#weeklyencouragement

Aug 19, 2018
3 min

3 Habit Recommendations for the New Season

Point to Ponder: Do you wake up looking at your phone, regularly treat yourself, exercise regularly, have a strong social community and try/learn new things? Excitingly the school year has begun or is beginning for most everyone this week-whew! Regardless of what season of life you are in or if you have children or not, I think the the start of school is every women’s New Year--a time to start fresh, create and dig into a healthy, mindful and productive routine. As you begin

Aug 12, 2018
2 min

10 Quotes to Inspire Living a Beautiful Life

Point to Ponder: Are you living a beautiful life? Living an inspired and beautiful life can feel more achievable during the carefree, spontaneous and travel-filled summer months, but what about during the more routine and predictable season we will soon be transitioning into? How do we stay inspired to live a beautiful life then? For me, it's a daily discipline to live in gratitude and joy, spend time with life-lovers and go-getters, set goals and work hard towards achieving

Aug 5, 2018
3 min

7 Ways to Consistently Boost Your Confidence

Point to Ponder: Do you consider yourself self-confident? To suggest that life experiences can shape and mold our attitude is true. Conscious and unconscious, our thoughts, behaviors and actions are a result of our upbringing and current social environments. Humans are easily influenced, and as children we had little control over the people we spent time with and who shaped our thinking, both positively and negatively. Now, as adults, we have all of the control and are eithe

Jul 29, 2018
3 min

The Connection Between Your Diet and Your Confidence

Point to Ponder: Is your diet providing you the opportunity to maximize your confidence? Is it providing you the opportunity to optimize your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being? Undoubtedly, when I began reading The Confidence Code I never would’ve imagined all of the research that has been dedicated to determining the origin of confidence, how we get more of it and why some of us have more or less of it. Upon reading it as well as the book, The Mood Cure by

Jul 23, 2018
3 min

Your Confidence--Use It or Lose It

Point to Ponder: Do you often… over-think things? People-please? Hold on to defeats? Strive for perfection? Undersell yourself? Play it safe? Doubt yourself? I wish I could say when I turned 40 I became infinitely confident, but “little Neissa”, the insecure 12 year old who still lives inside of me continues to fear saying the wrong thing, not sounding smart and articulate, doing something stupid, and not being liked. Truth be told, after some great coaching I’ve learned I st

Jul 15, 2018
3 min

Finding the Blessings

Point to Ponder: What disappointing time in your life can you now look back on and see the blessings in it? Or, are you going though a difficult time in your life and having trouble finding the blessings?? After moving to a new high school in The Woodlands, Texas my freshman year, I decided to join the track team. I tried out for all sprints and quickly my coaches and I realized that this was my thing. I ran varsity as a freshman and continued the rest of my high school caree

Jul 8, 2018
4 min

Four Yoga Poses for Summer Travel and Life

Point to Ponder: Is summer travel causing extra tightness and stiffness in your body ? Summer is no doubt a time for extra travel, adventure and fun!!; however with travel also comes sitting in cars and airplanes for longer bouts of time, sleeping on hard beds, or using stiff or too soft of pillows. Unfortunately, this can cause tight hips, sore knees, necks and backs and a body that doesn't feel as good as it can and should. While some travel tightness is inevitable, rememb

Jul 8, 2018
4 min

Keep Your Summer Healthy & Magical with These Five Simple Habits

Point to Ponder: Are your free-flowing, unstructured and over-indulgent summer months derailing your healthy habits? One of the things I love most about the summer is the indulgent break from routine, which includes staying up and sleeping in a later than normal, enjoying cocktails, soaking up extra sun, eating more of what I typically wouldn’t and kicking normal structure to the curb. That being said, when all routine falls by the way side, my body and mind go a little bonke

Jun 24, 2018
5 min

Regular Strength & Resistance Training- The Key to Feeling Your Best and Keeping Your Metabolism

Point to Ponder: Do you strength train at least twice per week? Having been a runner most of my life, it is only in the last 10 or so years that I have actively and regularly strength trained with weights and bodyweight. I have always been an active lake skier, which requires pulling strength, but besides that I did not regularly strength train. While on vacation several years ago and sipping on my second vodka tonic, it occurred to be that since regularly strength training m

Jun 11, 2018
3 min

Staying Fit in the Summer Heat: Training Tips & Building Your Heat Tolerance

Point to Ponder: What type of things are you doing to prepare your body so you can continue to enjoy iGnite's outdoor classes during the summer months? With the hot summer months upon us, let’s talk about how we can best beat the heat and continue to enjoy iGnite's amazing outdoor classes during the sometimes brutal summer months with a smile on our faces! Your body acclimates to heat in a number of ways, and by cautiously training in the heat to improve the efficiency of you

Jun 10, 2018
3 min

Staying Fit in the Summer Heat: Training Tips & Building Your Heat Tolerance

Jun 3, 2018
2 min

How Daily Discipline Can Set Your Summer Months Free

Inspiration from the iGnite Archives Point to Ponder: Where can you exercise daily discipline so you can find greater enjoyment in your summer months? ? Several years ago when I first read the quote below it struck me – I had always thought of discipline as willful containment, or reigning in, whereas freedom represented wide-open, “the sky’s the limit” possibilities. As I pondered this quote and it begin to sink in, I realized it was absolutely spot on. Within freedom lies t

Jun 3, 2018
2 min

How Daily Discipline Can Set Your Summer Months Free

Inspiration from the iGnite Archives Point to Ponder: Where can you exercise daily discipline so you can find greater enjoyment in your summer months? ? Several years ago the quote below struck me – I had always thought of discipline as willful containment, or reigning in, whereas freedom represented wide-open, “the sky’s the limit” possibilities. As I pondered this quote and it begin to sink in, I realized it was absolutely spot on. Within freedom lies the ability for new di

May 28, 2018
2 min

Why We Need to Be in or Near Water

Point to Ponder: How much time each week do you spend in or near water ? San Diego liv'in is good! Perfect weather (for the majority of the time at least) with access to the absolute most amazing body of water--the Pacific Ocean! However, If you're like me, you don't get to the ocean near as much as you should, but with summer around the corner that's going to change! My plan is to get to the big blue as often as possible, and if that doesn't work, we'll be at the pool. Her

May 27, 2018
2 min

Why We Need to Be in or Near Water

Point to Ponder: How much time each week do you spend in or near water ? I think it’s safe to say summer has arrived. Unfortunately the temperatures are soaring, however and fortunately it’s the perfect time to find your way in and near water. Here’s why: Getting in water is a great way to beat the heat, but with bodies of water being part of nature and outdoor swimming pools being in nature, being in and near water has similar life-giving, detoxifying, stress eliminating and

May 13, 2018
5 min

53 Pieces of the Best Advice Given by Moms

Point to Ponder: What is the best advice your mom or mom-figure has given you? Throughout the week leading up to today, Mother's Day, we collected 53 pieces of the best advice given by moms. Our hope is that the words encourage, empower and inspire you to continue being your best in all of your amazing roles, and in living your best and most incredible life! Alli Phillips- I don’t remember my mom offering “specific” advice or “words of wisdom” wrapped up into quotes when I w

May 7, 2018
2 min

The Amazing, Exceptional and Remarkable Mom You Are!

Point to Ponder: What unique mom-qualities or characteristics do you possess? If you aren't a mom yet, what special attributes and strengths do you acquire as a result of your amazing mom and/or mom-influences? A few years ago we, iGnite, celebrated Mother's Day with a beautiful pre-Mother's Day luncheon. During our time together each person had the opportunity to share a heartfelt and admirable quality or characteristic of their mom and/or mom-influences. As you would expe

May 6, 2018
2 min

The Amazing, Exceptional and Remarkable Mom You Are!

Point to Ponder: What unique mom-qualities or characteristics do you possess? If you aren't a mom yet, what special attributes and strengths do you acquire as a result of your amazing mom and/or mom-influences? A few years ago we, iGnite, celebrated Mother's Day with a beautiful pre-Mother's Day luncheon at Abel's on the Lake. During our time together each person had the opportunity to share a heartfelt and admirable quality or characteristic of their mom and/or mom-influen

Apr 29, 2018
3 min

We're Getting Summer Ready with Gratitude, and Here's Why

Point to Ponder: Do you start and end your day with gratitude? Have you ever looked back at a situation that by all accounts could have had a terrible outcome and thought, “WHOA! That could’ve been really bad! Thank you God for your timing and protection!” These were my exact sentiments yesterday, along with some of our iGnite leaders and members who attended our Pilates & SUP adventure on Lake Austin. Check out this wild scenario: It’s a gorgeous spring day with not a cloud