Live Free, Laugh Hard Fitness
Fitness and Motivational Consulting by Dr. Iina Ester Antikainen
New Orleans, LA
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Life Skills
People often consider life skills, such as time management, multi-tasking, or goal setting to be innate abilities. Yet, none of us entered this world with a watch, notebook, and a calendar at hand. Just like any other skill, life skills must be learned and practiced until they become second nature.
If you have not been using a calendar, reminders and alarms, or using goal setting techniques to design your life, learning these skills along with behavior modification skills to keep you focused can help you enjoy, rather than feel overwhelmed by your goals and plans.
Learning these skills is particularly important to college students, business owners, and people in any self-motivated task, such as the arts and freelancing. In fact, one of the main factors that separate straight A students from the rest, is their ability to make long-term plans for studying and then using their time management skills and prioritizing to get the work done. Dr. Ester has taken students from college drop outs to straight A students in as little as one semester of one-on-one work in study and life skills.
Lack of life skills is also often at the bottom of problem behaviors, such as hoarding, cluttered living or work spaces, chronic tardiness and forgetfullness, and the very common feeling of "clowdy brain". If you find it difficult to stay on task or to accomplish your goals, you may not be "lazy", you could just be missing some necessary skills.
Review by L.S in New Orleans December, 2019:
"This morning was my weekly session with Iina Ester. Even though we were meeting at my house, I was late, and wearing a SUBLIME hangover along with the party clothes I'd crashed in the night before. Her reaction to all this was who she is: laughter and love.
There is no negative judgement from Iina throughout our work; only acceptance of who and where I am at this moment, and encouragement as I move towards who and where I've said I want to be in the next moment. She doesn't try to mold me, but she'll listen to my thoughts and wishes, and then give me tools to use in order to mold myself. We've been working together 10 months, and everything has improved. My figure, my cash flow, my home life, my confidence, my peace. My relationships with people.
Each session is different. Sometimes we meet in City Park and work out in the sun. Other times we sit in my livingroom and figure out how to schedule my time and budget my cash. Sometimes the psychological work of changing who I am can be very intense, but she's right there with me, grounding me. And sometimes she'll kick my ass if I really need it...but *only* if I really need it.
Today's session was spent stretching on the floor (due to said hangover) and discussing how to confidently express ideas and give direction in creative settings. About halfway through, I said to her, "Iina...I'm really starting to like myself."
And that's what Iina does. She gives you the best version of yourself. And she does it with grace, and with style."
To schedule a consultation or to learn more,
please email Dr. Ester at iina@livefreelaughhardfitness.com
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