Rob Moshe

Coming of the heels of Healthy Month, I have recently begun Learning Month.

For over 8 years I had been trying to get back into better physical health. Though I worked out 4 times a week, it seemed to be more of a counterbalance to my unhealthy life style. I wouldn’t gain weight, unless I stopped playing, but I wasn’t really feeling more physically fit.

In the middle of December 2009 we went away for a family vacation for a week. By the end of the week after filling my body with way to much junk. I decided it was time to change the pattern.

I needed a new approach.

If I tell you not to think about a pink elephant, the first thing that you will see in your mind is a pink elephant.

If I tell you there are no red cars on the highway today you will see more red cars than usual.

We focus more on the images than on the do’s or do nots that precede them.

I realized that stating the intention No More Junk Food, was not going to work for two reasons.

One was because all I would be seeing in my mind is Junk Food and then want to eat it even more and two because it was a totally undefined intention.

So here is what I did… I asked my wife What would our lives look like if we ate healthy for a month?

We spent about 2-3 min answering the question. Things like Vibrancy, more energy, healthier skin, lose weight, save money and more came up.

Then I asked What are the benefits of eating junk food? Aside from laughing and the question and emotional comfort food, nothing much else came up.

So I asked If there is such benefit to eating healthy, would it be worthwhile to try it for a MONTH?

And Healthy Month was born.

The month ended this past Monday.  Thank G-d we accomplished our objective. I lost 20lb, I’m leaner, stronger and have more energy.  My wife was in great shape to begin with but she has gotten stronger from doing more intense yoga workouts.

And now with healthy month ended I have developed the healthy eating habit. I just prefer healthy now.

And Now Learning Month

I suddenly realized that I have the opportunity to accomplish 12 personal development objectives this year. This is pretty massive when we can rarely follow through on one.

For some reason I began to reflect on my evenings. Usually after the kids go to sleep I putter around, pretend to do some work, watch a movie or just wander around aimlessly.

So I asked myself the question What would my life look like a month from now if I spent two hours learning 5 nights a week after the kids go to sleep?

WOW. 40 hours focused on cultivating my mind. I cant even imagine

I was sitting with a group of people at a 2hr workshop and the question that was asked was, Where would you be if you weren’t here tonight?

More than 50% of the ppl would have been doing something that takes little skill, shuts down your brain, has no true value and is an utter time waster….It’s scary that we all now that I am talking about watching TV or mindless net surfing.

I sat there smiling knowing that if I wasn’t at the workshop working my mind, I would have been at the local study hall working my mind.

Its never to late to make the best of your life. All you need to do is start with a month.

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I apologize for this less than stellar post it has been a while since I posted last and am just stretching my writing muscles again.

I sit here in amazement as I realize how much time has passed since I last posted, so much had happened in the past months that I hardly know where to begin.

In the beginning of August I decided to take a long needed family vacation. I had been going full steam for the past 9 years building up my online label business, starting my Professional Coaching journey, growing a school, and a dozen other projects.  As well I have been blesses with an amazing wife who I have shared in the journey life and of raising 4 wonderful children (the oldest in almost 8).  And tragically I lost a very close friend this past May who fought an incredible battle with Cancer, but sadly left this world at 34 leaving behind a very special wife and two little children.

Needless to say it was time for a little sabbatical.

My September plan was to get back to work growing my Professional Coaching practice.  It is my passion and I am good at it. It made sense to just continue on the path I was currently on, but as the saying goes Man Plans and God Laughs.

With the time off in August I had some great opportunities for reflection, and with that came some amazing awareness.  The biggest awareness was that September was not going to be just doing the same thing. I realized that there was a need for a major shift.  I needed to shift from being fully focused on giving to others and begin to focus on giving to myself, or more specifically cultivating self.

I realized that if I was going to serve others as a Husband, Father, Friend, Coach etc., I would do so at a much higher level if I had a greater sense of self a fuller awareness of purpose.

It has been 4 months since I began this journey and though it is far from over I do feel that it is time to step back in.

Over the next few weeks I will begin to share many of the things that I have learned not only in the past 4 month, but the great lessons that I have begun to remember from that past 37 years of my journey through life.

I use the work share because I have no intention of telling you what you should do. My desire it to share ideas and perspectives in order that you can reflect on and discover the path that is best for you.

I do know that the things that I am doing now are already beginning to have a massive impact in my life, and I know that this can also happen for you.

I would like to get you to stretch yourself a bit before the next post, so I will leave you with a question.

When is the last time you really to some time to stop and reflect on you and how do you think your answer has been impacting your life?

A couple of weeks ago I was feeling a strong sense of panic. With not much more than three weeks left to finish my professional coaching program at Adler, I was way behind where I should have been. I still needed to conduct 20 coaching sessions.

Family and health issues had kept me offline and out of the loop for more than two months Now, unfortunately, there could be no extensions. I had to catch up and finish. That was it.

I sat myself down and thought and thought. Then I had an idea. I’ll offer free coaching through my blog and through Twitter. That will do the trick.

After all, I had more than 19,000 followers on Twitter. It wouldn’t be a problem to find clients, especially for free coaching. I was very wrong.

Much to my dismay, after two months offline in a rapidly changing social network, it was as if I no longer existed.

I thought some more and realized that I needed the help of somebody with influence and expertise to get the job done.

I reached out to two of my friends, Larry Brauner of Online-Social-Networking.com and Darren Rowse of Problogger.net, and asked for assistance.

Darren was awesome. He “tweeted” his followers on Twitter and found me some of the clients I needed. Larry… he went far above and beyond the call of duty.

Instead of simply recommending me to his contacts, Larry gave me a crash course in social networking. Within 24 hours, he was able to help me set myself up on one of his social networking sites, Beyond Business Coaching, and he was able to explain how to create a profile, start a blog, and write a post.

However, Larry didn’t stop there. He took the time to review my first post, suggest improvements, and help with the layout. Then, after everything was set up, Larry shared my blog post with his network of social media contacts.

Within hours, 15 people had signed up for one of my free coaching sessions. Needless to say, I was totally blown away. I had never imagined that social media was that effective.

What I’m most grateful for is that Larry – and Darren to a large extent as well – didn’t just feed me fish. They taught me how to fish. They taught me how to connect with clients online and how to find new ones too.

I want to grow my coaching practice on the Internet. I want to do it right and be effective, but I don’t have the time to learn all the intricacies of social networking or social marketing. Of course I’ll be looking to Larry for the ideas and guidance I need to make it work.

This is going to be a group reflective post. Its less about my opinion and more about your thoughts.

I want to know what you think your life would look like if you consistently:

• Ate healthy.
• Got your required amount of sleep.
• Exercised daily.
• Focused on the positive.

How would your life be different if you practiced these four things?

How do you think society as a whole would look like if these 4 things were practiced?

If you are doing all these things already please share with everyone your experiences.

Please comment below.