I’m now a Healthy Living and GPS for the Soul blogger for the Huffington Post! And you already know what I love to do to celebrate…

Dance! (When mama's happy, everyone's happy)

Now, I didn't get this opportunity just come because I have nationally-published short stories and articles or happen to know everyone at Huff Po (in fact, I knew no one).

It happened because of a few things I would love to share, in short form here. Tips included are an "extra credit" holiday gift:

• Tenacity – If one door closes, another will open, if you keep at it. I can't tell you how many times I've kept at something and finally received it. Of course it must be in true alignment with who you are and you must think relationship and "how can I help YOU" first before asking to "get". So…when your (cold) contact leaves HuffPo to write for another publication, don’t give up. Instead…

Tip #1: Go to Linked In and see where she moved to. Send her a super short message there or a sweet tweet (or three) and ask her where you can send your email writing samples, since she’s moved on and ask her how you may be of service or support to her at her new position. She may not respond right away…but, she will.

• Trust. Have faith in the process and in yourself that it’ll happen and that you are talented and skilled enough in this area to get it (because you are).

Tip #2: Even when it looks as if it’s not going to work, see it, feel it and believe it! Make it your mantra/Momtra: See it, feel it, believe it! See it, feel it, believe it! If this "fails" today, then get out for a hike to get of your head and keep acting as if. The negative loop in that gorgeous mind of yours is not helping bring that opportunity to you. Once your hike/run/swim/yoga is complete, repeat…see it, feel it, believe it! Keep this going until you get the "you're in!" email!

• I know I know, we hear it everywhere but let’s talk about Truth – what do you REALLY love? What’s your truth? What are you in full alignment with, as I stated above?

Tip #3: In your business as in life, follow the LOVE not the SHOULD. You will not only enjoy it three times as much but whatever reward or goal you may have in mind will be that much sweeter (and that much bigger).

I'm not writing for the Huffington Post because I think I should be or because I think it’ll help me grow my business or my platform. The top reason is because it’s I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to write and this publication is on-brand for me and I'm able to write the types of articles I really want to write. I love and know branding very well (I started in this business when I was 22!) but writing strict "branding" articles doesn't light me up. Writing articles like the one above does.

What is the vision you have for your life? Get clear here. Very clear. The vision I have for mine as a woman and professional is to continue to write and speak as much as I can. I have seen it time and time again…following these passions will help me be the best at all of my other titles. Because the truth is my creativity, or in other words, my writing and speaking are my joy as much as my husband and son are. The joy I receive after each article and each word placed in a special way (what the word “vinyasa” means, by the way), stretches my life happiness ten-fold.

So keep going with your flow and your fire! It will come if you see it, feel it and believe it! (and can find them on LinkedIn 🙂

Did this help you? How so? Please leave a comment below! I would be happy to share more on this topic, if I know this was helpful to you!

To read my first Huff Po article that will not only help massage the way your holidays turn out but how big this next year's business success will be, click below, “You are what you eat? You are what you repeat:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-ghilotti/mindfulness-practice_b_4373840.html

Oh yes and don't forget to subscribe to my feed on Huff Po so you'll be alerted to my new articles.

As always, ladies, enjoy your business, enjoy your life! I hope you're enjoying the holidays!

 

 

 

 

p.s. If you are interested in growing your platform and brand as well as write for nationally-recognized pubs, inquire within…I am helping private clients with this very thing, alongside building their brands and businesses from the inside-out.

Please note that MGI rates will also be going up come January 1^st. Seeing as our office closes this Friday, please send any questions you may have about working together to myself or Peggy at admin@michelleghilotti.com today. Much love, ladies!

Watch the silly and shimmy-filled video below!

Happy Holidays from the Ghilotti / Mandel family!

If you've been a part of my community for any length of time, you know that I firmly believe in the following statement:

The personal is professional and the professional is personal….the holidays remind me of the blessing each year is because I get to weave my business into my life and my life into my business everyday…

And the truth is, if it wasn't for the men in my life and the support and joy they so generously give, I couldn't do half of what I do to then support women to live and communicate themselves from their authentic center with as much joy as I do it with.

In short, they make growing a business SO MUCH FUN and they show me everyday that growing a business means growing for them and for all three of us a more vibrant, fun and experience-rich life.

With that said, Welcome to the holiday dance card from the Ghilotti / Mandel family! Our first of many!

We each have personal messages inside for you so be sure to watch! And may you, beautiful ladies, enjoy your holidays with *your* loves.

I am grateful to be in community and growing with you!

To watch us, click here now: www.michelleghilotti.com/dance-card

Happy, happy holidays, ladies. Enjoy your business, enjoy your life!

 

 

 

 

 

 

p.s. MGI's four and eight-hour VIP days are still available at 2013 rates until this Friday at 2:30pm. For more information, feel free to check out the Work with Michelle page for more detail or email us at admin@michelleghilotti.com. xo

The short, the brief or, in other words, the simple(st) is best…but it’s not always the easiest to get. We see that in the taglines we try to come up with, the blogs we write and in the way we deliver our elevator pitches. All are ‘supposed’ to be as brief (and powerful) as possible, yet, it’s so difficult to make it happen.

So simplify the life, love and business you have, during the holiday season and beyond, with these tips. Make it happen:

• For your life…make the list, review the list, see what’s naughty, see what’s nice.

A Time/CNN poll found that 65% of people spend their leisure time doing things they’d prefer not to do. Sixty-five percent! If you feel you’re leading a “full life” but it’s not full with what you really want in it, it may just help to get out some loose sheets of paper and a pen and jot down everything you're  doing in a week. Everything.

Don’t judge it nor try to organize it. I just want you to see what’s on your agenda. Then, after jotting it all down, scan for the potential 65% (ish) of  leisure items that are potentially not at all how you want to be spending your time. Go through and highlight the things you LOVE doing (with whole heart). Anything that's not highlighted needs to be looked at again and taken off your daily list, in the best way you see fit…simple as that.

How could the rest of the month and the new year be in even more alignment with what you wish to bring in for yourself?

Strip out the naughty, just keep the nice. That's the gift!

• For love (or for your *loves*)…simplify by SIMPLY adding more love (compassion, understanding) to those VIPs around you so that, in turn, you can give it to yourself too. [Truth = Whatever we give, we get back, in spades].

Remind yourself that noone was born knowing how to communicate. Before judging or pointing the finger (sadly customary in families, friendships and in the society we live in), ask yourself instead “How did I contribute to this situation?” Also ask, “How can I be more understanding of my partner knowing that I need and want so badly to be understood as well?” A greater love for yourself and your partner is there for you. Always and every day, hoo-ray.

• For your business…simplify by asking yourself these three questions to create a connected business AND a brand personality. For every one thing you're putting out into the world (basically anything you do, say or show) ask yourself three questions: 1) is this authentic to me, 2) is this unique to my industry 3) and is this shareable or something wildly relevant to my audience? If each is a YES, then you have the green light to share that blog post, launch that program or enter into that partnership. In order to grow your business, the mindful approach is the most fruitful. And, many times, as evidenced by these questions, the simplest path too.

So, will you? Simplify? And, as the yogi in me likes to say, will you live, love and work simply to stretch that happiness?

The gorgeous, powerful, conscious and creative brand of WOMAN you are is the very LIGHT this world needs now during the holidays and always. Simply…don't forget it.

Enjoy your business, enjoy your life!

 

 

GratiTuesday for work we love and yoga that guides us along the way…

Today is my 5th “In love with being human” piece of 12, in the name of celebrating 12 years in biz, sharing my story through entrepreneurship and book writing, especially as it pertains to life, motherhood, love, growth and gratitude.

In love with being human…

I love length. I love words. I love depth. And, I swear this one will be short (ish).

This morning in spinning class I heard the perfect “in love with being human” sound bite. It is my early Hannukah and Christmas gift to you:

The instructor, after guiding us to kick up the resistance to a level 5, then a level 7/8 and 9 in the first half of class, invited us, at the 45 minute mark, to “Make it level ‘breathless’.”

Make it level breathless.

…are you? Can you and can we, as a community and planet, go deeper? [We can always go deeper…we can always make it mean more].

Does today call for brevity or length in order to make it truly “breathless” and a take-my-breath-away experience?

Ah to this beautiful sound bite…a bite today that reminded me of why I fell in love with yoga. Because it gifted me with sound bites that quickly and so easily turned into the Momtras I today share with moms from all over the world [we are what we eat? Yes. And, we are what we repeat, as well].

In love with being human…

Make the intention or Momtra, if you will, to madly and deeply steal life rather than just live it.

If I’ve learned a hundred things in 12 years of business, through the writing of my first book (or my first Huffington Post blog article, for that matter), through my eight years of mothering and 15 of wedlock, number 23 may be this: making it a level breathless (a 10+) is what keeps us engaged…present…healthy…ridiculously happy. Fact: we feel less stress, aches and pains, feelings of unworthiness and have less migraines the more we find and exercise our purpose ~ our level breathless.

Because this thing we call fear is simply energy…energy asking you to turn it into fuel. The fuel that will actually help motor us through to that calling, new venture or crazy, new and exciting way we want to use our voice to be seen and heard in the world.

In love with being human…

At lights out last night, I introduced Nolan to “well, yes, you may be afraid to try but that’s how Papa and I have done most everything in our lives, even up to this morning, in fact, and it'll continue that way for us and for you too. Here’s the thing and what I want you to remember, ok? Fear isn’t “bad”, it’s a sign that we really need to do that thing. Basically (hand on the light switch now), we feel the fear and we do it anyway. It's more fun that way and, we prove to ourselves, that we can play bigger and bigger every time…”

“Yeah…”

“Love you, honey, nothing to worry about…life is good, even when we don't think it is."

“Night, Mama.”

In love with being human…

We are meant to bleed to our edges.

Why else were we given crazily intelligent bodies, creativity, majestic mountains, children, gorgeous seas and big brains that hold 70,000 thoughts a day if it wasn't to exercise them in the most abundant way? To play! To jump off them! To jump into them!

In love with being human…

I see no other way.

Breathless is breathtaking and it can be the reason we live, work, dance, write, yoga, mother, wife and business…to know that for today, we’ve gone as far, as high, as low, as deep as we could go, and that, as a result, we sleep better, richer and more profoundly than ever before.

In love with being human…

To be able to say at 22, 39, 45, 55, 66, 78 or 89 “If it ended today, right now, I would have no regrets…” This isn't morbid, it’s the goal.

And it’s why I love being human. To use and feel it all, no matter what label (“good”/“bad”) the collective “we” normally places on it.

So why share all this today [wrote this while Nolan did yoga the last hour]? Because it might be that something or *the* sound bite that will support you in making that decision to do or NOT do that thing.

Will it support you in romantically ushering in your new level breathless?

Time is a finite commodity.

In love with being human…

As I dropped Nolan off tonight for what I like to call his GratiTuesday yoga practice [and after a full day of clients, exploratory calls and a meeting], I was reminded of the peace that follows riding life at level breathless.

When we know we’re reaching that speed and stride, there’s a letting go that sparks us to once again say, “For today, I’ve gone as far, TRULY as far and as wide and as deep as I can go.”

In love with being human…

Imagine yourself before lights out tonight and ask yourself ~ am I riding at level breathless? Or, imagine yourself on your rocking chair and ask "Did I ride at level breathless?"

Then, when you hear the answer, don’t run…unless it’s to the very person, event, place or thing you may have been afraid of.

(love to you),