I’m known as a change agent, connecting and educating people to help make a difference in their personal and business life. From the boardroom to the yoga mat, principles are the same. Be authentic, communicate, encourage, inspire and don’t be afraid to try something new!
In my business world, the month of March has always been tagged as March Madness. In my personal space, the month of March holds a special place in my heart. It’s the month my son was born. On St Patrick’s Day!
In my spiritual growth, the month of March brings an end to the first quarter of the year.
It’s a time to reflect on my short term accomplishments and continue to focus on my long term goals. Giving me a chance to shift things for the next quarter. To continue to rise above what doesn’t serve me. To grow. To evolve. To change. One day at a time.
The month of February started with an amazing trip to NYC with my soul sister to celebrate our birthday month! Little did I know at the time, the week would end with a bout of the flu.
Forcing me to travel home sick and slow it down. I don’t think I’ve ever slept so much in my life!
Find space in the stillness!
Things I learned being sick with the flu. It’s okay to rest and sleep. Eat when you are hungry. Sleep when you are sleepy. Drink tons of water. Read a book. Sleep some more. Appreciate your immediate surroundings. Do yoga when you are ready. Exercise when you have the strength. It’s okay to take a sick day or two from work.
Self care doesn’t have to wait until you are sick. For me, it was with glaring gratitude that I am committed to my own self care whether I’m sick or not. Since I rarely do get sick, I found myself pondering on this topic of self care even more.
How do you define your own self care?
Inside the SOULution!
I start with focus on my three most important vital needs. I categorize actions into four sections. Health, Work and Wealth, Travel and Spiritual Growth. And I make sure I have specific focus each week that fit into those categories.
Health. I now have a notebook to document my workout commitments. Like an important business meeting, I plan my workouts in advance each week. I’ve been told planning is one my assets so I intend to capitalize on planning as I work to improve my health, body and mind!
Start today and reflect in July!
Work and Wealth. There’s a fine line between being busy and accomplishing what’s critical. When I focus on the top three most important tasks for the week, I can feel a sense of accomplishment versus a sense of rushing to complete every little thing. Is it necessary to do today? Is this something I can delegate? Can it wait? By asking myself these three questions, I can actually find time to focus on top priorities.
I work to inspire others everyday!
Travel. Machu Picchu, Copper Mountain, Chicago and Manhattan. Here I come!
Spiritual Growth. My yoga and my personal blogs. Having authentic conversations. Reading and reflecting. Taking quiet time. Finding power in the stillness!
Permission to land became my mantra for January by giving myself the leeway to ground and regroup.
For me, grounding takes planning. It takes looking deep within to focus on my vital needs to sustain, grow, evolve and change.
I know permission to land can be uncomfortable for a moment.
Often we need to sit in that uncomfortable space knowing, in that moment, we can’t do anything about the discomfort other than just breathe. Once we start to feel calm, the discomfort fades to excitement.
The excitement of seeing something new, trying something different, going somewhere you’re never been. The excitement of life. Of achieving your short term goals. Of planning for your future with room for spontaneous meetings. Of focus on living your best life. Of being kind. Of being real. Of giving yourself the Mindfulness to Rise.
Finding clarity is often hard when so many things are going through our minds. As we move into the last few months of 2019, I ask myself this question.
“What do I want my life to look like when I’m not at work?”
Those of you who know me know that I travel often for business. I visit our sales branches across the US and regularly host and facilitate our new hire sales academy in Montvale NJ. My work travel gives me the ability to experience something new on every trip. Every experience with the people I support is different, allowing me to affect change every single day!
When you do what you love, it doesn’t even feel like work. At my core, I am a mindful educator and a purposeful connector.
Back to the beach. I’ve sat on the beach recently contemplating life and everything became very clear to me. I need to be back to the beach. A place I can walk to whenever I need to. When I’m home where I can relax and breathe and focus on me. A good book. An ocean breeze.
The beach is part of my soul. The beach gives me a peace that I haven’t found anywhere else in my life. A serenity of my heart that I have now shared with the mountains this year.
In December, I found the clarity I was looking for and moved into my simple little Beach Getaway and spent the week in Copper Mountain with my son for Christmas.
Feeling blessed and grateful today as we move closer to our 2020 vision for the next decade.
As a mindful educator and a purposeful connecter, I’m blessed to use these passions in my business world training, educating and inspiring our future leaders.
The month of October and November brought a new group of sales professionals to the Edge. The program I run for sales training and leadership development.
It’s exciting to see new talent embrace learning and appreciate the wisdom I bring with over 27 years in the technology space. It’s humbling to me when experienced talent say I helped them look at things differently. To learn a new way of doing something.
Finding your tempo with awareness is in sync with the power of Now. Being in the present during your work week and in your personal time. Having compassion for others. Forgiving yourself. Finding your own inner body awareness. Telling strangers in an elevator to have a nice day. Smile as if you know the best secret to happiness and fulfillment.
As I prepare for our upcoming academy class in December, with gratitude and appreciation found during Thanksgiving holiday, I work to accept the present moment, unconditionally and without reservation. To practice servant leadership. To give my attention to each and everyone of them. To make sure they walk away with a foundation for success. And a fabulous experience they will never forget.
I promise to myself to Surrender. To Surrender to my own tempo of awareness in business, in my personal world and in the Now. From my hotel room on this beautiful morning in NYC!
Stay with it. Let go. Enjoy the moment. Trust the process.
These were the mantras that kept showing up on my mat and during my travels in September forcing me to connect within myself, to dig deeper.
The month started off with a hurricane getting within 65 miles of my home and a last minute weekend getaway to Aspen and the beautiful Snowmass Mountains.
After experiencing the Grand Canyon, Whistler, Aspen and Snowmass, I can certainly see why people love both the beach and the mountains! I am officially hooked on the hiking a mountain vibe! Yes, you can definitely say that I am enjoying the moment.
Stay with it. Let go. As the mantra of stay with it continued in the month of September, my thoughts were exactly that. Stay with the plan to make a change in my personal space. Let go of any expectations of how it’s supposed to be and enjoy the moment of how it is. To be.
The month of August brought my well deserved vacation that I planned during my birthday month of February to a place that stole my heart and captured my soul. Whistler. Retreat to Transformation.
Retreat to Transformation is a journey we can take to a beautiful place like Whistler. It’s taking the time to stop to reflect and encourage each other up a mountain onto a suspension bridge. The energy associated with being around like-minded people doing what we love. Yoga, travel and adventure.
The energy associated with these adventures compliment the stillness I find during moments of my own silence. To retreat into moments of laughter. To take a solitary hike and see a bear walking the trails. Just breathe. To stretch my comfort zone as I hop on the back of an ATV with an Australian snowboarder guide.
The pain associated with facing fears as we climbed 7,000 feet up a mountain and being vulnerable enough to share them allows for a new kind of transformation in trying new experiences, in sharing my true self, in accepting compassion of others.
I’m happy to share that I have climbed the Camelback Mountain In Arizona. Parasailed in Jamaica. Zip lined in Costa Rica. Climbed Mount Edna in Sicily. Experienced the Grand Canyon Skywalk. Rode an ATV and climbed to the top of Whistler Mountain. Walked the suspension bridge. I’m grateful for the opportunities to continue to grow. And change.
Retreat to Transformation. It’s a journey we can take in the company of our own self. In wherever we find our yoga mat. It’s taking the quiet times to reflect. To grow. To be ok with the silence. To relish in the laughter. To be calm during the storm.
To forever be grateful for what we do have. And need. And want. With love, Sheryne. ❤️
As I work to deepen my yoga practice, enhance the programs I’m creating at work and continue my self care journey by taking time to workout and make better choices, Stay With It becomes my mantra for the summer.
Growth and change are internal drivers for me. Growing to be a better friend, a better mom and better executive, a better yogi. The only competition I have is myself. Challenge myself to stay with the weight loss program I’ve created for myself. Push myself to stay in the poses longer. Focus myself on the main priorities at work.
Make a freaking difference! Today. And each and everyday. Inspire others. Change within.
Honor my truth. Shed the heaviness.
When we take the time to reflect and look within, we give ourselves the space to honor our own truths.
“There are truths we face and truths we ignore.”
Michelle Obama couldn’t have stated it more eloquently in her book, Becoming.
Digital transformation. Personal evolution. It all starts with setting goals, tracking progress and finding peace within yourself.
Week 1. Goals. 10 hours of exercise (treadmill, elliptical or yoga). I completed 9 hours. Track my food everyday. I did it in MyFitnessPal app. My calorie count was to stay under 1,440 per day (8,640 for the first six days). I had a deficit of 4,758 calories. I lost 4 pounds! It’s pretty amazing how much hard work, commitment and tracking it takes to get healthier. To loose the weight. Onto week 2.
Week 2. Goals. Be mindful of what I eat. This is critical because I am out of town for business the entire week. Walk 70,000 steps. I walked over 75,000 steps. It easy to walk in Manhattan in June! Do planks every morning in my hotel. Ouch. I only did planks once. Not going to beat myself up. Continue on my path. Take two yoga classes. I took three yoga classes after work in NJ. Surrender, they called the practice. I surrender to it as I work to manage my life. Do what I want and still loose weight. Got home lost another 2 pounds! I think I am onto something! #namastecommittedomycause
Week 3. Reflect. I coach sales professionals how to be effective with their sales process in my corporate life. I talk about the foundation to get started that is so critical. That foundation is called planning and getting your activities on your calendar! So why am I not planning my weight loss program as if I was coaching a sales professional? Food for thought. HA. Goal. Workout 4 times. Be mindful of what I eat and drink. Do yoga. Walk 45,000 steps.
Update. Accomplished weekly goal. No change in weight although two people said I looked “skinny.” Continue on is what I say. Off to Seattle and Phoenix. What’s the plan to manage my goals for week 4?
Week 4. Goals. Limit the carbs. Eat more protein and vegetables. Stay under 1,000 calories. I travel from West Palm Beach to Seattle to Phoenix and back to Fort Lauderdale. For me, it’s imperative that I am mindful in what I eat especially while traveling as I may not have the energy to work out. Let’s see if we can make that scale change when I weight myself on Saturday morning! Cheers to a fabulous week. Update. Up and down one pound throughout the weekend. Get stricter next week. Don’t beat myself up. It’s only 1 pound!
Week 5. Determination. It’s simple. Work out more. Eat less. Eat cleaner. Goal. 8 workouts. 1 hour each. More protein. Less carbs and less fat. Stay determined. Walk 50,000 steps. Update. Completed all 8 workouts. 3 very intense yoga workouts Lost 2 pounds! Fell short on steps goal.
Week 6. Reset. I’m learning that tracking my food and exercise not only holds me accountable to myself, that it also allows for little guilty pleasures. A glass of wine here. A few chocolates there. I’m now 10 pounds lighter than I have been all year! Let’s do it again. Goal. Go back and review what I did on week one and do it again! Update #namastecommittedtomycause
My yoga practice is in full bloom. Just like these beautiful flowers I received from my son on Mother’s Day!
With yoga, the journey is a personal journey. I’m so grateful that I’ve been able to take my practice to a whole new level!
I was fortunate to carve out time in April and May to practice yoga at Soul Space Yoga and Wellness in a West Palm Beach in between business travels to New Jersey and Atlanta.
Yoga provides me with the grounding needed to stay clear headed, patient and focused in my corporate world. It gives me the space to find silence to reflect on my own self worth and how I make a difference in so many peoples lives.
Here’s to the Summer Solstice, beach days, city lights on the rooftops, a grounding practice and clarity in all the reasons we get up, go to work, and do the work on ourselves each and everyday.
Week 3. Reflect. I coach sales professionals how to be effective with their sales process in my corporate life. I talk about the foundation to get started that is so critical. That foundation is called planning and getting your activities on your calendar! So why am I not planning my weight loss program as if I was coaching a sales professional? Food for thought. HA. Goal. Workout 4 times. Be mindful of what I eat and drink. Do yoga. Walk 45,000 steps.
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