Motivational Moments with Maria

My goal with this podcast is to help you stay more focused, energetic, disciplined, enthusiastic, and positive so YOU can experience more excitement, fulfillment, and joy in all areas of your life. My desire is that you live each day to the fullest and know that your best self-showed up…no matter what. It also helps me stay more energetic, enthusiastic passionate, and obsessed about my work.  Toda...

Here is the question of the week.  Have you ever been stuck?  Do you find yourself ever getting stuck? Those moments when you can’t seem to go forward or backwards. When I was a kid – ok that’s a long time ago…I was stuck in the mud in my rain boots up to my knees.  I could not move. I couldn’t have been more than 7 or 8 and my brother had to rescue me.  I was stuck and could not move forward or b...

Hello my friends and welcome to Motivational Moments with Maria.  I’m Crazy Coach Maria and thrilled to be here with you.  Have you ever had a day where you felt like you didn't accomplish anything? Do you find yourself getting bogged down by the daily details and distractions of life? Then you get all upset that you didn’t accomplish what you set out to do.  Guess what? You are not alone. As...

I am speaking to you again from the beautiful Island of Hawaii.  I believe we all need some down time to re-charge and re-juvenate and I make it a point that every 3 months I take some time to do it.  Do You?  The pace of life in Hawaii is much more relaxed and I really appreciate the Hawaiian culture, values and spirit. This is my happy place because the aloha spirit is everywhere.  I decided to...

ALOHA and Welcome my friends to another episode of Motivational Moments with Maria.  I’m your host, energetic, loving and High-Performance Coach Maria. I am honored that you are listening in today.  I believe every day is an incredible day to learn and grow. I wake up every morning and say thank you to all the gods and spirits of the world for letting me wake up on the right side of the sod. I am...

It’s always my intention to give you some thoughts as we continue on our personal growth and personal development journeys.  My hope is that you discover more about yourself, what makes you happy and how to have more joy in your life.  Recently one of my clients expressed some dissatisfaction with her work environment and said she was feeling “burnt out.” She said, “I can’t do this anymore.” This...

It’s always my intention to give you some thoughts as we continue on our personal growth and personal development journeys.  My hope is that you discover more about yourself, what makes you happy and how to have more joy in your life.  Let’s begin today with a question.  What are your own unique strengths? Are you aware of them and do you use them? Today I want to take on Embracing Your Unique Str...

It’s always my intention to give you some thoughts as we continue on our own personal growth and personal development journeys.  My hope is that you discover more about yourself, what makes you happy and how to have more joy in your life.  I know that it can be difficult to stay focused on your goals when the chaos of the world is working against you. Here is what happens:  you get some bad news,...

Every week my messages are delivered to help you stay just a little more focused, disciplined, inspired, and positive so YOU can create more excitement, fulfillment, and joy in all areas of your life. There is a ton of chaos and stress in our lives and we sometimes need a reminder to appreciate more and stay the course. I really believe we all need someone cheering us on and encouraging us to be b...

Several of you asked me what I mean by high performance coaching.   Permit me the opportunity to explain.  In my world of coaching high performers, we focus on developing a growth mindset, maintaining good habits, great relationships, and how to maintain focus and discipline and more. Coaching to high performance is a process that leads you to discovery, decision making, improving performance and...

Mother's Day is more than once a Year. Why is it that we only celebrate the most important woman in our life only one day a year? Today I am going to challenge you to honor this person throughout the year.  It's not one and done and then you don't have to worry about it for the rest of the year. Someone that has had such an impact on your life deserves to b honored more than once a...

The topic we are taking on today is self-reliance. If you're like me, you've probably heard the phrase "self-reliance" before. But what does it mean? You are probably asking yourself, what does it have to do with me? Well, I'm glad you asked! Let's talk about the meaning of self-reliance and how it can help you live a more meaningful and better life. Merriam Webster d...

Hello my friends and welcome to Motivational Moments with Maria. Thank you so much for reaching out.  Yes, I am OK. Yes, I was absent for a few weeks and yes, I’m back.   I took a much-needed break to re-calibrate and re-set. I am back with a new level of energy and commitment to deliver some thoughts and ideas on our continued journey of personal development and growth. I truly was doing some per...

Every week my hope is that I deliver some thoughts and ideas to  help you stay more focused, energetic, disciplined, inspired, and positive so YOU can experience more excitement, happiness and fulfillment in all areas of your life.   Today we are going to take on the topic of intention.  It’s a word used by many high performers and in the personal development and space and there is a reason.   Pos...

Welcome to another episode of Motivational Moments with Maria.  I’m your host Coach Maria and I am honored that you are listening in.  I appreciate all the feedback and suggestions so keep them coming.    This podcast is to help you stay more focused, energetic, disciplined, inspired, and positive so YOU can experience more excitement, happiness and fulfillment in all areas of your life.  I like t...

Welcome my friends to this week’s episode of Motivational Moments with Maria.  I’m your host Crazy Coach Maria and am thrilled you are listening in.  My intention every week is give you some food for thought and some tools to increase the joy, and fulfillment in your life.    Has anyone every accused you of being stubborn? Well, maybe.  But is stubbornness a bad thing?  Not necessarily. Change you...

In this final week of self-love month, I hope you recognized how important you are and treated yourself even more lovingly this month.  Sometimes we need to be reminded that self-love is vital to our well-being.  What special things did you do for yourself this past week?  Someone asked me the other day, why I was doing this weekly podcast, and was it worth the effort. Here is my response: I love...

What Are Your Desires? Were you good to yourself this week?  What special thing did you do to appreciate YOU?   Remember, It’s the Love Yourself Month - the celebration of Self-love and romance month. Did you love yourself enough this week and did you treat yourself well? I did something special and It was spectacular.    I am going to remind you every week what self-love is:  Self-love means havi...

Welcome to the second week of “love yourself” month on Motivational Moments with Maria. I’m your host Loving and Crazy Coach Maria!   My intent and love of doing this weekly podcast is to give you some thoughts to reflect on, some tips and ideas to help you move towards the desires you want in life.  You do want more joy, happiness and vibrancy in your life?  That’s what I thought.    I seem to al...

It’s the love month.  February is the celebration of love and romance month. Some of you may say, so what, I don’t care. It’s just a made-up holiday and I don’t have a sweetie to share Valentine’s Day with. I would argue that you do! Today we are going to focus on the most important person to love, cherish, honor, and live for – you and your SELF-LOVE.  Have you settled for good enough because you...

Hello, my friends and welcome to Motivational Moments with Maria. I’m your host Coach Maria and thrilled to be here with you. My intent with this weekly podcast is to bring you some thoughts and ideas to keep you on your journey to live a fully joyful, productive, and vibrant life.  Just a quick note to remind you how grateful I am that you are joining in and thank you for all the feedback and com...

Hello, my friends and welcome to Motivational Moments with Maria. I’m your host Coach Maria and thrilled to be here with you. My intent with this weekly podcast is to bring you some thoughts and ideas to keep you on your journey to live a fully productive, vibrant, and joyful life.  Just a quick note to remind you how grateful I am that you are joining in and thank you for all the feedback and com...

Hello, my friends and welcome to Motivational Moments with Maria. I’m your host Coach Maria and thrilled to be here with you. My intent with this weekly podcast is to bring you some thoughts and ideas to keep you on your journey to live a fully productive, vibrant, and joyful life.  Just a quick note to remind you how grateful I am that you are joining in and thank you for all the feedback and com...

Hello, my friends and welcome to Motivational Moments with Maria. I’m your host Coach Maria and thrilled to be here with you. My intent with this weekly podcast is to bring you some thoughts and ideas to keep you on your journey to live a fully productive, vibrant, and joyful life.    Have you considered or chosen a word that to align you with your 2023 goals?  Today, we are talking about one simp...

Welcome to the new year and another episode of Motivational Moments with Maria.  I am your high-performance Coach, Maria, and I am honored that you are listening in.  You continue to inspire me every day.  I hope you are feeling as excited and hopeful as I am for 2023.   I took a little hiatus for a few weeks, and it was just what the doctor ordered.  We all need time for rest, reflection, and rej...