WOW...I have missed you!! Have you ever gone skiing...you get there...you get all suited up and you are lookin' good. Like you look so good...you feel like a pro right??!! Then you take a couple runs down the greens to get warmed up. Next you venture over to the blues for a run or two....and then you decide to get some lessons, right?
So you got a full day of lessons...lessons rocked, you are so jacked up...you love skiing, you are so happy to be here, this is everything you have ever wanted...and now its day 2 of a 7 day ski trip...and you are on you own...no instructor...just all that shit in your head about how to hold the poles, where to put your weight, which way to lean, and what do you do????
You ski like crap!!!
Those of you who have done this know the ridiculous truth!! You had been a pretty good skier, you actually PAY to get better and you end up falling on your face buried in the snow!! Some of you may have hit a tree or ran over a person or two!!??!!
Why? Because you have new information to process & practice until the results show up one day...and it really does show up in a split second...you get it and everything you learned clicks...its magic, right??!!! Yeah!!
So that's where I have been...out on the double black diamond moguls of life with a bad back, broken arm, injured knee and a patch over one eye...sliping and sliding all over the place!! LOL ;)
oh yeah...you know.....they say that it is only in the depths of the valley that one can see the mountain's great height...
So I am starting to settle in to the groove right??!! ...Look Out!!
Committed to Being the Light...set a Blaze!
Friday, May 11, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
No blog this week...
Hey all...out of town for some intense break-through training...back at you next week with awesome topic into the make up of how you got to be where you are...you are not going to want to miss the inside peek into your IDENTITY!
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Put A Little ________ In It!!
What's missing.... the presents of which would make a significant difference?!!???
Do you ever get to the end of your day or week and all you feel like you did was check off all these things on your list?
I am a check list junkie...its really the only way I can stay organized and move with velocity...but as I expand my life and the things I am up...the check lists expanded as well....and while I was feeling accomplished I said...what's missing...that which the presents of would really make a real difference??!! And I got it....FUN!!
I have a now 6 year old :) and she can literally have fun EVERYWHERE. Do you have a little person in your life or know of someone who has a little person? Think about them for a moment....I take my daughter to the grocery store...she has a blast..."mom, let me be the checker!" she makes the ding sound every time she puts something in the cart. We go to the library and she gets such a giggle out of checking her own books out. She sings songs & performs dance routines in the shower, skips to get the mail, asks to vacuum the kitchen floor, and brushes her teeth to Justin Bieber. Do you get it...every day mundane tasks taken on with child like fun & play??!!
So I set up an experiment...add FUN to everything... and got the most UNEXPECTED WORKOUT...had a fun-rampage of a lifetime and got a whole new view!!
Friday was girls day...Dad was off to play golf and we were left to our own demise!! Savannah has only had her training wheels off for a maybe 2 months and has only ever rode in our court. Friday morning comes...the check list starts...the mind is racing...I want to go for a run...but I can't cause I didn't get up while everyone was still sleeping...its a beautiful day...in my mind...the opportunity for a run/workout is over....UGG.
I was committed to fun (can you hear it kind of starts out forced, stomping my foot..LOL)...so I say to my daughter...what do you want to do...its your day!? She says...I want to ride my bike...so I'm like...well we could go to Grants Trail. You ride, I will run with Xander (the dog) and we will have some FUN!! She was totally pumped!! Now she had never been and I was really mentally prepared for us to be out there maybe 20 - 30 mins...I figured it would be maybe a mile, mile and a half at best...she would be bored or tired....boy was I wrong!!!
Here we are 3 miles in and she is CONVINCED we are doing the whole 18!!
I know she had fun...but I had the time of my life!! We talked and sang the whole way...pointed out animals & flowers we saw along the way. I was so present to putting fun back in my run, it gave me a whole new perspective to working out!! By the way...I had to shut her down at mile 5!! LOL
So what's next? We jump roped, hula hooped, bounced on the trampoline, played soccer in the back yard...you name it...our bodies were moving!! I felt like I was on an Olympic track and field special event. We bonded, giggled, burned calories and now have memories of a lifetime!!
So needless to say the experiment was a success and the results were...workouts don't have to be what you think they have to be. Put a little FUN in it and see what you can create!!
What other areas could benefit from the fun meter rising??!! TAKE IT ON!! I promise you...just being AWARE of your FUN meter in one area will shine lights on other areas...this is an extraordinary opportunity to PLAY! Life is short...its your GAME!!
PLAY like your 6 again...TAG YOUR IT!!
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Do you ever get to the end of your day or week and all you feel like you did was check off all these things on your list?
I am a check list junkie...its really the only way I can stay organized and move with velocity...but as I expand my life and the things I am up...the check lists expanded as well....and while I was feeling accomplished I said...what's missing...that which the presents of would really make a real difference??!! And I got it....FUN!!
So it got me thinking...have our workouts, jobs, relationships, sex, parenting, and life in general... started to lack fun? Do we actually resist doing something, do it poorly or maybe don't do it at all...because the fun meter is buried at ZERO??!!
I have a now 6 year old :) and she can literally have fun EVERYWHERE. Do you have a little person in your life or know of someone who has a little person? Think about them for a moment....I take my daughter to the grocery store...she has a blast..."mom, let me be the checker!" she makes the ding sound every time she puts something in the cart. We go to the library and she gets such a giggle out of checking her own books out. She sings songs & performs dance routines in the shower, skips to get the mail, asks to vacuum the kitchen floor, and brushes her teeth to Justin Bieber. Do you get it...every day mundane tasks taken on with child like fun & play??!!
So I set up an experiment...add FUN to everything... and got the most UNEXPECTED WORKOUT...had a fun-rampage of a lifetime and got a whole new view!!
Friday was girls day...Dad was off to play golf and we were left to our own demise!! Savannah has only had her training wheels off for a maybe 2 months and has only ever rode in our court. Friday morning comes...the check list starts...the mind is racing...I want to go for a run...but I can't cause I didn't get up while everyone was still sleeping...its a beautiful day...in my mind...the opportunity for a run/workout is over....UGG.
I was committed to fun (can you hear it kind of starts out forced, stomping my foot..LOL)...so I say to my daughter...what do you want to do...its your day!? She says...I want to ride my bike...so I'm like...well we could go to Grants Trail. You ride, I will run with Xander (the dog) and we will have some FUN!! She was totally pumped!! Now she had never been and I was really mentally prepared for us to be out there maybe 20 - 30 mins...I figured it would be maybe a mile, mile and a half at best...she would be bored or tired....boy was I wrong!!!
Here we are 3 miles in and she is CONVINCED we are doing the whole 18!!
I know she had fun...but I had the time of my life!! We talked and sang the whole way...pointed out animals & flowers we saw along the way. I was so present to putting fun back in my run, it gave me a whole new perspective to working out!! By the way...I had to shut her down at mile 5!! LOL
So what's next? We jump roped, hula hooped, bounced on the trampoline, played soccer in the back yard...you name it...our bodies were moving!! I felt like I was on an Olympic track and field special event. We bonded, giggled, burned calories and now have memories of a lifetime!!
So needless to say the experiment was a success and the results were...workouts don't have to be what you think they have to be. Put a little FUN in it and see what you can create!!
What other areas could benefit from the fun meter rising??!! TAKE IT ON!! I promise you...just being AWARE of your FUN meter in one area will shine lights on other areas...this is an extraordinary opportunity to PLAY! Life is short...its your GAME!!
PLAY like your 6 again...TAG YOUR IT!!
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Got Caught Looking Good!!
Good morning Extraordinary-U!!
I need to restore integrity with you....I communicated to you I would post once a week and it is now 3 weeks since my last blog. The impact of that on you is you were left wondering what's going on with me...like where have I been, will I be back? I left you hangin'. You have my apologies and a commitment that if I cannot write a full blown blog once a week I will communicate that to you and not leave you hanging....deal??!! Great!
Just to get complete around this...yes I was rocked with a sinus mucus monster that left me completely whipped out and uninspired to empower you. Yeah...like I really do write this stuff and if it is not completely coming from my heart I can't write it...I am a stand that you are left touched, moved and inspired in an area of life that is important to you...and I will have those days...or weeks in this case where I just ain't got it :) Its called Human Being!!
I am back with a vengeance!! So be totally prepared to be rocked!!
So lets take a look at what is Integrity? Imagine that...that I would start with that :)
Integrity is as simple as doing what we say we are going to do....right??!! Can you think of a recent time when you said you would do something and didn't? What was the impact on you? What can you put in place next time so you can honor your word?!?
Just last week...I was on a call with leader in the community communicating to her some concerns I had about what had happened at our last meeting and she says to me...Call so and so and get clear on X....and what happens...I say YES just so I LOOK GOOD and avoid looking BAD. But I KNEW when I said yes I had absolutely NO intentions on calling who she wanted me to call to get clarification around X. In fact in my mind...it was like I gave her the flying finger!! Yeah!! Like I thought she was telling me to do that to get off my little tangent....so I gave her the (mental) flying finger and didn't call who I said I would call. Bam!! I'll show you (stomping my foot) can you see it?!! LOL right!! Can you relate??!
Then I GOT the impact of not being in integrity...It was an AHA moment (thank you Oprah) ...it is like tiny pieces start to chip off of me. Like I begin to walk around with tiny holes...till there is more and more and more!!
When I was made aware of that impact..I started to look at my life and that situation...what did I start to do or not do? Like I was out to prove or disprove this phenomenon.... You know what I was doing...I started to avoid eye contact with the person whom I was complaining about. And then I noticed I was not as open or free with the person I was supposed to have called to get clear with. And the person who I said yes to but really intended no...there was this big heavy burden that came over me....Now get that these are people that I see at least 2 times a week...so this behavior I was starting to develop out of not being in integrity was just ugly and greatly affected the quality of our work!!
So what is there to do from there...restore integrity, right? How do you do that...you declare it and acknowledge the impact it had on others and communicate the actions to be taken to avoid this happening again! Awesome yes??!! There is a whole new relationship to my word now.
So I went up to the person I was gripping about and said hey I need to restore integrity with you. I had some bad thoughts about this and that and that is just NOT who I am. The impact of that is I started avoiding you, you don't even know these conversations were going on but it was affecting my relationship with you. Then I went up to the person I was supposed to call...said hey I need to restore integrity with you....I was supposed to call you for some coaching in this area and I didn't.... The impact is I missed out on an opportunity to get clear about X. When can we schedule that? And then with the person I said yes to...I need to restore integrity with you...I said I would call so and so and didn't. The impact was I was completely out of integrity and didn't do what I said I would do.
So over the next week I just kept cleaning up and cleaning up integrity everywhere in my life. Even if you thought oh I will do that and didn't ...I cleaned it up. What was I left with after all that was this freedom...freedom of shame of all the would a, could a, should a's!!
Robin Sharma says Integrity is all about wholeness. Make sure that you consistently do what your conscience tells you is correct in not just one department, but in all departments of your life. the different areas of your life are like rivers flowing together to form an ocean. The emotional influences the physical and together they influence the social and together these affect the spiritual elements of your world. Neglecting any department of your life this means relationship neglect or physical neglect or spiritual neglect, profoundly touches all of the other areas.
So I challenge you....Where do you need to restore integrity? Where have you said you would do something and didn't? Pick up the phone...call that person and make a difference for thier listening of you and in who you are for others!!!
Yah that's one of the totally cool things...people start to rely on you as your WORD!!
I need to restore integrity with you....I communicated to you I would post once a week and it is now 3 weeks since my last blog. The impact of that on you is you were left wondering what's going on with me...like where have I been, will I be back? I left you hangin'. You have my apologies and a commitment that if I cannot write a full blown blog once a week I will communicate that to you and not leave you hanging....deal??!! Great!
Just to get complete around this...yes I was rocked with a sinus mucus monster that left me completely whipped out and uninspired to empower you. Yeah...like I really do write this stuff and if it is not completely coming from my heart I can't write it...I am a stand that you are left touched, moved and inspired in an area of life that is important to you...and I will have those days...or weeks in this case where I just ain't got it :) Its called Human Being!!
I am back with a vengeance!! So be totally prepared to be rocked!!
So lets take a look at what is Integrity? Imagine that...that I would start with that :)
Integrity is as simple as doing what we say we are going to do....right??!! Can you think of a recent time when you said you would do something and didn't? What was the impact on you? What can you put in place next time so you can honor your word?!?
Just last week...I was on a call with leader in the community communicating to her some concerns I had about what had happened at our last meeting and she says to me...Call so and so and get clear on X....and what happens...I say YES just so I LOOK GOOD and avoid looking BAD. But I KNEW when I said yes I had absolutely NO intentions on calling who she wanted me to call to get clarification around X. In fact in my mind...it was like I gave her the flying finger!! Yeah!! Like I thought she was telling me to do that to get off my little tangent....so I gave her the (mental) flying finger and didn't call who I said I would call. Bam!! I'll show you (stomping my foot) can you see it?!! LOL right!! Can you relate??!
Then I GOT the impact of not being in integrity...It was an AHA moment (thank you Oprah) ...it is like tiny pieces start to chip off of me. Like I begin to walk around with tiny holes...till there is more and more and more!!
When I was made aware of that impact..I started to look at my life and that situation...what did I start to do or not do? Like I was out to prove or disprove this phenomenon.... You know what I was doing...I started to avoid eye contact with the person whom I was complaining about. And then I noticed I was not as open or free with the person I was supposed to have called to get clear with. And the person who I said yes to but really intended no...there was this big heavy burden that came over me....Now get that these are people that I see at least 2 times a week...so this behavior I was starting to develop out of not being in integrity was just ugly and greatly affected the quality of our work!!
So what is there to do from there...restore integrity, right? How do you do that...you declare it and acknowledge the impact it had on others and communicate the actions to be taken to avoid this happening again! Awesome yes??!! There is a whole new relationship to my word now.
So I went up to the person I was gripping about and said hey I need to restore integrity with you. I had some bad thoughts about this and that and that is just NOT who I am. The impact of that is I started avoiding you, you don't even know these conversations were going on but it was affecting my relationship with you. Then I went up to the person I was supposed to call...said hey I need to restore integrity with you....I was supposed to call you for some coaching in this area and I didn't.... The impact is I missed out on an opportunity to get clear about X. When can we schedule that? And then with the person I said yes to...I need to restore integrity with you...I said I would call so and so and didn't. The impact was I was completely out of integrity and didn't do what I said I would do.
So over the next week I just kept cleaning up and cleaning up integrity everywhere in my life. Even if you thought oh I will do that and didn't ...I cleaned it up. What was I left with after all that was this freedom...freedom of shame of all the would a, could a, should a's!!
Robin Sharma says Integrity is all about wholeness. Make sure that you consistently do what your conscience tells you is correct in not just one department, but in all departments of your life. the different areas of your life are like rivers flowing together to form an ocean. The emotional influences the physical and together they influence the social and together these affect the spiritual elements of your world. Neglecting any department of your life this means relationship neglect or physical neglect or spiritual neglect, profoundly touches all of the other areas.
So I challenge you....Where do you need to restore integrity? Where have you said you would do something and didn't? Pick up the phone...call that person and make a difference for thier listening of you and in who you are for others!!!
Yah that's one of the totally cool things...people start to rely on you as your WORD!!
Join my sexy readers club and LIKE ME on Facebook or TWEET ME on Twitter so you are continually plugged into a community committed to GREATNESS!!
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B the Light!
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Who Are You Swimming With?
So I have been on a 2 year journey radically altering my weight with yoga, Pilate's, and running and running and running and running. 50 pounds of weightless, I am proud of my accomplishments, right??!! But it was a focused effort, commitment, intentional plan right??!!! YES!!
But what happens to my husband??!! He goes and looses 25 pounds...
Did he join a gym? NO!!
Did he go for a run? NEVER!!
Did he jump on some fad diet? HELL NO!!
Then how the heck did that little snot do it :)
His ENVIRONMENT was pulling for WELLNESS. Just by living in the same house...his life...his health got radically altered. Woweza!! It was a NATURAL progression for him...smaller portions, less bread and POOF!! His environment says I love myself and my body and health is the foundation to ALL THINGS. So he naturally looked at what he was doing for himself and his health. HE took on a few small daily changes that over time added up to EXTRAORDINARY results.
Instead of a big heaping bowl of ice cream, have it in a small coffee mug.
Instead of a chocolate bar, have a banana with Hersey syrup drops across the top.
Instead of a bun, have a naked burger.
Instead of soda every day, have one a week.
Instead of stuffing yourself miserable, save it for lunch tomorrow.
So I ask you...what is YOUR environment pulling for? Are you bellying up to the bar or heading to the park, playing golf, biking, or walking? What about your friends...are they pulling for your greatness or cutting you down every chance they get? Are they patting you on the back saying...its ok you failed....or are they saying "Pull your Big Girl Panties up and go for it AGAIN!!??." Does your boss lift you up or tear you down? Are you watching scandalous, affair filled, murderous, brain sucking TV or are you reading a book or blog that will change your life for the good? Are you speaking life and love into your children or disappointment and despair?
You were born to be happy, healthy, purposeful and wealthy.
If you are NOT succeeding in every area of your life...TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR ENVIRONMENT.
Who are you swimming with? The sharks that are going to eat your life up and spit you out or the Olympic athlete who strives for excellence, full of passion and purpose, showing you the way? What are you surrounding your precious brain and vital body with?
Take a look at what is working and not working for you and your life? Make a list. And for some...it might be really stinking long...mine was...its OK!! And for some maybe its just one thing. Begin to alter your environment. HOW? Find someone doing or having what you want and seek them out.
I have a friend, she wanted to get in a bikini by summer...what does she do? She hunts me down! She altered her environment...then what happens...she goes and finds other friends that are running and says hey lets meet at the park for a group run, right??!! YEAH!!!
I have another friend, hating her job, depressed, losing her mind...what does she do? Hunts me down! She altered her environment...when that happens...she is vivacious, full of life and energy, rockin her world and taking on new challenges she never thought possible!!!
Your life, health, self will only be as good as you believe it be and as your environment that surrounds you IS. Seek a leader, friend, mentor, coach that is not afraid to shoot it to you straight. Don't know of one??!!! HUNT ME DOWN!! YOU WERE BORN FOR GREATNESS! We can begin a conversation to make a real difference in what you are dealing with and what you really care about and in the process, leave you transformed with more power, freedom, full self-expression, and peace of mind. Come swim with me!
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Train your Brain...the Rest Will Follow...
I have learned to do some pretty radical things along the journey to get to where I am today so I want to share with you the most profound... Train your Brain and the Rest will Follow.
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli said it so well when he observed, "You will never go higher than your thinking."
Here is the BIG IDEA...Our thoughts shape our reality. Our thinking forms our world. What we focus on expands. And what we dwell on determines our destiny.
Its so funny to me now...how things align up in our lives. I have a little ipod suffle...its one of the originals but is near to my heart...It's engraved... "Overcome your greatest weakness." I laugh now because I think...who knew I had so many weaknesses to overcome? Additionally who knew the journey would begin with me out there pounding the pavement with that little ipod shuffle....crazy God is so Great stuff there!!!
So the "story" that has ran my life is...I'm not good enough. Now I did some work to come to know and see this... I will share in future posts...its truly profound. But if I'm not good enough is driving this body...what is going to show up in my life? A whole big pile of POO right??!! I'm gonna start packing the weight on, lead my marriage down a path of destruction....he's gonna leave anyway right...because I'm not good enough, etc etc. You trackin with me?
And then I wake up one day and say...ok... I am sick and tired of being worthless, fat, tired and miserable...so I try a diet right or start a workout routine...that's what we do...and it works for a week or two...and then what happens? the wheels fall off the bus and I have gained 7 more pounds...WHY?
Because left to its own demise...I'm not good enough is running the show and anything that gets int he way of that...the machine = brain...will SHUT IT DOWN!! Why? Survival. Keep trackin with me here...The story I'm not good enough was made up when I needed to SURVIVE something. Shit happens in life we got to get through. When we get through it...the brain says YEAH and locks in this story...cuz IT WORKED, it kept the body safe Survival...this untrained brain certainly does not serve us...in fact most often it stops us...blocks us from thriving in life.
See weight for me was pain. Layers of fat...coats of pain. I eat when I'm stressed, upset, worried, scared..you got it emotional eater at your service. Maybe you can relate? Why do we eat? Fill a void...be satisfied by something...because we are not being satisfied by whatever is going on in front of us...its a ugly reality friends...you want a break through in life...come face to face with your ugliest realities...and find freedom on the other side!! Join me!
See when I'm fat you won't want to be around me...further validating I'm not good enough. But even physically... you can't get close to me...keeping me safe...can you see the power of the brain and its wicked ways?
So how do you break free? Train the brain and the rest will follow....
Robin Sharma taught me the power of Mantras and things have never been the same!! Mantras are nothing more than positive, inspiring words or phrases designed to break limiting or self-sabotaging thinking patterns we run through our heads on a consistent basis.
Robin Sharma taught me the power of Mantras and things have never been the same!! Mantras are nothing more than positive, inspiring words or phrases designed to break limiting or self-sabotaging thinking patterns we run through our heads on a consistent basis.
So now when I go running I chant to myself..."I am a pain free elite athlete".
When I start my day "I am unreasonable and unstoppable"
When I am on my way home to see my daughter "I am a patient loving mother"
When I am hunting down my husband for some TLC "I'm sexy and I know it" (LOL)
And you keep saying it over and over and over....
These empowering phrases will sink deeply into your subconscious mind once you start flooding your consciousness with positive influences. Negative thinking patterns which have been holding you back will be replaced by the positive.
Take 5 mins to create a series of personal mantras that will inspire you to attain personal, professional and spiritual success.
Are you Stressed Out? Low on Energy? Struggle with Losing Weight? Difficulty Sleeping? Find it hard to Concentrate or Listen? ADD, Addictions, Depression, Alzheimer's? Check this out...begin to choose your Life today!!
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
If You Can Do 3...You Can Do 13...
Today I devote this personal message to YOU...I am going to share passionately about the power of tiny daily incremental changes over time lead to extraordinary results...how do I know this for sure...keep reading and check it out for yourself...
If You Can Do 3...You Can Do 13...This is what my friend told me mid May 2010 when she asked me if I wanted to train for the Lewis & Clark half marathon October 3rd....are you nuts??!! She had ran one half marathon in her life but was naturally athletic and worked out regularly... simply gorgeous. She had recently had a baby and was ready to shed the weight...with a goal in mind, surely it would be easier.
She says...Shannon...if you can do 3...you can do 13. I said, "um ...I can't run a city block!!" I was grossly overweight, hadn't been to a gym since I was 18, depressed and losing my mind...but I saw this as an opportunity...I had a glimmer of hope...
Training officially started July 12th...and STARTED at 3 miles....my butt had basically 6 weeks to be able to even get to the point that I was "qualified to train." This was the future I was living into....Would I? Could I? Sam I am?
The Power of Tiny Daily Incremental Changes
Where & how did I start? Out my door one early morning. See I had all the "good excuses" right??!!..couldn't be away from my family...they needed me....they wouldn't support this running thing...work full time job...blah blah blah...excuses right??! Us as humans we make shit up!! So anyway ...the plan was I would run before work. At the time I was getting to work by 7:30am with about a 40 minute commute...so IF I was going to do this running thing...it was gonna have to be early...
I don't know if you can see it or can relate...but at first... I felt like I didn't deserve or need this time. I was never a morning person...always a night owl....I was in a backwards way already setting myself up to fail
Yet I started small...I said if can get to 3 miles I guess I was in....at first I could only run a few second before I thought my heart was going to explode and I was gasping for air....it was pure physical. First the lungs then the legs...
Then it got mental....self sabotage....your too fat, too old, too out of shape, never done this before, how dare you be away from your family, when do you have time for this, your the underdog, your dragging them down....oh....that ugly place we go...ever been there???!!! Maybe you are there now...just hang on for the ride...you can't have breakthroughs in life without breakdowns!! Oh the beauty on the other side!!
And then about a month into small daily attempts to run 1 minute, to 5 minutes, to 10 minutes to 20 minutes...there came a shift...like woweza....I'm actually doing this!! The chains that once held me back in every area of my life began to break....
In less than 5 weeks I was running a steady 3 miles at a moderate pace with little to no major discomfort....and I have never looked back.
What did it take? Courage, determination, persistence, hope and a couple of buds along my side holding me accountable to show up and run. It wasn't always pretty, trust me...but we did it...we honored a commitment, followed a schedule and took a stand for our life, our bodies and minds....
I found me out there on the streets...pounding the pavement at 4:30am with my dog...shedding the layers of pain that I carried around my belly. Then us girls would meet on the weekends for our "long run"...me hunkered down with my head phones blasting and them chit chatting away...see it didn't matter how we did it...as long as we did it...it was the process of tranformation.
Couldn't run a city block to running 13.1 in less than 6 months. I have now run 4 half marathons, lost 50 pounds and have radically taken on every area of my life. I don't share this with you to impress you but to impress upon you...the power of small daily incremental changes lead to extraordinary results!! Don't get me wrong...I am and will forever be a work in progress...but if I can do it SO CAN YOU! The mental, physically and emotional confrontations you come up against while taking on your health in this way is truly profound. It shines a light on everything you do. You will have more energy, work better, you feel better and people start to notice. You become contagious! You become the light!
Its 65 degrees on February 22 in St. Louis...grab your running shoes and START TODAY!
If You Can Do 3...You Can Do 13...This is what my friend told me mid May 2010 when she asked me if I wanted to train for the Lewis & Clark half marathon October 3rd....are you nuts??!! She had ran one half marathon in her life but was naturally athletic and worked out regularly... simply gorgeous. She had recently had a baby and was ready to shed the weight...with a goal in mind, surely it would be easier.
She says...Shannon...if you can do 3...you can do 13. I said, "um ...I can't run a city block!!" I was grossly overweight, hadn't been to a gym since I was 18, depressed and losing my mind...but I saw this as an opportunity...I had a glimmer of hope...
Training officially started July 12th...and STARTED at 3 miles....my butt had basically 6 weeks to be able to even get to the point that I was "qualified to train." This was the future I was living into....Would I? Could I? Sam I am?
The Power of Tiny Daily Incremental Changes
Where & how did I start? Out my door one early morning. See I had all the "good excuses" right??!!..couldn't be away from my family...they needed me....they wouldn't support this running thing...work full time job...blah blah blah...excuses right??! Us as humans we make shit up!! So anyway ...the plan was I would run before work. At the time I was getting to work by 7:30am with about a 40 minute commute...so IF I was going to do this running thing...it was gonna have to be early...
I don't know if you can see it or can relate...but at first... I felt like I didn't deserve or need this time. I was never a morning person...always a night owl....I was in a backwards way already setting myself up to fail
Yet I started small...I said if can get to 3 miles I guess I was in....at first I could only run a few second before I thought my heart was going to explode and I was gasping for air....it was pure physical. First the lungs then the legs...
Then it got mental....self sabotage....your too fat, too old, too out of shape, never done this before, how dare you be away from your family, when do you have time for this, your the underdog, your dragging them down....oh....that ugly place we go...ever been there???!!! Maybe you are there now...just hang on for the ride...you can't have breakthroughs in life without breakdowns!! Oh the beauty on the other side!!
And then about a month into small daily attempts to run 1 minute, to 5 minutes, to 10 minutes to 20 minutes...there came a shift...like woweza....I'm actually doing this!! The chains that once held me back in every area of my life began to break....
In less than 5 weeks I was running a steady 3 miles at a moderate pace with little to no major discomfort....and I have never looked back.
What did it take? Courage, determination, persistence, hope and a couple of buds along my side holding me accountable to show up and run. It wasn't always pretty, trust me...but we did it...we honored a commitment, followed a schedule and took a stand for our life, our bodies and minds....
I found me out there on the streets...pounding the pavement at 4:30am with my dog...shedding the layers of pain that I carried around my belly. Then us girls would meet on the weekends for our "long run"...me hunkered down with my head phones blasting and them chit chatting away...see it didn't matter how we did it...as long as we did it...it was the process of tranformation.
Couldn't run a city block to running 13.1 in less than 6 months. I have now run 4 half marathons, lost 50 pounds and have radically taken on every area of my life. I don't share this with you to impress you but to impress upon you...the power of small daily incremental changes lead to extraordinary results!! Don't get me wrong...I am and will forever be a work in progress...but if I can do it SO CAN YOU! The mental, physically and emotional confrontations you come up against while taking on your health in this way is truly profound. It shines a light on everything you do. You will have more energy, work better, you feel better and people start to notice. You become contagious! You become the light!
Its 65 degrees on February 22 in St. Louis...grab your running shoes and START TODAY!
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Who Will Cry When You Die?
I usually post by Tuesday...here it is Thursday and I find myself struggling to get words on paper. I am committed to being the light and I find the flame dim this week. I pray that you find inspiration and take action in your own life with what I have to share.
This week I am present to Who Will Cry When You Die? Morbid yes...but let me paint this picture for you. My grandmother died at 89 years old with no will, 5 funeral attendees and less in assets than what it would take a family of 4 to go to a Blues Hockey game.
With that... we can walk away with 2 big ideas:
1. Do you have your paperwork taken care of...will or trust?
2. How many lives will you impact in your lifetime?
Get your paperwork taken care of
What is in the mind of an 89 year old person who has survived 3 types of cancer, lung replacement, mastectomy, and a gamut of other health issues...to die without a will? Did she think she didn't have enough to matter? Did she think if she didn't have a will she wouldn't die? Death is inevitable, folks. You may not have much or you may have millions...but if you don't designate where things are to go you are leaving that up to our court system and a trail of destruction for your loved ones.
I spent 6 hours in court on Tuesday watching my mother melt away in tears of hurt and anger as we were forced to testify before a probate judge...Happy Valentine's day to us!!! My grandmother borrowed a significant amount of money over 5 year period to help supplement her expenses. We were told by my grandmother, it was in writing, that the means of repayment was upon death out of the sale of her condo, her only asset. Of which was worth 1/3 of what my grandparents originally paid for it.
No will, no writing...repayment of this loan in the hands of a judge...and what's left after that....peanuts. 89 years of life of nothing and a trail of destruction for your loved ones.
Why do I share this intimate conversation with you? Because this ordeal with my grandma it gave me the courage to ask my dad...hey do you have your shit in writing so I don't have to go through this with you...and guess what? He doesn't either.
Maybe its just my family...ask your parents...get a copy and get your will done too right??!! Yeah...its an uncomfortable conversation...but is so important. Peace of mind and power can me found in the courage to take this on!!
My husband and I will have ours done by the end of 2012....you have my word.
How many lives are you impacting in your lifetime?
I think I am most impacted by this question this week. Who will cry when you die? Will the funeral home be busting at the seams with people coming to pay respect, give thanks and share the stories about how YOU impacted thier life? I would like to think if you are reading this you are one of the great ones out to make a difference. It takes something to BE that. What legacy will you leave behind for your kids and grandkids? What will they remember you for? Who are they because you helped them find their light?
Take 10 minutes right now and look into your life and your actions...will you be the 89 year old with no will, 5 funeral attendees and enough in assets to cover a night at a hockey game? What actions can you take today to begin to create a life bigger than you know yourself to be?
This week I am present to Who Will Cry When You Die? Morbid yes...but let me paint this picture for you. My grandmother died at 89 years old with no will, 5 funeral attendees and less in assets than what it would take a family of 4 to go to a Blues Hockey game.
With that... we can walk away with 2 big ideas:
1. Do you have your paperwork taken care of...will or trust?
2. How many lives will you impact in your lifetime?
Get your paperwork taken care of
What is in the mind of an 89 year old person who has survived 3 types of cancer, lung replacement, mastectomy, and a gamut of other health issues...to die without a will? Did she think she didn't have enough to matter? Did she think if she didn't have a will she wouldn't die? Death is inevitable, folks. You may not have much or you may have millions...but if you don't designate where things are to go you are leaving that up to our court system and a trail of destruction for your loved ones.
I spent 6 hours in court on Tuesday watching my mother melt away in tears of hurt and anger as we were forced to testify before a probate judge...Happy Valentine's day to us!!! My grandmother borrowed a significant amount of money over 5 year period to help supplement her expenses. We were told by my grandmother, it was in writing, that the means of repayment was upon death out of the sale of her condo, her only asset. Of which was worth 1/3 of what my grandparents originally paid for it.
No will, no writing...repayment of this loan in the hands of a judge...and what's left after that....peanuts. 89 years of life of nothing and a trail of destruction for your loved ones.
Why do I share this intimate conversation with you? Because this ordeal with my grandma it gave me the courage to ask my dad...hey do you have your shit in writing so I don't have to go through this with you...and guess what? He doesn't either.
Maybe its just my family...ask your parents...get a copy and get your will done too right??!! Yeah...its an uncomfortable conversation...but is so important. Peace of mind and power can me found in the courage to take this on!!
My husband and I will have ours done by the end of 2012....you have my word.
How many lives are you impacting in your lifetime?
I think I am most impacted by this question this week. Who will cry when you die? Will the funeral home be busting at the seams with people coming to pay respect, give thanks and share the stories about how YOU impacted thier life? I would like to think if you are reading this you are one of the great ones out to make a difference. It takes something to BE that. What legacy will you leave behind for your kids and grandkids? What will they remember you for? Who are they because you helped them find their light?
Take 10 minutes right now and look into your life and your actions...will you be the 89 year old with no will, 5 funeral attendees and enough in assets to cover a night at a hockey game? What actions can you take today to begin to create a life bigger than you know yourself to be?
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
What Can You Possibly See?
Are you ready for the BIG KAHUNA? Fasten your seat belts for this wicked ride!! This idea is RADICALLY transformational, can be applied to EVERY area of your life, and is the key to an EXTRAORDINARY-U!! Thank you Landmark Education!!
Is it possible our whole life is DRIVEN by the VIEW behind OUR CURRENT SET OF GOGGLES?
What do I mean by that? What is possible or not possible for you comes from the CONTEXT from which you are living.
What's context? The dictionary defines context as the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc.
Let me be clear here...you ALREADY have a context for each and every area of your life...whether you know it or not...your body, health, relationships, your job, money, family, friends, anything...everything...
Where do these contexts come from...SHIT HAPPENS... and we as humans make something up about what happened....from that... a context is formed in our mind...we put on a pair of goggles that ALTERS the view of reality...and then we go out and try to live life!!
CONTEXT DECIDES. There are things you cannot see or hear inside of your context. And its these things that you cannot see or hear that LIMIT YOU from living an extraordinary life...having it all or maybe anything at all...living and playing full out...
Want to know the key to access to a new set of goggles??!!
- Distinguish the context you are already in....identify it...I will give you some examples in a moment. But when you distinguish the context you are living... in a particular area of your life...it disappears it!!
- Practice CREATING a context that GIVES you LIFE
Let's play with this a bit so you get what I am talking about here...so take a peek into your life...take a look at what is the context from which you are living?
When I did this I saw for myself...I'm not good enough and I have to work hard. So if I am walking around with the goggles of I'm not good enough and I have to work hard....what shows up?
Let me REALLY wrap your brain around the ideas of possible and not possible here...I want this to be so clear when you take it back to your life....
What's NOT possible? Red right...inside the context of yellow and blue...you will never get (see or hear) red....clear??!!
Ok back to life...So if I am walking around with the goggles of I'm not good enough and I have to work hard...
What's possible (yellow and blue)? Failure, exhaustion, no satisfaction, undeserving, losing, divorce, obesity, never realizing my greatest potential, never making a difference
What's NOT possible (red)? Success, accomplishment, love, being loved, wining, ease, joy, making a difference, being valued, self worth, fun, abundance
Can you begin to see it? So I got my goggles on of I'm not good enough and I have to work hard...and I am beating my self up trying to win the game of life that is NOT even possible from the context that I am living. Someone says...I love you...I don't hear it. Someone says awesome job on that project...I don't hear it, feel it, receive it. Someone says you look amazing...I don't believe it. Are you beginning to get the big idea here?
What else happens...I play small. Why? I'm not good enough and I am sick and tired of working HARD. But is that reality? NO that's the story I made up because of junk in my truck (my past).
What can you begin to see in your own life? What is the context in which you have been living? This may feel like a splash in the face for some...its ok...really...its just the human machine!!
And these contexts are a familiar strings that runs through our lives right...like I didn't make this up last week...you get that? I can look down memory lane and see I'm not good enough and I have to work hard all over the place....its ugly...and we get stopped based on a historical conversation.
So what do we do about it? 1. Distinguish it....go oh...there it is...and the goggles fall off. And what are you left with? A BLANK CANVAS FROM WHICH TO DESIGN YOUR LIFE!! 2. Create new!! Its your life you get to SAY...your actions will be a direct result from the CONTEXT FROM WHICH YOU CREATE....watch...
Let's create a new context....This body is the vehicle for the rest of my life that's going to go out into the world and accomplish what there is to accomplish. PUT THE GOGGLES ON...
What's possible (yellow and blue)? health, vitality, joy, youth into my 90s, success, action, kicking the pants out of cancer, running your first race, love, sex, intimacy, self satisfaction
What's NOT possible (red)?
So what is beginning to open up for you here? What do you see possible? What context have you been living from? What context do you want to take on?
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Chocolate or Vanilla? Choose....
Chocolate or Vanilla? Choose... is what a leader in the Landmark Education seminar said to me...this idea...radical and profound...play with me here a bit...I invite you to open your eyes and your heart....Chocolate or Vanilla? Choose...she says
I say Chocolate...she says why? Because I like Chocolate.
Chocolate or Vanilla? Choose...she says again
I say Chocolate...she says why? Because I like Chocolate (did you not hear me the first time...lol). She says those are reasons.
Chocolate or Vanilla? Choose...but this time she is only holding Chocolate...I say Chocolate...she says why? Because its the only one...(where is this going) She says reasons....again. Are you trackin' with me here?
Chocolate or Vanilla? Choose...she says again
hmmmmm.....I say.... Chocolate...she says why? Because I want Chocolate...she says...OK now we are getting somewhere...
Chocolate or Vanilla? Choose...
I say Chocolate...she says why? Because I CHOOSE Chocolate...BAM!! There it is!!
Here is the BIG IDEA. We as humans...are taught to make well informed decisions yes?...think about it...you go for your first job interview and at that time you actually had a couple to pick from...so you get out your pen and piece of paper and write down all the pros on one side of the paper and all the cons down the other side of the paper on of each job offer and you MAKE A DECISION based on all your REASONS why you should take that job, right? ...big difference from choice...but we will get back to that in a moment.
Here is the big idea...CHOOSE YOUR JOB. Like take it...own it.
New example...2-2 1/2 years ago we just got the Nintendo Wii...and our Wii came with this balance board. So we get all excited and set up our Miis...I am sure you know what I am talking about here... you pick out a shirt, hair, gender...tell it your height and then go step on this balance board to weigh in...and based on your specifications the game creates this image of you in seconds and declares your current state of health...I will never forget that day...I step on this thing and before my eyes was this 4 inches tall by 4 inches WIDE mini (or should I say not so mini) me right before my eyes...and this thing deems me OBESE!! I gasped...
I was like wow...I didn't really realize that...like I never considered myself with that label...but right there before my eyes in full blown HD TV...OBESE.
In that moment I CHOSE OBESE. I am sure you are like you what?!! Think about it...I did not sit down with a piece of paper and jot down the pros and cons of obesity...and said yeah...I'll take that...HELL NO!!! But the sum of my CHOICES got me there.
So here is the beauty in this chocolate or vanilla choose thing...in THAT moment that obese was blasting across my tv...I CHOSE OBESE...(chocolate, right??).what begins to open up...in that EXACT moment I can CHOOSE HEALTH (vanilla, cool huh??)..WHY? because I can!!! But if you don't OWN it...like take responsibility for it...CLAIM IT you will NEVER do anything about it...you will never do anything that is not consistent with your thinking.
This is YOUR LIFE folks...you get to CHOOSE how its going to go...Get it? Choose it...
So let's take it up a notch...this leader asking me to choose chocolate or vanilla shares with us...SHE CHOOSES CANCER. I was like what??!! Why would you do that?
Here is the big idea...they just found out her husband has leukemia...this is marathon runner, athlete, powerhouse, got it....and she is choosing cancer??!!
Help me out here...so they didn't have a choice in this matter right? Like it...cancer...got handed to them....this is so profound...when they CHOOSE cancer...the power resides in their hands....they get to say how its going to go...they NOW TAKE CANCER ON! Like kick the stinking pants off cancer and get back to normal now, yes??!!
What's the alternative...well they flap around in the wind of uncertainty...they get sucked into the world of I don't know how its going to go...they get depressed, helpless, and hopeless, yes?...and they pull everyone around them into that world...can you see that? Choose it!!
Final example...This concept is so simple yet so profound...so we had my daughter's friend over this weekend...but right before I got to her house to pick her up...another friend of hers told her dad she wanted to play. Well my daughter's friend's dad didn't know we had already made plans to come get her that morning. So if you can imagine...dad walks in the door saying hey your friend down the street wants to play with you but low and behold we pull in the driveway about the same time, give the horn a honk and her parents send her out.
So my daughter's little friend gets in the car and I can tell she's like crabby...this is a little person...5 years old...they really don't know what crabby is yet but I could tell she was confronted. So she informs us I have to get home early so I can go to so and so's house...and I said really? Do you just want to stay here and play with her...and she says no...I want to go with you guys.
Well once we get home the mood really doesn't change...and trust me this behavior really wasn't normal....so I say to this little person....honey do you want to be HERE (chocolate) or go home and play with your other friend (vanilla)..it is totally cool with us what you want to do, right? We love you and want you here but if your mind is somewhere else...we can take you there...right??!! She is like no...I choose here (chocolate)...I say cool..then that means you play joyfully, with love and friendship from now on...like choose HERE and really your actions all stem from that choice....AND SHE DID!!
Now the rest of the day these girls had a blast!! But this little person was torn...where she was and where she thought she might like to be...but when she CHOSE...a whole new realm of joy and fun and playfulness rose to the surface!! It was amazingly powerful awesome great afternoon for these best little friends!!!
How many times have you been torn between where you were and where you wanted to be or thought you wanted to be? How was your behavior? What was the impact you left others with? Would you like the outcome to be different next time? Now you can...CHOOSE!!
Well once we get home the mood really doesn't change...and trust me this behavior really wasn't normal....so I say to this little person....honey do you want to be HERE (chocolate) or go home and play with your other friend (vanilla)..it is totally cool with us what you want to do, right? We love you and want you here but if your mind is somewhere else...we can take you there...right??!! She is like no...I choose here (chocolate)...I say cool..then that means you play joyfully, with love and friendship from now on...like choose HERE and really your actions all stem from that choice....AND SHE DID!!
Now the rest of the day these girls had a blast!! But this little person was torn...where she was and where she thought she might like to be...but when she CHOSE...a whole new realm of joy and fun and playfulness rose to the surface!! It was amazingly powerful awesome great afternoon for these best little friends!!!
How many times have you been torn between where you were and where you wanted to be or thought you wanted to be? How was your behavior? What was the impact you left others with? Would you like the outcome to be different next time? Now you can...CHOOSE!!
So others in class began to share...
I choose my credit score
I choose my boss
I choose being single
I choose my marriage
I choose a child with Asperger's
Truly profound!
What area of your life is important to you? Take a look...CHOSE IT & change your predictable future to one of extraordinary results!!!!
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
What is in your Grinch Sack?
October 2007 I got real clear...I was living life with a big ol' sack o' crap swung over my shoulder...and it was doing me no good!
What do I mean by this? When I was roughly 15, my mom lost her job and my dad left us in the same month...those are the facts right? But WHAT DID I DO? I made it MEAN something...like I'm not good enough, men are going to leave me, there is nothing safe or stable in my life...are you trackin' with me? And then what? I stuffed it in a sack and swung it over my shoulder and kept on truckin' through life...right?
We as humans...this is what we do!! Oh things are FINE...the past is the past....blah blah blah. NO...my behavior, my actions, my way of being GOT ALTERED.
So me and this altered way of being entered into a few more "relationships" that end in dismal failure and then I say See? See? Look... there's confirmation of all that crap in my sack!! And my behavior, my actions, my way of being got altered some more. Again and again and again...
Then... Tada....I enter into a marriage.
You know what I am talking about, right? This is hilarious to me now but so true...but I invite you to take a look at your own life... what keep showing up for you? What are the patterns running in your life? What is in your Grinch Sack that you have swung over your shoulder that is draggin' you down??!! Like you are tip toeing around, hunched over and this Grinch Sack...it's stealing your identity...it's robbing you of life, vitality, SELF, happiness, success...and so much more...Can you see it?
Now we as humans don't do this intentionally of course...but when we don't look at our life or go to work on an area that is important to us...we just are NOT PRESENT to the IMPACT of our past...it DRAMATICALLY ALTERS THE FUTURE WE ARE LIVING INTO.
Make sense? Yeah...and your past is going to keep showing up unless you go to work on it....THEN what is possible? ANYTHING!!! Like you get to be YOU and not the sum of the crap in your sack...EXTRAORDINARY. Yes??!!
Is your big ol Grinch Sack keeping you from the life you have always wanted? Does it keep you playing small? Are you living your life, marriage, relationships, or even your job...with one foot out the door? Are you behaving in a way that really leaves them no option but to leave or fire you?
Use your power hour today to really look at your life and just notice the difference between the facts...like something happened.... and the STORY WE MADE UP about what happened. And DO NOT make yourself wrong about the story...just go...OH...I made that up...look at that...and begin to watch your Grinch Sack evaporate!!
Take on being COURAGEOUS today and look inside your big sack...you will begin to see patterns... When you begin to see patterns, you can begin to make better choices. With better choices you will get extraordinary results!
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What do I mean by this? When I was roughly 15, my mom lost her job and my dad left us in the same month...those are the facts right? But WHAT DID I DO? I made it MEAN something...like I'm not good enough, men are going to leave me, there is nothing safe or stable in my life...are you trackin' with me? And then what? I stuffed it in a sack and swung it over my shoulder and kept on truckin' through life...right?
We as humans...this is what we do!! Oh things are FINE...the past is the past....blah blah blah. NO...my behavior, my actions, my way of being GOT ALTERED.
So me and this altered way of being entered into a few more "relationships" that end in dismal failure and then I say See? See? Look... there's confirmation of all that crap in my sack!! And my behavior, my actions, my way of being got altered some more. Again and again and again...
Then... Tada....I enter into a marriage.
You know what I am talking about, right? This is hilarious to me now but so true...but I invite you to take a look at your own life... what keep showing up for you? What are the patterns running in your life? What is in your Grinch Sack that you have swung over your shoulder that is draggin' you down??!! Like you are tip toeing around, hunched over and this Grinch Sack...it's stealing your identity...it's robbing you of life, vitality, SELF, happiness, success...and so much more...Can you see it?
Now we as humans don't do this intentionally of course...but when we don't look at our life or go to work on an area that is important to us...we just are NOT PRESENT to the IMPACT of our past...it DRAMATICALLY ALTERS THE FUTURE WE ARE LIVING INTO.
Make sense? Yeah...and your past is going to keep showing up unless you go to work on it....THEN what is possible? ANYTHING!!! Like you get to be YOU and not the sum of the crap in your sack...EXTRAORDINARY. Yes??!!
Is your big ol Grinch Sack keeping you from the life you have always wanted? Does it keep you playing small? Are you living your life, marriage, relationships, or even your job...with one foot out the door? Are you behaving in a way that really leaves them no option but to leave or fire you?
Use your power hour today to really look at your life and just notice the difference between the facts...like something happened.... and the STORY WE MADE UP about what happened. And DO NOT make yourself wrong about the story...just go...OH...I made that up...look at that...and begin to watch your Grinch Sack evaporate!!
Take on being COURAGEOUS today and look inside your big sack...you will begin to see patterns... When you begin to see patterns, you can begin to make better choices. With better choices you will get extraordinary results!
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL KEY FACTS:
• 884 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly one in eight of the world’s population. (WHO-UNICEF)
• 1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. This amounts to around 5000 deaths a day. (UNDP)
• LWI projects providing safe water and hygiene education at an average cost of twenty dollars per person, for a generation. (LWI)
• The simple act of washing hands with soap and clean water can reduce diarrheal diseases by over 40%. (UNICEF)
• Providing water and hygiene education reduces the number of deaths caused by diarrhoeal diseases by an average of 65%. (WHO)
• Water-related disease is the second biggest killer of children worldwide, after acute respiratory infections like tuberculosis. (UNDP)
• The weight of water that women in Africa and Asia carry on their heads is commonly 40 pounds, the same as the average airport luggage allowance. (UNDP)• Water and sanitation infrastructure helps people take the first essential step out of the cycle of poverty and disease.
WATER-RELATED DISEASES
• At any given time, half the population of the developing world is suffering from one or more of the main diseases associated with inadequate provision of water and sanitation. (UNDP)
• At any one time, half of the developing world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water-related diseases. (UN)
• Around 90% of incidences of water-related diseases are due to unsafe water supply, sanitation and hygiene and is mostly concentrated on children in developing countries. (WHO)
• Intestinal worms infect about 10% of the population of the developing world. Intestinal parasitic infections can lead to malnutrition, anaemia and stunted growth. (WHO)
WATER USE
• The average North American uses 400 liters a day. European uses 200 liters. (UNDP)
• The average person in the developing world uses 10 liters of water every day for their drinking, washing and cooking. (Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC))
• On current trends over the next 20 years humans will use 40% more water than they do now. (UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
• Agriculture accounts for over 80% of the world’s water consumption. (UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
EDUCATION AND ECONOMY
• 443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related diseases. (UNDP)
• 11% more girls attend school when sanitation is available. (DFID)
• 40 billion working hours are spent carrying water each year in Africa. (Cosgrove and Rijsberman 1998)
• Households in rural Africa spend an average of 26% of their time fetching water, and it is generally women who are burdened with the task. (DFID)
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