I don't know about you but I always have fifty million things running thru my mind every minute of the day. My husband thinks I'm crazy and nuts and says I need some serious R & R. If you're like me juggling between teaching your clients Pilates, maintaining and building your Pilates Business or some well deserved me time then you will find it will be crunch time one way or another.

Your thoughts can be shifted left and right at any given time. Whether you have you eyes set on one project it can always be veered off to another at the drop of a hat.

The daily mental and physical challenges we experience as we teach our clients can have its emotional strains. Our goal is to always keep a level head.

What do you do to keep a clear head?

Some people exercise, some meditate and others do absolutely nothing. I'm going to share with you the most important tool I found to help to stay clear and be more productive every day.

Now, with being a mother, wife and a business owner I honestly do not have 4 to 5 hours a day to meditate (that's the suggested length of time to meditate) I had to find some thing I can do for one hour.

What I found has taken my thought process to a higher level and I have quantum leaped my success just by being more productive.

This is one of my goodies in my little black bag of tricks that takes me to the next level and helps me think clearly.

I meditate using a c.d. from Holosync. There are no words, just sounds of rain and thunder, Go to www.cenpterpointe.com, there are different levels where you can overlay your personal affirmations. I work this into my daily routine, either 30 to 60 minutes.

The technology used in Holosync helps to stimulate the creation of neural pathways between right and left side of the brain that balances the brain that leads to a "whole brain function".

This technology takes you through 4 brain wave patterns: Alpha state (deep relaxation), Beta state (concentration, anxiety), Delta state (dreamless sleep) and Theta state (most important…changed behavior, increased retention of learned material) this state is our super learning.

This meditation system helps you to push past any barriers you may be experiences and helps to reduce your stress level so you can be more productive so you are not spinning your wheels.

Why is this so important to your business? Have you ever heard the saying "Leave it at the door before walking in" you don't want to be side tracked when you are teaching your clients or finishing up a project. Stay clear!

Practicing this every day has literally helped me to be more productive and keep a level head….It's super relaxing, find a comfortable place and put your headphones and sit back and relax!!!

On January 6th I was heading down to my Studio to help a friend record some footage for his fitness marketing product and was visualizing how I planned to attack my 2009 goals when all of sudden a big rig decided he wanted to beat me and turned right in front me.

I had nowhere to go but right into him, it was an eight wheeler and I slammed into the second set of tires. If it was two seconds later I would of Gone underneath the bed of the truck, pretty ugly…

This was my first time in an accident. I sat in the car motionless, I had the wind knocked out of me and I could barely breath. The crazy thing is the cars that were going around me were bothered and irritated that I was stopped in the middle of road. My car was totaled and I couldn’t move it, there was a guy that actually yelled out “Get out of the street”…(what the heck?…)

Why am I telling you this story? I had to make a decision here if I was going to let this ruin my goals and plans and subject myself to the pardons of a car accident victim. When I left the hospital my discharge papers said it was normal to feel depressed and upset and it may take some time to get better.

Depressed! I was lucky to be alive. It was as if they were trying to give me an out and blame my accident on terrible luck and that my year started off Bad…

Like I said I had 2 options here, to either feel bad for myself for what happened (don’t get me wrong I was hurting) or make the choice to be grateful that it wasn’t my time to go and to be sure that I accomplish the goals I set for myself.

What’s the point to all of this, it’s all about mind set. Deciding to take the route of feeling bad and depressed I would not be setting the tone for what I really want to happen in my life, on a business and personal level.

We all have the choice to feel bad about something that went wrong in our life and we blame that event or thing as the reason to give up or not work as hard.

As we move forward to reaching a goal there will always be an invisible barrier, like when you are driving a car and you are trying to go a little faster and you feel inertia pull you back. It’s the same concept in every goal and project you set to accomplish.

If you don’t feel some sort of discomfort as you push past all the Bulls&*$% then you aren’t pushing hard enough. Set your path, there may be some curves and dips but don’t make a u-turn.

What the heck does this have to do with anything? Let me explain….

When operating your own Pilates business you WILL run into invisible barriers, which blocks your way to your goal. It is your mindset and how you perceive what has happened as a good thing or as bad thing. It’s very easy to stop what you are doing and sit back and say, “Oh I lost clients so I just have to deal with it”.

This is not o.k. if you’re planning to be successful in what you do let me Be the first to tell you this, “If that’s how you are thinking that’s what you are going to attract.”

No one but YOU and only YOU has the power to succeed and overcome whatever Bulls@$%t that stands in your way!

Set your goal, expect detours here and there but never lose focus of your target!