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How to Feel Good: Take Time Off

Ronit and her Mother

During a recent presentation, someone asked me to share some tips on how to feel good. In the first post of the series How to Feel Good, I shared the science of endorphins – the feel good hormones. In the second, I covered the science of smiling. In this post, I suggest another great way to feel good – taking time off.

Last year, I took time off from everything (home, work, kids and Gal) and went overseas to spend some time with my family. It was a wonderful reminder for me about why we have take time off to recharge out emotional batteries.

Taking time off from daily life can have a positive impact on our health and wellbeing. It helps us regenerate and start fresh. Sleep is the body’s natural way of giving us time off. It “forces” us to rest so we can function. Did you know that without sleep, we would die? If you want to torture someone, you do not need to hurt them. Just deprive them of sleep for 2-3 night. Just ask any mom!

This post is part 3 of 4 in the series How to Feel Good

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May 29, 2014 by Ronit Baras In: Health / Wellbeing Tags: academic performance, anxiety, diet, focus, happiness, health / wellbeing, hobbies, holidays, hope, how to, lifestyle, meditation, memory, mind, mobile phone, motivation, partner, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, positive, relationships / marriage, relaxation, research, school, sleep, stress / pressure, time management, tips, travel, vacation

Preparing for Mother’s Day

Heart filled with words about moms - great for Mother's Day

Every year, when Mother’s Day approaches, I think of my role as a mother. It may not be easy to be a mom but it is highly rewarding. Many moms come to see me in my coaching practice. A lot of them experience many parenting struggles. Not all of them were ready to be a parent. This makes me wonder, how do we expect people to do something we do not prepare them for?!

The only preparation we get for being a parent is from our parents. This comes long before we even think of having children, and we need to keep these memories for over 20 to 25 years in order to use them with our own children. I think the saying “we are only as good as the quality of our teachers” is suitable here. Much like in school, you know your subjects well if your teacher was awesome. In the school of life, you know how to parent if your parents were awesome. Unfortunately, we cannot choose our teachers, not in school or in life.

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May 6, 2014 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting Tags: change, education / learning, emotional development, kids / children, mom, mother, negative, partner, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, positive, practical parenting / parents, role model, school, tips, video

Ask Ronit: My Son is Very Clingy

Boy clinging to mother's leg

Clingy kids can be very exhausting. We love them very much but we want to be able to do things without them from time to time. I have met many parents who are fighting this clinginess and they express a lot of frustration. I think the exhausting thing not necessary the clinginess itself. It is more from the fight, the feeling of failure and the expectation that it should be different.

This week, I received a question on my blog from a mother of a 9 year old boy. Mel wanted to know what I would suggest for dealing with a clingy child.

Here is what I wrote Mel. I hope you will find it encouraging. Most importantly, it is not as bad as it looks.

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April 15, 2014 by Ronit Baras In: Ask Ronit, Parenting Tags: control, emotional development, expectation, failure, feeling, frustration, hope, how to, kids / children, love, mother, practical parenting / parents, questions, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, success, success experience, tips

Handy Family Tips: Color Coded Keys

Keys

If you ever see my key chain, you will probably be very shocked by the enormous number of keys on it. It looks very similar to this photo. I have so many keys on there, it has become a little ridiculous. I have 3 keys for my house (two for the door, and one for the screen door), two sets of car keys (one for each car), and the garage door key. When I worked a day job, I also had a collection of work keys, which were even less easy to identify.

While I manage to find which key is used for what (most of the time), I find that kids struggle a bit with it. I came up with a few solutions to make it a bit easier. I have used all of them at some point or another and hope you will find them as helpful as I did.

This post is part 19 of 24 in the series Handy Family Tips

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March 20, 2014 by Ronit Baras In: Home, Parenting Tags: creative / creativity, family matters, home / house, how to, kids / children, practical parenting / parents, tips

How to Feel Good: Smiling

Girl smiling

The tip for today is a very simple way to feel good, instantly – smiling.

The good thing about smiling is that it a two way street – smiling creates a happy feeling, and feeling happy makes you smile. It does not matter where you start – the feeling or the smile. When we experience joy, the muscles in our brain contract and start a positive loop of feeling even more joy. This is not a new science. As early as the 1870s, Charles Darwin first suggested that facial expressions did not just express emotions, but could actually induce them.

Smiling has been studied for years. In 1989, psychologist Robert Zajonc compared the mood of participants asked to make the long “eee” sound (which involves the same muscles as smiling) and those who were asked to make a long “ooo” sound (which involves the same muscles as frowning). Zajonc found that the people who made the “eee” sound felt much better.

This post is part 2 of 4 in the series How to Feel Good

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March 18, 2014 by Ronit Baras In: Health / Wellbeing, Personal Development Tags: career, emotional intelligence, emotions, expectation, feeling, friends / friendship, happiness, health / wellbeing, hope, how to, kids / children, men, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, positive, presentations, research, romance, social, stress / pressure, success, tips, women

Start Your Happiness Journey

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My dad always said that the process of anything in life depends highly on how your start it. A good start will set us up for a nice and easy process, while challenging starts will set the tone for struggle. I think happiness is a lifelong quest. I chose to adopt my dad’s philosophy and tried to instill this belief in my children.

Here are my A to Z rules for having good starts and continuing the happiness journey. I hope you will find them successful and encouraging.

Act on your goals rather than waiting for things to happen to you. If you want to start feeling happy, make it happen. Act on it. Waiting for that “one day” when your life will be they way you want it to be will only reinforce the fact that you are far away from it. Moving slowly, by taking action, towards your goal, will make you feel like you are just that tiny bit closer.

This post is part 6 of 6 in the series A-to-Z Guides

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March 13, 2014 by Ronit Baras In: Personal Development Tags: action, change, emotional intelligence, failure, goals / goal setting, happiness, hope, list, motivation, negative, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, positive, success, tips

How to Feel Good: Trigger Your “Feel Good” Hormone

Woman laughing

This week, during the question and answer section at the end of my presentation, someone asked me to share some tips on how to feel good.

The request made me think of a few of things:

1. Be Happy in LIFE (my business) is all about feeling good.
2. I am a “feel good” coach. This is what I do for living – I teach people how to feel good.
3. I have thousands of tips to share. This blog alone has more than 1,000 posts so far and many of the posts contain more than one feel good tip.

This made me think that maybe presenting a topic in the form of tips might be easier for people to read and implement. So here goes. I am starting the Feel Good Tips series. I hope you can make good use of it.

This post is part 1 of 4 in the series How to Feel Good

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March 4, 2014 by Ronit Baras In: Health / Wellbeing, Personal Development Tags: emotional intelligence, feeling, happiness, health / wellbeing, hope, how to, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, positive, presentations, tips

How to Test Your Stress

Man relaxing in a beach chair

Stress is the new era’s worst disease. It is estimated that over 90% of all illnesses are caused or worsened by stress. In the future, you may find yourself dedicating most of your energy to overcoming stress. Stress management is a lifelong journey and everything little thing you do can help.

There are many ways to test your stress level. I personally like rating it on a scale of 1 to 10. For any of my coaching clients, I recommend a stress review every three month to make. This helps them make sure they are progressing (or at least helps them find out if their situation is getting worse). The issue with stress is that you start noticing it when it gets out of control. Regular monitoring when things are going well can be critical. It allows you to find a benchmark that you can compare to. If things go a little sour, you can do something straight away before you find yourself in a mental health ward with a nervous breakdown.

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February 27, 2014 by Ronit Baras In: Health / Wellbeing, Personal Development Tags: change, emotional intelligence, focus, goals / goal setting, happiness, money, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, positive, relaxation, sleep, stress / pressure, tips

How to Have a Happy Life

The happy Baras family

I have dedicated my life to promoting happy living. I have watched many people living the life they want and, unfortunately, too many people who have no clue about bringing happiness into their lives.

I suggest to all my clients that they come up with an A to Z list of living a happy life. Below is just one version of what they have come up with. I hope it will encourage you to come up with your own.

Appreciate yourself and others. Accept everything as it is. Appreciation is the ability to see good in yourself and others. It does not change who you are but how you perceive things.

Be yourself! This is the main goal in life. Do not try to be someone else. It is draining. You are unique, special and perfect, just the way you are. Cherish it!

This post is part 4 of 6 in the series A-to-Z Guides

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February 25, 2014 by Ronit Baras In: Personal Development Tags: art, attitude, choice, creative / creativity, emotional development, focus, freedom, fun, happiness, hugs, Life Coaching, money, motivation, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, responsibility, success, tips, values

12 Practical Ways to Parent Sore Losers

Boy lying on a football field

It is no wonder most of us are such sore losers. Winning is easy and losing is not. Let’s face it, regardless their age, no one likes to lose. Even the word “losing” sounds devastating.

Unfortunately, parents who are sore losers tend to raise kids who are sore losers. So, what can we do to make sure losing is not so devastating? What’s the best approach to parenting sore losers?

When I had my early childhood center, we stopped using the word “losing”. We replaced it with words like learning, opportunities, testing, growing and evolving. It does not sound like much but it worked well for the kids. It takes away a lot of the heartache and pain.

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February 20, 2014 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Personal Development Tags: attitude, beliefs, change, conflict, education / learning, emotional development, emotional intelligence, empowerment, failure, fear, feeling, focus, humor, identity, kids / children, loss, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, positive attitude tips, practical parenting / parents, relationships / marriage, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, social skills, sport, stress / pressure, success, tips

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