Fearless Ambition Magazine

Kids and Breakfast

fearlessambition — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:37:37 +0000

High- sugar cereals and drinks increase blood sugar rapidly, which triggers the release of high amounts of insulin from the pancrease. Insulin promotes the movement of sugar from the blood into the cells and triggers hunger. A measure of how fast a meal increases blood sugar is called Glycemic index. Research has found that giving kids High Fiber or Low Glycemic index foods (e.g., yogurt, high fiber grains, soy products) resulted in children eating approximately 60 calories less during the day. This may sound modest but over time could add up to substantial weight differences later. Feeding kids low Glycemic index breakfasts that raise blood sugar slowly and naturally will prevent overeating at lunch and dinner.

Overcome fears with a Success Coach.

fearlessambition — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:09:02 +0000

A Success Coach can help you recognize fears that are preventing you from reaching success.

5 Tips to Plan your Nutrition Properly

fearlessambition — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:57:04 +0000

To sculpt a lean and toned body, depending on workout alone is not enough. You’ll also need to have the proper nutrition. Nutrition provides us with the raw ingredients for energy recuperation and growth. Without a healthy diet plan, your goal of achieving a body you desire will be hard to realize. Below are 5 tips to help you plan your nutrition properly:

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1. Your nutrition plan should be based on eating small and frequent meals throughout the day. Why? Because when you feed your body several times a day, your metabolism greatly increases. In addition, whenever three hours go by without any food consumption, your body switches to a catabolic state (a state in which your body starts burning muscle for energy).

2. Your meals should contain carbohydrates, protein and fats in the correct ratios. When you eat a meal that does not make up the proper balance of nutrients (for example an all carbohydrate meal; such as a pasta meal), you will not yield the desired results. Every macronutrient has to be present in order for the body to absorb them and use them properly and efficiently.

3. Increase your intake of protein. Proteins are the building blocks of all living organisms. If you are trying to build a structure such as the Empire State Building any construction contractor will tell you that they will need way more raw material to build such a large structure than to build a regular house. The same thing happens with body sculpting.

4. Reduce consumption of bad fats and bring on the good fats. Examples of bad fats are cooking oils, butter, and saturated fats which are often found in meats. Nevertheless, make sure you do not completely eliminate fats from your diet as good fats such as flaxseed oil, natural peanut butter and virgin olive oil are still essential for your body.

5. No smoking and limited alcohol consumption. Both offer health problems which are not in line with what you are trying to accomplish. Alcohol in particular adds 7 empty calories per gram to your diet, which is not a good situation when you are trying to control your caloric intake.

Following a proper nutrition plan may be difficult in the beginning if this is not something that you are used to. But with determination and consistency, you’ll soon be able to turn your unhealthy eating habits into a healthy one, and begin developing the perfect body you’ve always dream of.

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Drowning in Social Media?

fearlessambition — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:17:45 +0000

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By Angela Maiers

Maiers Educational Services

Drowning in Social Media? – Just Breathe!
Tweets, wikis, blogs, Nings, links, networks, ahhhh! I sometimes feel like I could drown in social media! This was the topic of our discussion on a recent turn of Steve Hardagon’s Classroom 2.0 Live Show. Inspired by Merlin Man’s Inbox Zero, an action-based mantra for managing email overload, I created a mantra to address the overwhelming and ever-changing nature of the social web. (Check out our full presentation here!)

BREATHE is an acronym representing the Habitudes for creating, sustaining,and growing your personal learning networks. More importantly, BREATHE reminds us that social media is about people not tools. People breathe. Tools don’t!

Angela Maiers

Angela Maiers
Maiers Educational Svcs, Inc
Des Moines, IA
Ph:515-554-2004
Fx: 801-772-8257

Email me: angela@angelamaiers.com

www.angelamaiers.com

Do you need a Success Coach?

fearlessambition — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:47:54 +0000

Crystal O’Connor and Tim Bianchi discuss the conept of a “Success Coach.”

A Vision of K-12 Learners Today.

fearlessambition — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:08:07 +0000

A Vision of K-12 Learners Today.

Who Will Teach Children About Money and Business?

fearlessambition — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:40:40 +0000

Joanne Kuster Seymour

Who Will Teach Children About Money and Business?
By Joann Kuster Seymour

Today’s children are well-aware that our country faces financial distress. They hear people talk about layoffs and closing businesses. They see parents worry about bills, dwindling savings and investments. Some probably have parents who have lost jobs.

Good times will return. But until then, financial educators advise parents and teachers to turn these trying times into learning moments.

Let’s face it. Today, many youth simply do not value or respect money, let alone grasp personal finance skills. It’s not that they don’t want to learn−children can easily understand and get excited about saving and investing. We just need to teach them−both home and school.

“Instead of telling children there won’t be a family vacation because money is tight, explain circumstances and ask for their support,” says J.M. Seymour, financial educator and author of several children’s books. “Many children worry when they don’t know what’s going on. Perhaps you can involve them as you prioritize family expenses or determine less expensive vacation options.”

Joanne Kuster Seymour is an Author and Financial Educator. Her books and insight can be found at www.Moneygodmother.com

Introduction of Fearless Ambition Magazine

fearlessambition — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:51:50 +0000

Crystal O’Connor and Tim Bianchi introduce Fearless Ambition Magazine.

Fearless Ambition Introduction

fearlessambition — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:53:37 +0000

Crystal O’Connor and Tim Bianchi discssing the purpose of Fearless Ambition Magazine.

Tangled Web We Weave

fearlessambition — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:58:54 +0000

Being entrepreneurial spirited and having an interest in the health and fitness world I found myself considering investing in a weight loss franchise several years back. After diligent research on the subject regarding top franchises it became a daunting task to say the least. I decided I would actually work in one of the franchises to determine if in fact there was any truth to a dear friends’ opinion about the matter. She had owned and operated a couple of franchises in New Mexico 10 years prior to my interest. Granted, her experience was not in the weight loss field she felt that her investment in the food franchises had felt much like “buying” herself a job.
I decided that working for a local owner of a weight loss franchise would give me the inside scoop.

Without revealing the name of the franchise my intention of telling this story is not to persuade or dissuade you regarding franchise ownership but to share my experience in the field of weight loss.
For two years, day in and day out, I sat with clients one-on-one listening to their stories that sounded more like war stories from Nam than they did battles of the bulge.

I cried with them
cheered them on
carefully illustrated their nutritional plans
encouraged them to exercise, and
all while choosing my words ever so carefully.

Weight Loss really is very simple in that physiologically you have to burn more calories than you take in to see results.

But in reality weight loss is like a tangled mass of Christmas tree lights you find at the bottom of a box of ornaments. You see the ball of mess sitting there and as much as you want to work it all out and string its beauty up the way it was meant to shine….you have no idea where to start.

Helping people with their weight loss battles was very much like this and my clients were all very much like tangled masses of emotions begging to be discovered and slowly, patiently worked through …to unravel each and every kink and knot.

Weight Loss is so tightly connected to emotions that you cannot have a truly successful weight loss or what I call “break through” without understanding how and why the weight was collected in the first place. Discovering the reason or the “how” and the “why” is a process I will begin to unfold in the articles ahead in Fearless Ambition Magazine.
If weight loss is something that you battle with you may find that it is closely connected with an emotion you are completely unaware of. An emotion that lies in the middle of tangled web we call “life“. A collection of feelings that we have gathered and have not yet dealt with. Only wrapped other feelings around in hopes to snuff them out instead of “deal.”
I look forward to discovering common emotions that may very likely be similar to yours in the future issues ahead and then finding amazing ways of dealing with them hence leading you to the results you are looking for.