How to Love the Unlovable ; Love is easy when it is returned
Kindness always win, What will be your RAK this week
Monday morning Moment…What have you done lately for a RAK? I love Random Acts of Kindness, spreading and receiving Kindness everyday. So would you do me a favor and share in the comments below, A way you plan to spread kindness this week or a way you have received a RAK? #kindnessmatters #disruption #hopehealthhappiness
Notice the best parts of people and spread Kindness
Annie Meehan is a professional keynote speaker that inspires, educates, and activates her audiences with a clear message that spurs listeners to break counterproductive patterns and be the exception! As a widely embraced international speaker, she has been a catalyst in inspiring countless organizations to choose to soar above the status quo. As an expert on living an exceptional life, Meehan encourages her audiences to remove any barriers preventing them from achieving their goals. Her myriad testimonials reveal the “wow” factor that she creates at every presentation, which in turn catapults participants to adopt the practical tools she champions for more impactful lives, both professionally and personally.
As a keynote speaker, she has presented to countless corporations, associations, and non profit organizations, providing actionable strategies to strategically manage change, recognize the enormous power of words, and eliminate long-held excuses that keep people from attaining their goals. Her passion and charismatic essence engage people in new and exciting ways, which ignites people to seize a more focused and fulfilled path forward to obtain greater meaning and success.
Prior to becoming a professional keynote speaker, Meehan worked for a financial investment company for nine years, where she compiled five promotions in a male dominated workplace. After leaving the corporate arena, she ventured into the
entrepreneurial realm where she owned and operated two fitness franchise locations for 12 years and built a successful direct sales team. It was then that Meehan began touting her message of the importance of health and wellness. She is a National Speakers Association (NSA) member and past president of the NSA’s Minnesota chapter. She has earned the highest distinction as a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) and was inducted into the Minnesota NSA Hall of Fame.
An author of eight personal development books, her work includes the award-winning Be The Exception. One of her books, The Pineapple Principle, offers hospitality and a sweet journey to an exceptional customer experience. Today, her passion is to share her “H3 Cultures” concept with companies to help them create a Hopeful, Healthy, and Happy workplace that retains an engaged workforce!
Meehan has three adult children and lives in the Orlando, FL, area, with her husband Greg. She enjoys being an active member of her community by volunteering, going on adventures with her family, and taking Leo, her beloved pup, for strolls.
How do you eliminate your Excuses?
E is for Eliminate Excuses
This week we will cover the letter E, which stands for eliminating excuses. We need to strive to eliminate our excuses so we can expose our extraordinary. What I mean is when you face a challenge or someone who doubts your abilities, turn the negative into fuel to encourage you and allow that fuel to become the reason why you won’t stop until you reach your top!
For example, gym clients will say to me, “You don’t understand, my family has always had diabetes, it’s just the way it is. Genetically, there’s no hope for me.” Then, I have watched those same people transform their lives. Now, I realize some diseases can’t be cured or reversed, but so many can be improved with diet, self-talk, habits, and exercise.
Your physical, mental, and emotional health are so much more important than a number on a scale. Taking time to care for yourself and see improvement is where I love to support my clients.
Eliminating excuses always starts with understanding why we make excuses, you see there is a reward in every excuse for why we don’t live our best life. When the price is more painful than the reward, we start to make changes. I love to teach in acronyms.
E – Eliminate your excuses to expose your extraordinary.
X – iXnay the nay sayers. Remove the negative Nellies from your life and instead surround yourself with those that believe in and support you.
C – Commit to the changes you long for and want in your life, one step at a time and one month at a time. It is a lifelong journey, but Commitment + Consistency over time = Change.
U – You must put yourself first. Selfcare makes you self-full, not selfish. Care for yourself first, so you can serve others afterwards.
S – Stop and think about your thinking. Are you believing the negative or are you challenging your thoughts by asking yourself, “Does this serve me, my business or my relationships?” Stop and then shift your thoughts.
E – Exceptional. Why settle for average when you were created to live an extraordinary life?
In my life, I have had many challenges and have a pile of excuses why I can’t write a book. I am dyslexic, I can’t spell, some say I have ADD, but today I have five books! You can too!
When I bought my first gym, I was told by the previous owner that I would never make it. He said he had been bleeding for months and now he was hemorrhaging before he sarcastically wished me good luck. It felt like a sucker punch to my gut that knocked my breath out. Then, I shifted it in my mind and went from “you will never,” to “I dare you!” I used it as fuel to become #4 in the nation in 4 months.
So, if your excuses are stopping you by causing you to think, “My job isn’t working out,” or “I have the wrong boss, or “My relationships don’t work,” I encourage you to instead turn it around and look for a reason to make things work. Take your excuse and turn it into a reason why you’ll do things differently. By doing this, you can have success in an area you maybe didn’t have in the past.
This week, I encourage you to eliminate your excuses to live your extraordinary life.
What does living your exceptional life look like to you?
What success have you had eliminating an excuse by finding a reason within it?
What area are you struggling with?
What does your extraordinary life look like?
D is for Decisions
The D in the ABC’s to Success stands for decisions. When we’re setting a goal we have to decide to stay committed, despite any challenges we may face.
For example, I signed up for a challenge in which I was going to ride my bike 500 miles over a period of time. I had only ridden four miles in my life when I signed up to ride the 500 miles, but that wasn’t the only difficulty I faced. I had a friend that talked me into signing up and then she quit on me. Furthermore, two weeks before the challenge was to begin somebody stole my bike.
I could have quit, and some may say it just wasn’t meant to be. However, I made a decision and committed to something, so that is what I intended to do. We must stand by our decisions and commitments, even when obstacles try to get in our way.
We choose to show people we have decided to be committed, so we can celebrate that we stayed consistent, and we achieved what we set out to do, even if many obstacles came our way.
This week, I would simply like to encourage you to stand by your decisions and stay committed.
What does living your exceptional life look like to you?
Where are you committed but not consistent?
What have you started, but never finished?
Share your thoughts with Annie! E-mail her at:
Annie@AnnieMeehan.com
How could I, as your coach, support you in finishing what you start and living your exceptional life?
