The First Step to Having a Healthier, Slimmer Body

Trying to become healthier and slimmer is not always easy. At times we eat foods that are not as nutritious as others. At times we don’t exercise as much as we should. Because of these discrepancies in our overall goal to be healthy, at times losing a few pounds tends to take more effort than we are willing to give. Consistency is one of the keys to obtaining and retaining a healthier, slimmer body.

As an experienced physical therapist and health coach, Tanya Langis has set up six key steps to help you achieve the healthy body you want. The first step you will take on your individual journey to a healthier, slimmer you is to discover yourself. Evaluate your own body, weight and health habits and make a point to know where you are now, in comparison as where you would like to be in the future.

Now as you explore and evaluate your own overall health, there are four main areas you should focus on to achieve a healthier, slimmer you.

1.                   Your mindset. Write down goals you want to achieve. How do you envision yourself one year, three years, and even five years from today? What mindset do you want? Healthy emotions and thoughts such as faith, love, hope, courage, and determination will help you achieve your goals.  Are you angry, afraid, jealous, or unforgiving of anyone? These detrimental emotions and thoughts can rob you of your overall health. Stay focused and determined throughout your health journey.

2.                   Your nutrition and diet. What are your current dieting habits and what can you do to make them healthier? Be honest with yourself. Now, how are you going to change your nutritional habits to achieve better health?

3.                   Your physical fitness and physical health. What are you doing currently to be physically fit? What should you be doing activity-wise to maintain health and wellness physically? Do you have an exercise partner to keep you progressing physically? What aspects of your physical health (examples: weight, cholesterol, blood pressure) needs improvement and what will you commit to improve your physical health?

4.                   Your lifestyle. Everything that you do affects your health and wellness. Evaluate your lifestyle to determine what you are doing right and what aspects need to change to achieve a healthier you. For example, are you getting enough sleep?

Aristotle said, “Knowing yourself is the beginning to all wisdom.” Maybe it’s time to take inventory of your life – where you’re at and where you would like to be.

Your mind is very powerful. If you learn how to set your mind into success mode, there is nothing you cannot achieve. Tanya Langis can give you the tools you need, motivating and supporting you to keep going until you reach your growth-oriented goal of a healthier, slimmer body.

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How to Stay Motivated and Achieve the Healthy Body You Want

Staying motivated when trying to accomplish the healthy, slimmer body you want may be challenging. Discouragement tends to come along when you least expect it to drag you down. Not having enough time becomes an excuse. Lack of stamina or pain, perhaps, affect the length and strength of your workouts. Many reasons can rob us from the energy and motivation we once enjoyed.

Self-Motivation is hard to maintain on a consistent basis. Nonetheless, here are four proven techniques that will help your confidence and motivation persevere so that you can achieve the healthier body and active lifestyle you want.

1.                   Have a Strong Plan. If you know exactly what you are planning to do and how you are going to accomplish it, then staying motivated will be much easier. Include the goals and strategies you need to accomplish your plans. Keep a tracking journal to monitor where you are at and where you want to be.

2.                   Determine your ‘WHY’ Factor. If you know why you are trying to obtain a healthier, slimmer body, then you will be able to recognize your internal driving force. Figure out why being healthier is important to you. Understand the gap between where you are and where you want to be and let that motivate you.

3.                   Start Small. Begin with little changes that fit you. Start out little and make your eating habits healthier. Increase the percentage of vegetables you consume, add healthy protein and whole grains. It could be as simple as not eating desert, eating smaller portions, and/or exchanging soda for water. Focus on making changes that fit into your lifestyle and are fairly easy to maintain throughout your daily routine.  Remember that the more changes that you make at once, the harder it will be to adjust and maintain, so keep it simple and keep progressing toward your nutritional intake and your exercise plan.

4.                   Be Positive. Keep negative thoughts out of your mind. Your thoughts control your actions, so keep your mind clear, focused and positive. The inability to quickly remove negative thoughts from our minds is one of the biggest reasons why some people fail at accomplishing their goals. Stay positive and control your thoughts. Andrew Matthew quoted that, “What you focus on expands… So think about what you want.”

Another wise man once said,

“The measure of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure, by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish a dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. He who masters himself, shall be King.”

Of course, he was talking for women as well, and of their innate abilities to become ‘Queens’ in their circle of influence. Think for a moment about the people you most respect. They have learned, step-by-step, through trial and error to master their own thoughts, desires, and actions before they began to assist others. You can do the same thing!

Now that you know the four techniques to keep your mind and body motivated and to help give you the mindset, lifestyle and body you want and deserve, it’s time to put them into practice. Plan well, know your ‘why’, start small and be positive. If you follow this simple system, your health and wellness will improve and you will become the best ‘you’ possible!

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Three Options for Finding Capital

Staying Private

A company can stay private and attempt to acquire capital through private placement memorandums (PPMs), venture capitalists, angel groups, or loans. 

PPMs have been difficult to obtain lately, as the requirements for being an accredited investor have increased, and non-accredited investors cannot, for the most part, participate. PPMs are time consuming in their creation. A company that is trying to access capital through a PPM cannot by law advertise that the PPM is available. It is strictly through a business owner’s warm leads (friends, family, and business associates) that a PPM can be offered. 

Venture capitalists and angel groups will often invest in ideas and businesses that they believe in. However, extensive business plans and PowerPoint presentations are often requested in order to get an audience with them. Once business owners find a venture capitalist or angel who is willing to invest, agreements of ownership and interest rates must be made. Often, these investors request a significant amount of the company to participate and/or a significant amount on interest. However, business owners who feel desperate and who believe that this is the only way to obtain the capital they need often take this route.

Many banks today are not investing in businesses that do not have the collateral to secure the loan. Business owners that do not have assets to cover the amount of capital that they need cannot, in most cases, get a loan. If you are a business owner that has sufficient assets to use as collateral to secure a loan, and you need to raise capital, this is a viable option.

Going Public

A company can pay hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to have the privilege of participating in the traditional stock market arena. The Securities and Exchange Commision requires extensive state and federal filings and reports for publicly held companies. Often, the waves of trading (whether high and then low, or low and then high and then low again) in traditional markets have not reflected the comparative state of the companies being traded. 

These factors and others, such as the risk of losing control over the direction and orchestration of the now public company has made private business owners hesitant to take part in the traditional public markets. In fact, out of more than two million companies who could qualify to post with NYSE or NASDAQ, less than ten thousand companies are actively being traded.

Being Independent

The Independent Stock Market provides a marketplace for business owners to offer their personal stock for sale. Owners no longer need to look at PPMs as options, as ISM allows the advertising and the use of accredited and non-accredited investors to participate. Owners no longer need to seek out venture capitalists, angel investors or banks for loans to find capital, since with ISM they can access the capital they need without giving up a significant portion of their company, without paying interest, and without having assets to use as collateral.

The Independent Stock Market provides a venue for private business owners wanting the benefits of the traditional markets without many of the risks and additional reporting they require. Owners can find the capital they need and receive the liquidity they want in a marketplace that provides a simple buy/sell model without the twists and turns of outside influences.

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Increase the Market Value of Your Privately Held Company by Removing the Lack of Marketability Discount

Certified valuators determine the value of a company by reviewing several risk factors. When their assessment is complete, one of the last questions they ask is if the company that is being valuated is a privately held company, a publicly held company, or if it is a company that shortly will become public or return from being public to become privately held again.

Privately held companies that have no plans in the near future of becoming publicly traded receive what valuators refer to as a “Lack of Marketability Discount.” Over the last 40 years, the average discount valuators have given privately held companies is 30%. This means that a ten million dollar company that is private, on average, would only be valued at seven million dollars. 

The reason why valuators make this significant discount is because the purchaser of the company has limited opportunities were he or she to try to sell the company at a later date.  If the company were publicly traded, the buyer could simply sell off a portion or all of his stock in the company to the general public and thereby retake his investment – hopefully at a profit.

Privately held company owners would have to wait for another buyer in order to retake their investment.  The Lack of Marketability Discount protects the buyer from paying full price for a company that he might not be able to sell when and if he ever wanted to sell it. 

One way to increase the market value of your privately held company is to go through the processes available to make stock in your company available to the public. Some companies are afraid, unsure about, or opposed at the idea of taking their business public in the traditional markets. Even those business owners that understand the Lack of Marketability Discount are often unwilling to take that step into the public trading realm. 

Sometimes cost is a factor. Other times it is all the files and reporting that they dread. Sometimes they fear the traditional markets themselves with the waves of changes in stock prices that are often unrelated to the actual stability and growth of the business itself.

If you are a business owner of a privately held company who would like to remove the Lack of Marketability Discount without all the worries of the traditional markets, call the Independent Stock Market today.

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