Today I’ve asked my wife Angie to join us and share some motivational tips to encourage you to make your health the #1 priority in your life.

Angie is a busy work-at-home-mom who runs a daycare out of our home. She is also a certified fitness trainer and plays a big role in our online fitness business, authoring the book More Love Less Fat, recording videos, doing interviews, and writing blog posts.

As a busy work-at-home-mom you wake up early and your day never seems to end. There’s always something to do and someone to look after. The needs of everyone else come before your own and you’re left with very little time to take care of the most important person… YOU!

Today, that’s all going to change and Angie’s here to help you make that happen.

Home Office Fitness Motivation For Busy Work At Home Moms

Hopefully after listening to Angie you now realize that it’s more important for you to take your scheduled fitness break than it is to tackle the latest task that just got dumped on you.

Which one of Angie’s motivational strategies are you going to apply to help you take a pass on the snooze button and get your butt out of bed 10-minutes earlier to get in a quickie workout?

What will you tell your kids and/or husband when you want to go out for a walk or do a quickie cardio session at the end of your busy workday?

In the video above Angie recommended that you purchase an article of clothing such as a bathing suit that you would like to fit into when you reach your goal. She also recommended that you make it visible so you see it every day.

In this picture Angie is wearing a bathing suit that she purchased which was a couple sizes smaller than where she was at when she wanted to get in great shape. She hung it up on the our bedroom door so it would be the first thing that she saw in the morning and the last thing that she saw before she went to bed.

Using the bathing suit as part of her motivation she was able to release 6% bodyfat and flatten her tummy. It’s important to note that we have two children and our youngest, Noelle, who is now 6 years old, was delivered by c-section. And if you are wondering… No Angie is not genetically gifted. She can gain weight just as easy as the rest of us.

You may not want to get as lean as Angie is, but using a bathing suit, a slimmer pair of jeans that you can’t quite fit into, or a nice evening gown as motivation to tone up your body and get healthy can help you stick with the program for the long term.

Fat Loss Quickie member Angela Wills is using a leather jacket that she received as a gift but hasn’t been able to fit into for a while. She has pictures of herself from when she did fit into the jacket so she knows how great she’ll look when she can wear it again. That’s a powerful motivator and can really help you visualize the outcome!

It’s time to take action! No more excuses! You owe it to yourself, your family, and your business to make your health the #1 priority in your life.

You ROCK! Enjoy the experience,

Scott Tousignant

PS Each comment that you share in any of my guest blog posts this week will give you a chance to win my Home Office Fitness program.

PPS If you missed our interview check it out here on WAHM Talk Radio

PPPS Here’s my guest blog post to help you improve the circulation in your legs while you are working at home: Desk Exercises

WAHM Fitness: Motivation

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I hope that you enjoyed hearing Tishia interview me yesterday for Work at Home Moms Talk Radio Show #289. It sure was a fun, high-energy call.

Today you’ll discover 3 simple exercises that you can do at your desk to improve the circulation in your legs. This is an extremely important issue for busy work-at-home-moms that rarely receives the attention that it deserves.

I’m curious. How many hours do you spend sitting at your desk during your workday? Are there times when you sit there for a few hours without getting up and moving around?

The complications of spending several hours working at your desk each day goes beyond the typical health concerns of a sedentary lifestyle. This isn’t just about your weight or your heart health.

Lack of circulation in your legs can result from extended periods of time where your legs are in a bent position such as sitting in your office chair.  Some of the common problems associated with blocked or upset blood flow in your legs are; sore and tight lower leg muscles, leg pain, numbness in your legs, pain behind the knees, and knee joint pain. Over the long term there can be greater health complications that result from poor circulation in your legs.

But I’m not here to scare you. I’m here to help you become the best YOU that you can be. That’s why I’ve put together 3 simple exercises that you can do at your desk to improve your circulation and have a more productive day.

WAHM Desk Exercises

1) Imaginary Bag Kicks
2) Running On The Spot
3) Butt Kicks

You will perform each exercise for 30 seconds. This will take you a total of 2-minutes since the Imaginary Butt Kicks are performed one leg at a time.

In addition to improving your circulation, these exercises will work your butt and thigh muscles. What work-at-home-mom doesn’t want a firm butt and tight thighs?

It’s amazing how your heart rate can become elevated and your breathing becomes more labored in a measly two minutes. That’s good news. If you listened to the Work-At-Home-Mom Talk Radio Show yesterday you will have heard me discus how you can actually get a better workout in just a few minutes compared to the hours that most people spend in the gym.

You have a few choices about how you can incorporate these exercises into your busy workday.

Enjoy the exercises and be sure to leave your feedback in the comment box below. At the end of my guest blog tour I will randomly pick a winner from the comments shared throughout the week. The winner will receive my Fat Loss Quickie Home Office Fitness program and all the bonuses that come with it.

How’s that for incentive just for sharing your thoughts and opinions? I want to hear from you. Your feedback means the world to me.

You ROCK! Enjoy the experience,

Scott Tousignant

PS After you give the above exercises a try take a moment to discover what my Top 10 Home Office Exercises are.

WAHM Fitness: Improve Circulation

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It’s time to start fulfilling more work at home mom’s Christmas Business Wishes. We are back again with the #WAHMwish campaign.This year there have been a few exciting changes that will take place. I can’t tell you what those changes are yet but you will find out soon ;-)

What is #WAHMwish? It’s when our community pulls together to help fulfill Christmas wishes of work at home moms – The idea behind granting a wish is to fulfill a mom’s need that will help her in business.

Wishes have been fulfilled for…

• Learning Products


• Memberships


• Sales Pages (having one written for you)


• Articles (having one written for you)


• Virtual Assistant Services


• Transcription (having a teleseminar transcribed)


• Website Designed/Re-designed


• Business Coaching

As the wishes come in we put the word out that there are ‘stockings’ waiting to be stuffed (via Twitter and our mailing lists) and watch as the community steps up and helps make these wishes become reality.

Last year one of the wishes that we were able to fulfill was for a Flip Video. Check out the video below from the recipient of it!

If you’re a past recipient through #WAHMwish, please leave a comment sharing how you were blessed!

Stay tuned for more information on how the 2009 #WAHMwish will work and how you can submit a wish or help fulfill one!

#WAHMwish is Coming Back!

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Tishia Lee interviews Scott Tousignant from Fat Loss Quickie.  I’m so grateful that Tishia was willing and able to pinch hit for me this week – when I asked her to take on the interview with Scott she was thrilled to have the chance to talk with him.

Scott is motivation in a bottle – even I felt motivated listening to the interview ;)

(You know, it’s not everyday that we have a reason to put a total beefcake picture on our home page!  Is this guy fit or what?)

We squeezed in a quick interview with Alicia Bowyer of Mini Site Solution. Alicia’s new product teaches you how to build and profit from mini sites.

It’s not too late to fulfill Kelly’s Birthday Wish by submitting your story of online friendship.  Read more about it here and submit your story ASAP!

Our Episode Sponsor: Working Mom Writes.

Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #289

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Happy Sixth Birthday WAHM Talk Radio!

(And Happy 43rd Birthday Kelly!)

Yes!  Work at Home Moms Talk Radio is officially six years old.  With 288 episodes under our belt, we’re one of the longest running podcasts for women in the world.  Woohoo!

Don’t forget Kelly’s Birthday Wish – for you to submit your stories for her new book project!

Our Guest this week is Jennifer Sheahan of PPCMom.com.  Jennifer is a mother of three boys and a former teacher in Australia.  She says that she has always been entrepreneurial in her thinking. I really enjoyed our chat and know that you will too. (Follow Jennifer on Twitter.)

Announcements:

Mom Webs Hosting rolled out a brand new perk for their clients this week – a new free ‘Helper Line’ where they can get the answers they need.  Check it out at Mom Webs Hosting.

This week’s Episode Sponsor: Working Mom Writes

Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #288

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So, how does one learn to cope with issues and crisis’ that arise in life, all while maintaining their work at home business, managing their home and family, and all the other stuff in life, without completely losing it somewhere? It’s called “pushing through”; doing it anyway even though you don’t feel like it. And believe me there have a been a few times the last couple of days when I absolutely didn’t feel like working my business, or doing the dishes. It would have been way easier to bury myself under a blanket, on the couch, in front of a pile of chick flicks. But, I made the conscious decision to push through what I felt like doing, and made myself do what I needed to do...work on my client’s project.

And, I’m happy I made the decision I did. Sure I could have outsourced the project, but it’s a brand new client and I didn’t want to chance losing him to someone else, not to mention the fact that I’m not at the place in my business where I can outsource yet. I worked on the project when I could, while letting my client know I was in the middle of a family crisis. He understood and I did get the project turned in on time, and did a great job on it as well.

It was good for me to continue working, especially since there isn’t much I can do about the family crisis except wait it out and pray. I do understand though that not all family crisis’ or issues are the same, and some do require your time and undivided attention. If that ever happens to you, then you definitely should outsource any urgent projects until you’re ready to get back to work. It’s better to outsource than to turn in your work late or do a less than par job.

Have you ever had a family crisis or circumstance arise that affected your business? How did you handle it? Did you push through or did you outsource? Or do you have any advice for other work at home moms?

Pushing Through When a Family Crisis Arises

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We’ve all said things like…

“There aren’t enough hours in the day.”
“If only I didn’t need to sleep…”

We moms have a lot to do… there’s no doubt. But there’s something I’ve come to learn in my 7 ½ years of being mom and an at home business owner… and it may surprise you.

There ARE enough hours in a day to get what you need and even want to get done. You just have to set your priorities and a schedule that works for you.

Start by setting your priorities: You know that big long to do list you have (business or personal)? Scratch a lot of it off.

Yes, really. Get rid of most, or a good chunk of, your to do list.

Moms are often hard on themselves and take on too much because we feel we have to. Well, I’ll let you in on a little secret. We DON’T have to and most of the people in our lives don’t think we have to either.

Here’s how to start shaving those lists:

1. Remove the things that don’t absolutely have to be done. You know, like putting new shelf paper in the cupboards and changing the background color of your blog. Those are obvious ones, but look at your list closely and identify those “nice to have items” and put them aside for now.


2. Delegate: Kids and spouses can pitch in. Even if you feel your 8 year old can’t pack his lunch, take the time to show him how, so you can shave 5-10 minutes out of your hectic schedule each and every day. Get the family cleaning, helping with dinner and preparing for the next day. It’s not all mama’s responsibility.

Then when it comes to business, delegate and outsource.

Whether you recruit an intern, bring on a partner or contract the services of someone else – don’t do it all yourself.

1. Say No: Stop agreeing to every favor that is asked of you. Whether it’s organizing the school bake sale or considering a sponsor for your blog, you don’t have time… you don’t have time

   Learn to say confidently, “Sorry, it just doesn’t fit my schedule.” No excuses, no “Maybe laters”. Just politely say no.



2. Above all, keep in mind, what’s most important to you. If it’s family time, make sure your schedule allows for it. If you want to get to the gym three times per week, but you’re exhausted from rushing around packing the kids in the car and dropping them of at the childcare room, consider a shorter home workout.

You make it work…on your terms.

If you’re facing a new change to your routine, give yourself time to adjust and set new priorities. That’s the wonderful thing about family life – it never stays the same.

To hear more from Alice, visit Contentrix… your source for straightforward content marketing advice. Whether you’re looking for more traffic, sales or both, Contentrix has it covered.

Get More Time for [Insert What You Want to Do Here]

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The reason I purchased Camtasia was because I just gained a new client who would like me to create “how to” videos for his site. He paid me in advance for my services, which made it possible to buy. I’m so excited! I’ve wanted software I could use to create “how to” videos for a long time now, but was never able to afford it and wasn’t sure which one to purchase. And quite honestly, I hadn’t done a whole lot of research into it because I didn’t think I was ready to make “how to” videos yet.

Well, now I have to be ready, so I’m learning how to record properly, then I have to learn how to edit and produce. Camtasia is really easy to use so far and they give you lots of support materials to guide you every step of the way.

So far, I’ve learned that I need to make sure the mic is in front of my mouth; that I speak in a moderate tone and not so low; that I record when my hubby’s not sleeping on the couch across the room; and that I type an outline first so I don’t flounder as I’m presenting.

I’m not an affiliate for Camtasia, and I’m really not trying to promote their product here. Just filling you in on what I’m working on. I will give recording a “Twitter How To” another shot and then post it once it’s ready.

Learning How to Use Camtasia

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Last weekend, an unexpected trip to see my best friend in Missouri popped up, literally very last minute. I had less than 1/2 an hour to pack. I must say, while it wasn’t the neatest packing  job I’ve ever done, it was one of the best. I usually think about what I want to wear, way too much, and end up hating what I picked. This time I just grabbed my favorite things and threw them in the suitcase, and ended up being comfortable and classy when needed. I also, left behind some things that I knew my friend would have, like shampoo and toothpaste. I knew she wouldn’t mind if I used hers, so I saved some space in my suitcase for, you know, more important things like accessories and shoes! LOL.

I was able to work from the road some, but I still got behind in my blogging, commenting and tweeting. Just as I started to get caught up, I went away again. This time to a youth conference that I help coordinate. Obviously it was a planned event, but getting behind from my trip to MO, left me feeling even more behind today. Not to mention I had to spend some very valuable hours trying to send out an email blast for the next conference coming up Nov. 6 and 7. I’m not the one in charge of the email blasts, so I didn’t have all of the email addresses in my email program. Then I kept getting an error message saying some of the addresses weren’t formatted properly, but it would tell me which ones. I had to go through each of them, one by one, to try to figure out which ones were the culprits. After much frustration, my hubby helped me, and I got the email blast out.

So, now I’m playing “ketchup”. I think it’s a cute little phrase, and if you read Lynn’s post, you’ll understand where it came from.

What do you do to get caught up or to stay caught up? Any words of wisdom you’d care to share with the rest of us?

photo credit: Pixel Drip

Playing “ketchup”

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If you’re still working outside of the home and wavering about making the leap to being self-employed, this interview will inspire you. You’ll want to get hold of a copy of the book for yourself right away.

Be sure to visit her site to sign up for her No Limits Teleseminar.

My Birthday Wish:

Next week is my 43rd birthday and WAHM Talk Radio’s 6th!  How time flies when you’re having a blast!  I’m not asking for cash, chocolate or sharpie markers this year – I’m seeking your stories! Seriously!

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Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #287

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