TCOY Wellness December 2, 2008

My life’s personal journey and career experiences as a former professional athlete and coach (25+ years) have taught me a lot about the human body, commitment, choices and discipline.  Parenting has provided endless lessons and reminds as well as encourages me to continue to learn as we are all students of life. Many coaches and teachers have provide me with the support and guidance to excel quicker because of their knowledge and expertise.  Think back to someone who has blessed you as a mentor.  With health being everyone’s #1 asset,  having a Wellness Coach not only makes sense as it enriches your life.  One of the most valuable lessons people need to be reminded of is:  “take care of you”; thus “TCOY”. We can be of little help to others if our personal health fails.

Someday is another word for procrastination and in regards to your health, the sooner you begin to take care of your body, the better off you will be. If not now, when? When you create a mindset for wellness, your lifestyle changes and your Quality of Life improves. Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.  What pathway are you choosing? All things are possible!

Because of the varying voices in the wellness industry, many people feel overwhelmed by their choices and simply do nothing. WARNING:  choosing to do nothing is a choice too. Avoidance is not a solution nor the answer when it comes to your health and it can cost you your life!

Change your thinking ~ change your life.  Focus on what you want in your life and take action to receive it. Wellness and Sickness both occur over time.  Your daily choices become habits; those habits can be a blessing or curse as time passes.  Visualize the future you desire and start creating a better YOU from this day forward.

Some excuses that can cost you your life:

*I just can’t change.
*I feel pretty good right now.
*I don’t have the time or energy.
*I am not sick, so I’m healthy.  Right?
*I can’t afford it, my budgets too tight.
*I have more important things to think about and do.
*I get confused and overwhelmed about where to begin.

TCOY Wellness, your GPS to Health and Wellness, provides a pathway for anyone looking to improve their Quality of Life. Is it time for you to “recalculate”, for the health of it? As a coach, mentor and speaker, I welcome the opportunity to guide you and those you care about in the quest for optimal health and wellness.   If you don’t take care of your body, where will you live?  We are given only one body.  Embrace the fact that you are the driver on the road to your lifetime of  good health.

Be Well, Be Strong… and always remember to:

TCOY = Take Care of You!

Lucy

“Never give up on your dreams ’cause you never know which one you let go could have made you complete.”

Pursue your DREAMS daily!

You Don’t Have To Be Sick To Get Better!

The Power of the Pause May 21, 2013

The Power of the Pause  >  Pausing allows you to take a beat — to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.  Maria Shiver

YouTube Link – 20 minutes worth pausing for as it will enlighten and remind you to TCOY!

All my life I’ve been a full-speed ahead doer type.  However, I also know the incredible importance of taking care of myself (thus my TCOY business name was a natural for me).

Time flies by so quickly.  The importance of being in the moment has never been more real to me.  The past is a part of you and teaches many lessons; if you fail to learn the lesson, you’ll probably repeat it over until you get the lesson.

The future provides hope yet if you live for it you’ve missed the joy of life; the only moment any of us are guaranteed is the present.

A vision that has always stuck with me is the duck on the water.  Seemingly coasting on top of the water effortlessly.  But wait, is it paddling it’s feet like crazy underwater or in a coasting mode?  I’ve learned it’s a combination of both.

Technology is engaging and is there 24/7; however, that does not mean we have to live our lives around it.  Step away.  Enjoy THE PAUSE as Maria explains in her speech.  I completely agree.  We are human “BEings”, and I’m emphasizing the BE in being…just be.

Breathe.  Nature doesn’t hurry but everything gets done.  Pause…take in a deep 5-second breathe, exhale a 5-second breath, repeat 5x.  This instant vacation (pause) has been approved by Coach Lucy with TCOY Wellness.  Take Care of You!

Seeds of Greatness shared… May 14, 2013

It’s Up to Me

by Denis Waitley

To be self-reliant adults, we need to set some guidelines:

• Be different, if it means higher personal and professional standards of behavior
• Be different, if it means treating animals like people, and people as brothers and sisters
• Be different, if it means being cleaner, neater and better groomed than the group
• Be different, if it means giving more in service than you expect to receive in payment
• Be different, if it means to take the calculated risk
• Be different, if it means to observe, listen and understand before passing judgment.

 

Excerpted from The Seeds of Greatness Treasury.

 

Inspiration – Seek to see the beauty in life May 13, 2013

Among the Orchids

We never get all of what we want,

We never want all of what we get,

We never have all of what we like,

We never like all of what we have.

And still we live & love.

That’s life…

The best kind of friend,

Is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with,

Never say a word,

And then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.

It’s true that we don’t know

What we’ve got until it’s gone,

But it’s also true that we don’t know

What we’ve been missing until it arrives..

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they’ll love you back!

Don’t expect love in return;

Just wait for it to grow in their heart,

But if it doesn’t, be content it grew in yours.

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone,

An hour to like someone,

And a day to love someone,

But it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Don’t go for looks; they can deceive.

Don’t go for wealth; even that fades away.

Go for someone who makes you smile,

Because it takes only a smile to

Make a dark day seem bright.

Find the one that makes your heart smile!

May you have

Enough happiness to make you sweet,

Enough trials to make you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human,
And enough hope to make you happy.

Always put yourself in others’ shoes.
If you feel that it hurts you,
It probably hurts the other person, too.

The happiest of people
Don’t necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Happiness lies for
Those who cry,
Those who hurt,
Those who have searched,
And those who have tried,
For only they can appreciate the importance of people
Who have touched their lives.

When you were born, you were crying
And everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so that when you die,
You’re the one who is smiling
And everyone around you is crying.

Please send this message
To those people who mean something to you,
To those who have touched your life in one way or another,
To those who make you smile when you really need it,
To those that make you see the brighter side of things When you are really down,
To those who you want to know
That you appreciate their friendship.

TCOY = Take Care of You

Lucy

Lucy DelSarto, WEC
Wellness Coach & Speaker
913-709-6059
* TCOY VIDEO *

If you don’t take care of your body, where will you live?

Distractions IMPACTS concentration May 10, 2013

 

Filter Out Distractions and Interruptions to Improve Memory

By Mehmet C. Oz, MD, and Michael F. Roizen, MD

Feeling scatterbrained? If you’re having difficulty focusing on a good book, the nightly news, or even your spouse because the kids, pets, phone, TV, flashing e-mail, and more are driving you to distraction, don’t blame the interruptions. It turns out that a prime reason for midlife concentration lapses and late-life memory problems is an increasing inability to filter out the clutter — both human and digital distractions.

A growing stack of studies shows that although 30-something brains can focus on a topic with laser-beam precision while ignoring multiple distractions, older brains have frayed mental filters that let other information in, no matter how hard they’re trying to concentrate. It’s like looking at the world (or at least that pile of paperwork) through a wide-angle lens that also sees the unwashed dinner dishes, the beautiful sunset, the accountant’s memo, or the article you’ve been meaning to read.

Try this 4-step meditation plan for sharper focus

American and Canadian researchers stumbled onto this concentration issue while using MRIs to scan people’s brains as they performed memory-related problem-solving tasks. Older people in the study couldn’t concentrate inside the banging, clanging MRI machines, even when wearing earplugs. Their brain scans revealed the extra mental effort used as they tried to filter out the distracting noise, tipping off researchers to the mental challenges of concentrating.

Here’s how to both minimize age-related distraction problems when you need to focus and how to put them to use when you need to think and see the big picture:

• Turn off distractions. You can recapture much of your sharp focus by removing distractions when you have to do mental work. Don’t pay bills while watching TV. Turn off the radio when you’re starting an important conversation with your spouse or when you’re loading new software onto your computer.
• Clear your desk, organize your house. Visual clutter can slow down your mental capacity so that decision-making takes more time and effort. Give your brain cells less to ponder by sweeping unnecessary stuff from your workspace, cooking area, computer desktop, closets, and even your car.

7 steps to a more organized life

• Turn distractibility into a mental asset. Harness your well-seasoned brain’s ability to retain lots of information by giving “multisensory learning” a whirl. That’s when you use several senses at once to enhance learning and memory. Instead of reading a long magazine article about the growing list of presidential candidates, watch an in-depth TV show about them. Getting the audio and the visual is an asset in this case.
• Enjoy seeing the forest, not just the trees. Having a more flexible mental filter in place means you take in more pleasure, too. Whether you’re walking in the woods, biking on the boardwalk, or people-watching, chances are you’re noticing more than you did in your 20s and 30s. Savor it!

The Dash (-) May 9, 2013

The Dash (-)

Enjoy my May newsletter as it focuses on what LIFE is all about…living the dash!

 

God Made A Dog April 30, 2013

A must see…

Click & Watch:

   God Made A Dog

 

Feeling sad, lonely…you don’t need medications, you need some DOG TIME!

I’m a believer in exercise and being active with others; however, there are times when all I want is to hang out with my dog.

A dog is LOVE! 

They loves us unconditionally and are always happy to see you return (even if you just left the room and returned, priceless how they acknowledge our presence).

I’m so grateful for my 4-legged blessing who makes my life better.

So many great movies and TV shows based around dogs, from Lassie to My Dog Skip and Homeward Bound.  What’s some of your favorites?

Dog is God spelled backwards…a  mirroring of what LOVE truly is.  TCOY!  Coach Lucy

We need more stories like this in the news! April 19, 2013

A wonderful story that needs to be shared –

People helping People! 

Love it, Coach Lucy

A Boston Marathon good Samaritan has been identified, thanks to a grateful runner’s Facebook plea.

Laura Wellington, 25, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was half a mile from the finish line when the bombs went off, promptly halting the race.

Police diverted her away from the finish line where her family and boyfriend, Bryan O’Neil, were planning to meet her. She panicked.

“Knowing that my family was at the finish line waiting for me, I started panicking, trying to call them. Diverted away from the finish line, I started walking down Mass Ave towards Symphony Hall still not knowing where my family was. Right before the intersection of Huntington, I was able to get in touch with Bryan and found out he was with my family and they were safe. I was just so happy to hear his voice that I sat down and started crying. Just couldn’t hold it back,” Wellington wrote.

As she wept, a marathon participant who had already completed the race passed by — and gave her his medal.

Wellington wrote about the kind man and his wife on Facebook.

“At that moment, a couple walking by stopped. The woman took the space tent off her husband, who had finished the marathon, and wrapped it around me. She asked me if I was okay, if I knew where my family was. I reassured her I knew where they were and I would be okay. The man then asked me if I finished to which I nodded ‘no.’ He then proceeded to take the medal off from around his neck and placed it around mine. He told me, ‘You are a finisher in my eyes.’ I was barely able to choke out a ‘thank you’ between my tears.”

She ended her post with gratefulness:

“Odds are I will never see this couple again, but I’m reaching out with the slim chance that I will be able to express to them just what this gesture meant to me. I was so in need of a familiar face at that point in time. This couple reassured me that even though such a terrible thing had happened, everything was going to be okay.”

Her post went viral.

Soon Wellington had a name: Brent Cunningham.

When the Sitka, Alaska, man learned Wellington was looking for him — his daughter, Kailee, recognized the story on Facebook and immediately identified her parents — he contacted her over Facebook.

“This is the craziest story,” Cunningham, regional director of Alaska Young Life, told the Toronto Star by telephone. “I never thought we’d connect again. Why would we? How would we?”

“I just wanted to let her know she was amazing. I said, ‘You’re a finisher in my eyes.’ That was that,” Cunningham added. “She was so emotional she couldn’t talk. And I’ve been emotional about it at least five times since then.”

Of his generous gift, Cunningham insists he has no regrets about giving away his medal.

“She needed it more than I needed it. I just wanted her to know that ‘you’re worth it.’ With everything that has happened, our world is looking for hope. My whole life is about loving God and loving others. That’s who I am.”

He told Channel 2 that in times of crisis, it’s important to seek out moments of shared humanity.

“It’s my way to care for someone,” Cunningham said. “I didn’t know the families who went through the great trauma they’ve been through, but I guess it’s just a great reminder to know where you’re at today: you can love someone in your own world.”