Pegine’s Motivational Times Newsletter:

Title: This is the year to Pump it Up!
Copyright Pegine Echevarria, MSW 2004
Date: January 04 Volume 5 Issue 1


This is the year to Pump it Up! 2004 is here. Are you ready to take on opportunities, to seek to push past your fears and learn more about how you can be stronger, more powerful and take positive steps towards your dreams?

This morning a pulsating, powerful beat kept making me smile. It wasn’t coming from music outside; it was the pumping of my heart pushing blood to my brain. I’m feeling ecstatic! I didn’t win the lottery, nor did anything out of the ordinary happen. I woke up knowing that today is the day!

Today was the gift. The day I get to Pump it Up! The day to share with you that today we were given a gift – the gift to PUMP it UP! To take our dreams one step higher. To take one action – today – and pump it up just a bit! When you’re walking make your steps a bit faster. When talking with your teen learn one new thing about them – really listen to them just a bit more than usual. When planning your week at work – add one thing that would Pump your success Up – maybe take an admired colleague to lunch, set up a meeting with the one potential client that you have been avoiding, write the letter that you’ve been thinking about, this is the day to take an action. To really make a choice to go from just thinking about doing something, or doing the task mindlessly, to focusing on Pumping Up your life – taking the action, adding a bit more pizzazz to what you’ve been doing. Just jazz it up a little bit more!

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In this months e-zine you’ll find
• Pegine’s Thought of the Month
• Quote of the Month
• Try-its – Simple Steps for Magnificent Rewards
• Kick Butt Actions – Strategies to Strengthen Your Life
• News from Pegine


Pegine’s Thought of the Month:

“Pump It Up, just a notch, set in motion a whirlwind of positive messages and actions that will bring you results based on your actions.

Pegine Echevarria, MSW

Quotes of the Month:

To draw, deliver, or pour forth as if with a pump
To raise or cause to flow by means of a pump.
To propel, eject, or insert with or as if with a pump.
Physiology To transport (ions or molecules) against a concentration gradient by the expenditure of chemically stored energy.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.



Try-its:

Here is how you can Pump It Up for 2004

P – Positive Attitude. Each and every day play a game with yourself called the Positive Attitude game. When you find yourself feeling low, frustrated by circumstance or just plain overwhelmed, take a moment to ask yourself the following questions: What are alternatives, more positive ways of behaving? What are different attitudes I can take on? What am I learning? Then acknowledge that, at that moment, you are choosing the attitude you have, knowing, that if you don’t like your current attitude you can change it to a more positive and productive attitude.
U – Unleash your talents, desires, your dream. Today live your life as you want to live it. It can be any number of small steps from giving your husband the kiss you want to have, to sitting down and writing a paragraph of the book you want to write. It can be painting a picture, because that is what you want to do. It can be asking for the opportunity to be a manager, head up a task force, or decide to share your cost saving idea with senior executives. Stop living with the excuses. Let yourself go for it.
M - Motivate Yourself Do what ever you need to do to motivate yourself. Listen to CD’s (go to http://www.pegine.com/products.html for new CD’s), write in a journal; get yourself a coach (we can help, contact us info@pegine.com). Sing in the shower about how great you are. Do any positive action that will motivate you. Stop waiting for the fairy godmother to tap you on the shoulder. She isn’t coming. You are your own fairy godmother, learn how to motivate yourself.
P – Be persistent. Don’t give up. Be relentless. Cry if you must but keep on keeping on. Sitting down and giving up doesn’t help you, you’ll feel like you gave up on yourself and you can easily fall prey into blaming the world. Don’t give up. Read biographies, learn that everyone has trials and tribulations, which is how the game of life works. The game of life is to learn about yourself and take the next step to move beyond where you are now. To be able to laugh at yourself and say, “Look at the way I’m behaving, that’s so funny. What was I thinking?” If you only knew how many times in a day I say that to myself, or the times when I finish an activity and am in a moment of reflection, when I notice how far I’ve come and how cool it is to grow.

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Kick-butt actions:

This is a time of reflection and appreciation.

I grew up with my brother in the Bronx. My mom raised us while she worked two, sometimes three jobs. We lived with my grandmother, mom, my aunt, my two cousins and my brother. My dad drifted away. By the time I was twelve he was no longer in my life. By age fourteen, I was smoking a pack of day. By the time I was twenty four I smoked three packs a day. When I was twenty nine I kicked the habit.

When I was seventeen I stood in front of my neighborhood’s local hangout with ‘friends’ and in my head I evaluated my life. I had already been to two high schools and was flunking out of college. Here I stood in front of Jack’s Candy Store. A local drug dealer just accused me of being too pushy and some other choice words that I can’t share here. I just learned that my girlfriend’s sister was running a prostitution ring. The other people hanging out were all trying to figure out their next steps in life or not. I knew that I had to get out I knew hat this life was not where I wanted to be, nor where I deserved to be. I wanted to be an expert in something, a TV expert (I imagined how cool and glamorous that life would be). That was as far as I thought. I went home and told my mom I was going to Spain. I don’t know why, I only knew I wanted to get out of the Bronx. It was the best decision I ever made.

Fast Forward – Thirty years. I am living my dreams and then some. I wouldn’t trade it with anyone. Life hasn’t been easy nor has it been the glamorous life I imagined when I was seventeen. Pump it Up has been how I’ve lived life. I live in a community of incredible neighbors, my soul mate/business partner/best friend and I have been together twenty years. My seventeen year old computer wiz son is about to embark on his dream of being a solider as a member of the Army National Guard. My fifteen year old daughter celebrated her Quinceañera (debutante coming out party) and has won numerous awards for leadership, volunteerism and community service. Mom lives 5 minutes away, my brother three houses down.

A national expert on leadership, success and teambuilding I’m on TV every month, articles and interviews appear in national magazines. We live in paradise. Life is good. The rough times…they come and I deal with them.

The rough times I have now are far better than the rough times I could be having. My half sister hung out in the same neighborhood, many of her friends knew me. She made a different choice. She died a few years back, a heroin addict.

It’s always our choice. Choose to Pump it Up! Make the choice to go after your dream and live the life you dream of. Take the risk.

News from Pegine:

“The Morning Show” on WJXT now hosts “The Buzz” a bi weekly segment featuring Pegine and three other professional women sharing their thoughts and ideas about the news, life and having fun. (Jacksonville channel 4, Cable channel 3).

Starting January 1, read Pegine’s column in the Women’s Digest newspaper.

Pegine’s website has a new look www.pegine.com
Check out her new brochure on line http://www.pegine.com/team_pegine.pdf

Products for your success! Pegine has four new CD’s for your success.
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Pegine is described by magazines as one of the nation’s top motivational success and leadership experts with business and team building experience! Her teambuilding and motivational programs include real business strategies with … a comic twist. Companies use her to motivate people, develop strong leaders & teams, and increase productivity. Her appearances on CNN, MSNBC, and major networks are always on target and energetic. A stand up comic she performs wacky improvisations about life and business.

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