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How I Lost 25 lbs by Changing My Mindset with the #SelfPrideChallenge In July of 2019, I was miserable. Quite honestly, over the previous six years, I'd completely let myself go, and the result was shocking. My health was at risk, I was tired ALL the time, and I had no energy or confidence. The voice in my head was constantly reminding me how horrible I looked and felt, chastising me for allowing this to happen. My "come to Jesus" moment came one sunny afternoon as I sat in my backyard and caught a glimpse of myself in the sliding glass window (you can see that photo and my before and after pictures HERE I don't wanna put them in this post as I don't need to be haunted by them on Google images for the rest of my life!). I just remember looking at my reflection and asking myself, "Where has your pride gone girl? You used to give a shit!" That was the moment I KNEW something needed to change if I wanted to be healthy, live my best life, reach the success I was working hard to achieve, and feel my best. But how? I'd tried every diet known to man, I'd done every workout program under the sun. No matter what I'd ever done, I never lost weight. I'd resigned myself to the belief that maybe my body was the one body out there that would not respond to anything I tried. I thought about that for a minute and realized that I'd said those words to myself a million times, "no matter what I do, I will never lose weight." It suddenly dawned on me that this had become a mantra of sorts, and if there is one thing I KNOW for certain, our words and thoughts predict our outcomes. Had I been predicting that outcome all along? Manifesting it? But it's true, I told myself, the facts back up the statement. How can I change the facts? What if, I thought, I ONLY work on changing that belief? What if I stopped saying it, stopped believing it was true, would the result change? That's the day my #SelfPrideChallenge was born. It became my mission to change my beliefs and see if by doing so, maybe my outcomes could also change. Throughout my life, whenever I'd started a new diet or exercise program I'd always done the traditional things we'd all be taught to do; I weighed myself and set a goal weight, I identified a new pants size I wanted, or set goals for the inches I hoped to lose, I went on strict eating plans, counted calories, eat only fat, eat no carbs, eat no fat... like I said I did everything we've all been told to do. This is how I lost 25 lbs. by doing things MY WAY. Here are my three tips on how I changed my beliefs, found my motivation, got healthy, built my confidence, and how I lost 25 lbs., in the process. TIP #1: I FOUND MY MOTIVATION And it was NOT to lose weight. It was NOT to drop clothes sizes or any of the other things I'd set as goals in the past. I knew I needed to find my personal, customized motivation in order to make a sustainable change. So, I started by asking myself, WHY? Why I didn't like myself, my body, or my life the way it was? WHY did I want to change it? Then I wrote a list of all the reasons why I was miserable and specific things I wanted to change in order to make my daily life better. Things like, I want to walk upstairs and not get winded, I want to get in pictures with my kids and not hide in the back, I want to wear a tank top, I want to be able to touch my toes in yoga class, I want enough energy to make it through the day without taking a nap, I want to say yes to things that I am currently turning down because I don't want people to see me this way, I want people to be able to post pictures of me that I don't want to hate them for! My list had over 30 items on it like this and many that were way too TMI for me to disclose here! Now, I want you to do the same thing. Get a journal and a pen and answer these questions, they are the ones I asked myself. What don't you like about how you look and feel today? Be VERY specific, list every detailed thing you can think of. Why/how do those things negatively impact your life? What would your life be like if those things changed? How would I feel? What would you be able to do if they changed that you can't do now? What are all the things you WANT to feel when you are in your new body? Be specific, think of the moments and experiences you'd love to have when you're feeling and looking your best. This list is so important because it creates customized motivation and measures your progress in a way that affects your daily life in the most impactful way. Each item you get to cross off from this list is meaningful to you because it represents the change you personally identified as being deeply important to you. It's MUCH more effective than reaching a number on a scale that can fluctuate day to day. By crossing these items off, you KNOW your life is changing for good, and you're recognizing every little win that SHOWS you how the quality of your life is improving day over day, which is extremely motivating. WATCH A REEL I DID ON THIS. TIP #2: I COMMITTED TO DAILY MOVING MY BODY -With a REALISTIC goal I'd done all those New Year's resolutions in the past, the ones where I'd written, work out for an hour a day, five days a week, and they never worked. They just made me feel like a failure because I wasn't successful in sticking to that plan, hence they continued to feed the negative voice in my head who constantly told me what a, fat lazy piece of shit I was. Not helpful. This time I asked myself, what can I commit to? If my goal was to get healthier and feel better, then the baseline for this was moving my body. So, I started there. Ok, now what kind of exercise do I KNOW I can do every single day, regardless of the weather, or my schedule, and for how long? Ask yourself this same question. The most IMPORTANT part of this is to set yourself up for SUCCESS, meaning you need to pick something you KNOW you can do every single day, for at least 30 days. It can't be too hard or you'll quit. It can't be too much time, or you'll talk yourself out of doing it on days when you "don't have time." It MUST be easily achievable. I picked walking. I knew I could walk the dog, or walk in the house if I had to, I KNEW I could keep this promise to myself and just move my body for 20 minutes a day. That was it. Setting yourself up for success is the absolute key here. You want to feel the "win" every time you accomplish this, it's a very important part of building trust in yourself, creating a lasting habit, and achieving long-term success. And the best part? It organically sets you up for bigger and bigger wins! Because there will be days when you lose track of time and you do a 40-min walk instead, WOOOOHOOO! Winning! The longer you stick with it, the better you'll feel, the more energy you'll have, and the more NATURALLY motivated you'll be to give a little extra. This is EVERYTHING people! Instead of battling the voice in your head each day to get up and "workout," or get motivated, you'll slowly start WANTING TO DO MORE. I started with walking just 20-min a day, that's all I did for several months. Then I started wanting more (which in itself was shocking), I was ready to step it up because my energy was coming back and so was my confidence. Then I started doing a Barre3 class a few times a week, I did that for about 18 months. Eventually, I got bored, and was ready to up-level again. In 2022 I joined a gym and began doing cardio classes, weight lifting classes and yoga 3-5 times a week, and actually LOVING it. By this time working out was something I looked forward to, something that was a non-negotiable in my daily routine, something that felt good. It was also starting to pay off, my body was changing dramatically and my mindset had completely shifted over the past three years. This was NOT a quick fix or an overnight transformation, it was a natural and gradual progression, it was a LASTING change to who I am, how I think, and how I operate on a daily basis. WATCH MY REEL ON THIS HERE TIP #3: I ALIGNED MY MINDSET WITH MY DESIRED OUTCOME This was of course the biggest game changer for me. It was the element I'd never done before and the one that produced the results. I began using mottos and mantras every single day to retrain my brain and remove the old negative beliefs. I started saying things like: I LOVE my body! My body responds quickly and easily to the work I'm putting in! The weight is falling off! I feel sexy! I have so much energy! I said these all day every day, and especially when I did my workout. These felt completely fake in the beginning because they were all things I DID NOT believe. However, slowly, over time that began to change. I stopped having to fight the negative voice in my head, the one who'd torn me down my entire life because it was slowly being replaced with this new one. The new one encouraged me to show up each day for myself and was proud of the progress I was making, she was encouraging, supportive, and filled with hope for the future. As a result, my self-confidence grew and I began to feel 100% better, inside and out. My body began to change as well. Not overnight, but the progress was noticeable and felt amazing as I began checking off the items on my list. As of today, I've lost 26 lbs, nearly 3 pant sizes, I can wear that tank top and swimsuit with pride, I have shoulder and arm muscles for the first time in my life, and I feel better than I've felt in 15 years! I am the fittest I've been in over a decade, I don't have the health problems I did when I started, and I have energy. I feel amazing! It has completely changed everything about how I feel and how I show up in my life, my business, for my kids, and even opened me up to finding love. WATCH MY REEL ON THIS HERE If you are ready to make a change to how you look and feel, even if you are already at your ideal weight and workout regularly, sign up for my FREE #selfpridechallenge and get a new motto every single day along with a coaching email that will help you re-train the voices in your head, build self-confidence and help you create healthy habits that will last a lifetime! There's a whole chapter on this with more coaching and advice in my new book All the Things I Wish I Knew, plus 80 other lessons, tips, and advice for living your best life. Ready to take your life, career, goals and yourself to the next level? Check out my life coaching options or take my online life coaching courses to get the results you DESERVE! Sarah Centrella is a #1 best-selling author of several self-help books, a motivational keynote speaker, master life coach, Founder of VIVIAMO and podcast host.

Welcome back to The Sarah Centrella Show! SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Audible or anywhere you get your podcast. Married at First Sight with TV Host and Sex Expert Dr. Viviana Coles Let's talk about sex baby! And you know me, I hold nothing back! I can't wait for you to hear my conversation with sex expert and Doctor of Marriage and Family Therapy, Dr. Viviana Coles. You may know her from the hit Lifetime show Married at First Sight, where she's the show's sex expert and co-host. I ask all the questions, plus some that my Facebook audience wanted me to ask, so we get into it. And of course, Dr. Viviana opens up about how she started and what got her started in tv. Dr. Viviana Coles is also the President of Hudson Relationship Therapy and creator of several tools and courses to help you spice up that love life (even if you are waiting for "the love"). LEARN MORE HERE Follow Dr Viviana Coles journey and connect on Instagram @doctorviviana and be sure to watch Married at First Sight. If you found value in today's show we ask you to kindly share the love by sharing it, telling your friends, commenting, SUBSCRIBING to the podcast, and leaving a review. Thank you! *ENTER MY WEEKLY GIVEAWAY* Your feedback counts and I wanna encourage and reward it! How to enter: Go to my Instagram @sarahcentrella 1. Turn on my post notifications. 2. Comment on the new posts in my feed, each comment is an entry! Winners are drawn from those comments every Friday and announced in my IG story. And or SHARE the podcast and tag me, that's an additional way to enter, all comments and shares are an entry! About your host: Sarah Centrella is the best-selling author of several self-help books. She is a master life coach, manifesting expert, and motivational speaker, and Founder of VIVIAMO

Welcome back to The Sarah Centrella Show! SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Audible or anywhere you get your podcast. Today I'm talking to network marketing guru Jessie Lee Ward about building an empire. Is it possible to build a multi-million dollar empire from a basement when you've only got $300 to your name? Heck yes, it is, and Jessie Lee Ward is PROOF! This powerhouse CEO known to her fans as #BossLee is a top sales trainer, coach, and multi-millionaire who's been teaching people around the world how to build and grow their businesses, and in our interview, she shares her hustle and secrets to success. What does it take to build a team of thousands around the world? What's it like to go from nothing to MILLIONS? You're about to find out! The People's Mentor, Jessie Lee Ward is dropping GOLD, so grab your notepad, and listen up. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. If so please tell your friends, share, subscribe, and review! Jessie Lee Ward is a verified multi-million dollar earner in the network marketing profession and a serial entrepreneur. She’s also an investor, owns traditional businesses, is a diehard loyal friend, and is a crazy dog mom. She lives in Texas and travels the world coaching and training her global Empire. Go follow her on Instagram @IAMBOSSLEE UPDATE: Heartbreakingly Jessie Lee Ward passed away from colon cancer on September 16, 2023. If you found value in today's show we ask you to kindly share the love by sharing it, telling your friends, commenting, SUBSCRIBING to the podcast, and leaving a review. Thank you! *ENTER MY WEEKLY GIVEAWAY* Your feedback counts and I wanna encourage and reward it! How to enter: Go to my Instagram @sarahcentrella 1. Turn on my post notifications. 2. Comment on the new posts in my feed, each comment is an entry! Winners are drawn from those comments every Friday and announced in my IG story. And or SHARE the podcast and tag me, that's an additional way to enter, all comments and shares are an entry! Ready to take your life, career, goals and yourself to the next level? Check out my life coaching options or take my online life coaching courses to get the results you DESERVE! Follow Instagram @sarahcentrella and tag me :) Sarah Centrella is a #1 best-selling author of several self-help books, a motivational keynote speaker, master life coach, Founder of VIVIAMO and podcast host.

Welcome back to The Sarah Centrella Show! SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Audible or anywhere you get your podcast. The Ultimate Success Playbook for Life and Football with Alex Molden Today I'm talking the Ultimate Success Playbook with Alex Molden author, keynote speaker, leadership coach, and host of The Shark Effect podcast. Alex Molden is a former American football defensive back who was drafted in the first round with the 11th overall pick in the 1996 NFL Draft by the New Orleans Saints, and played in the NFL for 8 seasons. Alex was inducted into the University of Oregon Hall of Fame in 2008. We talk about his journey from an angry kid without direction to an ultra-focused athlete, and his transition from the NFL into fatherhood and coaching. Now Alex Molden speaks to young athletes, sharing the lessons he's learned on how to succeed in life, and he is sharing several of those tips with us today. Grab a copy of Alex Molden's book, The Ultimate Playbook. Follow him on Instagram @alexmolden *ENTER MY WEEKLY GIVEAWAY* Your feedback counts and I wanna encourage and reward it! If you found value in today's show we ask you to kindly share the love by: sharing it, telling your friends, commenting, SUBSCRIBING to the podcast, and leaving a review. Thank you! How to Enter: Go to my Instagram @sarahcentrella 1. Turn on my post notifications. 2. Comment on the new posts in my feed, each comment is an entry! Winners are drawn from those comments every Friday and announced in my IG story. And or SHARE the podcast and tag me, that's an additional way to enter, all comments and shares are an entry! Ready to take your life, career, goals, and yourself to the next level? Check out my life coaching options or take my online life coaching courses to get the results you DESERVE! Sarah Centrella is a #1 best-selling author of several self-help books, a motivational keynote speaker, master life coach, Founder of VIVIAMO and podcast host.

Welcome back to The Sarah Centrella Show! SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Audible or anywhere you get your podcast. Today we are getting parenting tips from The Supernanny herself, Jo Frost! Ok, I'll be honest, I am FREAKING OUT right now over this interview! This woman needs no introduction, she's the star of six international TV shows, the author of six books and the changer of families across the globe! She is none other than Jo Frost The Supernanny! This show is very personal for me, because I started watching the Supernanny with Jo Frost on ABC when it first aired in 2005 when my son Kanen was just two years old. I learned pretty much everything I know about parenting from watching that show, and it saved my life, especially in the early days of being a single mom. Since then, I've been referring clients to her videos and sharing her techniques with moms for years. She IS the guide to parenting and her methods WORK! I encourage you to go watch her show Supernanny, streaming on Hulu, Youtube, ABC and her new season on Lifetime. Here are just a few of the staples of my parenting that I learned from watching it over the years: The Supernanny's Parenting Tips from Jo Frost Consistent, fair, firm, and loving discipline (search up "the knotty spot") Sleep training for babies and young kids Schedule and routine Positive reinforcement The importance of PLAYING with your kids Chores and responsibilities for kids Bedtime routine How to be present with your kids and so much more! You can watch full episodes on specific topics on Youtube PLEASE share this episode with every parent you know, and especially every single mom, moms need to know there is help for whatever they are going through with their kids. There are tools that are simple and effective and LIFE CHANGING for you and your kids! Follow Jo on Insta @jofrost and let us know what you thought about todays show on my post on Instagram @sarahcentrella Check out my entire section on parenting in my new book All the Things I Wish I Knew, with chapters of practical advice. *ENTER MY WEEKLY GIVEAWAY* Your feedback counts and I wanna encourage and reward it! How to enter: Go to my Instagram @sarahcentrella 1. Turn on my post notifications. 2. Comment on the new posts in my feed, each comment is an entry! Winners are drawn from those comments every Friday and announced in my IG story. And or SHARE the podcast and tag me, that's an additional way to enter, all comments and shares are an entry! About your host: Sarah Centrella is the best-selling author of several self-help books. She is a master life coach, manifesting expert, and motivational speaker, and Founder of VIVIAMO

Here's how my Ultimate Bucket List (#LiveList) is Coming to Life I am a firm believer in the power of a #LiveList (kinda like a Bucket List) to help you break through any barriers you may have to dream big. I make all my coaching clients write one of these as their first assignment, it's also the homework to #DreamIT in my book Hustle Believe Receive. The key to making an ultimate #LiveList that will actually manifest is to focus on the EXPERIENCES you want to live out before you die. You can NOT put GOALS or THINGS on the list, just moments and experiences. The first bucket list that I wrote back in 2009 has remarkably come to life in ways that I could have never imagined when I first wrote it. So, I'm excited to see how this list shows up in my life in the years to come. MY ULTIMATE LIVE LIST Take photos of the white and blue stone houses in Santorini Greece. Ride a donkey up the stairs from the sea to the village in Greece. Drink a spritz on the beach in Positano Italy with my girlfriends. Take a family photo under the Eiffel tower. Go to the top of the Eiffel tower and snap a selfi! Eat breakfast at the Giraffe Hotel in Kenya Parasail behind a jeep driving through the African safari. Stay in an ice igloo in Iceland. Stomp and harvest grapes at a vineyard. Stay in the Elephant room at the Four Seasons in Thailand. Sleep in a treehouse. Eat with my fingers while sitting on the floor in Morocco. Have a tapas and sangria happy hour in Spain. Drive up the coast of Portugal with my kids. Ride an elephant in Thailand. Stay in a French farmhouse in France. Ski and or ride the train through Switzerland. Retire in Italy. Ride horses on the beach in Mexico. Ride bikes through Amsterdam. Eat fish and chips with a pint in a London pub. Take a family photo in front of Buckingham Palace. Go to the New York Symphony. See the opera in Vienna. Meditate above the Grand Canyon, on a road trip. Be interviewed by Oprah. Do a yoga retreat in Bali. Spend a summer with the kids in the South of France and one in Tuscany. Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef. Host retreats in Italy, Greece, Spain, and France. Have an event in all 50 states. Write a script. Fall in love. Write a children's book. Meditate with Buddhist monks in Tibet. Hike the Great Wall of China. Take cooking lessons from Italian Nono's. Take Italian lessons. Learn to swing dance. Visit a cigar factory in Cuba. Paddleboard in Hawaii with the kids. Learn to play piano. See alligators on an Everglades boat ride in Florida. Go duck hunting in England. Eat crab and drink a beer in New England. Spend a snowed-in Christmas at a cabin in Maine with the kids. Drive Route 66 with someone I love. Take a helicopter ride over the rainforest or New York City. Zipline in Costa Rica. Drink champagne in Champagne France. Go to the Canes Film Festival. Go to the Sundance Film Festival. Party on a Yacht. Ride a camel in the desert in Dubai. Take the kids to Cape Town South Africa. Spend a weekend in Charleston SC. Go to Mardi Gras with my girlfriends. See the Northern Lights. Take a hot air balloon ride over vineyards. See kangaroos in Australia. Go to a Super Bowl. Go sailing in the St Barth's. Have Izzy show me how to fish in a Montana stream. Go Glamping in Big Sky Mt, and ride horses. Watch a soccer game in Brazil with Kanen. See ice skating at the Olympic games. Go on a volunteer trip. Learn to make your own #LiveList and #FutureBoard so they will manifest! Use the HRBWorkbook homework guide or work with me directly. Visit COACHING UPDATE: Feb 23, 2023: All the items in BOLD I have ALREADY manifested since making this list in 2017! Ready to take your life, career, goals and yourself to the next level? Check out my life coaching options or take my online life coaching courses to get the results you DESERVE! Sarah Centrella is a #1 best-selling author of several self-help books, a motivational keynote speaker, master life coach, Founder of VIVIAMO and podcast host.

My Life Plan: 2011 by Sarah Centrella NOTE: I wrote and posted this life plan on my blog Thoughts.Stories.Life. in September of 2011. It was my very first #LifePlan. "It's 2016: I am 41, Kanen is 13 and the girls are 9 years old. I’m standing on the balcony of a villa over-looking the Italian countryside. Vineyards stretched out over the rolling hills. It’s a warm summer evening, lavender in the air. I take a slow sip from my glass of wine; inhale the bouquet, let my nose do a little dance, savoring the flavors swirling them around my mouth. There’s a tall, gorgeous man walking towards me with the open bottle of Barbaresco. He graciously tops off my glass, leans in to kiss my forehead, and rests his hand on the small of my back. We lean against the brick railing, and I laugh watching the girls play in the vineyard. They are kicking the soccer ball, trying to score a goal against their strong tall older brother. A few of the neighbor boys are playing too, working up a sweet, shouting soccer plays in Italian. They try to keep the ball from the girls, who are enjoying the competition. My kids are laughing and saying things like “Ciao” and “Bella”. I’m happy. The kind of happy that glows on the inside, and never stops manifesting itself on the outside. The kind that brings its best friend, joy along for the ride. I’m at peace. Content beyond measure. I’m not worried about anything. Not money, not bills. Not schedules, or emails, texts, Facebook, or phones. Nothing but this moment occupies my thoughts. I don’t have to work 9-5 anymore. This is the reward for a lifetime of pain, suffering, struggle and hard work. Time does not expire here. We play, we eat amazing food, we cook. We shop in the open air markets; we drink wine, and sip espresso. The kids use their Italian to order dinner when we go out to dimly lit restaurants with large Italian grandmothers bringing us plates of meet and pasta. We eat fresh seafood that leathery old fishermen bring off their aging fishing boats. Dip warm freshly baked bread in cold pressed olive oil. We drive to the Rivera in a sports car, the girls and I with scarfs around our hair like 1940’s movie stars. We stay in brightly colored stucco hotels overlooking the cliffs with the mist of the sea in the air. Drink chilled Champagne. We take the train, go to museums, and sing hymns in ancient cathedrals. Our minds expand, our knowledge grows. We love each other without condition. This is heaven. This is what I hustle for. This is my dream, and one day it will be my Pinch me Moment." UPDATE: Read my post "How I Manifested My Trip to Italy" and see just how spot on my #LifePlan was, it went from just words on a page to my reality! And get this... when my kids and I went to Italy it was Oct 2016 (five years and one month from the date I wrote this), I was 41, my son was 13 and my girls were 9. Can you say #ManifestThat!? Ready to take your life, career, goals, and yourself to the next level? Check out my life coaching options or take my online life coaching courses to get the results you DESERVE! Sarah Centrella is a #1 best-selling author of several self-help books, a motivational keynote speaker, master life coach, Founder of VIVIAMO and podcast host.

Are You Sitting on Your Golden Ticket? What is your “golden ticket”? I bet you have one, and I’m also willing to bet that you know what it is… so then why are you SITTING ON IT!? Our golden ticket is the one thing we are GREAT AT. The one thing we love. Maybe even the one thing we devote our time and energy to, but might not make any money from, yet. It’s the thing that we secretly (or openly) are crafting, hustling towards and dreaming of. For me, its teaching people how to change their life and live their dream, through live events around the world, TV/Film, coaching and books. That is my THING. It’s my passion. It’s what I did for years before it paid me a penny. It’s what I’d still do for free if I could. It’s what I obsess over, dream about and hustle on every single day for the past seven years. It’s what I did nights and weekends while holding down a full-time job from 2010-2017. It’s given me the greatest highs of my life, and broken my heart more times then I can count. It’s what I am meant to do. It’s the only thing I’ve ever really been good at, and -this probably sounds cocky- but I’m fucking great at it. It fills me up in ways I never dreamed a job could. It’s not a job, it’s who I am. It is my Golden Ticket. It’s the ONE thing that I do better than anyone else, because it’s uniquely mine. Therefore it’s the only thing that will one day allow me to achieve wealth. I was pretty good at corporate sales, but a career in that field (even as an executive) was never going to make me a millionaire. That wasn’t an option on the table. It was the safe career, and even the good career choice. One I’d worked years to achieve, but it was NOT my golden ticket. I see so many people out there who are brilliantly amazing at the thing they love, but they are afraid to bet on themselves. They allow fear to prevent them from just stepping up and cashing in their ticket. Fear is a nasty little bitch. It has a purpose of course, it helps us vet our decisions wisely, forcing us to look at both sides of the coin. But that’s how you should use and control fear. If you allow it to make your decisions you have already failed. Forget “fear of failure,” not taking action is the ONLY definition of failure. Because the ONLY way you can possibly fail is if you do nothing. If you sit on your ticket, choosing to do nothing, then you’ve failed. So then, any action you take in the direction of your dream, is success. It doesn’t matter if you don’t reach your ultimate goal right away, the fact that you are out there doing it AT ALL is success. If you begin to see this, then you realize that even if the worst case scenario happens (ie. you use all your savings trying, or you don’t make the team, or your book is rejected, or your business closes) even then, you have succeeded. Because you got in the game. You took the ticket that the Universe gave you, (your true passion and talent) and said; “I will not waste this gift. I will do everything in my power to realize my potential and use this ticket.” You are part of the very small minority who actually recognize their gift and did something about it, you can not fail. If it’s fear of what others will think, that holds you back, remember they are the larger part of the population that will never use their ticket. No one can diminish your effort, your bravery or the success that you will see from taking action. They can’t take that from you, no matter what the final outcome is. Those are the worst case scenarios, and still you WIN. So what if this happened? What if you were the 5% that struck it big in your given field. What do those top 5% make a year? Do you know? If you don’t, stop reading this right now and Google it! You should know what you are working towards. And why can’t it be you? This is your THING right? It’s the one thing your better at than anything else, and plus you love it. So fuck what the haters say, that 5% is YOU. Now look at the pros and cons of going after your dream. The cons: you might go broke trying. OK, and? Lot’s of people are broke and still breathing. Money can be re-earned. You can always go back to whatever crap job you had before and make whatever money you made before. You’d live. The pros: YOU COULD STRIKE IT RICH DOING WHAT YOU LOVE! You could get paid to do what you LOVE. You could do what you love for the rest of your life. You could make a difference in the world, in someones life. How is this not a risk worth taking? I say all of this, knowing first hand how hard it is to live it in real life. It is not easy to “trust the process.” I’ve not had a salary since I parted ways with my corporate job in February. The moment that happened I promised myself that I’d never work for anyone again. It was the push from the Universe that I needed to do what I love full-time. I knew instantly that it was my signal and that if I willingly chose to ignore it and just go back to that career, that I’d be slapping the Universe in the face and tearing up my ticket. Once that decision was made, and set in stone, the rest became semantics. And doors began to open! It’s scary as shit, I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t. But failure is NOT how I roll. I may or may not become wealthy doing what I love, but to sit on my ass keeping that ticket warm would be irresponsible. So to all of you out there sitting on your dream because you feel like it’s the “responsible” thing to do…it’s like ripping up your potentially winning lottery ticket before the drawing, because someone told you the odds of winning weren’t in your favor. Crazy right? Giving up on your dream, or not pursuing it with all your heart is just as nuts. Doing what you love, because you love it, has been proven to equal monitory success over the long-run. Don’t let your short-run negative bank balance determine your future net worth. FIND. A. WAY. I wrote a whole chapter on this with tips and tools for how you can discover your golden ticket in my book All the Things I Wish I Knew. Ready to take your life, career, goals and yourself to the next level? Check out my life coaching options or take my online life coaching courses to get the results you DESERVE! Sarah Centrella is a #1 best-selling author of several self-help books, a motivational keynote speaker, master life coach, Founder of VIVIAMO and podcast host.

Vision Board Success Story: Manifesting Works! #Futureboards Have you ever made a vision board? Or been to a vision board party? If not it's time for a little Bubbles and Dreams! Grab the champs cuz I'm gonna tell you a pretty awesome success story that will make you want to finally make a board that works! For years, I've been coaching people around the world on how to make a #FutureBoard (my version of a vision board), and it's been so incredible to watch their lives change. However, I've done most of this coaching virtually (for the most part), so I hadn't gotten the opportunity to see my clients make their board in person. But recently I've been giving live classes and it's been such a joy to have that personal interaction with people as they start to piece together their future lives. Oh did I mention that these boards we create, actually WORK!? Welp they do... and here's just ONE recent example. The other day I heard from a former client who'd began her coaching and #HBRjourney after hitting her personal rock-bottom. She'd recently divorced, found herself in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy as a result, had lost her business, hated her job and where she lived. She couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. And like most of my clients wasn't even sure what or how to start dreaming of a new life. She felt trapped in the life she'd created and uninspired for the future. We worked together each week through the first four steps of the #HBRMethod. As is common, she struggled with the first step #DreamIt. It was hard for her to imagine anything beyond her current reality, and dreaming big felt silly. I reassured her that this is the normal reaction, and pushed her past those limiting beliefs. Then came #ThinkIt which directly addressed those negative thoughts that were holding her back, and keeping her stuck in the negative cycle. We worked on #SayIt focusing on only putting out into the Universe the future she wanted to create, and put the lockdown on any bitchin' about her present situations. Then we mapped out her new life, creating a five-year #LifePlan. By the fifth week of coaching, she was feeling like a new women! People had began to comment on how positive she'd become and she began to look for (and find), small miracles happening daily in her life, reinforcing this new path. So by the time we got to making her #FutureBoard in week five, she was not only ready, she was excited! She couldn't wait to put visuals to the written plan, and she'd already begun #CreateAMovieInYourHead where she'd been daydreaming about this new life. What did she want? To move someplace warm. Not have to work any more. To meet the love of her life and get remarried. Have money in the bank and be debt free. She wanted to LIVE! And enjoy this new chapter in her life to the fullest. That was about eighteen months ago. Just to show that you DO get exactly what you ask for, about 10 months ago, she was terminated from her job, the one she hated. This, as you might imagine completely changed her financial life. She had been paying out about 1/3 of her monthly take-home pay in the CH 13 bankruptcy. While losing her job initially felt devastating, it allowed her to convert to a CH 7, which wiped out all debt, except her student loans. She then went on to get a job she enjoys to help her save money. The other day she messaged me to say that; she’s found the love of her life, is moving to the sunny destination of her dreams, is no longer working at a job she hates, and in fact won’t need to work at all once she moves! And oh yeah, she has the amount of money she’d put on her board, in her bank! I was FREAKING THE FUCK OUT! Because no matter how many times I do this with a client, every time they come back with results like these, I almost can't believe it! I reminded her that just 18 months ago, we'd literally created that life for her out of thin air! It was fiction when we started. And now... not so much! This is why I love what I do. Because IT WORKS. Because it changes people lives. So back to my first question, even if you've created a vision board in the past, I can promise you it's not a FutureBoard (unless you followed the steps in the book lol). And if it's not, then it's time you make one! Because this story is awesome, but it's not the only one. Not by a mile. Lately I've lead several #futurerboard workshops for corporations and would love to motivate your team too! Here's to making dreams happen, together. Ready to take your life, career, goals and yourself to the next level? Check out my life coaching options or take my online life coaching courses to get the results you DESERVE! Sarah Centrella is a #1 best-selling author of several self-help books, a motivational keynote speaker, master life coach, Founder of VIVIAMO and podcast host.

12 Mottos to Change Your Life & Manifest Everything You Want. What is a motto? Well, the short answer is a positive statement that you repeat regularly, that states an outcome you want. But, if you know me, you know I believe in teaching things that are PROVEN to work and are easy to use and I teach what I call Power Motto's in my #HBRMethod and my book Hustle Believe Receive because they are one of the most powerful tools to change your thoughts, beliefs, and outcomes. How? Because they work to change old negative or limiting beliefs and create new ones. Our beliefs will always manifest in our reality. So it's extremely important that you know what it is you truly believe about everything from money, to your body, your abilities, who you are, literally EVERYTHING. If you have negative or limiting beliefs, then those will always become your reality. For example: If you believe that money is hard to make, money will ALWAYS be hard to make. This means that no matter what job you have, what promotion you get, or how much it pays you, it will always be a struggle. To change this, you must start with the core belief (the thing creating the outcome you DON'T want). Create a motto that addressed the belief directly, such as: "Money comes to me easily and grows rapidly." This motto will begin changing your belief over time. Say it daily, and especially say it when you think about money. When the belief starts to change, your outcomes will also change. You'll start to see money coming into your life unexpectedly and it will become easier to make, and equally important you'll be creating a belief that you GROW money. To grow money you need to be aware of your financial habits and make changes to increase financial knowledge and management skills to grow the new abundance into wealth. A true Power Motto has 3 parts: It addresses the negative belief head-on. -"Money comes to me easily" is the opposite of the negative belief that, "money is hard to make." It DECLARES your ideal desired outcome. -This will feel like a lie at first, and it is. We are making a declaration that we have/feel/believe the opposite of what seems "true" in our current reality. It should make you feel better almost instantly. There is something magical about a good Power Motto, it has the power to relieve stress, calm anxiety, bring peace, and give you power almost immediately. It is a reminder that the outcome you want IS COMING. It gives you hope and perspective. Play around with the wording of your mottos until it rolls off your tongue easily and feels powerful. Here are my top 12 general mottos. Say these to yourself every morning (out loud in the mirror) and all day long until you BELIEVE them. "I AM BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY & PROUD OF ME!" -Use this one to transform your beliefs about your body, how you look, and your health. This claims health for your future (whether you have good health today or not) and begins the change to how you feel about the way you physically look. Adding "I am proud of me" encourages you to make the changes you need to make to reach those goals. "I FREELY GIVE AND RECEIVE LOVE." -This one will help you keep your heart open to love of all types and forms, and remind you to also give it without strings or reservations. Giving and receiving love is a powerful generator of manifesting energy and an important source of joy and happiness. This will help remove unhealthy walls and build your trust in love. "I am worthy and deserving of...." -fill in the blank, with the word of the thing/feeling/belief you want. "I CREATE, AND JOYOUSLY RECEIVE ABUNDANCE AND WEALTH." -This is a powerful financial motto that will bring you unexpected money! It will help you begin to see yourself as the generator and creator of wealth and financial success, which will also help change your money management habits and keep you open to all the various ways and opportunities the universe will bring you financial abundance. Adding "joyously receive" helps remind you that you must be OPEN to receiving abundance and do so with joy. This will bring more financial windfalls! "I AM IN CONTROL OF HOW I FEEL." -Especially when you want to be drawn into other people's negative energy, or when others try to bring you down. Whether you believe it or not, you REALLY ARE in control, it starts with what you tell yourself, so use this motto to get instant peace and control, and to change your beliefs over time. "I AM MOTIVATED AND DETERMINED TO ________ACHIEVE MY DREAMS." -Especially when you feel unmotivated or want to give up. You can fill in the blank as well with anything specific you are working on. "I AM MAKING PROGRESS EVEN WHEN I CAN'T SEE IT. I AM PROUD OF HOW FAR I'VE COME." -Especially when you feel like you've not made any progress and are feeling discouraged. "MY LIFE CAN CHANGE FOR THE BETTER IN A DAY!" -This is an amazing reminder that your big manifestations are right around the corner, the could show up any moment! Use this especially when you are feeling financial lack and fear, or are frustrated by not seeing results. It's a great one for opening up opportunities and getting new ideas to manifest big wins. "I AM OK. EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE JUST FINE. THE UNIVERSE HAS MY BACK." -This motto is so powerful, it will bring calm and peace when it feels like everything is falling apart, or when you are experiencing fear, stress, and anxiety. "I LOVE MY LIFE!" -Make this the motto you use EVERY SINGLE DAY, nothing will help you FEEL gratitude faster and teach you how to be present in your life and feel blessed and thankful for what you have right now. "I AM TRANSFORMING!" -This is one of my favorites because you can use it for physical (body, weightless, etc) goals, and those of your mind and your entire life. It encourages you to keep up making those changes that create transformation. "I AM THANKFUL FOR ALL MY BLESSINGS AND EXCITED TO SEE WHAT WILL MANIFEST NEXT!" -This combination of gratitude for what you have and eager expectancy for what is coming will keep you manifesting for a lifetime! Remember these mottos will only work if YOU DO. You must be dedicated to using them daily, and especially when you are feeling susceptible to old, negative thoughts. If you are consistent you will see results very quickly! Lastly, the most impactful mottos are ones that are personalized to YOU, so write down ones that directly address the things you stress about the most. If you'd like more coaching on this or anything I teach check out my various resources. Learn how to write your power mottos and my 4 other tools to change your life in my #1 best-selling book Hustle Believe Receive. Ready to take your life, career, goals and yourself to the next level? Check out my life coaching options or take my online life coaching courses to get the results you DESERVE! Sarah Centrella is a #1 best-selling author of several self-help books, a motivational keynote speaker, master life coach, Founder of VIVIAMO and podcast host.

Five Reasons Why You Should Write New Year's Resolutions It's that time of year again, the countdown is on until the clock strikes midnight and a brand new year begins. It's my favorite time to reflect on the previous year and chart my course for the new one. I've been writing my New Year's Resolutions since I was a teen and it's been amazing to see over the years, how those resolutions have turned into goals and dreams that have been realized. This is the perfect time to set your intentions for what 2018 will bring. As I look back over the past several years, I can trace my success in any given year, to the effort I put into defining, visualizing, and writing my goals and dreams at the start of each year. Did you accomplish your goals in 2017? Can you look through this past year and say with honesty, that it was one you are proud of? One where you put your plans, dreams, and ambitions on the front burner and got closer to living them? If so, congratulations! If not, why? What prevented you from setting and reaching your goals? Take some time to reflect and get these answers because you don't want the same thing to happen again this year. We are all given limited time on this earth, shouldn't we spend it pursuing, and LIVING our dreams? My 5 reasons why you should write your resolutions now, to insure you start making them a reality in 2018: 1. Writing down your goals is a PROVEN way to help you realize them. It's such a simple thing really, the act of taking a thought and putting it down on paper, but its power can't be underestimated. NOTE: By "writing" your goals, I mean: go pick up a pen and a notepad and WRITE them (don't type them). There is a difference. Writing takes more thought, it uses different muscle memory and parts of our brain that we might not use much these days, all of that works in your favor, helping you get even clearer on what you want. 2. Be specific. The clearer you are about what you want the better your chances are of making it happen. Example: DON'T write: "lose weight." DO write: "My goal is to finish 2018 x lbs. lighter. To accomplish this I have a daily activity goal of.... (insert a reasonable goal you can accomplish every day), and I commit to drinking x glasses of water and eating xyzzy." You get the idea. The more detailed you can be the better. This helps you hold yourself accountable to these smaller, daily actions which will enable you to reach the larger goal. 3. Aim high, plan realistically. Set goals that inspire you, ones where you'll feel amazing once they have been accomplished, but don't forget that in order to achieve them you'll need a realistic action plan. Example: If your resolution is to have x amount of money in your savings account by the end of the year.... DON'T just write: "Save X$ by the end of the year." DO write: My yearly savings goal is X$, I plan to accomplish this by opening a new savings account that does not have 'auto-transfer' abilities, and direct deposit x$ (a figure that won't be missed too much each paycheck). If you run the math and that contribution amount won't come close to your goal, make your goal more realistic. 4. Set daily, weekly, and monthly goals for your resolutions. I think the reason why many people don't write down their resolutions at the start of each year is that they don't want to feel guilty if they don't follow through. Avoid this, by setting small goals that you'll have the power to achieve. Break them down into daily, weekly, and monthly milestones so you can hold yourself accountable and can easily get back on track if you slip. Sometimes it's easier knowing that getting fit can start with something as simple as walking an extra 1,000 steps a day, rather than setting a goal of "do cardio 5 times a week." 5. Make sure your goals resonate with who you are and what you want. I think many times people write goals they have no chance of achieving, ones that they might not even care about, just because it sounds good. This leads to that previously mentioned guilt at not accomplishing them. So, make resolutions and set goals that truly mean something to you. Bonus tip: Keep a nightly journal. I know it seems like a lot of extra work, but again the act of handwriting something helps us clear our minds and keep our focus strong. Finally, be kind to yourself. If you slip up just brush it off and come back more determined the next day, starting right back on that daily plan. Be sure to write down your wins and your disappointments. There is no better way to see how far you've come than to read in your own words, where you started. Here's to accomplishing our goals and living our dreams in the New Year! Check out the chapter on how to set effective goals in my new book All the Things I Wish I Knew. Ready to take your life, career, goals and yourself to the next level? Check out my life coaching options or take my online life coaching courses to get the results you DESERVE! Sarah Centrella is a #1 best-selling author of several self-help books, a motivational keynote speaker, master life coach, Founder of VIVIAMO and podcast host.

4 Tips to Creating a "Vision Board" that WORKS! #FutureBoards How to make a vision board that WORKS! #futureoard success, start manifesting your dream life! The point of a #FutureBoard is not to manifest a sports car or a stack of cash, like a traditional "vision board," it’s to intentionally design and create your ENTIRE dream future life. It's the ultimate #LifePlan. Like an architect remodeling an old building, mapping out each area, room by room, creating a blueprint for a whole new masterpiece. That’s what makes a vision board magical because it’s the physical representation of the life you’ve carefully and thoughtfully redesigned. You have the power to create your destiny; these four simple steps will help you do exactly that. Step 1: The Audacity to Dream. Learning how to dream can be surprisingly difficult for most of us in the beginning. It goes against our very nature, it feels foolish and ridiculous at first, but it’s a critical first step to success. A great way to get this process started is to create an extensive, all-inclusive #LiveList. This is essentially a list of everything you would like to do or experience in your lifetime. I love this exercise because it forces you to visually walk through your life and imagine what it could be. Resist at all costs, the urge to be “realistic”. This is a dream list, it’s not bound by your current situation, it’s not an action plan that you need to budget for, it is free from all those constraints. If it helps, call it a “fantasy list”, or your “what if” list. On this list, all things are possible; there are no boundaries, no limits, no expiration dates. Step 2: Create a Movie In Your Head. Now that you’ve created a bucket list and started imagining all the things you want to DO, in your lifetime, it's time to narrow it down for your vision board. Pick a quiet spot, grab your note pad and write out these five categories as bullets: 1. Relationships 2. Wealth & Abundance 3. Mind & Body 4. Passions & Joy 5. Career Next, create a movie in your head about each category; one filled with so much detail you can see it every time you close your eyes. To start, imagine your “dream life” five years from now, one where the money is no object, and anything is possible. Pick a day in your future life and begin creating your movie from the time you get up in the morning. Answer these questions: What does your home look like? Who wakes up with you? What are you wearing? You have your dream job, but what is it? What car do you drive? What role do friends and family play in this future life? Your future self takes vacations, so where have you just come back from or heading to? What has having wealth and financial freedom enabled you to do? What do you look like? You’ve focused on your personal passion, so what’s that outcome look like? This step is so important because it’s laying the foundation in your mind, that this is your future reality. You’ve transitioned from a “what if” list, into a day in your future life. Putting your focus and intention on that is the magic. It’s the feeling of living a fulfilled, successful, blessed, happy life in every area, which sets manifesting in motion. Now, go over each bullet and fill in the details, from the movie you just created. Example: Family and Relationships: In your new life you’re married and have several close friends, maybe you have a child, etc. List each desire out under that category. Do this for every category with as much detail as possible. Step 3: Get to Work! Now it's time for the fun to begin! I like to start on Pinterest making a board for all five categories. Pinterest has the most beautiful pictures of the life you want to create, whatever that looks like for you. I love it because the photos tell a story. My “dream house” board looks so cozy, I can easily imagine myself unwinding with a glass of wine in the living room, or looking in the beautiful kitchens. In other words, you’re looking for pictures that visually and physically tell the story of your mental movie as accurately as possible. Remember we are looking for images that express our future life, its feel, its energy, its emotion. When you look at the pictures, they should trigger an emotional attachment which plays your movie, enabling you to mindlessly, and happily daydream about it. So it’s not about a random picture of a sports car, it’s finding a picture that best describes what type of car, or bag or shoes, or house, you'll have in your super-successful future life. Example: A picture of an engagement ring, represents the desire to be engaged and in a happy healthy relationship. When you look at it, you’re not thinking; I want that exact ring, you’re thinking about the day the love of your life asks you to marry him. Making Your Board Once you have pictures representing your dreams for each category, print out your favorites. Grab a glass of wine, put on some fun music and enjoy the process like a little kid. Artfully arrange your pictures on a large cork-board, making a section for each category. Keep going until your board is completely full and represents your future life. Then HANG IT UP! Put it in a place where you will see it every day, all day if possible. Put it on your desk at work, hang it on your bedroom wall. Every time you see it you are invoking the magic and creating your future. Step 4: Believe in Magic! By now there is a part of you that already believes in this magic. Along the way, you’ve had to silence the voices in your head at each step that told you this was insane. But you did it, and by doing so, you’re on your way to seeing results. The other part of you wants to ask; how is any of this possible for me? Lucky for you, that’s not a question you need to worry about, as crazy as it sounds. You do not control the how or the when. You only control your steadfast belief that this is your new future, and when the time is right each of these pieces will be drawn to you. By displaying your board you’re acting on that faith, and every time you look at it and play your movie, you are solidifying that belief Much of belief, in the beginning, is simply faking it, until it feels real. Speak it into existence even if you don’t fully buy-in yet, pretend you do. Begin talking about your new future, what it will feel like the day you realize your dreams. Keep your focus there. Don’t ever say “if”, say “when.” Claim your future. Go about your life expressing gratitude as if it’s guaranteed because it is. The magic begins to happen over time when you’re not even paying attention, but one day you’ll wake up and actually BELIEVE it, in every fiber of your being. Often your manifestations come quietly, unexpectedly and from a source, you’d never expect. Stay aware and grateful and you’ll be there to receive them. And before long you’ll wake up and be smack dab in the middle of one of those experiences you so carefully envisioned, and you’ll have a Deja vu feeling… and then you’ll remember; I have been here before, only this time it’s my reality. Those are the moments I live for, and have experienced over, and over again. Nothing feels as amazing or joyous as that moment when you’re living out the life you created. Click to see some of my Pinterest #futureboards and what I've manifested using my Centrella Method. To make your Futureboard using my methods, grab a copy of my book Futureboards and the FREE companion journal. Ready to take your life, career, goals and yourself to the next level? Check out my life coaching options or take my online life coaching courses to get the results you DESERVE! Sarah Centrella is a #1 best-selling author of several self-help books, a motivational keynote speaker, master life coach, Founder of VIVIAMO and podcast host.