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 Hi guys!

I am so excited to share today’s Make Your Life Interview with you! 

My guest today is the founding editor of Experience Life Magazine, Pilar Gerasimo and she is one amazing woman with a message that will change your life.

As you hear the details of Pilar’s journey, you will be inspired by how her desire to create a different kind of health magazine (one that was not all about fad diets and 6-pack abs) and a willingness to take risks and take action set circumstances in motion to have her living a life that is best described as a dream come true.

Today as a result of Pilar’s desire to impact the health and vitality of the American public she has done nothing less than create her own revolution! 

In a world where fast food, chronic stress, prescription symptom-masking and a computer-to-couch lifestyle is the norm, and drinking green juice and meditating is considered “a little weird”, Pilar asserts that seeking health truly is a revolutionary act. 

Pilar’s new site www.revolutionaryact.com embodies this message and challenges the way our society is leaning, putting the knowledge (and hence, the power) back in your hands to choose to be revolutionary for the sake of your own health, vitality and longevity.

Whether you are inspired to take a new look at how you treat your body or you are moved to pursue your dreams, Pilar’s story is sure to empower you to Make Your Life  

Joelle

Make Your Life Interview with Pilar Gerasimo

 A little bit about Pilar…

Pilar Gerasimo is the founding editor of Experience Life Magazine, a whole-person health and fitness magazine that reaches more than two million women and men nationwide.

But this magazine is different than a lot of what you will find out there in the world of health and fitness: No six-pack-abs sensationalism or bikini-body obsessions; no diets or overnight miracle weight loss schemes; just the practical wisdom and real-life inspiration you need to achieve the healthy life goals that matter to YOU. 

Available on newsstands at Whole Foods and Barnes & Noble and also by subscription, Experience Life has won numerous awards and earned high praise from leading health experts, including Dr. Mehmet Oz. The magazine’s tagline — “Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act” — reflects one of Pilar’s deepest personal convictions: that choosing to be healthy in an unhealthy culture requires unconventional choices and perspectives, and that when you make that choice it positively transforms not just your own life, but the lives of everyone around you. 

Pilar’s central passion is empowering people to live their healthiest, most authentic lives so that they can give their best gifts — and thereby help change the world for the better. Pilar lives with her husband Zack and their three-legged pitbull on an organic cooperative family farm in western Wisconsin.

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Hi gang,

We are a little more than a week into Q2 of 2011 and it’s about that time when the really ambitious, super-exciting ideas you had about your life in January may be seeming too fantastical, unrealistic, annoying or just plain depressing.

That’s the thing about goals and dreams. Unless you keep them close, visit them often, execute on a plan, and talk about them regularly, you may just find yourself months or even years into the future stunned by the realization that life didn’t turn out as you planned and that you are right back where you started, or even worse.

If you are feeling anything less than sparkly when it comes to those ambitions, goals and visions of the future, do not fear. I have a little process that can take you from listless to totally ready to rock in about 30 minutes flat.

In our last Life Makers MasterMind we checked in on everyone’s goals and walked through a series of questions to focus, empower and reinvigorate. I have included these questions for you.

So grab your goals, get your pen warmed up and reconnect to building your future, right now.

Joelle

Quarterly Goals Review

Give yourself 30 minutes to re-connect to your commitments, gain valuable insight and take action towards your 2011 goals.

Reality Check:

List your 2011 goals.

Record your current performance to goal.

Record the gap between where you are and where you intended to be by this time.

ie. Goal: $200,000/yr in sales. Actual: $100,000 in 3 months. $50,000 ahead

ie. Goal: weigh 140, feeling hot and healthy. Actual: Weigh 150. Lost 2 lbs in 3 months, have not yet developed the healthy habits to feel good every day and continue and sustain weight loss. 

What’s Working:

What are the successes you have experienced in the past 3 months – about your top goals and anything else you find significant?

What has worked/is working?

What’s not working:

Where did things not work?

Where/what situations or at what time did you find yourself falling down or moving in the wrong direction?

When you were connected to your goals and rocking it:

When did you feel really connected to your goal? What were you doing? What was happening in your life?

When were you feeling really disconnected to your goal? What were you doing? What was happening in your life?

Check in:

Are these still the right goals?

Why? Why not?

What you have learned and how you take that learning forward:

Based on your answers above – what are the things you already know work that you can put in place to support you in your goals?

Identify and manage for obstacles:

What are the potential obstacles or pitfalls that may come up in the future?

How can you manage for these pit falls through systems, process, plan, structure or rituals?

Note on rituals: The ritual of brushing our teeth morning and evening (or after meals) makes tooth hygiene a no-brainer. Do you need a daily green juice ritual or a show love to your spouse daily ritual or a weekly sales blitz ritual?

Note on planning to win: Remember we all like to feel like we are winning and moving forward. Is there a way you can track and celebrate baby steps?  Baby steps are all it takes to get anywhere you want to get and be anything you want to be.

Check your beliefs:

What old beliefs/fears would you like to remove to support future success?

What new belief would best support success?

Use Your Resources:

What (support/accountability/resources) could you ask for/seek out to ensure your success?

Get in action:

What action are you willing to commit to in support of your goals?

Nice Work! Now, using the insights gained through this exercise create your new execution plan, create the rituals, establish the new beliefs and reach out to get the needed support and accountability to have a breakthrough in achieving your goals!

Copyright ©2011 Coach Joelle, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 How are you feeling? I am betting that right now you are reconnected to your goals, feeling empowered and seeing the action you can take to move your life forward (just a guess )

We would love to hear about any new clarity you have gained or the new action you are ready to take so do not hesitate to comment below.

Here’s to a powerful Q2, and remember, that life is for living, not for later and every moment is an opportunity for you to Make Your Life.

Joelle

This exercise was created to support the members of the Life Makers MasterMind in blowing through their goals and living a great life in 2011.  The Life Makers Mastermind is a community of support, inspiration, education and accountability for those who choose to be the conscious creators of their lives, who want to passionately pursue their inspired goals and dreams and who wish to experience the magic of a life lived on purpose.

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