What makes a successful person successful?

This weekend I had the honor to go to a three day conference with top leaders and coaches in the industry so that I could become a better coach and businesswoman. I am a huge advocate of continuing education and ALWAYS learning and growing, no matter HOW much you THINK you know. You don’t know it all!

Sometimes it just takes that ONE person to say the right thing that will change your life FOREVER.

Someone actually came up to me and said “I am surprised you are here in the audience and not just speaking,” and truthfully, while I was honored ,the real secret of being successful IS learning and IS being in the audience.

Throughout the weekend we heard strategy tactics, but of course, the reality of your passion turning into your business is that you have to do a lot of things that you don’t love so much. I LOVE training, writing programing, and helping others…BUT I have to do a lot of things that AREN"T...

 Wow, what a week last week! 

I feel like for myself and ALL my clients, life and adulting was happening. For me, moving, my car breaking down, and feeling sick, and for my clients, falling down stairs, norovirus sickness, family stuff, and injuries. 

LIFE is going to happen and it WILL throw you off. It’s learning how to maneuver it and surrender to the fact that sometimes…things are not in our control and all we can do is breathe and keep going.

After allowing myself to surrender and realizing that a lot of work would not get done last week I took the opportunity to finalize my vision board, write a letter to myself and do a vision casting. I also took the time to make a game plan to do things ONE thing at a time.

When you are clear on what you want and WHY you want it…it’s more likely to happen. And a lot of times, big life events “like moving” is a great opportunity to do that.

For 2023, my word is simplicity;  f...

Just breathe...

That’s what I am telling myself for the next few days.

What I have really noticed about myself (and maybe you feel the same) is that when I am not grounded, I feel super off in ALL areas of my life. I feel extra emotional, a little more irritable, and tired, My brain works slower and my body is a bit more sore.

Tomorrow, I am moving to a new apartment, so the past week, I have been putting everything into boxes. I thought I didn’t have a lot... until I started packing and I was like, "damn how the hell did I collect so much more stuff!?" So I have been living with boxes and no Wifi because I had to disconnect early.

I keep having to remind myself that everything is fine even though I don’t feel fine

Another thing I have been working on during this time has been staying firm to my boundaries and not feeling bad about things.

I am definitely a recovering People Pleaser.

This week I started to feel super burnt out by the end of the week. And I...

Yes…. it’s true!

I got the Call for America Ninja Warrior this year yet again! WOOT!

Last year, I also got called but decided to focus on OTHER things. It was so TOUGH to say NO to something I love. But what I have learned is that it’s okay to say NO because it will open up so many OTHER things in your life.

BUT before I dive more into Ninja Warrior, let me just talk about Austin, Texas freezing over last week! Yes...TEXAS was frozen

It legit looked like a superhero came in and BLEW cold air all over the city. Trees were frozen and breaking in half and I didn’t have power, wifi or any service for a few days.

It was frustrating, but it was almost as if the universe was saying “Hey Ang, you’ve been working really hard… it’s time for you to take a break”

So last week I was behind on everything... emails, client messages, adulting things. I am still behind

But it is it what it is. I could have fought it, but instead I leaned in...

Last week I had the opportunity to adventure to Big Sky, Montana with my boyfriend and two other friends!

I was excited for this trip was because I heard such AMAZING things about Montana AND it was my first long trip with my boyfriend! (the way someone travels shows a lot about them, because it can be stressful so I was excited to see how it would go!)

First off, the Airport in Bozeman, Montana is adorable!! It literally has fire places right in it! And it's super cozy!

Big Sky is about an hour drive from there and it is a beautiful mountain town: tall trees, always snowing just a little, and there's an extremely small town that is charming and pretty much empty.

The mountain was incredible to snowboard on, the views were amazing, even though there was a lot of people there, there was never any lines, and the slopes always felt like you had them to yourself.

OHH and the SKI LIFTS were heated... yes literally heated seats! Like... what!?

The trip was incredible. My boyfriend and I...

Just do one thing at a time. Someone once told me something very very important. They said, "You can do it all, but not right now."

And that really stuck with me. I personally get caught up with always thinking of the next thing, the things I need/want to do in the future. But you can't do it ALL at the same time in order to do it well. So what do you do with all these other thoughts and things?

You put it in the parking lot. 

The parking lot is a place you will put these thoughts to place them on HOLD as you focus on your current thing. They aren't going away. You still will have time to do them BUT you will do them once you have the space to really do it. 

For me personally, I had to park writing my book this month so that I could focus on finishing my NEW Pull-up Revolution Program. It was really ambitious to finish not one, not two but THREE programs at once! 

On the front end, you will see this amazing program, videos, programming. But the back end is...

Anyone else super tired this week ??! 

The past few weeks has been a lot of GO GO GO. Teaching in person events, hosting a 7 Day Free Pull-up Challenge, while launching my speaking career and finalizing and finishing a new program (you can check out new program deets here by taking this quiz)

I guess today, it just really all caught up to me. Sometimes I feel like a machine, other days I just want to curl up in a ball and watch Netflix all day

But I didn't. Instead, I moved slowly, I took a moment to say out loud ALL the things I am grateful for and I started to utilize my team and ask for help, which I am horrible at. Because truthfully, I cannot do everything and not turn into a zombie haha. 

The 7 Day Pull-up Challengers crushed it! It was cool to see everyone on the Zoom call and they all realized, "damn...I showed up for myself for a few weeks AND saw progress!" Some doubled their strength test numbers, others finally got a bend in the elbow for their pull-up it was...

This weekend as packed with so many incredible moments. At first, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with everything happening…

But I took a moment to breathe and really BE in each moment.

Friday

I got to see my 1:1 client Rhonda who runs @southernhomeandfarm, a beautiful instagram account that is all about gardening, design, etc. I helped her lock down a speaking event at the Home & Garden Expo in Austin! So I came to film her, support her, and I got to meet her family! It was awesome to see her in element on stage and she completely crushed it! Go Rhonda!

Then Friday night my boyfriend set up a surprise date night. To be honest, I thought we were gonna do some kind of activity!  When I met up with him, he could tell I was flustered with everything going on and needed a second to reconnect. So he told me we were going to eye gaze for 3 minutes before we head out.

Have you eye gazed before? Because damn it feels awkward and it forces you to slow down breath and come...

Welcome to 2023…. 

Where you have…

So many possibilities

You can make it whatever YOU want it to be…

A few week ago I started to plan for 2023 by doing a few things:

1. I wrote out what I DID accomplish in 2022

So many times we think of the things we DIDN’T do.. but what about the things we DID do and did accomplish? 

2. I started to visualize what my perfect life looked like and how that felt

Trying to think of the small details and things that actually matter

3. I did a MASSIVE brain dump

 Putting everything I wanted to achieve on paper and dividing it into Personal, Business, Financial, Relationship Goals

4. I asked myself why

Why do I want to achieve these goals? How will they make me feel? Does it align with my purpose?

5. Created a Vision Board

I am still in the works of fine tuning my board so I will share once it's done! 

 My next step is to sit down and write out SMALL actionable steps that I can take each week...

Today I want to give you a reminder that it’s OKAY if...

You didn’t get your workouts in

Your routine is completely out of whack (I know mine is)

You’re “behind” on your normal stuff

You didn’t eat “healthy” and maybe ate more than normal

That’s what happens during the holiday season. It’s okay and it’s also temporary. The holiday season does not last forever!

It’s honestly good for our body to be “out of routine” sometimes, it’s okay to take a break from it all. 

I had to remind myself of this when I started to beat myself up for not keeping on top of my “Non-Negotiables” that I do everyday.

I reminded myself that just like if I eat a handful of cookies one day, and I think my body will completely transform and I will lose ALL my progress because of that ONE cookie moment... or two…

The reality is that nothing changed. I was fine. And those cookies made me feel good...