Pick Your Words for 2021

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How Do You Want To Feel?

Further to last week's post (see below) about setting your New Year's goals from your heart, I invite you to set an intention about how you want to feel in 2021.

This year, look at your goals from a different perspective, from how you want to feel as opposed to what you want to do. Let your heart lead the way.

Think of three words for the year to serve as your anchor.

You could also divide your words into three categories if you like:

1) Health

2) Career (or fulfillment, if you're retired)

3) Personal

For instance:

1) Health - lighter

2) Career - growth

3) Personal - peace

Here are some examples of potential words:

Strong

Peaceful

Confident

Limitless

Calm

Energized

Fulfilled

Engaged

Curious

Healthy

Optimistic

Positive

Assertive

Bright

Thriving

Dynamic

Secure

Passionate

Breakout

Change

(the thesaurus comes in handy)

Pick words that make you feel something in your gut, that you connect with.

Then write them out and post them somewhere where you will see them every day, like your fridge, your bathroom mirror or your desktop.

Then set goals based on how you want to feel, following your heart.

For instance, if one of your words is healthy, then what specific actions could you take to feel this way? Focus on how your actions make you feel.

With your words in a prominent place you can check-in daily to see if what you are doing is giving you the feelings you want to feel.

Let me know how it goes!

A New Way To Set Goals

by @buddhadoodles

Happy New Year!

It's that time of year again: New Year's resolutions.

This year I invite you to do it in a different way.

When we set New Year's goals, we usually do it with our head, as in we think about it.

What if you were to start with your heart?

Ask yourself: What does my heart long for? Focus on how you want to feel.

For instance:

HEAD: I want to lose weight

versus

HEART: I want to feel healthy, strong and energetic

Take your heart's wish and let your head serve your heart.

Take your goal:To feel healthy, strong and energetic

and use your head to set steps to accomplish work towards it.

When it comes from the heart it just feels different.

Let me know how it goes.

Rent My Stretch Class Online

Thank you to those who have tried renting my class online!

It's been nice to see some of you renting the class multiple times.

I appreciate your kind words:

"I'm uber impressed by this. Wow!"

"Loved the class."

"Brilliant Ali."

I've been working on this for months, so it's a big deal for me that it's finally done.

This year has been a huge learning curve and has taken me way out of my comfort zone. I've been talking about making video classes for decades (!), so it's quite something that I'm on my way!

I'm working on more videos and will eventually have all my classes online for rent.

In case you were wondering I made the video completely on my own (except my son focused the camera and pressed play). I also made my website and everything else.

For now, please enjoy the Stretch & Relax class:

check it out

Access the class anytime from my website:

If you've tried, but had issues please reach out so I can trouble-shoot with you.

I'm happy to report I've only had a few issues, so it's been pretty smooth sailing, thank goodness!

Troubleshooting tips:

Problem:

"I entered my email, it said I would get a confirmation email, but I didn't get it."

Try: Check your junk folder.

Problem:

"I tried signing-in to the account I created but my password doesn't work."

Try: It doesn't seem to like auto-generated passwords, so make sure to create your own password.

Problem:

"I clicked the link to the class in the email I received but it's not working."

Try:

Go to my website www.fitnessali.com
Click RENT A CLASS in the menu
Sign-in with your email and password
If you paid for the class within 24 hours, the class will be available for you

live streaming classes online

click HERE to register for 10:30am Classic Stretch in-person class at Kits CC

To register go to

www.fitnessali.com

& click the BLUE BUTTON

zoom update

If you're attending classes online please check that your Zoom is up-to-date:

On a computer:

When in Zoom, go to the top left corner of your screen where it says zoom.us, click on it and in the drop-down menu click Check for Updates, if there is an update, install it.

On a Iphone or iPad:

Go to settings
Scroll down to App Store
under "automatic downloads" make sure "app Updates" is ON

That's it!

Takes one minute, it's important because it ensures program runs smoothly.

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