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Jennifer Ettinger, Best Selling Author, Community Producer, TV Host & Expert, Magazine Contributor is thrilled to introduce BRANDstorming.

Together, during your one on one session with Jennifer, she will mentor you on the questions you have been burning to ask:

• How do I become A Bestselling Author?
• How do I get on TV - local and big city market?
• How do I get to Write for US & Canadian Magazines?
• What ads should I invest my money in and what kinds of marketing should I avoid?
• How should I make a Pitch?
• How do I acquire National Brand Sponsorships and Paid Speaking Engagements?
• How to ASK for what I WANT and GET IT!

Contact Jennifer to schedule your BRANDstorming session today!

1 Session (1 hour) - $150

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3 Sessions - $275 
5 Sessions - $400

Jennifer Ettinger:
Best Selling Author . TV Host . Producer . Fitness Expert . Style Expert . Keynote Speaker Brand Ambassador
Jennifer was nominated by Women's Post magazine as A Woman To Watch In 2013. Find out more about Jennifer HERE.

Fit Your Style® is a lifestyle brand embracing body, beauty, mind & spirit.

Jennifer  Ettinger was not always a successful best-selling author, fitness expert, TV personality  and enthusiastic USANA Associate. In the 1990s, she was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia and was completely bedridden. Getting up and  taking a shower were the major goals she hoped to achieve each  day.

Jennifer  became tired of being tired.  She despised the life she was leading and desperately wanted to be freed from the bonds of her illness. So Jennifer fought to get her life back. She began reading up on her conditions and in every book she read observed four key elements of...
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Need some help figuring out what to do to get 'unstuck'? To move forward? 


Did you ever consider working with a life coach? What dreams do you have? 

Here we are again, a new January, a new year, a time for looking forward, setting objectives for the following twelve months, and investing new energy in pursuing our career and life goals. Most of us see the new year as a new start…yet, if you think about it, every new day is a new start too.  

                                  

For most of us, January 1st of any year gives us the opportunity to see and feel and become enthused with the looming possibility of a fresh start.  The paramount contention and biggest impediment is letting go of the year that’s just passed, and all that entails.  Up to a few years ago, I focused so much on what I could and should have done the previous year but didn’t, and then feeling overwhelmed at the challenge of stepping it up a notch or two and doing better in the new year, that this train of thought kept me stuck year after year, without realizing it, on the proverbial hamster wheel! Suddenly it dawned on me that from that point on I truly had the choice of changing my attitude and investing in myself to create a whole new and different pattern in my thinking, feeling, and being. The old and tired pattern of regretting what I didn’t do or accomplish previously while simultaneously worrying about the future was, by and large, what had been holding me back and preventing me from achieving my goals that year. It came together starting with the simple concept (albeit challenging) of ‘staying in the NOW’, ‘staying in the present moment’, words that I had been hearing about for a long time. It truly seemed so simple, yet as we all know changing habits and thought patterns while living busy lives filled with a myriad of daily details can be anything but simple.  Yet the desire to assimilate this new and seemingly daunting ‘habit’ became a significant goal for me, which I relentlessly and unfailingly pursued. I dove into everything I could that could assist me in this endeavor, from going to every workshop, reading dozens of books, to seeking out gurus and mentors. This took tremendous effort, yet when I gave myself ‘permission’ to liberate myself of the old companions of ‘regret’ and ‘worry’, I got clarity, self-trust and the confidence to move forward along a very different path, a much more effortless and fulfilling journey, where I know that staying present and taking care of today without needlessly worrying about tomorrow will assist me greatly in building the future that I desire. 

 

This beginning of 2013 is a powerful time for releasing things that no longer serve you, for consciously choosing differently from yesterday and for allowing a new level of trust in yourself, permitting your own self confidence to guide you on the road of genuine fulfillment. Otherwise the same old habits and beliefs creep back in, and you are back doing and thinking the same and getting the same results as before. Once I learned the power of release, I was able to make the necessary changes and adjustments in my thinking, which led to significant and positive shifts in my life. These occur when I acknowledge my desires and consciously work on clearing and letting go, and immediately replace them with thoughts (and their corresponding actions) that I know will bring me more joy.  Some were easy, like changing my eating habits, or choosing to no longer drink coffee.  Then there were the more difficult ones, like when I decided to change careers; what a challenge! Yet what satisfaction I can enjoy now from my choice. I have also learned that you only need to work on one thing at a time, and to begin to build up trust by taking on the simpler, easier changes first, for these will also make a large impact on your life over time.

 

Where to start?  You start by making a conscious decision that you want change your life or an aspect of your life such as your body, your job/career, or relationship(s).   The power of decision actually shifts the energetic and emotional connection to move you toward the action of releasing resistance.  My simple formula to release any resistance that has kept you anchored is to look inside you, be genuine with yourself, and as I like to express it, see with your heart.  Get to know what you DO NOT want and what you DO want. Become friends with that ‘you’ that you meet in the quiet space of mindfulness, trust it, it will never betray you.

   

A good fitting bra should be comfortable and the support should come from the band, not the straps.  

The back of the bra should never ride up your back.  If the band rides up, you are not getting the support you need because the band is too big.

The front center of the bra should lay flat against your chest.

Cups should never wrinkle or gap and your breast should not spill out over the tops and sides.  The underwire should surround the breast and should not rest on the breast or poke into the  sides.

Straps should never fall off or dig into your shoulders.

A perfect fitting bra should improve your prosture and shape, plus lift your breast.

Bra Fitting Made Easy

In part 2 I ended with this:

… you are the product of your own making, an accumulation of ideas and experiences that have been gathered throughout time, which you can use to your own advantage in building a version of reality that you deeply desire.  Clarity in thought, word, and deed is of utmost importance for creating the version of life that you want.

Do you know honestly, what you believe?

How many times have we heard “the glass is half empty” or “the glass is half full”?  Where do your thoughts go when you hear this?  What is your belief?

A victim or a pessimist will most always say the glass is half empty, and blame someone or some circumstance for why life is not going well for this person.  An optimist may say it is half full, thereby validating that there is still some good or positive in life or in any situation.  Recently I  read a daily message from Mary Morrissey  where she described a third option, “the glass is refillable” giving us choice to decide what we want to do with it, knowing it is not final. How’s this for a new belief?

Belief in victimhood is the ultimate state of powerlessness.  Helplessness stems from a belief that you have no control over your environment, and it is fortified by considering the past as a valid expectation of present and future events.  This feeling is as if you are the puppet and everyone/everything else is the puppeteer.  Neediness is based on a desire to have someone other than yourself mold your destiny.  It is my opinion that you are neither sinned, nor flawed, nor helpless.  You ALWAYS have choice.  A choice to think differently, to act differently, or to feel differently is all but a conscious decision.

How much you genuinely like and accept yourself as a person established your value and self-worth.  The more you like yourself, the better you do with whatever you pursue, for how much you like yourself is at the core of your beliefs.  The areas where you struggle, where you develop anxiety, anger, and frustration, and perform poorly, are the signaling negative beliefs about yourself and that your thinking is not working in your best interests.

Step into your imagination, it is the most powerful tool for creating, and when you focus your attention with clear conscious intent, you set an internal program into motion, one that will determine your experience of the outer world.  How you choose to perceive what you see sets the stage for all you encounter, as well as affecting the entire paradigm of mass beliefs.  Your beliefs make you who you are, and the areas of life where you excel in your achievements are generally those where you feel excitement and have fun with what you are doing.  Isn’t living with fun more motivating?

Visualize yourself as flexible, organized, spacious, and clear, with the flow of accelerated energy moving easily throughout your physical body and, in turn, enhancing your life.  Ask yourself: “What higher purpose and greater opportunity await me if I can see this situation from another point of view?”

When you change your attitude, to one of positive emotion, you will undoubtedly change your experience!!

I hope you enjoyed my series on belief systems.

In part 1 I ended with this paragraph:

In order to empower our lives, it is imperative that we understand our personal and collective beliefs.  Beliefs are the programs from which we have built our life experience.  We are who we are, and we are where we are because of what we believe about ourselves; no matter what we are experiencing, our beliefs form the underlying foundation to create these experiences.

 

Beliefs are tricky; in other words, beliefs are essentially agreements about reality that you accept and uphold without question.  When you go to a doctor and he says he can heal you with a pill and a good night’s rest, if you believe it does, it will.  However if you are wondering if even allopathic medicine is working for you, it will not work the same.  These beliefs are not hard and fast things that work for everyone.  Every individual is individual for that reason.  As we grow older the range of diversity will grow larger and you take on beliefs or change them without really knowing it.  It may be from people you admire, someone you hold with authority, a reporter, or author you admire; and without much thought your beliefs adjust to the new paradigm. Every individual is individual for that reason.  I once heard it explained that the correlation of beliefs systems as a mirror of light. The example was if someone gave you a beautiful stone in a majestic place and told you that if you carry that stone in your pocket from that day on, everything would work magically from that point forward.  Will it work?  Of course if you believe it.  You have rearranged your energy body with your mental, emotional, and physical bodies to align with that belief.

Where and how you spend your energy is exceedingly important in understanding how you create your life. Are you the captain of your attention or always just along for the ride?  In other words are you the driver of your car or do you listen and follow the “backseat driver’s commands?   Beliefs are powerful, and whether they are known or unknown, they still set the stage for your experiences to transpire.

You often live your life on one avenue of existence, all the while missing out on a myriad of untold opportunities because accepting limiting beliefs is like wearing a straightjacket all of your life.  Your innermost core beliefs determine the direction of your life; they are played out daily and distributed by way of your thoughts and attitudes.  Your beliefs condition and qualify the space that surround you, creating an electromagnetic imprint that ultimately serves to attract all of your life experiences.

There are many ways of looking at any situation, and in the bigger picture, it could be said that experiencing a breakdown of beliefs, facts, or attributes of existence are indisputable truths; but beliefs are agreements about reality, and agreements can be changed.  It is essential to understand that beliefs are the thoughts you hold within your imagination—consciously, subconsciously, and un consciously—and in the imagination, all things are real.

In purely practical terms, you make your choice in every moment for what you want.  The use of your free will to choose to decide is, of course, your saving grace, and you must learn to cultivate it, seeding thoughts for an empowered life.  In order to expand your awareness and feel more self-empowered, you must be willing to examine whatever thoughts your feelings uncover, for your thoughts, once observed and examined, can be traced to their origin and their purpose can be unveiled.  You are the product of your own making, an accumulation of ideas and experiences that have been gathered throughout time, which you can use to your own advantage in building a version of reality that you deeply desire.  Clarity in thought, word, and deed is of utmost important for creating the version of life that you want.

Do you know honestly, what you believe?

 

Stay tuned to the Part 3 of the Series of Belief Systems

When was the last time you thought about where one of your habits really comes from? Last month I decided that I wanted to pay attention to my automatic  responses in my daily routines. I discovered that one of the many simple decisions I make on a daily basis is a result of my listening to a good friend I admire very much. She is a business success, so why should I not listen to her when she advised me when traveling across town to always take the freeway, unless there is an accident. That one comment has stayed with me for the last 8 years.  Her view is that driving the freeways of Los Angeles is faster than taking side streets because getting all green lights just does not happen. So last week I had the opportunity to choose differently.  I was not in a hurry and discovered I really enjoyed the stop and go at streetlights because it gave me an opportunity to see the landscaping of residential homes, check out the businesses, and identify restaurants I may want to visit in the future.  I will also confess, people watching is indeed fun for me. So why did I go against my preference to begin with?

As children we have others make decisions for us, our parents, teachers, other adults…but then we grow up and we still let others or circumstances make decision for us. We look up to our parents, a spouse, a boss, or friends to help us make important decisions. The question becomes how much influence is from others vs. our own genuine self desires? So often we don’t’ think about beliefs and the powerful influence they have on us. How how best to drive on the freeway may not be a big deal, but what about a college degree you did not really care for, or the job you are in, or even the relationship you are in?

Getting advice, processing and incorporating into what we want out of life is of course the ideal situation. But most of us are not conscious of the many things that affect our lives, or the choices we make under the control of our beliefs. We are stuck in habits, beliefs, and customs. For example, people spend more time worrying than laughing and this worrying is a destructive habit.

Beliefs are the thoughts that we hold, most often without question, about ourselves and the world at large. What we encounter in the outer world on a daily basis is but a reflection of our inner reality: we become what we think about; therefore, when we change our thinking, we can and will inevitably change our lives. But is it our personal preference?

In order to empower our lives, it is imperative that we understand our personal and collective beliefs. Beliefs are the programs from which we have built our life experience. We are who we are, and we are where we are because of what we believe about ourselves; no matter what we are experiencing, our beliefs form the underlying foundation to create these experiences.

Beliefs are about power, our power to create…

Stay tuned to the Part 2 of the Series of Belief Systems

Mothers are Powerful!

 

Do you know how powerful you are? Love is power, and there is not many greater loves than that of a mother for her child! Mothers will go to great lengths to keep her children safe...

 

In Georgia, a teenage boy got trapped under his car, when his jack failed. His mother, lifted the car, weighing approximately 3,500 pounds, and held it up for 5 minutes until help came!

 

In Ivujivik, Canada, a mother saw a large polar bear heading toward her 7yr old boy and his 2 friends. Without a thought, she ran to the bear and wrestled it to the ground! The bear was approximately 8 feet tall and 700 pounds!

 

These are true stories, there are many more like this. I've heard it said that the most dangerous place to be is between a mum and her child. A mothers instinct is to protect her child no matter what. This instinct gives her strength beyond normal. You can use this strength as a source of power! Whatever you fear can more easily be conquered if you are doing it for the benefit of your child.

 

My motherly instinct helped me to get over my fear of talking to new people. I knew for my children's sake I had to get past this fear to build a good life for my kids with good friendship connections. There have also been many times when I've spoken up for my children when normally I would be too afraid to say anything.

 

Do you have any irrational fears?  Irrational fears are fears that don't benefit us, for example - afraid of heights, tight spaces, public speaking etc.  You can conquer your fear, your strength as a mother may help you get past these fears. 

Some mothers are driven by their love for their children to do extraordinary things, or achieve great successes. What things would you like to achieve for yourself and your children?

 

All that we go through as mums, makes us grow into a more stronger person. Do you remember what you were like before you had your child/children? No doubt having a baby turned your life upside down, and also made you grow as a person. You are powerful! You have the strength inside you to build a great life for yourself and your children. Once you believe it - you can achieve it!

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