Sunday, January 26, 2014

New Year, New Goals


Toni Rocha Rico

Artist, Life Coach and Columnist for Mover El Bote – Nuestra Voz

Most people describe Toni as having a calming effect. This calming nature comes from a lifetime of Reinventing, Recharging and Renewing herself as she has continually sought out self-leadership skills and the knowledge of overall wellness. The world can be a monotonous cycle where not much changes in the average lifestyle. What does change is our health or lack of it. As we age our body degrades and at some point the rate at which it degrades speeds up. Unfortunately in recent years it is reported that our youth is starting that cycle of degradation at an alarmingly younger age. Rather than blaming someone else Toni wants to empower the individual to take charge of their life.

Toni believes that we should all dare to dream and actively seek out our health through all aspects of wellness. She promotes three truths that can be defined as:

Reinvent – to create new version of something: to change radically the appearance, form, or presentation of something or somebody


Recharge – a process to restore power

Renew – to begin or take up again


As a first generation college student she had it in her heart to finish what she started. After graduating from Lubbock Christian University with a Bachelor’s in Organizational Management and a Master’s in Leadership Toni thought it necessary to apply what she has learned by actively pursuing new goals. New goals required the ability to recharge. With so many years of being the student you can be left drained. Physically Toni was ready to go. At age 43 she has been working on multiple projects. Currently she has new goals that requires renewing her lists of things to accomplish. With a new list of goals means reinventing who she is. For Toni this meant becoming NSCA CPT certified, joining her local CrossFit and working out at a level to earn the right to compete, getting Zumba certified and teach others that fitness can be fun, eating Clean and continue her first passions of writing and art.

Join Toni on the journey to Reinvent, Recharge and Renew yourself.

One final thought: when attending a Women and Leadership session there is one message that has stuck with her:

It is never too late to start a new goal no matter what your age. Time will continue moving forward, it is up to you to decide what you are going to do with it.