Your happiness is not dependent on your success

What have you done today to make yourself happy, yes yourself – not anyone else!

As I write I am gazing at the most wonderful bunch of roses, they are sitting on the table resplendent in all their glory and I am smiling as I made this gesture to myself I purchased them for myself !

In his Ted Talk Shawn Achor talks about Happiness ‘if I work harder I will be more successful and if I am more successful I will be Happier!’

Shawn goes on to say that this is scientifically broken and backwards – because we keep moving the goal posts for our brain, you have a achieved a good job now you want a better job, ‘if happiness is on the opposite side of success our brain never gets there’ because ultimately we think we have to successful in order to be happy

Not the case we can be happy regardless of success

Check out this short article about 34 ways you can make yourself happy –

Come on step out of your comfort zone and do something for your self 34 ways to be happy now

And something that also makes me happy is viewing Shawn's Ted Talk Shawn Achor of Good think Inc

Reason's to go GAGA for the Reformer

Reason's to go GAGA for the Reformer Here's a great quiz question what does Lady Gaga and the London Irish rugby team have in common ? would you believe it they both practice Pilates on the Reformer!!! Lady Gaga on the Reformer - article in the DailyMail Pilates is called the Pilates System because it is designed around 7 pieces of equipment – one of which is the Pilates Reformer – sometimes described as a Reformer bed, perhaps eluding to it’s origins as a 3ft single bed in an internment camp on the Isle of Man, where Joseph Pilates spent much of the 1 st WW and insisted that all the inmates perform daily movements utilizing their bed springs! In my opinion the Reformer stands out on its own from the other pieces for its versatility While BODYFIRM [est 1998] have always had a fully equip studio [reformer, trap table, barrels etc] most people are more familiar with Mat Pilates, however in the last few years more studios have opened in Dubl...

Tabata - High Intensity Interval Training

Also check out our Client Jan Newsletter We have been using the Tabata system of training in our studio for several years now both in our Met-X-Fitness and in our more Blitz / Boot Camp orientated Pilates Mat and Reformer Class’s and because I know all about the excellent benefits and results of this style of training I rather stupidly assumed everyone else did too. I realized last week that this was not the case when on two separate occasions I was asked by a client and a trainer I was chatting with - the same two questions what exactly is Tabata? And how does it work? So here it is – Tabata, a high intensity, short duration effective exercise system Tabata – What is it? Tabata (developed by it’s name sake Japanese Professor Izumi Tabata) is a high intensity interval training system (HIIT) that since its inception has provided remarkable results - he originally developed this system for the Japanese speed skating team in 1996 Tabata – How does it wor...

Step outside

Step outside of your comfort zone. You won't regret it!

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