Jenny Evans

LATEST ARTICLES ( 126 )

• Control Your Environment with Optimal Defaults

  Many of us don’t recognize that our environments unconsciously impact our rate of success or failure in making lasting change. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• Control Your Environment with Optimal Defaults

  Many of us don’t recognize that our environments unconsciously impact our rate of success or failure in making lasting change. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• The Secret to Making Change? Your Inner Caveman

  

  Why do we vow at 8:30 a.m. not to eat any more sweets, yet at 3:30 p.m. we’ve got our hands in a co-worker’s candy stash? Why do we sign up for a gym... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2014 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• Stress Hormones – the Good, the Bad & the Ugly

  When we’re exposed to a stressful event, whether it’s real or imagined, physical or psychological, the body releases waves of stress hormones such as adrenaline... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2014 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• What is “Play It Out”?

  The key to restoring balance and building resiliency after the stress response has been stimulated is to fight or flee—or more realistically in today’s... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2014 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• Stress is a Chemistry Problem

  Most of us would describe stress with feelings such as anxiety, frustration, irritability, fear, or worry. We’d say stress can make us feel short-tempered. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• Fight Or Flight in 60 Seconds

  There are many longwinded, scientific definitions of stress I could cite here, but here’s the 60 second explanation. A stressor, or stress, is anything that... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• How Your Stress-Management Techniques Are Making You More Stressed

  

  There are only so many hours in the week, your to-do list at work and home continues to grow, you’re stretched thin, and stressed to the max. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2014 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• Start Your New Year Off Right – Resiliency Challenge Week 1

  In honor of the New Year I thought I’d bring back a series of weekly challenges to help improve your resiliency, performance and health. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• How to Fail & Rescue Your Diet in 3 Easy Steps

  HOW TO FAIL: 1.  Go on a diet. 2.  Vow to give up certain foods. 3.  Don’t eat. Not eating requires willpower and willpower requires eating.   Willpower is... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2014 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• The Simplest Formula for Happiness

  I was listening to a podcast this morning and was reminded of how important it is for us to focus on the process of how we live, not the desired outcomes that... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• Squats for a Subway Ticket

  To promote exercise and the 2014 Olympics, Olympic Changes installed a very unique ticket machine at the Moscow subway station.  It doesn’t accept money – it... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2013 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• How to Get More Brain Cells Than Your Co-Workers

  OUR BRAINS RESPOND TO EXERCISE SIMILAR TO THE WAY OUR MUSCLES DO:  THEY BET BIGGER AND STRONGER.     In today’s competitive business environment we need all... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2013 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• PowerHouse is Hiring! Want to Be Part of the Team?

  If you are as passionate and driven about sales as I am about speaking, I WANT YOU ON THE TEAM!  I am searching for an individual who has experience selling... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• My “Hey Kettle, Meet Pot” Epiphany

  For years I’ve attempted to write a book.  I started several times, but kept quitting because there were so many angles, options and directions to go with it. Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2013 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• You’re Invited!

  

  It’s not often I have an open speaking engagement where anyone can attend, so I wanted to extend an invitation to all of you in the Minnesota area who would lik... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• Resiliency: There’s an App for That!

  Here’s a link to the Happynote app I’m referring to. To have Jenny Evans come and speak to your organization on stress, resiliency, performance and... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• Should I Sleep Or Workout? I’m Too Tired to Exercise…

  

  This is a question I’ve asked of myself many times over the span of my life and one I’ve been asked by clients over and over again. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• Stress: Are YOU Your Problem?

  

  You’re having the worst day. Another project just got added to your pile, you still have to finish your quarterly report, and an emergency meeting was added to... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• Starbucks is Messing With Your Brain

  

  For years I’ve been a huge fan of Brian Wansink’s work on the psychology of why many of us overeat without knowing it. For instance, when we eat out of larger... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE