Dear Rockstar Human on my VIP News Mail list: 

First, please receive my wishes for the SAFEST and HEALTHIEST of New Year's I wish you in this group! 

Second, THANK you for taking my recent survey.  Your dozens of responses put into perspective what I thought about my friends and followers versus what you actually revealed to me.  Some results surprised me, some saddened me (the percentage of certified professionals who let their certs expire during the pandemic) and some make perfect sense.  I love learning where I need to "tweak" my mindset!  

Third, I live up to my own words, OLD keys can't open NEW Doors (see the entire IDEA Journal article below), I'm doing a FIRST in this year-start missive to you. I'm offering opportunities to connect with me (opening a part of my personal travel profile to YOU) in ways that are unique personal-professional cross-pollinations, places and spaces you can really findLawrence and "hang out."  Important Disclosure: I am NOT SELLING ANYTHING on THESE travel opportunities or making ANY COMMISSION off of the following; my goal is to share some unique things I'll be doing where you can experience the opportunity to #findLawrence beyond the virtual world.  Simply put: if you want to join me, you simply pay the companies for the opportunities to show up.  What do I get: the time to connect with some of my friends, followers, and fans back in our physical up-close--and-personal world.

Please click each opportunity to be added to/join my WhatsApp group where we can interact for each event, at NO obligation to you other than getting more info.  Caveat: these following green buttons work best if you read this from your mobile device and are already signed into your free WhatsApp account. If you are not, you'll need the App to get the pertinent info.  Steps: Download WhatsApp. Create Account. Sign Into App. Leave App and return to this email.  Click Links for the groups you want to join.  If you're not on WhatsApp: please consider taking the quick, painless plunge. [Thanks to Noel for telling me about this really cool "click to join" WhatsApp feature.]

February: If you’re interested in being on a cruise ship in the middle of the bleak winter (late next February)  that goes from San Juan to San Juan round trip in 7 days and visits some unique islands, please let me know.  I would love to be able to beachwalk with some of you and catch up with some good food, drink, and sunshine.  Feb 25 from San Juan for 7 Days.

April: If you’re interested in being on a cruise ship that actually goes somewhere as transportation (reducing our carbon footprint), there is a trip from Puerto Rico to Florida mainland USA right after Easter.  April 15 for 6 days from San Juan to Miami. We disembark and continue our party with an incredible drag show.

June: If your choice of summer holiday could possibly include the Greek islands, then please let’s strategize when you’ll be coming to Mykonos.  While I’m not proposing a full mindful retreat with me (because I'm already full, with a waiting list available), there are a few high-season weeks when I’m open to entertaining first-time and return visitors.  Just ask Petra Kolber or Stephen Bel Davies or Tatiana Kolovou if a trip is with Mykonos to spend even one day with a local, yours truly. 

August: If you’ve never attended the CanFitPro convention, 2023 is the year to consider that event in Toronto because it’s our 30 year Anniversary, so plenty of unique opportunities will occur this year and I've committed to presenting (shhh!): August 16-20 in Toronto. 

September: Immediately after AFC event in Bangkok is the International Council on Active Aging October 31 Halloween-November 2 in Anaheim, California with many local airport choices.  If you’re a professional training those over 50, you have to experience this event at least once in your career to realize what we don’t know that we need to know for ourselves, our clients, and our classes.  

October: AFC is the AsiaFitConference in Bangkok Thailand in October 20-23.  Our group of interested delegates from North America will get support, special pricing via an arrangement of Early Bird, and super culturally-diverse opportunities to experience one of the most unique events in the world. If you're taking a convention this year, and want to blow open your fitness world mind, please consider this event in Bangkok for its cultural and quality uniqueness in so many ways: most meals included, cultural enrichment, massages included, incredible exposure to fitness names you'd otherwise maybe never meet, local cuisine, and more.

If you purchased a copy of MIR in 2022, you're invited to attend our #MirMastermindMeeting on the last Wednesday of every month for the first half of 2023 INCLUDED in whatever you already paid.  NO Charge.  AS My Guest. 

MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR JANUARY 25.  

Note: Your Zoom info appears around page 193 in your Mir book, and password comes hours before via email to all book purchasers to the email they used when PAYING for their book.

Want a book?  Want a book and access to our meeting?  Check out these links:

If you haven't started 2023 with a read of my latest article just out for IDEA in the IDEA Fitness Journal, check this out.  I feel confident that the movers and shakers of our industry  whom I admire will give you oodles of ideas and inspiration for 2023.  Click this graphic to read:

Business Tip: In our MIR chat on January 25 we'll be discussing Parts 1 and 2, including how to calculate and tell others about the COLI rate, or Cost of Living Increase for 2023. I think our meeting will be worth the hour for this alone!

Above, a you won't see on social media: Special Epiphany 3-Kings Celebration with SuperBetty now that she's a neighbor in the Caribbean!  ... 92 and ticking (if not kicking!)

first full moon of 2023 from my bedroom window (unfiltered, promise)