I have to tell you – I LOVE Christmas – which may sound funny for a Jewish girl to say! I just love the twinkling lights, the smell of cinnamon, the merry music… Ahhh… 🙂

However, if you're like many of my clients and friends, you may be super STRESSED out right now. People are running from store to store, sweating small details that probably don't matter and dealing with family frustrations. Mom is guilting you to spend more time with you than your in-laws, you have 18 nieces and nephews to buy for and only a day left to do it, the grocery store is sold out of the ONE ingredient you need for the cookies you promised to bring to Aunt Bertha's… AHHHH!!!!!

You deserve to be HAPPY this holiday season. Truly happy. In this special edition of Purpose-FULL messages, I share a few easy tips to get you through the holidays – with a smile on your face. Give yourself the gift of watching this short video. It will save you hours of pain – and better yet, give you lots of merriment this holiday season.

Greetings from beautiful, wintery New York City! I love this city at holiday time. The sparkling lights, the glamorous window displays… this city is utterly magical!

So here’s my magical question for you: As you enter 2014, what do you want? What do you really want? What do you really, Really, REALLY, REALLY want?

Yes, it has to be 4 “Really”s because that’s how you achieve your purpose. You must know what motivates you – that the first step to living our purpose. You must know what inspires you in order to take appropriate action. Your desires are simply purpose waiting to be brought to fruition. This is what I’m teaching coaching clients and in the NEW “Rock Your Purpose in 2014” Teleseries! So what do you deeply desire?

For years, I deeply desired to inspire thousands of women to love themselves and live purposefully. For years, I dreamt of being in the mass media so that I could empower millions of people to embrace their truth, go after their dreams and ROCK this world! I’m telling you, desires can come true!

Just last week, I inspired Purpose in 100 people around the world via Canada’s PositiveMatters and then I empowered 300 Gen Y women to Rock Their Purpose via The Scoop and BEES’ event at Kiehl’s.

That's me on the sales counter at Kiehl's empowering 300 women!

AND, (BIG NEWS….) I am THRILLED to announce that beginning this month, I am the NEWEST columnist for Dr. Oz’s website, YouBeauty.com!!!! Plus, as you know, I now a regular on Sirius XM and will be on Stars Channel 106 tomorrowmorning, 12/19 at 8 am ET!) I mean – for a former automotive marketer from Detroit, not too shabby! I am seriously BLOWN AWAY by how my dreams are coming to fruition.

Here’s the good news: Your dreams can come true too. Actualizing your purpose is available to us all! It just takes intention, hard work and getting the help you need. In this week’s PurposeFULL Message I share how.

I’ve got BIG dreams for 2014 – impacting 1,000,000 women, starting a self-worth program for teens and college women and publishing my book. I KNOW it is all coming. Here are the steps:

1. Know our purpose – what is your why in life? What rocks your soul, juices your heart, and drives you to action? That is your purpose. For me, it is women standing in their FULL power and rocking this world!
2. Embracing what you deeply, deeply desire. You deserve to live purposefully AND love life. You don’t have to choose between purpose and abundance. For a long time, I thought I did and that mindset kept me SMALL. As the late Nelson Mandela said, “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
3. You must be ready and willing to actualize – You have to decide to finally abandon old patterns and behaviors that no longer serve you. You have to actively change how you think and….
4. I’ve learned the hard way that you need help! I was trying to do it all myself and ground myself to exhaustion. I decided to take a stand for my purpose and get the help I needed to turn my purpose into an abundant business. I hired the BEST coaches, aligned with the BEST mentors and employed the BEST assistants a PurposeGirl could ask for!

Newest members of the PurposeGirl team! Ma'ayan, me, and Monica. Watch out world, Purpose is coming!

Dream big! It’s all possible. If you need help like I did, I’d be delighted to support you in actualizing your dreams. As always, I offer FREE 30 minute coaching discovery sessions to new clients AND I am launching the NEW “Rock My Purpose in 2014!” Teleseries to launch YOU into 2014. I’d be honored to help you on your path to actualizing everything you deeply desire!

Happy Thanksgiving week! I swear this week was MADE for positive psychology. A holiday devoted to deep appreciation, savoring our loved ones, and feeling heartfelt gratitude for all that is good – that is my kind of holiday!

I can’t help but wonder, though, why do we isolate this beautiful feeling to only once a year? If you only ate healthy greens one day a year – but burgers and pizza the remaining 364, you’d feel gross. If you went to the gym only once a year, you wouldn’t expect to get buff.

Gratitude is the same. Consistent gratitude creates better health! It not onlyfeels good. It’s good for us! Gratitude boosts the immune system, lowers blood pressure and increases happiness. Just writing down three good things daily has lasting benefits! Can you imagine what the world would be like if we were each expressing gratitude every day? Can you imagine the high vibration we’d live in? We’d have more joyful communities, more peaceful families and we’d be a healthier society!!

So… if we know that gratitude leads to greater health, why don’t we do it every day?

If you are like many of my clients, you may think you don’t have time for gratitude. As one client recently said, “I barely have time to brush my teeth let alone write down daily gratitude!” In this week’s PurposeFULL message, I share the trick to incorporate gratitude into your daily life.

Watch this video for tips to incorporate gratitude every day. Plus, watch this for my special message of thanks to you, and to all of those who have supported me in living my purpose.

I hope you have a beautiful holiday week. May you and your loved ones prosper with joy and good health. Today and every day, I’m grateful to you for reading, watching and allowing me to share my purpose.

Greetings from beautiful Cleveland Ohio! After living here for 8 years, this city will always be home.

I left Cleveland 3 years ago to go to graduate school in Positive Psychology, pursue my dreams of being a motivational speaker and empowerment coach who inspired others to live their dreams. And today I am living mine. I do work I love with clients I admire. I get to speak to thousands of women and work with the best corporations in the world including Progressive Insurance, AVON, Morgan Stanley and theCleveland Clinic. I live in the city I’d dreamt of experiencing. I have incredible friends, family and love in my life. I am beyond grateful and humbled.