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Category: Daily Living
Earn Your Seat To Crown Council Annual Meeting.
I can’t wait to find out who will be going to the annual crowncouncil meeting in Nashville next Jan 2020 with me. We have to earn our seats in order to go and I am excited to be participating in how I am going to earn my seat. I will keep you all posted once our team members are boarding the airplane. We have till Nov. 2019 to be on board.
#goals #crowncouncil #positivevibes #volunteering #teamwork #travelingqueen
Have You Been Pulled From Too Many Directions?
If you feel pulled in any one direction and feel uneasy about it, these steps may help you get your life aligned:
1. Acknowledge.
Take some time to really look at your life, your state of mind, and how you’re feeling. Be honest with yourself and notice the areas of your life that you’re neglecting.
2. Examine.
Notice if you’re leaning more toward an internal or external focus, or if there are areas within each category that you would like to be more balanced.
3. Set Goals.
Look at the outline to help you decide which ways you want to balance your life. Make a list
4. Plan Tasks.
Make a list of daily, weekly, and monthly tasks that you will need to do to achieve each of these goals. What have you tried in the past? Did it work? If not, what can you do differently?
5. Reflect.
What is the most important thing you’ve accomplished in the past? How did you stay focused toward this goal? How did you handle your fears, doubts, anxieties, worries, and negative self-talk? How does it feel to know that you accomplished the goal in spite of these parts of yourself?
6. Prepare.
What is your inner “stuff” that will try to keep you from sticking to your plan (fears, worries, doubts, negative self talk)? Can you specify the things you will say to yourself to push you off track? (For example: “Just one more bite, I’ll start eating better tomorrow”) Make a list.
7. Empower.
What do you need to remember in those times? What are things you can say to that self-sabotaging part of yourself? Be kind to yourself. Balance won’t feel good if you’re cruel to yourself in creating it!
8. Connect.
Is there a person or a tactic you can use to keep yourself supported, motivated, and focused in those hard times? I highly recommend connecting and sharing your inner process with someone. Find someone who can help you challenge your inner demons, and celebrate your little accomplishments.
9. Plan.
Just like accomplishing any goal in life, it takes time and effort to overcome your habitual patterns and create new ones. If you stay on track with this detailed and intentional process for three whole months, then there is a good chance you will create new habits
Can wait to hear how you are getting along with your BALANCE so far.
God Bless,
Jani
Balanced Life
When you are living with balance in your life, you are living with peace and harmony every day. Balance comes in physical forms, emotional forms, and a spiritual form.
Being in balance may mean something different to each individual. Here I mention few tips that helps me balance my life since this is my word for this year, BALANCE.
Tips for living a well balanced life:
- Take care of and nurture yourself. You cannot accomplish anything if you’re unhealthy. …
- Know what your priorities are. Balance does not entail cramming in every activity possible. …
- Create an efficient mindset. Be organized and plan ahead. …
- Expect the unexpected. …
- Maintain a positive mental attitude
- I feel #1 is the most important one of them all. You should take care of yourself and nurture yourself, if you don’t do it, nobody will do it for you.
- Many people start doing this after they are completely burned. Take care of yourself physically, mentally and emotionally.
- Prioritize your priorities. I picked the word balance this year because my baby. Now I need to definitely prioritize because I have someone who needs me 24/7 but at the same time a lot of other things need to be taken care of. I do a lot of planning myself. I have always liked to plan ahead but now is more imperative I plan.
- Lastly, maintaining a positive attitude is super important. Giving my energy to certain situations that is not even under my control is not an option anymore. Spending time with positive Energy, positive people and people who lift me up is highly expected. Do not waste your time dealing with bull…
God bless,
Janitza
How often do you evaluate life?
10 Reasons why I Exercise
1. Reduce stress. Exercising has many physical benefits. Improving physical condition and fighting disease have long been established, and physicians always encourage staying physically active.
Exercise is also considered vital for maintaining mental fitness, and it can reduce stress.
When stress affects the brain, with its many nerve connections, the rest of the body feels the impact as well. Or, if your body feels better, so does your mind. Exercise and other physical activity produce endorphins — chemicals in the brain that act as natural painkillers — and also improve the ability to sleep, which in turn reduces stress.
2. Reduces Blood Pressure Chronic hypertension is the number one form of heart disease. The causes of hypertension include the increased plaque in the arteries that builds up from consuming a high-fat diet. Exercise helps reduce your blood pressure, in part, by attacking the plaque in your arteries.
3. Keep Bones Strong
Another normal age-related change is the loss of bone mineral strength. Here again, the magic number of a 1 percent loss per year seems to be the considered wisdom of how fast our body’s bones get thinner and weaker.
You need to spend no less than an hour a week of increasingly strenuous weight-lifting until you reach your maximum potential.
4. Boost your Energy. Because your body is functioning more efficiently, you’ve got more oxygen to fuel your body’s cells. You also feel fewer aches and pains and have greater strength. As a result, you can go about your daily activities feeling less fatigued, stressed, and weary.
5. Improves Mood. It’s a well-kept secret that people who exercise regularly also have lower risk of depression. Our pill-popping culture tends to emphasize medical interventions for psychological disorders over behavioral treatments. Exercise is one of these behavioral treatments.
6. Lowers Anxiety
Related to exercise’s effects on mood are its effects on your levels of anxiety. As your levels of endorphins increase, your feelings of worry also start to diminish. When you exercise, you also refocus your attention from your daily problems to the workout itself. You can gain a fresh perspective on even the most preoccupying concerns in your life by taking an exercise break. When you return to these daily problems, you approach them with renewed energy and even some new ways to figure out solutions.
7. Feels like fun
If you find the kind of exercise that fits your personality and motivational needs, you can actually have a good time while your body does the work. Some people need to exercise in a group class because they enjoy the social opportunities it provides. Others prefer to have time to themselves away from the stress of work and family. Whatever your exercise style, once you get into a routine, you’ll find that the activity itself becomes rewarding. Once you get to that point, exercise enriches the quality of life.
8. Boosts Memory
The effects of exercise on many of your bodily systems ultimately pays off in improving your cognitive functioning. There are now volumes of studies on humans as well as lab animals showing that regular physical exercise helps your neurons stay in shape particularly in the memory areas of your brain. You don’t even have to exert yourself that much to experience this memory boost. Moderate walking can help your brain’s memory center. Memory also benefits from a general lowering of cortisol, the stress hormone, associated with the improved mood and anxiery levels you experience from your regular workouts.
9. Builds Intelligence
Along with memory, your intellectual skills benefit from regular physical activity. It also helps if you can build in some mental activity as well. As oxygen flows more freely to your brain, not only does your hippocampus benefit but so does the part of your brain involved in planning and reasoning. Mental activity, particularly involvement in exercises that require you to respond quickly, also boosts your intelligence and even your ability to carry out activities of daily living.
10. Improves Sex Life
Keeping your muscles active through use helps promote the demands placed on your endocrine glands to produce more hormones. With more muscle mass comes greater stimulation to produce androgens which help both men and women maintain their sexual functioning. You are also likely to feel more fit and be more fit, which in turn will benefit your interest in and ability to carry out sexual activity.
God Bless,
Janitza
My First 3 Months
Little girls bring lots of love,
Janitza
You must be very Happy Now your little girl is here- And may the joy you’re sharing keep increasing year by year! Mark & Patti
Janitza,
Good luck with your baby, I know you can hardly wait! Your friends, Cathy and Lynwood
Janitza, Let’s stick together
I admire the strength you’ve shown since returning to work. I am so glad you are in the “Mommy club” now and we can share even more now. There will be days when you feel like you are not enough and question if you are making the right decision for your family. May this book brighten your days like that and know YOU are Enough! Always here if you need anything, Samantha
Your baby girl is blessed to be born into a family where love is a way of life. Anyone who knows you knows that you have all the warmth, love, strength, and gentleness you’ll need to give this precious little girl a happy start in life, Congratulations, Smiles For Life
Your Sweet little girl from God,
Hope you feel blessed kissing little cheeks, still rosy from angel kisses, holding little hands, still keeping time to celestial choirs, gazing lovingly into little eyes, just as bright as the starry skies of heaven! Wishing you and you baby Every Happiness, Congratulations, Nicole
Janitza,
This baby gift was chosen with a lot of love and care, wrapped and tied with a wish inside and happy thoughts to spare. Wishing you happiness always. So excited for you. You’ll make a terrific MOM. Delores
Congrats to one Foxy Mama,
I just want to offer you congratulations and let you know how excited I am for you! You are going to make the best mom and I am so thrilled for you in this next chapter. All the best to you and your growing family xoxo, Kelsey
Ese Angel
Refiere una Antigua leyenda que un nino proximo a nacer, le dijo a Dios.
Me vas a enviar manana a la tierra, pero Como vivire alla? siendo tan pequeno y tan debil? Entre los muchos angeles escogi a uno que te espera contesto Dios.
Pero aqui en el cielo no hago mas que cantar y sonreir y eso basta para mi felicidad, poder hacerlo alla?
Ese angel te hablara y te ensenaras las palabras mas dulces y mas tiernas que escuchan los humanos.
Que hare cuando quiera hablar contigo? Ese angel juntara tus pequenas manos y te ensenara a orar.
He oido que en la tierra hay hombres malos, quien me defendera? Ese angel te defendera aunque le cueste la vida..
Pero estare siempre triste por que no te vere mas Senor.
Ese angel te hablara de mi y te mostrara el camino para volver a mi presencia. Le dijo Dios. En ese instante, una paz inmensa reinaba en el cielo . No se oian voces terrestres. El nino decia suavemente:
Dime su nombre Senor.
Ese Angel se llama Mama!
Lula
Her first 3 month on this earth has been amazing and I can hardly wait to see what’s coming in the next 3 months.
God Bless,
Janitza
How scared are you?
Giving Birth After 40
Statistically speaking a 40 year old woman only has a 5 percent chance of getting pregnant per month. This means that even for those that will get pregnant, it may take longer. … Getting pregnant after 40 is possible without fertility treatment, but your chances of having trouble conceiving are higher.
The number of women having babies after age 40 has quadrupled. Forty is the new 20 when it comes to having babies creating a distinct trend with a host of positives for women who delay motherhood including living longer than those who give birth at young ages.
I was 41 years old when I had my baby girl Keyani Faith. She will be 3 months old in 5 days. I never saw myself having baby at an early age. I always said growing up that I would like to have a kid or 2 in my late 20’s or early 30’s but life had a different plan for me and I ended up giving birth at 41.
I was completely shocked when I found out that I was pregnant. It took me few hours to realize that the doctor 3 hours earlier had confirmed that I was expecting. I went to see the doctor because I was experiencing abdominal pain. Same abdominal pain I get every month the only difference this time was that I didn’t have my period for 7 weeks. It was very unusual for me to not have my period since I am a very regular person, but once you turn 40 years old things start to happen and due to some of the symptoms I had I really thought I was starting to have menopause. My symptoms were hot flashes, night sweats, abdominal pain, increased irritability, and the need to urinate more often, other than that I didn’t experience anything else that made me believe that I could be pregnant.
When I called my family via video to tell them the news that’s when reality hit. You should’ve seen their faces, it was priceless, they were so excited and that’s when I broke out in tears. Wow! I am going to be a mother, I cant believe God is allowing me to experience pregnancy. There were many other things that came to my mind right after the joy of knowing that I was 7 weeks pregnant but I could write a book instead.
If you think you’re too old to have a baby…you’re probably not. Just ask first time moms Halle Berry who gave birth at 41, Jennifer Lopez who had twins at 38, or one of your friends. In 2006 one in every twelve first babies was born to a woman over 35. When you look at women having babies regardless of whether or not it’s their first child, one in seven babies were delivered by women 35 or older.
Obviously when you are 35 years old or older you are at high risk. I have to mention that I had a beautiful pregnancy. However when I was around 32 weeks pregnant I started to experience what every woman experience. I was unable to sleep well, I was feeling too heavy- not to mention I was all belly- It was hard for me to sit, lay down, take a shower, shave, go up and down the steps, wash my hair, drive and I even developed carpel tunnel.
When I went to my regular doctor’s appointment to have an ultrasound to see the position of the baby I was told at that visit that my blood pressure was high. I was sent immediately to the ER. I was feeling well. The doctor was surprised I didn’t have any symptoms as high as my blood pressure was. That same day I had my baby via C-section. My baby girl came to the world 4 weeks early.
I had to stay an extra day at the hospital with her because her blood sugar was not stable. I was doing very well after surgery however the following Friday I was admitted to the hospital with Atrial Fibrillation ( An irregular, often rapid heart rate that commonly causes poor blood flow) and the Friday after I was admitted again to the hospital because my blood pressure was high again. These are things that happen during or after pregnancy that can happen to anyone younger or older. You just have to have faith and hope everything works out for the best.
Many women are in no rush to have children. This is something that it may be hard to believe for some people. My opinion is that we should respect people’s desires about their personal preference when it comes to having kids, specially when you see many women who are not ready or unable to have kids. I have known of women who are currently suffering or have suffered in silence because they are unable to get pregnant. Sadly not everyone is meant to be married and have a family. This is one of many things society teach us at an early age to get married and have kids but we all should know what works for us and what makes us happy. Many people have asked me for the longest time when I was going to have kids and they would tell me what a great mother I would be. To be honest all of them were probably right but the truth of the matter is that I was the one who needed to make that decision for myself and the science behind it had to be in my favor as well, I couldn’t let anyone else make it for me. This age is a great age for me to have my beloved daughter since I am now more financially and emotionally secured. Now I am ready to share all the unconditional love I have for her. You just have to be ready and God will take care of the rest , He is the one that knows everything, you just have to trust Him.
One should not have kids when someone tell them to have one. A woman should have kids when she is ready. Enjoy your life just exactly how you always imagined. Nobody walks in your shoes. Live your life happy with or without kids, your life, your choice. Travel the world if that is what you like, go to school, live your career life, at any rate just live life and have fun while doing it.
I think Forty is the new twenty!!
God Bless,
Janitza
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