you delete or not renew, and you will free up lots of money. Clearing up your finances has more impact in your health than you think it has, once you know where your money is going you will be able to choose wisely and consciously where to spend it.
Relationships
Work on your connections with your family and friends, reach out to your community, break isolation. Schedule time with your family, your children and your spouse, you all need quality time.
Reencounter Your Joy Point
Ask yourself what do you love to do and when was the last time you did it. Find that joy point and spend good time on it.
Regardless your situation, you have the opportunity to make 2019 the year you decide. Create your own vibrant, individual simplicity project, funnel your energy into your intentions.
Grab your headphones, whip up this elixir and tune in with me!
Soul-Soothing Cacao Elixir
- 1 tablespoon of Dandy Blend
- 1 tablespoon of cacao or cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon of Ceylon Cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon of coconut oil, MCT oil powder or nut butter
- 1 to 2 scoops of collagen
- ¼ cup of non dairy milk
- 1 cup and ½ of hot water
Put all these rich ingredients into your blender; you can top it with a little bit of cinnamon, cacao, shredded coconut or nutmeg.
For a live experience with Jenn:
Please contact Nature’s Emporium Newmarket directly via info@naturesemporium.com or 905-898-1844 to register for the LIVE Simplicity Project course that begins January 23rd.
Online working with Jenn:
To register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones and more please visit HERE.
The next round of The Hormone Project begins January 21st.
Learn more about Jenn’s work:
The Hormone Project
The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs and much more!
Quotes:
“Nutrition is everything, you can’t sweat out the poor quality food you have put into your body.”
“Sleep is the motherland for all healing to happen, specially for your hormones.”
“Lose pounds of inflammation in a couple of weeks just by focusing on getting proper sleep.”
“Be very careful of what you put in your headspace before going to bed, your nervous system cannot separate between true stress and imagined stress.”
“A collagen supplement is very good for your joints, bones, tendons, ligaments, hair, nails, skin and gut health.”
“When you are really clear and honest about where you stand financially, that is when you can start make changes in your finances.”
Additional Information About Jenn:
Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium and Juice Plus.
Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.