Used to always put people’s needs first
Read More »I always put other people needs first and always felt like I needed their approval in everything I did…..Intill one day I realize I was not happy and felt I couldnt take it anymore ….all I wanted to do was to run away……..I was so unhappy and confuse ,I didnt know what to do…A friend recommended to talk to Bruno ,I did ….He help me see what I was doing wrong and by making some changes in my life ,I can be happy again…….Im now more positive, happier and stronger person …. ~Grace (Mississauga, Ontario)
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Over the years I have read countless self help books. Before becoming Toronto most sought after life coach, I was just like you; I was on a mission to find something more. I devoured all the classic self-help books on business, psychology, and spiritual enlightenment, searching for answers. What I discovered about life was not in any one book but a culmination of books and life experience.
Read More »Body Image Dissatisfaction in Midlife Women
Body image can be defined as one’s evaluation of or feelings towards one’s body. Although body image and body dissatisfaction was long thought to be an ailment of teenage girls, body image issues are now becoming more apparent in midlife women (Lewis & Cachelin, 2001).
According to Lewis and Cachelin, the current social pressures and concerns with ageing, the belief that slim physiques result in youthful looks, and the unrealistic expectation for middle-aged women to retain their youthful appearance are significant contributors to the development of body image issues in older women. Even magazines aimed at midlife women typically show younger women on their covers and in the fashion and beauty sections. The magazines that do use older women show them to be 15 years younger, as signs of age are airbrushed (Nett, 1991). As such it is getting harder for ageing women to feel comfortable in their bodies.
Read More »When You Are Too Busy To Feel It – 3 Steps to Creating ‘Me’ Time
If your days seem to be filled with endless tasks to complete without making time for moments to enjoy, perhaps it’s time to put some “me time” on your to-do list.
In my experience as a life coach, I have found that more and more people—women especially—find it incredibly difficult to take time for themselves. Combining the nurturing roles of spouse, parent, child, sibling and friend with the daily stresses of a career is not only exhausting but time-consuming and overwhelming. Fitting in time for yourself is often the easiest thing to cross off your to-do list. When we put ourselves last, however, we often end up losing sight of what is important to us and what we need to be our best.
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with a reporter who interviewed me months ago. Since each person’s experience with a life coach is different, I decided to ask her what she learned from our meeting. In our hour together, we talked how the various aspects of her life that made her happy and sad, and if she was able to find a balance.
Read More »Bruno Showed Me How To Heal My Inner Child
"Bruno is truly a gift. I met Bruno at a time I felt my life was coming to a closure. He filled me up with knowledge and showed me my skills that I can use daily to over come my triggers. Everyday I challenge my fears and now I have decided to walk thru them instead of ignoring them. Bruno showed me how to heal my inner child. This lead me to let go of years of pain and gave me a reason once again to move forward in my life. Now I can see with clarity where I want to go and with my new found awareness I no longer see the light at the end of the tunnel. I choose to have the light at the beginning of the tunnel and see the light shine through. This allows me to see my fears and any obstacles that might be in my way. I can prepare now for anything and stay more focused because now I choose to see more clearly. Bruno is so genuine and right on. Bruno LoGreco is a professional and a great person. His 10 week program is amazing. Thank you Bruno for coaching me and for showing me that trusting in myself and the outer world can be achieved."
The inferiority complex: Measuring up to societal standards can be expensive
Despite the fact that many of us are quick to compare ourselves to societal standards many of us don’t realize how often we think poorly of ourselves or of what this can cost us.
Many of us suffer from feelings of inferiority in many areas of our lives. Whether we compare ourselves on our ability to speak multiple languages, our fitness level, our level of attractiveness, our ability to sing, our ability as a parent, or our ability to do our job, it appears that we can never quite measure up to others.
The bigger issue is that we have a hard time separating society’s norms from our personal norms or ideals. In fact, the majority of us no longer bother forming our own norms and ideals but accept societal norms as our own measure of what a person should be. As a result, we are destined to feel a lifetime of negative feelings because of our perceived inadequacy.
More importantly, feelings of inadequacy can be expensive as they serve as a barrier to our success and happiness. When we feel like we do not measure up to the person we believe we should be, often times we’ll believe we do not deserve or can’t achieve happiness or success.
To improve our level of happiness we must understand that we, just like everyone else, are unique with unique skills and talents. The ideal person defined by society is non-existent, fake, and often times shallow. When we fully apply our true selves we rise above this petty standard and we demonstrate the enormous amount of good we have to offer to our community and the world. When we, however, belittle ourselves because of societal norms we hold ourselves back from living to our full potential and from fulfilling our life person. This lack of achievement and progress brings us unhappiness and feelings of failure, reinforcing our feelings of inferiority.
To make the most of our experiences in life it is time to create our own norms and our own ideals we can use for self-evaluation. By doing this we set realistic standards with personal meaning. This process will allow us to eliminate feelings of inferiority that are caused from unachievable standards. The process will also allow us to express ourselves, our strengths, and our skills. It will help us to become the person we were meant to be while being blessed with joy, love, and success.
Bruno LoGreco Life Coach Toronto, Author & Television Personality
Very Large Speed Bumps
"I came to Bruno at an opportune time in my life. Overwhelmed with obstacles and very large speed bumps in the road he helped me slow myself down and really ask myself which direction I’m going in, and what really matters! For the first time I believe I did some real soul searching and with the warmth of a true friend. Bruno helped me come to terms with who I really am, and that hey its really not all that bad! The good characteristics with the bad I learned not only to come to terms with the bad but also how to love myself for the good. I also learned how to control them, and even more important to recognize them in my day to day. Starting life and my career on my own young and fast meant for alot of hard learning lessons early in life! As I still go through them and as I continue for the rest of my days I will see things differently after a few short months with Bruno. I will always remember the lessons he has taught me, continue setting goals whether I feel like they are out of reach or not, and forever be able to love myself for who I am."
A Worthless Life Overwhelmed With Responsibilities. When Is It My Turn?
The day begins early in the morning for many people. For some it starts by getting children up and ready for school. That means awakening them from a deep sleep, getting them dressed, fed, and out the door on time. For others it’s a dash to work but not before spending closer to an hour in traffic. And for many it’s both – dropping children off at school and then making a mad dash to work.
After a long day of listening to colleagues talk in circles and push paper from one bin to another, its another mad dash back to the school to chauffeur the kids to their after school activity. By the time everything is said and done its too late to do anything else other than get home, undress and hopefully relax if dinner doesn’t need to be prepared and the kids don’t need their homework checked.
Is it any wonder so many people feel goals are unachievable. Life is too difficult, as it is, to worry about chasing a dream. There’s just too much happening in one day already. The day is packed with responsibilities – Relationships, family, driving kids to and from activities and school, career, and a social life, and in the midst of it all the day-to-day errands. Its constant go-go-go from the moment they wake to the moment they lay their head down to sleep. It’s exhausting and there isn’t enough time in a day to think of anything else, is there?
Forget about goals and dreams for a moment and think about your ‘self-worth’. After many years of running here and there, doing this and that for everyone and never really doing anything for yourself, how do you feel?
How do you think you will feel after a decade or two of that kind of lifestyle? Yes, you do have responsibilities and commitments especially if you have children, but what about YOU? What about your responsibility to take care of YOU? You will be useless to all those people that depend on you if you fall ill. You need to accept that you are equally important as everyone else before you begin to feel like your worthless, or not good enough, or simply that nobody appreciates what you do for him or her.
Maybe you already feel that you’re not good enough and subconsciously believe those are the things you must do for you to feel like you are ‘good enough’. Perhaps you take advice from your friends, family and colleagues, that doesn’t bode well with your natural intuition and it leaves you feeling incapable of do anything for yourself. If you do feel this way already it is time you start taking care of you. You need to because if you don’t nobody will. And that’s a harsh reality.
It is time to accept that you are equally important as everyone else and to start doing things for YOU. Here is how you get started:
If you follow these very simple yet effective steps, you will rediscover yourself. You will feel happier and those around you will feel your happiness and will be happy for you. You might even discover that self-happiness has a way of making life less difficult and more enjoyable all while making the realization that it IS your turn.
Bruno LoGreco Life Coach & Mentor, Motivational Speaker and TV Personality
Did You Tell Yourself Today That You’re Worth It?
Self-esteem is what makes you feel good or bad about yourself. It will fluctuate from day to day and sometimes from moment to moment. It really will depend on the various elements within your life that are constantly changing and how you perceive yourself within each, which will determine your self-esteem.
Self-confidence is an internal belief of whether or not you are competent to fulfill an obligation from start to finish. You might draw upon past experiences to determine your confidence, or you might use wisdom and experience to develop new confidence. Whatever your confidence level is, it could impact your self-esteem if you are left feeling incompetent.
Self-worth is the feeling of being “good enough” your self-value. It’s an overall measure of your worth, which encompasses self-confidence, self-acceptance, self-respect, etc. But, by the mere fact that you were born into this Universe, you already are worthwhile and are invaluable. Your self-value should be equal to and never less than anyone else.
Self-love is what you owe to yourself for being unique. You should be proud of yourself and accept who you are with your strengths and all your weaknesses, likes and dislikes. If you do, you will develop a deeper level of confidence and will feel happier about being you.
Your belief system is what controls everything. Self-confidence, self-love, self-worth, etc., it even controls your behavior – how you act and react to situations. It’s been developing from childhood – your education, life lessons, and wisdom together create your beliefs. What you believe about yourself is how you develop your personality and character traits. And those determine how assertive or aggressive, confidant or shy you will be in any given situation.
Self-esteem is what you believe you can or cannot achieve. Its how you feel about yourself and the value you place on your self-worth. Its how much you know or how little you accept who you are. Self-esteem really is how you perceive yourself, your own knowledge about you.
Boost your self-esteem and feel good about yourself. Make an effort today to tell yourself how worth it you really are, because you’re worth it.
Finding My Inner Self
"There is not enough words to describe Bruno’s talent… Bruno LoGreco is an extraordinary individual and Life Coach. I NEVER thought this day will ever come for me.
Bruno helped me overcome my fears, something I thought I could never overcome. Bruno believed in me when I did not believe in myself, his strength and determination to make me see what I could not see. I live life now not having to worry about my fears pushing me away from what I want. I will no longer run from life. I now will be able to sleep at night knowing that I don’t have to fight the pain anymore. It was time that my inner self was found.
Bruno, you changed my whole world. I can smile for no reason again, you touched my life in such a way that no one ever did. You came into my life and brightened it. You brought out the best in me. You made me love myself… I don’t know how to Thank-u, for allowing me the opportunity to learn from you when it comes to facing fears. Thank you for showing me the path and for always caring and giving it all you had, and always staying by my side through thick and thin, and giving me the courage when I needed it. You helped me grow and learn. I have my own identity again, thanks to you.
You have definitely touched my life in every possible way…You are my mentor and now my friend…You are my inspiration."
