{"id":5432,"date":"2014-01-21T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T20:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2014-01-21T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T20:30:49","slug":"kick-in-the-tush-tuesday-how-to-end-stuckness-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2014\/01\/kick-in-the-tush-tuesday-how-to-end-stuckness-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Kick In the Tush Tuesday:  how to&#8230;End Stuckness Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5233\" alt=\"kick in the tush club 1:2 logo\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/100\/2013\/10\/kick-in-the-tush-club-12-logo-300x178.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"198\" \/>Greetings Tushkateers,\u00a0 I have some mind-blowing news for you.\u00a0 Are you ready?\u00a0 Sitting down?\u00a0 Okay\u2026take in a deep breath and dig this:\u00a0 you are not a noun.\u00a0 You are not a thing.\u00a0 Rather, you are a person who does things.<\/p>\n<p>You read, you stretch, you laugh, you cry, you love, you feel, you eat (oy vey, sometimes too much).\u00a0 Therefore, <b><i>you are a verb.<\/i><\/b><b>\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p>In fact, <b><i>you are an action verb<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0 Take that in on a cellular level, please, because thinking of yourself, experiencing yourself as a noun is intrinsically sticky, as it is likely to create stuckness, as in you are a stationary noun standing in one place, at a standstill, lacking movement. Stuck!<\/p>\n<p>I, too, am an action verb, and I am once again verbing into reinvention! My last major overhaul was 12 years ago.\u00a0 Back at the turn of the century (more or less)!\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s when I decided to permanently lose 50 pounds of excess weight, change my look, change my way of being, think new and improved thoughts, leave the corporate world and be the me that you all know and hopefully like, if not love \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I am once again, actively, purposefully verbing into the next phase of verby-me.\u00a0 I am in Tucson (vs. New York City).\u00a0 Instead of walking Central Park, I am hiking the Catalina Mountains, creating muscles in my thighs as I climb uphill all the way (slowly but surely).\u00a0 Instead of working entirely from home, I manifested an art studio\/writing space off premise (downtown Tucson).\u00a0 <i>(Photos to come, I promise, after the next phase of studio design.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I am not stripping away my entire identity.\u00a0 I am still your Life and Happiness Coach (weight loss expert), lovin\u2019, lovin\u2019, lovin\u2019 working with y\u2019all (scroll down for free consult info).\u00a0 I continue to be married to my best friend, Peter (closing in on 27 years).\u00a0 I continue to be mother to the two best kids ever.\u00a0 BUT my daily actions are morphing into something new and exciting, taking me to someplace \u2026 not sure of the specifics, but I feel the tingling of \u2018new, exciting\u2019 around me, running through me, fueling my verbness.<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026pretty please with a cherry on top, <b><i>VERB with ME<\/i><\/b>!\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s right, <b><i>YOU VERB with ME<\/i><\/b>!<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Life is Change.\u00a0 Change is Life<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0 Conscious change is better than unconscious change.\u00a0 What VERBING do you want to endeavor?\u00a0 How does experiencing yourself as the true VERB that YOU ARE change your perspective?<\/p>\n<p>Please (lots of polite pleases in this post) go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/30757154492\/\" target=\"_blank\">KITT Club\/FB<\/a> and let\u2019s discuss VERBING!<\/p>\n<p><em>Spread the word\u2013NOT the icing,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Janice Taylor, Life &amp; Happiness Coach, Author, Artist, Positarian<\/em><br \/>\n<em> wise * fun * utterly useful<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<br \/>\nFor the best life, wellness and weight loss wisdom, visit Janice:<br \/>\n<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Newsletter\/SignupProcess.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Our Lady of Weight Loss<br \/>\n<\/a><\/em><\/strong>sign up for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Newsletter\/SignupProcess.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Kick in the Tush Club<\/em><\/a> e-newsletter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings Tushkateers,\u00a0 I have some mind-blowing news for you.\u00a0 Are you ready?\u00a0 Sitting down?\u00a0 Okay\u2026take in a deep breath and dig this:\u00a0 you are not a noun.\u00a0 You are not a thing.\u00a0 Rather, you are a person who does things. 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