Finding Passion in Your Pain (Star Bobatoon)
When her 5-year old son was first diagnosed with a life-altering disease, the first question Star Bobatoon asked was, “Why me?” Several years later she discovered the answer: so she could – from a place of experience and compassion – support, empower, and inspire other parents who have children with special needs.
About Star Bobatoon
Star Bobatoon is an accomplished attorney, dynamic trainer, and award-winning speaker whose high energy and engaging style make a lasting impact on her audiences and clients.
With over a decade of performance on stage, television, and the big screen, Star colors her timely and relevant messages with drama and humor.
Using her legal background, Star goes beyond inspiration to convey concrete ideas and practical tools that allow audiences to make real changes in their lives. She encourages her audiences and clients to embrace their inner light and become the STARs they were born to be.
Star is especially committed to organizations that support parents with special kids. She is a volunteer, speaker, and workshop leader for informal support groups and national organizations including Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Her greatest accomplishment is being the proud parent of “two of the most beautiful children in the history of children.” Her youngest is her daughter Xanthia, and her eldest is her son Hurricane. Hurricane has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and is the inspiration for her book, I Hate Muscular Dystrophy: Loving a Child with a Life-Altering Disease.
Star’s Success Tips
STAR Steps – Strategies To Achieve Results:
When you hit a wall, when you get discouraged, when life brings unexpected challenges here are 4 steps to help you achieve results.
Sit still. With all that you have going on in your life, it becomes hard to ignore the distractions and focus on yourself but this is an important step. Carve out some time, find a quite place and just sit still. Try to calm your breathing and your thoughts.
Take inventory. What is it that you are good at, what brings you joy? We often have skills and talents that we take for granted. It is also easier to pretend that we are just mediocre people with nothing special to give. The truth of the matter is that we all have something special to give. Take an inventory and you will be surprised at how much you have to offer.
Accept the challenge. Embracing your inner light and taking action to bring that light out into the open is a challenge. It takes time, effort and commitment. Accept the challenge and to take action to make it happen.
Reinvent yourself. Remember when we were kids and we dreamed about what our lives would be like, what we would be doing and who we would be? Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, it is not too late to become the person you always wanted to be.
Use these STAR Steps whenever you find yourself up against a wall or moving in that direction and you will achieve remarkable results.
Star’s Favorite Quote
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but about learning to dance in the rain.” – Anonymous
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Survivor to Thriver (Michele Howe Clarke)
Move Past Your Fears, Let Go of Negative Thinking, Take Control, and Have the Life You Always Wanted.
Are you overwhelmed by life’s challenges? Has a crisis sent you into a tailspin? You have the power within you to turn things around one thought at a time. No more self sabotage. No more feeling lost within your own life. Cancer Thriver Michele Howe Clarke will take you on an amazing journey from the time of her devastating cancer diagnosis, shortly after becoming a first-time mother, through her recovery. Along the way she shares her secrets to a rich and fulfilling life in the aftermath of her most daunting challenge.
Michele will discuss how you can
- Rediscover your faith
- Make choices that positively impact your daily existence
- Recalibrate your thinking to put you in control of your happiness
About Michele Howe Clarke
Michele’s journey from tragedy to transformation has provided her with a hard core master’s degree in triumph in the face of despair. Her experience has never been the same after her life and death struggle with head and neck cancer which left her disfigured. She gracefully tells her harrowing and ultimately heart-warming story in her inspirational book Face Forward: Meeting Challenges Head on in Times of Trouble which will be published by Morgan James Publishing, NY in Spring of 2012.
For more information, please visit Michele’s website: www.receivebelieve.com/
Michele’s Success Tips
Start using Leading Questions to keeps you moving down the positive path.
You have this amazing power to ask better questions. Every thought begins with a question. You have a problem-solving-mind. It will endeavor to solve any problem you throw its way. You can center your questions around health, or whatever you most desire: love, kindness, abundance, joy, strength, or relationship.
You can ask these questions in the shower. Ask in rounds of three for each question. Start each round of questions with:
How can I …?
What will I do that…?
Wouldn’t it be great if…?
Sprinkling Positive Speech helps your subconscious focus on realizing better outcomes.
You can begin going in a new direction. You are the one who can make all the difference. Rediscover the power of your focus. You have a choice: you can choose to hurt or heal your body by the way you speak to yourself and how you see yourself. Trust that somewhere within you, you are already whole, already healed. Know this. Stake your claim; you have a right to health. The first step is to stop being so hard on yourself. You have done the best you could with what you had. Now you have options and you know it.
Flip Your Script and stop your negative story and reprogram yourself for success.
You move your energy when you decide not to perceive pain in a hard fact, but instead see an opportunity to grow. Pain in life is inevitable. We all lose loved ones. Ultimately, we will all die. Suffering in life is a choice you make when you describe the pain of now or the uncertainty of your future to yourself repeatedly. Suffering and pain therefore continue to be manifest in your life. When you tell yourself the story of the pain you feel, the description you create is more than just the facts and here’s where you create the gory details. No more! Intend good health and peace for yourself: You are able to take action and face fears.
Michele’s Favorite Quote
“First the thought then the thing.” ~ Anonymous
“The path is the goal.” ~ Anonymous
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Jory Fisher: “Perseverance”
November 15, 2010 by Jory · 5 Comments
Sometimes it’s hard to keep going, isn’t it? Or even to GET going. Maybe you’re not feeling particularly appreciated today. Maybe the road in front of you seems sooooooo long. Maybe you’ve suffered a severe setback. How will you recharge your batteries?
My dear father used to “wind me up.” He’d gently twist his hand in the middle of my back as if he were winding up our Grandfather Clock. “You can do it, Jory. You can do it.” This from a man who was born on a donkey farm in Oxford, Alabama, yet rose to the rank of Commodore, Service Force Sixth Fleet in the United States Navy. He knew what he was talking about!
I’ll never forget how miserable I felt after failing the Virginia bar exam. “Just get back on that horse again, Jory. You can do it.” “I don’t even want to see that horse again, much less get back up on it!” I tear up just thinking about my spirited response. Dad passed away in 1999, but his unending belief in me and his sweet words of encouragement spur me on even now. (He was right. I got back up on that horse; studied arduously for three more long, boring months; and passed with flying colors. Deed done. With prayer and perseverance.)
The Egyptian Pyramids. The Roman Coliseum. Perseverance. Abraham Lincoln. Martin Luther King, Jr. Perseverance. Nelson Mandela. Mahatma Gandhi. Perseverance. Dorothy Day. Susan B. Anthony. Perseverance. The Little Engine that Could. The Tortoise and the Hare. Perseverance. Helen Keller. Anne Sullivan. Perseverance. The Chilean Miners and their Rescuers. Perseverance.
We have many awe-inspiring stories to en-courage us when the going gets tough. To uplift us. To motivate us. And, thankfully, most of us have people in our lives who believe in us even when we’re full of doubt and despair.
Who winds YOU up when you need it most? How do you persevere???
Warmly,
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The New Sexy: How to Get It & Keep It (Alice Greene)
Everyone wants to feel good about their body and themselves. As Alice will explain, the struggle with being in shape isn’t from a lack of diet and fitness experts, programs or reality shows. In fact, they are often a big part of the problem! They create diet and exercise rules only a minority can live with. Worse, they focus on what you should do, not how to solve the underlying subconscious beliefs and emotions that are at the heart of why people struggle to live a healthy active lifestyle.
The keys to success are by breaking the rules, doing what feels good, building confidence, and addressing hidden baggage that drive behaviors.
Alice will share the HOW TO secrets in creating a healthy and fit lifestyle and a New Sexy body–secrets that will help you achieve and maintain long-term results.
About Alice Greene
Alice is America’s Healthy Lifestyle Coach and author of Inspired to Feel Good: Making Healthy and Fit Choices So Rewarding and Liberating You Never Want to Stop. She knows what it really takes to become a health, fitness, and weight loss success story. She is a nine-year success, and she teaches her clients the secrets to easily and naturally adding healthy choices, fitness, and self care into their lives for long-term results and feeling their best.
Alice is an expert in motivation, healthy dieting, enjoyable fitness, and overcoming self-sabotage. Her coaching programs give people the tools and knowledge to create healthy choices that are realistic and feel really good to maintain. As a result, her clients finally achieve success in having a healthy relationship with food, long-term fitness, self-care, and a healthy weight that lasts.
You can learn more about Alice at www.aHealthyLifestyleWorks.com.
Alice’s Coaching Suggestion
As we eat our meals during the upcoming week, Alice suggests that we pay attention to one thing: at what point do we start to become full? She says in her interview with Beth and me that we don’t have choices unless we’re conscious about what we’re thinking or doing. Noticing when we’re transitioning from satisfied to full, and noticing what we’re thinking and feeling as that occurs, will help us have choices about our lifestyle.
Alice’s Quote for the Day
“The secret to successfully getting a body that feels great is not about being good but doing what feels good.”
~Alice Greene
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