Category: Relationships

Tap Into Your Juice

by amy155, posted in Beauty/Appearance/Style, Finances/Entrepreneurship, Health/Wellness, Relationships
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It’s interesting.  This process of Sizzling.  To me, it is so much more than how I look.  It’s how I feel about my life, and the many aspects of it.  You see, there’s is so much to live for.  It’s about consistently making the decision to step toward the good.  Step toward God’s gifts inside of you.

I wrote a guidebook, called Tap Into Your Juice – How to Find Your Gifts, Lose Your Fears and Build Your Dreams some 14 years ago.  In it’s 4th printing.  Endorsed by Michelle Obama.  It’s based on ten principles–my 10 P’s–philosophies I live by.  The first is Believing in Possibilities.  I’ve found that if you have a dream, a vision, a goal–even if you’ve never done it, if it is on your heart to do, try or become–well, it was put there for a reason.  Keep walking toward it.  Your belief is your energy source–align to it.  No matter what your age.

I still read TAP myself.  They say the teacher sometimes is the one needing the lessons.  Ha! Well, that would be me.  When life throws a curve, I go back to my 10 P’s.  Feel free to check them out…get it in ebook/Kindle form on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/tap-into-your-juice/id1099926182?mt=11 –or Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Tap-Into-Your-Juice-Dreams-ebook/dp/B01LWRR58J.  Paperback copies are coming back soon!

You see, to me, your Juice is the energy of your gifts–the mental, physical, spiritual and emotional vibrancy that gives you the momentum to accomplish anything.  And since our gifts are uniquely individual, your Juice can be too.  Tapping into it is a way of plugging into your smarts, strength, creativity, courage, resolve and resiliency to move forward through fear to build your dreams.

I had fears about starting this blog!  As the posts show, it’s not my first time.  Life happened.  You run hard and and the currents can be rough.  But I’ve found that turning within to align with the intuitive guidance we all have been given is energizing.  It’s like putting your boat in the river in the direction of the currents–your currents.  Learning to believe in and trust what feels right to you is a process.  But guess what?  When you get into the rhythm of it, the possibilities start coming.

Don’t fight the feeling!  Go with your gut.  Have less fight and more right with yourself and see what happens.  You’ll figure out the logical stuff.

And actually, as I’ve gotten older, this is becoming easier to do.  It’s freeing to realize that you can connect right into higher levels of energy.  Click on to it like an app–it’s electric!  It’s a mindset.   Be your OWN lottery ticket.

When negativity pulls, I remember to start tapping and Stand in My Power–my God-given gifts and shift my energy into gear.  I want the possibilities of a vibrant life, so I’m believing they are mine to have.  What about you?

Tap Into Your Juice.  Try it.

Let me know how that works for you, OK?

And as always–SIZZLE ON!

Sending Hugs,

Amy

 

 

 

 

Shift Happens

by amy155, posted in Beauty/Appearance/Style, Finances/Entrepreneurship, Health/Wellness, Relationships, Wellness/Self Love

There comes a time.

At each stage of life, you shift.   Priorities, plans, dreams.  You rearrange the chairs on the deck to fit the motion of the ocean.  Always pressing on, but pressing in a different way.  You sail on while things calibrate, energy moves, and then exciting horizons can appear.  I’m shifting gears now.   Higher!Horizon

When energy moves in a different direction, it’s hard sometimes to catch the rhythm, and may be a shock to your expectations.  But then, as you catch the rhythm, you make different decisions and change the map.  New destinations ahead!   Staying open to possibilities can sizzle!  It keeps momentum in life when you look at the positives of shift happening.

Shift.  What’s shift?  The stuff that can make you mad, delays that can frustrate, new information that changes your perspective and can throw you off your square.  But within the swirl of it, take another look, and find something new.    Another way of getting to success.  Even with situations where you thought you had figured out all the angles.

My friend Norma and I talked about this–that Shift Happens.   It does.   Why fight it?  Norma had a great  party celebrating her Level 7–seven decades of living life—and looks fabulous!  Part looking good is letting things matter that really matter now.  The rest–well, leave it alone.  Letting shift happen and staying focused on the positives is Better than Botox!  Less worry lines.  Keeps the forehead smooth.  Just sayin’.

Making a strategic pivot can really turn out well.  It’s hard to let old frameworks go, but when leveling up, that’s what is required.   When riding the wave, even if a turn takes you on a longer road, keep pedaling.   Let the fresh air hit your face.  The air around you is changing to go with the flow of opportunity.  God’s timing always shifts you in the right direction.

So, don’t get mad when Shift Happens.  Just roll with it.  Then make the choices you need to find the current and RIDE!

Do you feel me?  Let me know!

Hugs,

Amy

 

 

The Resilient Power of Friendship

by amy155, posted in Health/Wellness, Relationships

Last week, I lost a dear friend.  Ken Smikle, the husband of one of my closest friends, Renee Ferguson.  A remarkable man, marketing industry pioneer and part of a great couple.  Our children grew up together, and we have spent many years sharing our lives, loves, business ideas, successes, losses, joys, tears–and much, much laughter.

Renee and I are like sisters.  We are there for each other.  When Ken had a major heart attack on August 20, I stopped everything to be at her side.  Her son called me distraught as I was headed to the airport to be with my 94-year-old Mom.  Jason said, “Amy, my Dad just had a heart attack!!  I can’t get there yet from NY and my Mom is alone–can you PLEASE come to the hospital right away?”  I knew I could–and had to–delay my flight to be with my friend.  To hold her hand.  To help her breathe.  To pray with her.

As the next three weeks went on, we spent many hours at the hospital hoping for a miracle.  Several of us circled the wagons of friendship, so that she could be strong for the fight ahead.  Bringing stories to laugh about, books and newspapers to read, hugs to give energy, pizza to eat.  More than once the nurses had to remind us that there were too many in Ken’s ICU room!  But we had to be there to support our friends.

In my research for Sizzling After 60, I have read about the Blue Zones, regions of the world known for the longevity of their inhabitants.   Dan Buettner has written three best selling books about the Blue Zones, and they are on his website http://www.bluezones.com.  According to a special National Geographic Report, there is no one secret as to why people in the Blue Zones live longer, happier lives.  Dan has noted that residents of the Blue Zones practice nine healthy lifestyle habits that help them have healthier, longer lives including what they eat, daily rituals, social networks, physical environments and sense of purpose.  I will go into all of them in later blog posts but here, I will note a key one that I have seen in action through this recent challenging time with Ken and Renee:  Having The Right Tribe.  Social circles that support healthy behaviors.

For example, on the Japanese island of Okinawa, long cited for having the longest-living women, the women create moais, groups of five friends who are committed to each other for life.

I am part of my Renee’s moai, and she is part of mine.  Proudly.  She has more than five friends who are in her moai for sure–but all are long term, close and THERE.  I have witnessed the transfer of energy in the darkest moments when her resiliency was weak–we stepped in to give her our power so she could continue.

When Ken took his last breath, Renee’s loving family surrounded her.  And so did her moai.  And as the next several days have unfolded, with the inevitable and painful tasks ahead, her moai has been there with food, ideas, stories, simple company, communications to others, whatever was needed.  Often, laughter was the medicine needed to bring resilience.  Spontaneous prayers, too.

Life will happen.  To all of us.  To me, knowing that you have a moai there to hold you up when those moments knock you down can power up your resilience, and help you to press on.  When that job gets to be too much.  When your children work your nerves.  When your parents are sick.  That divorce.  The lost account.  That last breath.

Sometimes I used to get real busy going for that brass ring…taking care of family…my relationship…paying bills…running here and there…and not taking enough time for friends.  Yes, real friends understand when you are overwhelmed, busy and can’t talk every day.  But as more and more people I know and care about have left this earth, I am making SURE that I make time for the true friends, my moai, in life.  They have to feel me, and I them.  Research notes that taking friends for granted can shorten your life, and keeping positive friends close can enhance it!

I’m blessed to have friends going back to nursery school, elementary school in my moai.  And friends that have joined my moai on life’s journey during later years.  They are precious jewels.  Strong as diamonds.  With the right word, a hug, a recommended strategy, they can drill through the strongest of life’s walls of tribulation with the power of their friendship and give me the resiliency I need.

Who is in your moai?  Let them know you love them.  That you are there for them.   You will need each other and when you do, there’s nothing better than knowing the power of their resilience is right there.  Unconditionally.

I hope you can see that for me, there are a lot of layers to sizzling in life.  In a nutshell though, sizzling is about keeping all the things that positively fuel my life burning bright.  What about you?  I’d love to hear from you right here.

So friends, take care.  Cherish each other, and always–Sizzle On!  

Talk to you next week.

 

 

 

 

Hello world!

by amy155, posted in Beauty/Appearance/Style, Finances/Entrepreneurship, Health/Wellness, Relationships

Welcome to Sizzling At 60!  I’m looking forward to that milestone in 17 months, so let’s countdown together.  Let’s share our thoughts, affirmations and techniques to be sizzling and stay that way!  As women we do so much for others…here’s where we can share what works for US!  Who wants to ease on  down the road when you can shimmy!  Sizzling knows no age!