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Just in case you were tempted to do a vision board and set your intentions for 2011.

My handy guide to setting visions and intentions.

Board
Go to your local craft centre and buy yourself the biggest canvas board you can find, buy your glitter, card and stickers too - (be aware - I always spend a vast fortune when I enter our local craft store!!!)
Decorate your board you way - use any colour, glitter, stickers ANYTHING that rocks your world.

Lets start with your vision first....
Trawl through the internet and magazines and print out/cut out all the images that resonate with you.  You dont need to know why but you may see a theme in there once you have collated all of your images.
For my vision board I collected over 50 images, I discarded some but most of them I kept.
I then stuck them around the edge of my board - you can stick them anywhere - you may want to put them into certain categories if that works for you.  I was completely random this year.

Words
This year I asked myself what two words would carry me through the year - I chose persistence and playfulness - I then stuck those words right at the top of my board.  I feel that these words will most definitely help to mould my year into what I truly desire.

Intentions/Goals
I prefer to use the term intentions - as it means I will deliberately set out to achieve.  I am an avid Tony Robbins fan and avidly listened to his planning audio program many times last year.  I have divided my life up into categories such as my, my son, my business, my money, my playtime, my relationships.  I then delve into each category and sit and muse about what I would like to achieve this year.  I type or write this out for each category then go ahead and stick those onto my board.


A liberal splash of glitter and stars and bobs your uncle my vision/intention board is done.

I put my vision board in a prime place that I will see everyday, you subconscious gets to work straight away with all those images in front of it.  Its like using the powerful tricks that the advertising moguls use to influence your mind - yet you are influencing it with what you want!! Smart eh??

I spend time EVERY MONTH to jump right back into my yearly goals, I break them down into smaller, easier steps that I can work and play on every month.  Please believe me that intentions and goals do come to us when we commit to take regular baby steps towards them.  This is my third year now goal setting and when I look back on my goals for 2009 most of them came to fruition in 2010 and I know that some of the goals I didnt achieve last year will happen this year.  Stay focused, have fun with this and let this be a game that you play to help you live the life of your dreams xxxxxxxxhttp://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=172336926134849&set=a.164174733617735.26329.100000756274570

This is how the Goddess rolled in 2010........

1.This has got to be the first year ever that I spent totally aware of who and what I am all about
2.I discovered my own rhythm, balance and flow - Im learning to self care!!
3.Restarted yoga
4.GSM is branded and the new website is on its way
5.I successfully set up all my back end office systems
6.Trained in Pilates with Rebecca Leone
7. I now have an amazing assistant instructor - Ms S London
8. Found my VA
9. Ran 2 big charity events
10. Bought my dream pink food mixer
11. Got my garden sorted out and the trampoline sunk into the ground
12. Starting saving money
13. Experienced love like I never knew possible
14. Employed a PA and she sorted my life out!
15. Walked and exercise nearly every day
16. Wrote up my pole manual and pilates one on one
17. Wrote all the copy for my website (boy was that a big job!!)
18. Invested heavily on learning more about how to run my business with KPI, Julian Weekes, Danielle La Porte & Marisaa Bracke
19. Got closer to me - I love me xxx
20. Started up a kick arse blog
21. Devised a brand new fun and flirty exercise program for women - Sexy Curves
22. Modelled at Britains Next Top Model
23. Performed to raving reviews at various events
24. Discoverd George was dyslexic and spent more time with him x
25. Karate chopped a plank of wood
26.Went trance dancing
27. Evolved Sexy Booty Camp to Sexy Body Day
28. Had tea at the Langham
29. Sorted out my work schedule - I work when I want to work
30. Attended various workshops - Debbie Ford, Byron Katie, Joseph McClendon, David Wolfe, Dr Gray
31. Performed my little goddess socks off at Glamour and evolved the Pink Party to Glamour!
32. Featured in Frankie Lodges Art Exhibition at Brick Lane
33. I wrote the outline for my first book
34. Realised Im very wise
35. Watched my good friend Tia in her first big show at the Hazlitt
36. Started my own coaching and mentoring program- Inspire & Mentor
37. Got 2 guest presenters down to teach my lovely pole girls
38. Sown the seeds for my DVD, my eprograms, the Retreat, The Club and my book
39. Read so many inspiring books and listened to a truck load of audio
40. Meet many many wonderful people
41. Made lots of cakes and discovered Im a pretty great cook too
42. I have the most amazing clients
43. Got back in touch with my old partner in crime from school - Sharon Robbins - boy did we get into trouble!
44. Took all my team out for christmas lunch
45. Got drunk quite a bit this christmas and had lots of fun!!!
46. Booked to go and train with Zoraya Judd in March 2011
47. Got called a cougar on more than one occasion
48. Experienced some lows this year but stuck with my mantra - this too shall pass
49. Cooked the most amazing soups
50. Goddess Star Monroe is now officially my name on my passport!!!

Things are changing, life is opening up new opportunities

Ive been absent from my blog now for the past 3 months and Ive missed it, I truly have.  This blog is about disappear into blog heaven as my new website is coming in January with a brand new sparkly blog attached.  Im excited, Im a little fearful but I am embracing this change - this is a new start for myself and my vision.

Look out for me - Goddess Star Monroe & How To Be A Woman will be arriving very soon.

Happy new year to everyone xxxxx

My 10 Goddess Commandments

These 10 commandments are mine baby (feel free to borrow) and when I live my life by all of them - watch out!! Fabulous stuff just happens.

1.  Take full responsibility of who I am
2.  Always recognize my uniqueness
3.  Never compare myself to anyone else
4.  Be the best I can be every second, every minute, every hour, every day...
5.  Be completely in love with who I really am
6.  Accept and give compliments easily and freely
7.  Fully accept who I am - the good and the not so good
8.  Be grateful and practice gratitude on a daily basis
9.  Have clarity on what I want, where I want to go/do and who I am
10. Have fun/laugh/be sexy/have lots of amazing sex!


What are you 10 Goddess Commandment?  Get thinking and let me know xxx

Ill be happy when I lose that last 10lbs........

Yeah, yeah!! My god if I hear one more woman say that to me again Im going to chop her head off.  There you go - 10 lbs gone - just like that!! Now how do you feel????

Honestly the amount of women that I encounter on a daily basis who put their happiness and lives on hold because of their "extra" weight they perceive they are carrying.

Why not be happy now, right now in this very moment, embrace everything about you.  Go on - I dare you, strip off your clothes and stand in front of a full length mirror and take a good long hard look at your body.  Really look, look intently at who you are and how you are made up.  This body of yours does a good job, no wait, it does a grand job, it carries you around every single day.  It gets you out of bed in the morning, it gets to work, its takes you to the pub, health club in the evening, it enables you to play with your kids, it helps you run for the train, it does everything you ask of it.  But maybe thats the problem your asking your body the wrong questions, your not telling exactly what you want it to do and then you get pissed off when it doesnt look the way you want it to.

When I work with my clients I suggest to them that they start by accepting and honoring who and what they are.  I encourage my clients to ask the questions why they are the way they are.  If they are unhappy with their size then why are they this size, what has driven them to be this size.  If the answers are that they are overeating, under exercising then they need to address this and a simple tip of the balance will result in weight loss.  What my clients have got to understand as well is that as women we store more fat, we are designed that way, fat is womanly, it gives us curves, it enables us to reproduce and it is essentially what makes us women.

Another scenario that I encounter is that when women have been trying to lose weight for a long time they normally have plateaued.  So when I suggest to them that they may be at their natural weight I normally get a fierce reaction from them.  Yes any woman can be lean, she can reduce her fat levels right down, but at what cost, normally periods disappear and these women are depriving themselves of food on a daily basis which normally results in them being more obsessed with food than when they started.  Their moods start to plummet, their sex drive disappears and even though they are leaner than ever their self esteem takes a nose dive.  Sounds great doesn't it - and most of my clients have to understand that if they do want to lose that last 5 - 10lbs then major deprivation is on the cards.

We are a nation that compares ourselves to everyone else.  If I can suggest just one thing - that is to honor who you are, realise that you are unique, you are very special and there is no one else like you.  What works for one woman doesn't mean that it will work for you.  We need to take care of ourselves, honor who we are, cherish our bodies and vow to always do the best we can each and every single day of our lives.  We want to live a long, healthy, vibrant and bountiful life full of sexy energy and I guarantee that if you are living a life deprived of food you are not going to feel this way.

There is so much to do in life, to feel, to learn, to experience and when we take away our obsession with being slim, lean, skinny, smaller we are freed up totally so we can live out our lifes full potential.

Life + Awareness - Guilt = One happy Goddess

Guilt - a useless emotion, an emotion that sneaks up on us when we aren't looking, an emotion that takes us on a roller coaster of a journey, an emotion that when not checked and reigned back in can overrule us and permeate every second of our gorgeous lives.

How often do you feel guilty and why do you feel guilty? My goddess mojo that I live by is "Do the best I can every day, whilst loving who I really am".  

Somedays this means that I get up, get dressed, put a smile on - even if I dont feel like it, grab a coffee, watch a little trashy tv, eat some chocolate and just mosey on through my day and somedays this means that I spring out of bed, slide into my trainers, whizz round the park, pump some heavy weights, eat healthful, gorgeous food that Ive prepared, be a dynamo in the office and a goddess whilst teaching. 

Im a high achiever, every day I want to conquer the world, I want to cross off all the items off my to do list, I want to end the day feeling euphoric that I have done the best I can.  Sometimes I get so wrapped up in achieving that I forget to live,  to fully appreciate each moment of my day.  I forget to be grateful and I forgot just to be.   Im all about being aware, being aware in my mind, my body and my soul and sometimes things happen, that are way out of my control that remind me to slow down, relax, breath and to just be.

Take for instance this past month - Ive been training super hard, eating great and working hard in and on my business.  My body started to ache about 2 weeks ago and I started to feel tired but I carried on regardless thinking that this would pass, then last week I got toothache and this week it got worse and a quick trip to the dentist and one of my wisdom teeth was whipped out resulting in me being floored, out for the count, enough is enough this Goddess needed her rest!  and rest I did, Ive slept, chilled out, taken time out from the gym, eaten what I wanted, when I wanted.  That sneaky guilty feeling kept trying to edge its way into my day and life but I gave it the goddess heave ho and you know what?  I feel good, I love me and Im on the mend, my body feels ok, Im looking less hamster like from the tooth extraction and Im ready to go back into my life at a gentler goddess pace.

Sometimes we just need a rest, we just need some time out from our daily routine to stop and smell the roses and we need to do this without that five letter word called guilt.  Life carries on regardless whether we are in it or out of it so its all about my Goddess formula...... Life + Awareness - Guilt = One happy Goddess.  Try it and see if it works for you xxxxxx