Wow! What a great crowd - really enjoyed meeting everyone on Sunday at The Huddle/Google Visitor Experience for my talk, Find Your Calm: A Family Workshop! We made those tree leaves blow with mindful deep breaths, and I love the calming down trees we made together! Big shout-out to all the amazing parents who learned some stress-reduction tools to share with their families today. Huge thanks to Isabella and Vic and the events team at The Huddle - what an amazing place....everyone should visit!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOmt-vcCRNs/

https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/find-your-calm-a-family-workshop-with-risa-williams

This week, I'm speaking at the Whole Wellness Mamas Summit on procrastination for moms! Thanks to Amy Nesbitt for hosting the event!
Get your free ticket here:
https://www.wholewellnessmamas.com/summit?sa=sa0227179901f588b20e00d2962f2d4c2c3fbe1952

So excited to share that my book, Get Stuff Done Without the Stress, just won The Living Now Book Award - Silver Medal in Personal Development! Honored to have made the awards list, thanks to everyone who judged and also to Brenda Knight, my editor, for all her work on this book. 

If you haven't picked up a copy yet, you can buy it here.

Stop by the KPBS San Diego Book Festival at The University of San Diego on August 23rd and say hello! I will be at an author's booth signing copies of my latest books along with Erica Curtis. Hope to see you there! Anyone who buys a book will get free gifts and giveaways...

I will be reading Max and the Imaginary Tree and teaching kids mindful breathing tools from the book! Fun art activities, stickers and coloring pages - join in the fun - August 9th at 11 am! Visit: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/3282120250809

My book just made a new list: 8 Task Managements Books That Separate Experts from Amateurs!

Thanks, Book Authority, for making The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit #6 on your list!

Read the article at:
https://bookauthority.org/books/best-task-management-books
 
#theultimatetimemanagementtoolkit #time #timanagement #adhd #todolist #tasks #organization #procrastination #timemanagement #focus #motivation #risawilliamsauthor #selfhelpbook

Thank you for brightening up this author's day with your kind words!

I am so happy Get Stuff Done Without the Stress has helped at least one person out there, and hope it finds its way to other readers who can benefit from it, too.
Get Stuff Done Without the Stress
​Get Stuff Done Without the Stress

Big thanks to Lori Oberbroeckling for including me as a guest speaker in her Supermom Summer Camp this month!


I had so much fun reading the comments from all the moms all over the world from my talk on managing procrastination and motivation!


"Motivation tends to strike moving objects" is a quote from Get Stuff Done Without the Stress - and a personal philosophy of mine! If you're still and waiting, and not in motion, you're (most of the time) not going to feel motivated to do that first step AT ALL.


Start writing stuff down on paper, figure out the easiest tiniest action you can take, and then do that easy and tiny thing, and then... motivation will catch up to you!


In other words, don't wait around for motivation. Get moving first, and the momentum will cause motivation to kick in for you ❤️

Thanks, Lori, for a wonderful summit! 

Get Stuff Done Without the Stress is a bestselling book in Stress Management and Self-Esteem on amazon today! Woohoo!

I can't believe I made it to 100 EPISODES!

Join me today to celebrate in this new 100th episode with @wynn.helms.lmft1 talking about conquering new things.

A little over two years ago, I had been a guest on a few podcasts and I thought, "This is so fun to do!" So, impulsively, I ordered a mic on Amazon, and when it came, I just plugged it in and hit record.

I didn't know what I was doing at all! It was a steep learning curve, to say the least. Every month, I thought, well I'll just make one more and then I'll probably stop... but here I am, 100 episodes later, and it's still going!

And I've had the pleasure to meet so many wonderful and amazing people from around the world as a result, and I've had some of the most insightful and fun conversations about navigating everyday life that have stuck with me long after the recording ended. For that, I am so very grateful!

Thanks everyone! Let's see how many more I can do!
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2036859/episodes​
 

So happy to see another translation published of my book, The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit! Now in Chinese through Gingko publishers, you can buy through douban.com/subject/37321229/. It's also available in English here and Polish here.

Big thanks to Lori Oberbroeckling and Chiwan Choi for the review of my newest book, Max and The Imaginary Tree, which I wrote with Erica Curtis LMFT, ATR-BC! Max and The Imaginary Tree is all about calming down tools for kids at bedtime. If your kids have trouble sleeping like mine used to, then check out the book!


Thanks to Cultural Daily for featuring the book review today!


Hope you will check out the article and the book:
http:://www.culturaldaily.com/how-to-breathe-at-bedtime-a-new-calming-down-book-for-kids-and-parents/
 

My new book, Max and The Imaginary Tree, is now in stores worldwide! I wrote this book with my friend and fellow therapist, Erica Curtis, based on a story I made up to tell my own kids who never seemed to want to go to sleep at night! It was the way I taught them to take big deep breaths to calm down at night by imagining leaves on a tree swaying back and forth with each breath. We're so excited to share this story with you now, along with Erica's magical illustrations and helpful worksheets at the end of the book. It is a part of a larger series of books we are doing called The Calm Kids Collection, which teaches kids (and grownups) essential calming down skills. Please buy a copy and read it with the kids in your life or donate to your local school/library to help others -  Thank you for reading our book!

Are you listening to The Motivation Mindset podcast?

Well, it turns out, a lot of people are! I just checked and we're charting in 8-11 different countries just this week! Am blown away by the numbers lately - thanks to everyone who has been tuning in from around the world to learn about practical tools to navigate everyday life in an easier way ❤️
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Check out the show here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-motivation-mindset-with-risa-williams/id1643053152


Today's episode is a fun guided visualization to help you bring down your stress and channel your calm ❤️ Big thanks to all the listeners!