Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

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What are you grateful for this week?

• Trip to Toronto’s Centre Island: Yesterday my boyfriend Robin and I boarded a ferry to Toronto’s Centre Island. It was my first time going, and it was a great way to go get away from the busy-ness of the city. It was especially nice because there weren’t too many people yet… ahhh.
• Great books to read: I never run out of great books to read, and for that I’m super grateful. Here’s a taste of what’s on my bedside table at the moment: Obese From The Heart, Hat Full of Sky, Listen First – Sell Later, and The Craving Cure (no relation to Cure Cravings Forever – just doing my homework to add more great stuff to the program).
• Rollerblading! I learned how to roller blade 2 summers ago, with Robin’s encouragement. I hadn’t had much of a chance to go roller blading last summer, but I strapped on my inline skates yesterday and it felt good! I’ve never been much of skater (yes, even though I’m Canadian) so it’s always a big deal to get myself out there.

Update: My hometown of Stanstead didn’t win the hockeyville competition, but thanks to everyone who helped and voted! :) It was a fun contest to participate in.

What are your intentions for the coming week?

• Lots of writing: I’ve got tons of writing, crafting, and idea tweaking to do. I love writing, so this is just a natural extension of what I’d be doing no matter what. :)
• Innerpreneur meeting tonight: As always, I’m looking forward to seeing the lovely Tara at our Innerpreneur meeting. The last time we met up with Jamie, there was snow in the streets and now there’s sunshine. Ahh spring!
• The first Magick Menu Roundtable Call: The first Magick Menu Roundtable Call is happening this week, and I’m super excited to be going over the details of… your healthy plan of action! If you’re not a Magick Menu holder yet, become one by clicking here.

Over to you now…

Leave a comment below and let us know what you’re grateful for this week! :)

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

What are you grateful for?

• Stanstead in the Top 5 of Hockeyville: There’s a Canadian contest happening, and it’s all about picking a town to turn into Hockeyville. My small home town of 3000 people made it to the top 5 towns in this competition. I’d love to have you vote for them by clicking here and voting. :)
• My Family: I just got two phone calls, one from my mom and one from my dad. I feel totally blessed to get to talk to them and hear all the news. I love you guys!
• Happy Launching: Last week I launched my latest project – The Magick Menu. There were a few technical hiccups, but overall it was a great launch and I’m so happy to finally have an offering that everyone can use to get started with raw food!

What are your intentions for the coming week?

• Being Gentle on Myself: I’ve been running on launch-induced adrenalin for the past few days. Now it’s time to ease back into a routine that is a little more gentle on myself.
• Looking at the Gap: I’m working on my next big-secret-project (okay maybe not that secret) and I intend to look for the need. The need that the current offerings out there aren’t filling, so that I may be the one to fill it and help people.
• Sharing Life Purpose Piece: I’m super excited to be hosting a call with Annika Ek this Wednesday March 31st at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. If you’re even remotely interested in finding out your life’s purpose, then this is for you. Click here to RSVP now to get the call in details.

Over to you now…

Leave a comment below and let us know what you’re grateful for and what you intend for the coming week!

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

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And… we’re back! Last time I was going on about my upcoming trip to SXSW, and now I’m recapping.

What are you grateful for this week?

• A Good Night’s Sleep: During SXSW I spent most nights catching up with friends or making new acquaintances. It was totally awesome! Though coming home to my bed and sleeping regular hours again is something I’m very much grateful for.
• Owning How I Look: Since I hadn’t changed my twitter icon in over a year, it was hard for people to recognize me at SXSW. I took some new photos this week-end to reflect my new hair cut and my glasses. I’ve always had something against wearing my glasses in photos because of some residual stuff my mom passed down to me. Now I’m working on owning my geek girl look!
• My Awesome Support Network: From all the great friends I met at SXSW, to my boyfriend Robin, to my family members and friends… and to YOU my reader and raw food business friend (client sounds too stuffy). I feel so grateful to each and every person for making this such an awesome time to know each other!

What do you intend for the coming week?

• How to Make Healthy Eating Inevitable Event: This Thursday March 25th at 4pm ET / 1pm PT I’m hosting a live ustream event called “How to Make Healthy Eating Inevitable“. RSVP here and you’ll also get a link to the recording if you can’t make it live.
• Polishing and Unveiling: As you know if you read the blog regularly, I’ve been working on my Next Big Thing for quite some time now. This week it’s finally time to unveil it, and I’m just putting the finishing touches on it. Make sure you’re registered for the live ustream event to get all the details!
• Preparing to do an Interview with Annika Ek: On March 31st I’m hosting the lovely Annika Ek for a special teleclass all about finding your life’s purpose. I’ve had the great pleasure of working with Annika to find my life’s purpose and I’m happy to be able to bring this information to more people! RSVP here.

Over to you, now…

It’s your turn now! Leave a comment below and let us know what you’re grateful for this week, and what your intentions are!

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

What Are You Grateful for This Week?

• International Women’s Day: It’s time to celebrate International Women’s day, and what better way than with The Women’s International Summit for Health? I’ve been sending out links to WISH to my newsletter subscribers for the past few weeks in anticipation for today. Because we really need to celebrate women and women’s health together.
• Thought Provoking Movies and Good Food: Friday night I enjoyed an evening in good company at one of Toronto’s raw restaurants called Rawlicious. (I loved the raw pizza I had, super double yum!) We watched the movie The Yes Men Fix the World, and it was a very relaxed but insightful movie followed by great conversations.
• An Awesome Walk by the Lakeshore: Sunday my boyfriend Robin and I took the most amazing walk along the lake shore. It was sunny, it felt like spring, and there were these gorgeous sea birds out on the lake. It was a great way to get reconnected to nature. It made me realize how much I love being outside in it.

What Do You Intend for the Coming Week?

• Lots of Ease in Finishing my Work: I’m heading to SXSW in a few days and I have this massive to-do list to finish. I intend to check things off easily, in a flowing way that doesn’t cause me stress or worry. I know everything will get done.
• Simple, Quick, Packing: I’m generally good at packing and organizing before a trip (see my how to eat healthy at SXSW post) but I want this time to be stress-free. I know that the weather in Austin is going to be warmer than here, but I’m ready to pack a little variety to make sure I’m comfortable no matter what.
• An Awesome Time in Austin: I intend to meet some awesome people, learn some cool stuff, and enjoy myself at SXSW. Looking at the schedule at SXSW is a little overwhelming. I know it’s all about hanging out in the Bloggers Lounge or meeting people between sessions rather than trying to fit every panel in.

Note: I will be back with more Mindful Monday in two weeks from now!

Leave a comment below and let us know what you’re grateful for today and what you intend for the coming week. :)

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

What Are You Grateful for This Week?

• Canadian Hockey: Yesterday the Canadian hockey team won the gold medal in the winter Olympics, and it was epic. There was no shortage of cheering on the streets of downtown Toronto, and it was just such a fun time to be Canadian. ;)
• Meeting New Friends: I’ve been making connections left and right, some of which are just so much fun and I am super grateful! Check out Liz Rice for her veg*/eco friendly events, Justine for her Etsy marketing materials, and Bianca for her freelancing. I’m also grateful for meeting with my wildly brilliant friends Tara and Jamie!
• The End of February: With the end of February comes March! I am super grateful for both the warmer (I assume) weather and the fact that SXSW is coming up! If you’ll be at SXSWi let me know, I’d love to meet you. :)

What Do You Intend for The Coming Week?

• Rolling Out the Goodies: I’ve been hard at work creating my next set of recipe videos, and a new recipe book. I’m super excited that this week I get to share a piece with everyone!
• Recipes & More Recipes: I’ll likely have my head in the recipes for a big chunk of this week, not that I mind. I can’t wait to share what my next Big Thing is going to be! :)
• More Live Events: Working on promoting my next live raw event, happening in April. I’m hosting another live Spread Your Raw Food Wings class here in Toronto, woohoo! There are only half the spots left, so if you want in click here to sign up.

Your turn, now

Leave a comment below and let me know what you’re grateful for this week, and what you intend for the coming week.

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

What Are You Grateful For This Week?

• Speaking at PodCamp Toronto 2010: On Saturday I spoke to roughly 80-100 people on How to turn your Raw Passion into a Budding Business using Social Media. It was so much fun, there were some great questions and I felt so energized during and after the talk. It reminded me why I like speaking!
• Great romance novels: I read a few great romance novels over the week-end and it was a great way to unplug from the computer.
• Exercising my creativity: I had fun making a little raw meal planning video. It’s a parody on the google commercial from the superbowl and it was just a fun way to flex my techy video skills too!

What Do You Intend For the Coming Week?

• To Make Stuff Happen in my Kitchen: I’ve got a lot of ideas for recipes brewing, and I just need to set aside some time to make them happen in my kitchen!
• Make Progress & Wrap up some projects: As you know, I’m working on my next Big Thing, and things are moving along nicely. I would like to get the majority of the work for this project done and wrapped up nicely this week.
• Swimming: I plan on working pretty hard this week but I also want to balance that out with going swimming and taking an exercise break.

Over To You Now…

What are you grateful for this week? What do you intend for the coming week? Let us know in the comments & happy Monday!

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

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This week I’m taking some time away from the computer. That’s right, I’m celebrating both Chinese New Year with my boyfriend Robin, and Valentines Day.

So this post is actually a scheduled post that I wrote on Friday. Enjoy and feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

What Are You Grateful For This Week?

• Systems! I’m really working on streamlining my business systems and so far it’s working out quite nicely. I’m glad I’m building these things into place now and not waiting until things get too complicated to fix them.
• Videos! I’m really grateful for having made and published the Raw Relationships video with my boyfriend Robin. I’ve been getting a lot of good feedback and it’s just awesome to hear that it’s helpful for people.
• Dentists! Okay, maybe not grateful for going to the dentist but I’m grateful that it’s my last appointment until summer. Plus it was one of the shorter rendez-vous with a dentist I’ve had so that was something to be grateful about too!

What Are Your Intentions For the Coming Week?

• Partnerships: Partnerships and working together with other people have really been on my mind lately. I know that all of the ideas and details will sort themselves out nicely this week and the next.
• To Crank Out Some Good Stuff: As you know, I’m working on my next project and things are starting to shape up nicely. This week I’m really going to be pouring my creative and productive energy into getting this stuff in a presentable form and out of my head!
• Figuring Tax Stuff Out: In general my tax situation is pretty simple, but I want to get some momentum on this so it doesn’t come back and bite me later.

Interviews

I’ve been interviewed over at EpicSelf and you’ll definitely want to hear what I have to say about raw food, paleo diets, and other topics there!

Over To You Now…

Leave a comment and let us know what you’re grateful for today, and what you intend for next week!

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

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What Are You Grateful for This Week?

• My Raw Event Was a Success! On Saturday I had my first Toronto Spread Your Raw Food Wings event. It was awesome, everyone loved the food, and we got some great questions and discussions going. Thanks to everyone who attended, I am truly grateful for each of you!
• Listening to new music: I tend to stick to my tried and true bands. My usual go-to songs are from Sarah McLachlan, Delerium, and The Cure. But these past few weeks I’ve been branching out to new songs by Tegan & Sara and of course the raw-foodist Jason Mraz. It’s been awesome!
• Whole Foods Event: On Sunday I recovered from leading my own event by heading out to Whole Foods and listening to Yafa from House of Verona‘s talk on raw food and aging. It was a great talk specifically about grey hair, wrinkles, and cellulite. All those fun fun topics!
• Apple Fixing My Mouse: My mighty mouse hasn’t been scrolling for a few weeks now. I brought it to the Apple Store this past week and they fixed it, so I’m a happy geekgirl again!

What Are Your Intentions for The Coming Week?

• Much Video To Edit: I have hours and hours of video to edit, both from my event on Saturday and also from earlier in the week. I know that it won’t edit itself, but I’m putting it out there that it will be quick and easy and turn out magickal.
• Beethoven Concert: This week my boyfriend Robin and I are attending a classical music concert. It’s my intention to relax into it and really be in the moment. I tend to get edgy during classical music concerts, but I’m working on really enjoying being there immersed in the experience.
• Chinese New Year! Next Sunday February 14th (Valentines day) is also Chinese New Year. That means spending time with Robin’s family celebrating the year of the tiger. Somehow the year of the tiger sounds very exciting, so I’m open to learning more about the symbolism behind it. Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Guest Posts

Check out my guest post over at The Change Blog called Want to Change Your Life? Travel. Or Don’t. Find out more about my trip to China.

I’ve been featured at Hello!Self blog, read my interview there. Find out what my favorite food is!

Over To You Now…

Let us know what’s happening in your life: What are you grateful for? What are your intentions for the next week?

Comment below…

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

What Are You Grateful for This Week?

• Friendships in bloom: Yesterday I went to Jamie Riddler’s Full Moon Dreamboard circle and all of my Toronto twitter people were there! :) It was so awesome to see all these great ladies again and meet new ones too: Jennie, Tara, Lynn, Anita, and of course Jamie!
• That space between: At the circle, we each got to pick a card and explain why we think we got that card. Mine was “wait” and on the back of the card it said: sometimes the best action is no action at all. This stopped me in my tracks, because I’m very much the go-getter action type. Yet I have been feeling like I’m between things, like I know where I want to go but it’s just not ready for me yet. Now with this “wait” card I think I can stop worrying about making this happen and just wait for them. They’re coming for sure, it’s just a matter of time now.
• Puppies! My boyfriend Robin and I have been talking about getting a dog for awhile. Marie Forleo recently got a puppy (a mighty cute one at that) and it’s been stirring up my ambition for a dog. So I put lots of cute dog pictures on my dreamboard.

My dreamboard for the year ahead.

What Do You Intend For The Coming Week?

• Overhauling: This week I intend to go through the site and my systems with a fine comb and improve the little things that add up to bigger things.
• Wrap up January: There were a lot of little things that I didn’t quite wrap up for January since my friend was visiting. Now is the perfect time to clean up and organize a little.
• Preparing and planning: For my live event happening this Saturday Feb 6th. For the most part it’s ready to go, but I still need to buy the food and get things polished up!

What Are You Delegating?

Jen from Inspired Home Office delegates to God or the Universe, whichever works. I love the concept!

• Finding the remaining 2 right people for my Spread Your Raw Food Wings Event this Saturday February 6th, 2010 in Toronto, Canada.
• Figuring out the details on an upcoming project I want to get involved in.
• Migrating everything over to a new system as smoothly, easily, and quickly as possible.
• Finding the time to do more creative play in the evenings.
• Getting all the little bits and pieces ready for my class this Saturday so that everyone has a great time, learns a lot, and enjoys some delicious food!

Guest Posts

Read my guest post at Write To Done called “How to Leave Your Readers Better Than You Found Them“.

Check out my guest post at Evolving Wellness called “You Don’t Need Drugs Once You’ve Tried the Gateway Drug to Healthy Eating“.

Your turn to be mindful…

Leave a comment below and share what you’re grateful for, what you intend, and what you delegate.

Or just share 1 thing you’re being mindful about…

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

So here’s what I’m being mindful about this week…

What Are You Grateful For This Week?

• Having an Unplugged Week-end: Or as Goddess Leonie would call it, having a switched off Sunday. I didn’t turn on my computer at all this week-end and it felt oh so good! Not checking my email took a lot of self-control, but it was also very liberating. And knowing that everyone who emailed me would be fine if I didn’t reply within a few hours was great too.
• My live class more than half full: I’m really grateful at how quickly my live raw food class is filling up. We’ve only got 4 more spots left and I’m so excited to be meeting all the wonderful people who have signed up! Click here to see if one of these spots are for you.
• Playing Card Games and Board Games: On the week-end I played card games and Settlers of Catan with my boyfriend and our friends. I even won a few times! In line with my Virgo-ness I try to “play to win” or at least play to not look like an idiot. But this week-end I really didn’t care if I won or not, and it was really fun. Not to mention that I learned some new Chinese words in the process.

What Are Your Intentions for the Coming Week?

• Setting Time Aside for Writing: I’ve got lots of ideas, as usual, and sitting down to write them out is my next step. These may end up as articles for this blog, as guest posts, or articles for The Cue.
• Reining in my thoughts and picking a name: I’m working on my Next Project and the name keeps escaping me. I tinker with the potential name for a day or two. Then a week goes by and I still haven’t settled it. This week I’m picking a name and making some stuff happen on that project!
• Promoting my Bewitch Your Spouse eCourse: Getting along with a partner who isn’t raw is one of the questions I get asked the most. Usually people bring it up in private, as if there was something wrong with them for not being able to go raw with a reluctant spouse. Trust me when I say it’s a lot more common than you think! I’ve been there and I plan to share my experience and know-how with anyone who needs help with their spouse or partner.

What Do You Leave for the Universe to Figure Out?

Last week I read Jen’s post on Inspired Home Office about delegating to God or the Universe, whichever works for you. I love the concept and decided to give it a try this week on Mindful Monday!

• Finding a Place for my Friend: A good friend of mine has recently relocated to Toronto and is looking for an apartment. She’s been staying at my place for the past week and sleeping on our inflated mattress. :) I’m letting the Universe find and secure her a great place to live!
• Getting images for a Dreamboard: I’m attending Jamie Ridler’s dreamboard circle this Sunday and am letting the Universe bring me the images I need to create it.
• Finishing the Month with Flying Colors: I’m letting the Universe align me with all the right people who need my work in the form of 1 on 1 coaching clients starting in February.

Your Turn!

Let me know what you’re grateful for, and your intentions are, and what you’re delegating to the Universe this week. Leave a comment below!