Janelle Pica

Do Your Priorities Match Your Goals? Reassessment for Success

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I can remember the confession I heard in one of my more recent consultations for a private client. “I just feel like my priorities right now don’t match my actual goals, and I need the accountability to actually help me do the right work consistently.” Upon inquiring about what this prospect-to-client was alluding to, she […]

Mind Over Matter: Full Body Strength From the Inside Out

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Mastering our instincts and refining our strengths happens when we make the commitment to eat smart, train hard, and enjoy our lives. Establishing strong, healthy habits can be challenging though, and keeping commitments we make even to ourselves may prove a bit more challenging if we don’t have a plan of action and the accountability […]

The Posse at the Misery Table: Your Social Environment Affects Your Health

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I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, witnessing, and experiencing. Even more, I couldn’t believe that I had found myself surrounded in a situation like this again, until of course the epiphany hit me square in the face this past week. “I HAVE been here before. Shit!” Habits habits habits. My how quickly we return […]

Unbreakable

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I was sitting outside the new apartment last night, looking around the scenery of this new neighborhood in my old home town. The day had been one of my harder days, days when I felt so out of my wits that I couldn’t think straight, or perhaps thinking about one thing in particular that has […]

Freedom, Independence, and An American Dream!

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Welcome back to the blog! It’s Independence Day here in America, and while many of us are out hosting our own cook outs, I’m taking some time to reflect on freedom, independence, and the very American dream I have for not just myself, but everyone now involved with Powerful Strength Systems INC. I’m in a […]

The Kettlebell Kick-Starter: WELCOME TO GREENSBURG PENNSYLVANIA!

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Greater City of GREENSBURG: This blog post is dedicated to YOU! You may have heard of a certain red-headed kettlebell instructor making her way back home for all things strength, endurance, and obviously more awesome via kettlebell training. I AM BACK IN THE AREA! I now operate out of Virtus […]

Tough Love Tuesday: Anger as a Motivator for Change

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I was pissed off yesterday, like royally  pissed off. Livid mad. Angry. Mad at myself. Mad for other people. I roared like a lion several times throughout the day to express my sheer irritation with myself. The level of frustration I had was mostly directed at myself, and in the case, for a very good […]