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Merry Christmas 2011

2011-12-23T18:16:00.000-08:00

If I had one wish for Christmas it would be that all of you
would be given whatever your heart desires!
Even if we don't get to see each other at Christmas,
All of you still have a special place in my thoughts and in my heart!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas :)

Today's Wisdom:

"I don't have to much to say about things, I am no expert on life!
Just trying to do whats right"

Love Always Anna Anka

What do I do?

2011-11-20T22:09:00.000-08:00

Dear Anna,

He said goodbye! Anna you watched him turn and walk away.
Before your eyes there went the plans you made.
His memory rolls down your cheek.
In the shadows all alone
Anna take my hand, take one more chance
Let me turn the light back on you deserve it!

Nothing makes you forget about love like love.
Makes you forget about, the one who let you down
It's over now, you've cried enough
Give me a little time and trust me
And in my arms you'll find
a human heart!
Sometimes you can only take so much
Anna let me start to pick the pieces up
Let's strike a match to the past
And we'll dance inside the flame
Once you feel a love this real
You won't recall his name Anna

I know it's hard to reach for someone else
But please close your eyes and trust your heart
And let love do the rest

Today's Wisdom:

"Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind
in order to secure my heart"

Love Always Anna Anka

My Day

2011-11-09T21:09:00.000-08:00

Stepping out of the action is the smartest thing to do today. No matter how much your passions are stirred by an injustice you witness, you simply have no place in this fight. Let the people who are involved handle this by themselves. Be content that you believe what you believe, and that you live consistently with those beliefs. You can't change how other people operate -- it's a sad fact, but it's true.

Today's Wisdom:

"It is hard to believe that man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place!

Love Always Anna Anka

Hollywood & Divorces

2011-11-01T22:46:00.000-07:00

Kim Kardashian's life as Mrs. Kris Humphries lasted all of 72 days, but that's an eternity compared to some celebrity marriages. Here's an appropriately quick take on some of our favorites:

Lisa Marie Presley and Nicolas Cage: 3 months
Amid claims that Presley tossed her engagement ring overboard while fighting with Cage on his yacht, the couple secretly wed in August 2002. Later, Presley said, "I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place. It was a big mistake."

Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra: 9 days
I do, I don't, I do, I don't. That's pretty much how the marriages (yes, two) of this pair went. The couple married in November 1998, in Vegas, and nine days later filed for divorce. The reconciled, and divorced again, another six months later.

Britney Spears and Jason Alexander: 55 hours
The childhood friends took to the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas to tie the knot; Spears untied it via annulment days later.

Robin Givens and Syetozar Mrinkovic: 7 minutes
Givens, maybe best know as Mike Tyson's ex-wife, married Mrinkovic, her tennis instructor, for a whole seven minutes. On the books, it's listed as a day, but later Mrinkovic told reporters the union lasted only minutes.

Today's Wisdom:

"I never even believed in divorce until AFTER I got married"

Love Always Anna Anka

Glenn Jorgen

2011-10-25T22:06:00.000-07:00

Dear Glenn Jorgen,

First I would like to say:
With the deepest kind of gratitude and the sweetest kind of joy I simply want to thank you for being... All that you are to me.

You are truly amazing. Don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise. You are more valuable than the ones some people spend a lifetime trying to find. You are one of a kind inspiration someone whom anyone would be privileged to know.
And I am as proud as I can be... to know you as well as I do!
So please accept this special thanks and remember it in all the days ahead, whether time finds us far apart or keeps us close together.
I want you to remember these words today and all the rest of forever ;)

Todays Wisdom:

"Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek"

Love Alawys Anna Anka

Fight Back & Win

2011-10-24T21:48:00.000-07:00

When you are victamized and you fight back, you are empowering yourself.
Even if you are not famous or wealthy.

To win change however you must be committed to making a change. Nothing gets done without sacrifice, discipline, struggle and courage.

You must understand that fear is a weapon that bullies use to keep women and minorities paralyzed and "kept in their place" You must overcome that fear.
Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger in the future.

Remember freedom and liberty are fundamental values that every human being should have a right to enjoy.

Today's Wisdom:

"Women are like tea bags, they never know how strong they are until they get into hot water"

Love Always Anna Anka

Group Dance

2011-10-14T14:26:00.000-07:00

If you wonder where I have been, my week has been so crazy. In a good way;)
I have trained really hard this week on my slow fox and my cha cha that we will do for our group dance.
And I can't believe that I finally got a song to dance to that I love.... Pokerface Lady Gaga ;););););)

Tomorrow it will be HOT HOT HOT.........

Yesterday was girl night so much fun, thank you Anne for the beautiful coat you gave me! you are just to kind!

Today was pampering and work, Monica & Henne thank you for making my skin beautiful with my favorite skin products Darphin.
You guys are just the best!

Finished my day with dinner with my brother, he is so cute buying me my favorite Nick Nacks;);););););

Elli & Ethan mamma love and miss you!

Today's Wisdom:
" Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself
at the right moment"

Love Always Anna Anka

It's not the same

2011-10-11T12:01:00.000-07:00

Some people come into our lives and quickly so, some people stay for a while,
leave footprints on our hearts. As long as there are people like you who
care with all their hearts, the world is still a place of possibility and hope:)

Today was the first day I realized how dark it is in the mornings...
Had to be at the dance studio 8am to early when I left it 9pm the night before.
We worked on the group dance for Saturday and my Slow Fox, my head is spinning around with all different steps. My brain is working overtime :(

Went to the toy store and got my children some gifts, oh do I miss them :(
my poor little babies, they miss me so much, it breaks my heart to speak to
them and hear their little quite voices.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:
"Not everyone has the INTEGRITY you'd like them to have, but I give people
the benefit of the doubt! That said, if you screw me once, it's over!"

Love Always Anna Anka

Duell

2011-10-08T16:26:00.000-07:00

First I would like to say thank you Norway, you keep voting for me
and I am so grateful :)
I am sad that Rune left the show tonight :( he has been my comfort during this
show, I already miss Rune and Olga :(
Getting up in 6 hours to learn 2 dances for next week.
Cha Cha and Slowfox, that will be so much fun, so excited!

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation"

Love Always Anna Anka

Copa Cabana

2011-10-06T12:29:00.000-07:00

What a day :)

Did my nails on my hands & feet for my Carnival, pretty
Went to Artesia Spa, had my steam and massage, oh my did I need that or what.

Worked on my birthday wish for a special person.
Rushed to dance training, samba & samba.
What a show it will be on Saturday :) get ready for Hollywood treatment!
Did our rehearsal at the studio, funny funny.

Now I need my beauty sleep.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"You may wonder, How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old? The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the "same old thing". What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river".

Love Always Anna Anka

Authentically Accurate Alternative

2011-10-02T14:52:00.000-07:00

My goal for this week is Emotional Closure!

I want to be able to close the book on the life events that have caused
me so much pain :(

First Power of Manipulation:
I have so many people that attempt to take away my personal power.

Second Leveling:
Many people feel inadequate and try to level me to what they want.
Because my success is a threat and they try to sabotage me in any way they can.
Just to bring me down to their level.

Here are some pictures from a great night last night :)
We had so much fun, thank you for all the support when I needed it!
Norway you guys are the best!

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"I keep looking for someone to tell me that it is all OKAY,
I keep forgetting that PERSON is ME"

Love Always Anna Anka

Cha Cha

2011-10-01T17:17:00.000-07:00

Today I had to be something I am so far away from being a DIVA.
I am just this little girl in this Big Big world where everybody
tries to get a piece of me :(

My biggest fear in life has always been being on a stage.
This competiton has been my biggest challenge in life!
When I had to open the Show today my nervs just gave out on me.
Having the lowest point from the judges, did not matter,
the viewers YOU voted for me and believed in me.

Thank you Norway!

Next week it will be Samba :)

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"You have to get to the stage in life where going for it
is more important than winning or losing"

Love Always Anna Anka

Sympathy

2011-09-29T08:05:00.000-07:00

Dear Friend,

In the seeds of this life, we find hope for a better life to come....
Even thought words can't take away the sorrow that you are feeling.
I hope you find serenity in knowing that your care and love have
meant so much to me.
Thinking of you with warmth and concern.
I am sorry for your loss.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among
worthy human beings, being alone foster presumption.
Young people are arrogant because they always accociate their
own peers, those are all really nothing but who would
like to be very important"

Love Always Anna Anka

Dancing through life

2011-09-27T15:35:00.000-07:00

THANK YOU UNITED STATES

HOW DOES IT FEEL???????

A TOTAL LOSS WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED TODAY!

SAD HOW YOU WASTE YOUR LIFE!

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

" BAD LUCK IS UNIVERSAL! DON'T TAKE IT PERSONAL!

Love Always Anna Anka

Love Tango

2011-09-25T06:26:00.000-07:00

What I night!!!! Memory for life!

I was so touched by all the children wanting pictures and autograph ;)
all the votes all the kind words, I will keep it close to my heart forever!

Today I spent the day with my dear friend Madeleine, we go back so far.
I wish she could stay longer :(
I am so bleesed with my dear friends and family. Thank you for taking the
time to come up and give me the support :)

Now it's time to meet my fabolous partner to work on our new dance for next
Saturday CHA CHA jiippii :)

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"I can be changed by what happens to me, but I
REFUSE to be REDUCED by it"

Love Always Anna Anka

The Day Before

2011-09-23T13:09:00.000-07:00

Idag fick jag mitt varsta komplex, nar dom erbjod mig pa skonhets salongen att jag skulle gora Restylane Vital. Jag fraga vad det var och fick reda pa att det var en spruta som fordela Restylane pa insidan av kinden for att fylla upp ansiktet och slata ut rynkorna. 20 min behandling skulle kosta ca 10.000 Norska, bra timpeng :)

Min maid of honor Madeleine kom fran Sverige for att ge mig stod for
morgondagens dans.
Hon blev den perfekta coachen, visste inte att hon har talang for TANGO.
Riktigt imponerad, hon fick ett heltids jobb tills jag aker ut ur showen!

Det heta till i danstraningen idag, och Glenn Jorgen blev generad!!!
Han ar riktigt orolig for vad jag ska hitta pa infor morgon dagen show.
Den som tittar far se!! jag kanner mig riktigt busig och kanner att jag maste gora nagot extra for TV tittarna.
Tank om han inte dyker upp imorgon......

Elli & Ethan mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:

"I always try to believe the best of everybody,
it saves so much trouble"

Love Always Anna Anka

Hair Zone

2011-09-22T12:35:00.000-07:00

First I would like to thank Jon Inge @ Hair Zone
for taking care and make my hair beautiful ;)
I love your cozy place with the green tea and the cookies :)

Went to TV2 for my showing of my Tango for Saturday.
This one I am really looking forward doing!
Tango really brings out the woman in me ;)

Went with GJ to a great salads place.
On our way back I saved him from getting a ticket :)

Danced 4 hours @ the studio. If I had my choice I would still be there!

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"We must NOT waith for things to come, believing that they are decided
by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it"

Love Always Anna Anka

Happy Birthday Ethan

2011-09-21T14:47:00.000-07:00

Dear Ethan,

Ever since you were born, I worried and wonder about whether or not
I was being the best parent I could be :) Did I make you feel important.
Did we find enough time for the little things? that live on in happy
memories like laughter and hugs.
Now matter how near or how far loving memories always keep a son
close in heart.Having you for a son means more than you'll ever know
and there's no better time than your birthday to wish you all the
happiness the world can offer
HAPPY BIRTH DAY I LOVE YOU!!!!!
I have sent you birthday presents and cards from Norway
I hope you got them :)when I get back we will have a big birthday
party for you and your sister Elli. Lots of kisses my little mokisen ;)
Happy Birthday dear Ethan happy Birthday to you!

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"I love you NOT only for what you are.
But for what I am when I am with you."

Love Always Anna Anka

Askungen

2011-09-20T02:38:00.000-07:00

Hej

Det har varit ratt mycket pa sista tiden :) sa forlat om jag inte
hinner att uppdatera er pa allt. Sag ni mig pa Ikveld med Ylvis?
vad tyckte ni?

Jag har gjort mycket press pa sista tiden och alla har varit valdigt
snalla mot mig ;) men det ar en sak som jag vill att ni alla ska veta.
Jag ar har i Norge for att gora "Skal vi Danse" och jag ar sa tacksam
att jag far vara har i ert underbara land alla ar sa vanliga
och tar bra hand om mig. Jag ar inte har for att ni ska tycka synd om mig
pga av min barndom, det har borjat bli lite val mycke fokusering pa det :(
Aven om jag hade en dalig start i mitt liv sa gick jag vidare.
Alla har vi motgangar i livet och det ar bara att kampa igenom
och tro pa sig sjalv.

Pa lordag ska det bli Tango och jag hoppas att ni rostar pa mig :)
jag ska aven bli NORSK jattekul hoppas att ni gillar det.
Lagger upp lite bilder sa resten av varlden ocksa far en
titt pa vad jag gor har i Oslo.

Dags for dans vi hors.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss you

Today's Wisdom:

"It's suprising how many people go through life without ever
recpgnizing that their feelings toward other people are largely
determined by their feelings toward themselves,
and if you are not comfortable within yourself,
you can't be comfortable with others"

Love Always Anna Anka

Family

2011-09-18T13:46:00.000-07:00

Her viser Anna Anka frem sin familie- Hva hun enn gjør, så gjør hun det bra, sier fostermoren.

Her viser Anna Anka frem sin familie
- Hva hun enn gjør, så gjør hun det bra, sier fostermoren.

Skal vi danse» seg over parketten for andre gang denne høsten, og det var til slutt Rachel Nordtømme som ble den første til å forlate det populære TV-showet.
Hun er kjempeflink. Alltid. Hva hun enn gjør, så gjør hun det bra. - Anna Ankas foster

- mor Eva til Seher.no.
Den svenske Hollywood-fruen Anna Anka derimot, sjarmerte publikum nok til en ny runde av «Skal vi danse». Men selv var hun lite fornøyd med lørdagens dans.

- «Paso» er ikke min greie. Det er alt for mannlig, maskulint og aggresivt. Det er ikke hvem jeg er. Jeg er «classy» og skal gjøre det vakkert. Det er det jeg fremhever, og det er derfor jeg gjorde valsen så himla fint. Da så man hvem Anna Anka er. Dette er overhodet ikke hvem jeg er, så det føltes ikke bra å gjøre den, sier Anna til Seher.no.

Anna Anka hadde med seg store deler av familen sin i salen lørdag kveld. Og i motsetning til kjendisdanseren selv, mente de at Anna gjorde en god jobb under direktesendingen.

- Hun er kjempeflink. Alltid. Hva hun enn gjør, så gjør hun det bra, sier Annas fostermor Eva Gustafson til Seher.no.

Også Annas foster-mormor og morfar, Karin og Krister, var til stede i Nydalen for å heie på sitt profilerte barnebarn lørdag kveld.

- Hun var kjempebra, men hun var bedre i valsen i forrige uke. Hun kommer tilbake i tangoen neste uke. Absolutt, sier foster-mormor Karin til Seher.no.

Og for Anna betyr det mye å ha sin svenske familie på plass i salen.

- Det er bra for da har man støtte og en heiagjeng, så det føles fantastisk, sier Hollywood-fruen til Seher.no.

Anna Anka har tidligere takket nei til svenske «Let's dance», og valgte heller en deltagelse i den norske versjonen av showet. Dét bryr ikke Annas famile noe seg særlig om.

- Det spiller ingen rolle. Det er Anna som bestemmer. Hun trives bedre her enn i Sverige, sier foster-mormor Karin til Seher.no.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love and Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"The perfect is the enemy of the good"

Love Always Anna Anka

VOTES

2011-09-16T14:11:00.000-07:00

When it comes to my Paso Doble tomorrow Saturday I'd rather
attempt to do something great and fail, than to attempt to
do nothing and succeed. Tomorrow somebody will be voted off
the show :( that is the sad part of this journey!

My day was great started with a great breakfast.
VG came to my room and did interview about my make-up etc.
Filmed Local TV Show my expectations for tomorrow. Pressure
Danced for 3 hours, fixed my nails :)
Did my workout just needed to let go of so many different feelings.
Spoke to my dear friends, giving me support for tomorrow.
It feels worse than last weekend, help :( :(

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"

Love Always Anna Anka

Secrets

2011-09-14T13:04:00.000-07:00

What Men and Women want when it comes to love.
For Men, let’s admit it, our first instinct when looking for our
first girlfriend is for us to be her first.
We want that girl or woman to be pure and virgin and for some,
tend to get possessive and not let go of her which can be attributed
to a man’s primal instinct of being territorial not only for
territory, but also for his mate. The feeling of being the first
one into a woman’s life is always special just like owning and
riding a brand new car.
Women, on the other hand, are more sensitive and subtle towards
love and romance. Most, if not all, are more patient and don’t mind
being the first, second, third, or so on, for their partners,
as long as they are the last love of their partner’s life,
entertaining to the quote “until death do us part.”

“You don't love a woman because she is beautiful,
but she is beautiful because you love her.”

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,
it's forever. If it doesn't, then it was never meant to be"

Love Always Anna Anka

Kompisar

2011-09-13T14:14:00.000-07:00

A friend is one of the best things in life!
Though we don't see each other as often as I would like.
I know that at anytime I could call and everything would
be exactly the same.
My friendship doesn't depend on being together it is deeper
than that! It is such a comfortable and warm feeling to know that I
have such a lifetime friendship.

Today I danced my Paso lots of acting.
Tried on my new outfit for Saturday so much fun :)

Was with my girlfriend Ann all day, she was with me during my interview
for a TV Show that I will be doing on Monday.
We had dinner together in my room and catched up on our time.
She is such a great friend!

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing"

Love Always Anna Anka

Paso Doble

2011-09-12T13:34:00.000-07:00

This is my dance for this Saturday :)
Paso is a Spanish style which imitates bullfighting.
Tomorrow I will pick out my dress :) Fun Fun

We started early to dance, mentally overwhelming with a new style.

Tomorrow my dear friend Ann is coming to visit me so excited!

Tried to catch up on all e-mails, then fininshed my day
witha 3 hour interview and the best dinner ever ;)
thank you :)

Now it's bedtime

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"The opinion which other people have of me is their problems not mine"

Love Always Anna Anka

Cinderella

2011-09-11T12:49:00.000-07:00

First I would like to say THANK YOU everybody for your support last night!
I am happy that I made you all proud. I worked very hard to get my Waltz
done as good as I could. Only one thing that was missing, I wish my children
could see their mom being Cinderella for the night :( I miss them so :(
Thank you everybody for all the kind messsages I got last night,
and all day today, you are so sweet
I can't say thank you enough :)

Here are some pictures from last night!
This is a night I will always keep close to my heart.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others"

Love Always Anna Anka

Dancing Like Lovers

2011-09-10T16:42:00.000-07:00

Anna Anka dancing with the breaking of her rib!
There was nothing that could stop the Swedish Hollywood
lady on the dance floor.

It is not easy to be a participant in "Shall We Dance".
For the Swedish Hollywood wife Anna Anka (40),
it was extra painful to dance the English waltz tonight.
She has in fact sustained a crack in one rib,
to host The numbers reveal.
Then she said I strained my back was because it hurts

- Anna Anka

- It was a fantastic feedback from the judges!
Had they known what I know ... namely that Anna Anka
has danced with the breaking of the rib like,
said number during the live TV show. -
Yes, there have been more difficult, so when she said
I strained my back was because it did hurt, said Anna Anka.
It was during a promo filming earlier this week that the
injury occurred. - On Wednesday, when we filmed at the end we
made an intensive effort. I got 200 beats in the ribs for the past
four weeks, then on Wednesday it could not take anymore.
It just said "bang." I said "au", and then I knew something was
wrong, she says to Seher.no. There was not any effort the two performed
Anna has in fact made it all myself! - The promise was to be with anyway,
so we found a solution to it,
says Anna's dance partner Glenn Jørgen Sandaker on to Seher.no
Even with the flaws in the rib, it was a successful evening of dance
partners who gathered throughout 33 points from the judges,
and thus ended up on the solid second place.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"Too soon Old, too late Smart"

Love Always Anna Anka

Make it or Break it

2011-09-09T11:13:00.000-07:00

Dagen borja med Live Radio P3 P4 P5, sa kul, hade det riktigt kul :)

Stressa vidare for att ata en snabb rakmacka innan min intervjue med VG
samtidigt som jag hade mina naglar fixade pa Tone Lise Salongen infor
stora Premiaren av "Skal vi Danse"
Naglarna blev sa fina sa, glom inte att ta en extra titt pa dom imorgon.

Sedan blev jag vilse i Oslo, sprang runder i flip flops for att hitta
tillbaka till hotelet for att byta till tranings klader och ivag till
sista traningen i dans fabriken.

Nu ska jag och min alskade van springa ivag, och ta mina tankar fran
allt som har med vals att gora, genom att se filmen "Colombiana"
Glom inte att rosta pa mig imorgon 19.00 pa Tv2.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"Happiness is the ultimate risk"

Love Always Anna Anka

Vitsippa

2011-09-08T14:18:00.000-07:00

Today my dearest friend Lynn came to Oslo, to give me support
for my big day Saturday.
We went to Dinner just love their food ;)catch up on all the gossip!

I have always wondered why some couples go for dinner when they don't
have anything to say to each other????
Tonight the couples next to us almost sat in my lap trying to listen
to our conversation. That is heartbreaking for me :(
What a borring life they must have!

Tomorrow morning Friday you can hear me Live Radio @ NRK P3, P4, P5

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, the friends who listen to us
are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us,
makes us unfold and expand"

Love Always Anna Anka

Anna Anka

2011-09-07T04:46:00.000-07:00

If you look in my eyes you will feel the best come out of you.
And if you allow this to happen I will continually impress you
to the core of your being. The gift I possesses is just that: a gift.
The unfortunate side of this gift is that most people don’t
understand it so they reject it and me!
There are only a handful of people who can see and appreciate my
gifts and talents. I hold within and close to my heart.
My mission is to change the length and quality of life.

This show “Skal Vi Danse” means more to me than most for the simple
fact it provides me another opportunity, to lead by example and to
serve my personal mission in life.

For those of you who don’t know my personal mission in life,
it is founded in the heart and soul of Gandhi, and expressed in his words,
when he said “ Be the change you want to see in the world”
This show “Skal vi Danse” is a testament to the change that
I strive to make in this world!

Elli and Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"The only reason to give speech is to change the world"

Love Always Anna Anka

God kveld Norge

2011-09-06T11:09:00.000-07:00

Borja dagen med dans traning, lite sen :( pga regn) jag forstar inte hur man kan
vanja sig vid regn efter regn? saknar min CA sun.
Kan inte fatta att det bara ar 3 dagar kvar tills Premiaren Skal Vi Danse.
Kanner mig helt stressad, det har gatt sa fort. Nu finns det ingen atervand.
Vart tog tiden vagen????

Stressa vidare till Redcord for Internet and TV case, that will be showing
sep 17. We had som much fun. This is a must see! Pictures will be shown later.

Kom tillbaka till hotelet, gick ner till gymet sprang Intervaler
45 min och vikter, jag bara kande att jag var tvungen att latta pa trycket infor lordagen som byggts upp.

Avsluta min dag med en Steak, Broccoli och Salad och Salta Popcorn det gillar jag inte. Har inte hittat nagra i Oslo som inte ar saltade??

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

" I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work,
the more I have of it"

Love Always Anna Anka

The Joy of Kissing

2011-09-05T11:29:00.000-07:00

The first kiss is the most exciting moment at the start of a relationship!
Are you a good kisser?
Soft, gentle and mysterious my first kiss made me a lifelong romantic :)
Few of us ever forget the first time we made love, and the same goes for
our first real kiss. It provides reassurance for me.
When I meet somebody I like, I can feel nervous.
But the kissing reduces this fear.
Face to face contact is one of the most intimate things you can do
before doing anything else!

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:

"All intimacy is rare -- that's what makes it precious.
And it involves the revelation of one's self and the loving
gaze upon another's true self (no makeup, no fancy car,
no defensive charm, no seduction) -- that's what makes it
so damn hard. Intimacy requires honesty and kindness in almost
equal measure (a little more kindness, I think), trust and
trustworthiness, forgiveness and the capacity to be forgiven . . .
It's more than worth it -- just don't let them tell you it's bilss"

Love Always Anna Anka

Freia

2011-09-04T11:43:00.000-07:00

This was my day today:

9-1pm Dance

1-2pm Lunch (hard to find something good everything is closed on Sundays)

2-5pm Dance. Last hour my partner had to carry me around most of the time.
I could not stop laughing totally jelly!

My poor feet, total abuse.

Had my dinner Chicken Leg with Green Beans and Salad.
And guess what I tried the Freia chocolate, it has been looking at me
for 4 weeks with it's sad eyes.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"The purpose of life is not to be HAPPY – but to MATTER, to be PRODUCTIVE,
to be USEFUL, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all"

Love Always Anna Anka

Day Off

2011-09-03T09:36:00.000-07:00

Started my day doing interview LIVE for NRK Radio.
Everybody was so nice :)

No dance for me today :( my partner left for Bergen to work.
I don't like that at all! Now I will have to make him dance
8 hours tomorrow instead!

Went to the gym for my own workout.
Ran intervals for 45 min, it feelt so good.
Did Legs, Butt, Back & Chest and finished with core.

Did all my paperwork, trying to catch up from the past week.
Wrote letters to my children.

For dinner I had:
Seabass with Asparagus and my salad with cucumber tomatoes and redonions.

Elli and Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:

"Some people come, some people go. But some people don't get the message
that they need to go"

Love Always Anna Anka

Sending Love

2011-09-02T11:33:00.000-07:00

Dear Elli & Ethan,

Though you guys are not here with me in Oslo :(
wherever I go or whatever I do.
I see your faces in my mind and I miss you both so much.
I miss our eyes secretly giving each other confidence!
Since I can't be with you guys right now (due to my work)
I will have to be content just dreaming about when we'll
be together again.
Time and distance have no meaning in matter of heart.
We are close even we are apart!

Mamma Love & Miss You So Much

Today's Wisdom:
" Life is to short to let a day go by without telling you
guys that I Love You"

Love Always Anna Anka

Paradox

2011-09-01T10:38:00.000-07:00

What a day today, woke up early to dance :) my waltz is going great :)
GJ is doing a great jobb teaching me! Helen loved today's dance ;)

Rushed back to the hotel to change, ran to TV2 for filming.
Today they really tested my skills singing and acting, can't say
more then that, it will be a surprise!

Went to my foodstore "Meny" got my nic nacs.

Life here on earth is full of paradox. We are all endlessly
rising to impossible challanges, spending much of our time trying
to see some logic in all the nonsense. This is a crazy place,
and the maddest people of all are the ones who think they are sane.
They are often the ones who come up with ridiculous rules
we all must abide by. Do what you know will work,
and don't worry about why it works.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"Life's two most important questions are "WHY"? and "WHY NOT"

Love Always Anna Anka

Maison Mat & Vin

2011-08-31T12:29:00.000-07:00

Today my friend Ann called an woke me up 11am, I can't remember last time
I sleept that long? I wonder why??

What makes a "NICE PERSON" nice? Short after my phone call today I started
reflecting on how nice the person was, and I actually started wondering why
some people in life come across as "NICE" and other "NOT SO NICE"
What is it about them? Are they friendly? Are they helpful or is it simply
that they SMILE alot?

I did an interview for Maison Mat & Vin, don't forget buying it.
it will be very informative :)

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:

"The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without,
the more significant and the higher in inspiration one's life will be"

Love Always Anna Anka

HerogNa

2011-08-30T13:17:00.000-07:00

Idag var det en Busy dag :)

Borja dagen med att Filma en show, tyvarr ar det hemligt :(
jag far inte avsloja nagot annu. Men sa kul vi hade det.
Hittat min nya van for livet :)

Efter 2 timmars forsening fick jag stressa vidare till Dagbladet som skulle gora
intervju med mig. Det blev ett valdigt djupt och kanslomassigt samtal.

Idag fick Shiela min van sitt Baby Boy :) sa glad for hennes skull.
Vilken fantastisk resa hon har framfor sig.

Avsluta dagen med dans, idag testade GJ vekligen min styrka.
han kraver valdigt mycket av mig! Helen Helen :) internt skamt som vi har.
Sa glad att jag fick honom som min danspartner! Sa kul vi har ihopa :)

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:

"Don't follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is
no path and leave a trail"

Love Always Anna Anka

Henne

2011-08-29T13:58:00.000-07:00

Idag borja min dag med en Fotografering for HENNE Magazine.
Artikeln handlar om fitness & halsa :)

Akte vidare for min traning pa Redcord.

Darefter akte jag till Jan Thomas for att prata om hur vi ska
lagga upp showen med honom imorgon. Har ska det stylas!
vissar bilder imorgon :)

Borja min dans pa kvallen lite segt efter en fullspackad dag, men
Helen var jatte duktig idag, som vi skratta idag pa dansen
jag lag dubbel halva tiden:) Undrar vad som fanns i min mat idag :)

Sitter nu och gar igenom hur manga e-mail som helst om hur duktiga
alla tyckte jag var i Fangarna pa Fortet, tack alla for era fina kommentarer.
Da ska ni se Finalen den kommer att vara annu battre!

Elli and Ethan Mamma Loves & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"There are three kinds of people in the world, the wills,
the wants and the can'ts. The first accomplish everything,
the second oppose everything and the third fail in everything"

Love Always Anna Anka

Resentment

2011-08-28T11:17:00.000-07:00

The problem with living in the PAST is that it inhibits change
and is therefore inherently pessimistic!
To acknowledge that we have been harmed by another
but choose to let go of our resentment or wishes for
retribution requires a high order of emotional and ethical maturity.

We are all burdened by memories of injury or rejection or unfairness.
Holding on to these grievances with a bitter determination that causes
both of you to become preoccupied with ME.
Both of you need to stop holding me responsible for your unhappiness!
You need to move on with your life. The only people who will suffer
from this are the children! They are innocent!
They deserve a fair childhood! They need their mother!

If every misfortune can be blamed on me, you are relieved of the
difficult task of examining your own contributory behavior.

Coming to terms with your past is inevitably a process of forgivness,
of letting go, the simplest and most difficult of all human endeavor.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:

"He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked
all the questions"

Love Always Anna Anka

WINNER

2011-08-27T15:08:00.000-07:00

What a fantastic day today! Life is great!

Having a late night with pathetic information from the US,
I turned it into something beautiful. I am getting stronger and that feels great!
What part don't both of you understand? you can't touch me!
It doesn't matter what you say or do. You are both bunch of lowlifes!
And stop hurting innocent people that can't defend themselves!
You want to fight with me? Come on I am ready, you piece of SHITS!

Did my dance 4 hours ;) we went for lunch Nam Nam real good!
Looked around in Oslos their biggest Mall.

Had the greatest night with the girls:)
We had dinner, saw my Show Fangarna Pa Fortet.
It was such a feeling to WIN! then we went down to the bar.
Did not want the evening to end :)
Thank you everybody for your support and all your nice comments.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:

"Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go,
be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do"

Love Always Anna Anka

TV4 Fangarna Pa Fortet

2011-08-26T09:49:00.000-07:00

Saturday Aug 27 8pm TV4 watch my show "Fangarna Pa Fortet"
Don't forget to bring your napkins for your tears of laughter!
This show you will always remember:) Hilarious!
This was one of my funniest productions.

And for all of you people in LA, we are 9 hours ahead.
You can watch my show on TV4.se 12pm LA time.
Let me know you comments.

Today we had 4 hours of dance training, ouch me feet are killing me!
Is this ever going to be better????

I recieved my interview from "Halsobilagan"
Therese thank you for great journalism. You are so smart and you wrote it so well!
Thank you for understanding my knowledge when it comes to health and fitness.

My remaining day was work work. Love it.

Brian it was so nice to hear your voice and all support I get from you.
I am so lucky to have you in my life! You are just the greatest!

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:

"Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth,
even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you
smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day
seem bright"

Love Always Anna Anka

TV2

2011-08-25T12:32:00.000-07:00

Har ar en bild fran Bergen, sa himla vackert.
Men vi hade otur med vadret regn :(

Kvallen var lyckad, god mat och trevliga manniskor.
Efter ett glass vin var jag helt somnig.
Gick hem och krama kudden :)

Flog hem till Oslo tidigt, akte till Redcord for min traning.
Dar efter blev det danstraning. Idag var jag som Gele :(
At daligt och hade inte nagon ork. GJ fick bara mig en hel del idag.
Leta efter mat pa dans studion. Men fanns inget.
Allt vi hitta var gammla morotter, bruna bananer :(
Siri vi behover lite snacks :)

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck
a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may
heal and bless"

Love Always Anna Anka

Bergen

2011-08-24T03:07:00.000-07:00

Idag aker jag till Bergen for TV2 stora Hostlansering :)
Spannande :) far lagga upp bilder imorgon.

Borja dagen med att fixa mitt har pa Hair Zone.
Blev sa fint sa :)

Har precis atit min lunch pa Dinner, wokade gronsaker
och kyckling. Detta ar det forsta stallet som har min gronsak
Kolrabi, jag blev sa glad sa jag nastan hoppa i taket :)

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:

"It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose
it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it
takes a lifetime to forget someone"

love Always Anna Anka

Is this you?

2011-08-23T13:23:00.000-07:00

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't
supposed to ever let us down, probably will.
You'll have your heart broken and you'll break others' hearts.

You'll fight with your best friend or maybe even fall
in love with them, and you'll cry because time is flying by.

So take too many pictures, laugh too much, forgive freely,
and love like you've never been hurt.

Life comes with no guarantees, no time outs,
no second chances. You just have to live life to the fullest,
tell someone what they mean to you and tell someone off,
speak out, dance in the pouring rain, hold someone's hand,
comfort a friend, fall asleep watching the sun come up,
stay up late, be a flirt, and smile until your face hurts.

Don't be afraid to take chances or fall in love
and most of all, live in the moment because every second
you spend angry or upset is a second of happiness
you can never get back.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry
show life that you have thousand reason to smile"

Love Always Anna Anka

My Happy & Rewarding Life

2011-08-22T13:22:00.000-07:00

Yesterday is just a memory.

Take responsibility of every area
of your life.

Be forgiving of yourself and others.

Do things that others only dream of.

Be a good loser.

Don't be afraid to say "I am sorry"

Live so that when your children think of
fairness, integrity, caring and honesty
your children think of you.

Enjoy life before it's too late.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

Family life is full of major and minor crises.
The ups and downs of health, success and failure
in career, marriage & divorce. It's tied to places
and events and histories with all of these felt
details life etches itself into memory and personality.

Love Always Anna Anka

La Belle Sol

2011-08-21T12:58:00.000-07:00

Getting up this morning after a night out
in Oslo was very hard ;(
What a night! What a night!
Can't even tell you guys all
the crazy things that happened ;)

Thank you Jimmy for giving me the royal treatment!
This night I will always remember. We had the best time :)

Coming in for my dance training this morning
My dance teacher GJ got me a skirt for my Waltz.
How sweet is that ;) thank you GJ!

After training we went to have lunch, great food.
Suddenly the sky opened and the rain was falling down hard.
I was runing with flip flops so LA! not very smart!

We finished our day watching a movie:
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, good movie
little sad, during the show somebody shit in their pants.
the smell was unbearable, Jesus Krist I was dying!

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"The most secure prisons are
those we construct for ourselves"

Love Always Anna Anka

My Habibi Emma

2011-08-20T12:02:00.000-07:00

Det har ar mitt andra hem, dansstudion ;)

Efter tre timmars traning och jag trodde att tranarens
jobb var att halla mig pa en bra diet, men istallet
tar han mig till ett pizzastalle i Oslo!
Riktigt gott med gud vilken skam jag kanner,
tur att vi ska dansa tre timmar imorgon ;)

Darefter var det stor jakt efter en langkjol
som jag behover till min vals.
Eva, du kanske kan sy en och skicka till mig?
Tyget behover tyngd i sig :)

Efter flera timmars strosande pa stan tillsammans med GJ
var det tid for girltime med min alskade habibi.
Var nere pa Akke Brygge (eller hur det nu stavas).
Vi sprang pa en svensexa dar killen bad mig kopa ett gosedjur
men tyvarr hade vi inga pengar med oss :(
tankte "oh, vilket misstag du gor" men onskade honom all lycka!

Nu ar det dags to see Oslo by night..
Oslo, you better watch out!
Because my dress is hot hot hot ;)
You need to see my habibi,
I have to keep her on a leach.
My little blond angel that everybody wants ;)

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"Life is like a coin.
You can send it anyway you wish,
but you only spend it once."

Love Always Anna Anka

Broken Heart

2011-08-19T07:47:00.000-07:00

So here I am!
Memories they are following me like
a shadow now.

I think about my life gone by and
how it's done me wrong. There is no escape
for me this time. All of my rescues are gone!

You might do better messing with someone
else's mind. So don't waste your time!
Your time has come and gone!

There is nothing you can do to me no more.
You can't break a broken heart!

And the award for the best liar goes to you!
For making me believe that you have changed.

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"Action has meaning only in relationship and
without understanding relationship, action on
any level will only breed conflict.
The understanding of relationship is infinitely
more important than the search for any plan of
action"

Love Always Anna Anka

My Backyard

2011-08-18T12:08:00.000-07:00

I have such a routine in my life,
and today I really missed it.
Especially after I spoke to my children :(

For me being in Norway is not only that
I need to learn to dance!
I need to learn a new language, new society,
find new foods, new hair dresser, new dry cleaning place,
new massage therapist and the list goes on and on.

My 3rd day of dance training went well, showed my teacher
some Waltz move I want us to do :)
My feet feels better after keeping them on ice all day!

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:

"I want my inner truth to be the plumb line
for the choices I make about my life, about
the work that I do and how I do it, about the
relationships I enter into and how I conduct them"

Love Always Anna Anka

Neurac

2011-08-17T10:46:00.000-07:00

Started my day @ Redcord Clinic.
Neurac is a new treatment method for long-term
musculosketetal pain. It aims to regain normal
functional movement patterns in patients with
musculoskeletal disorders by using high
levels of neuromuscular stimulation.
Yes and I suffer from an accident that
happened to me when I was 14 years old :(
I don't know what I would have done without Redcord?
They are my saviors!

Came back did my own workout, 30 min intervals (running).
Weights legs, back and butt.

Back to the dance studio for my second day of dancing :)
Looks so easy when you see other people do it.
Trust me it is not. Glenn sees some hope in me :)

Finished my day with a faboulus white fish, asparagus and
a salad with tomatoes, cucumber and bluecheese :)

Now I feel pretty fried, need a massage for my feet!
anybody available?

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You!

Today's Wisdom:

"The major advantage of illness is that it provides
relief from responsibility"

Love Always Anna Anka

Supadance

2011-08-16T13:46:00.000-07:00

Today I sent presents to my dear children.
It breaks my heart thinking about them :(

Had lunch @ Dinner, my new favorite, spicy & hot.

Got the pleasure to be with Tommy, got a good education about
the Food in Norway, many new things for me to try.
We are pretty much alike when it comes to food ;)
Tommy I can't say enough thanks, you are the best!

Then it was time for my first dance lesson, I feel so bad for my
dance partner to teach me! "The Duck to become the Swan ;)

My shoes looks like grandma shoes, they need some Swarofski diamonds!
But they were comfortable, maybe not let's see tomorrow.

My disadvantage is the language, god it's hard to learn something new in
a language that you barley understand :(

Elli & Ethan Mamma Love & Miss You

Today's Wisdom:

"There is nothing more pointless, or common,
than doing the same things and expecting
different results"

Love Always Anna Anka

Someone you used to know

2011-08-15T12:07:00.000-07:00

I am not gonna lie to you and say it didn't hurt,
to see you with someone new :(
You were wearing your old blue sweater!
But it didn't kill me until we said HELLO
And I became someone you used to know :(
Like a friend, Like a fool.
Like some girl you knew in school.
Didn't we LOVE? Didn't we SHARE?
Or don't you even CARE?
Bet you didn't tell her about those weekends at the
coast,or how we used to argue about who LOVED
who the most!
I know we said we were through!
But I never knew how quickly I would go from
someone you loved to someone you used to know!

Elli & Ethan mamma MISS & LOVE you so!

Today's Wisdom:

"Any relationship is under the control of the
person who cares the least"

Love Always Anna Anka

Norway

2011-08-14T14:16:00.000-07:00

Hade sov morgon idag ;) sedan kom min van Johan Petr'e fran Stockholm.
Forst akte vi och hade lunch pa ett sushi stalle, jattegott.

Tillsammans akte vi runt och kollade i Oslo, Johan var riktigt duktig pa att hitta! Vilken vacker natur fast att det regna mellan varven. Hade fika vid vattnet,
at hemalagad applekaka med jattegod vaniljglass.
Pa vagen tillbaka korde vi forbi Utoya och la en nalle pa blommstergraven.
Norway I give my deepest condolences.

Avsluta dagen med middag pa Theatercafe'en, gick vidare for att se filmen Super 8.
Misstag visste inte att det var en barnfilm :(
Fantastisk dag ;)
Elli & Ethan I miss you so much, kisses & hugs! Mamma Loves you!

Today's Wisdom:

"Love is never lost, not even in death"

Love Always Anna Anka

Dancing with the Stars "Skal vi danse" Norway 2011

2011-08-13T09:56:00.000-07:00

Hi Everybody,

Long time no see ;) I am back on my blog!

The reason is: I am doing my new show "Skal vi Danse" in Norway.
First I would like to say thank you Norway for inviting me!
This is such an honor :)
Norway is such a beautiful country. People are so kind! Food is great!

The show will air Sep 10 2011. If you don't live in Norway, you can watch me
on TV2.no
I will also keep you up to date on my Twitter and FB.

Today's Wisdom:

Feelings follow behavior!

Love Always Anna Anka

GOOD BYE

2010-12-31T17:40:00.000-08:00

This year have come to an end, and its time for me to say good bye :(
I am making some changes for 2011, one of them is I will not be blogging any more :( I want to thank all my great fans for your support.

Here are my final words:

Sometimes we do not feel like we want to feel. Sometimes we do not achieve what we want to achieve. Sometimes things happen that do not make sense. Sometimes life leads us in direction that are beyond our control. It is at these times most of all that we need someone who will quietly understand us and be there to support us.
I want all of you to know that I am here for you in every way and remember that though things may be difficult now tomorrow is a new day.
Love what you do, do the best you can!

Today's Wisdom:

"I want my life to be about more than just fame or jewelry, the best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves"

Love Always Anna Anka

Happy New Year

2010-12-30T16:49:00.000-08:00

This is my new year 2011 ;)

Your legendary tenacity and patience is truly about to pay off in spades this year Taurus. After a long and arduous 12 years, your luck is returning with a fabulous vengeance. Jupiter, the planet of large-scale fortune enters your sturdy stars this June for an extended stint taking you right into 2012 in excellent standing. Never has it felt so easy to let go of comfort zones and move into unknown territory with such confidence and gusto. Even the most cautious and conservative of bulls can easily see that the rewards far outweigh the risk this year. Push the envelope, raise the bar and go for the biggest stakes your loyal heart can fathom.

You're a florid channel of original ideas this spring when six planets line up in your unconscious sector of dreams and inspiration right around your birthday. Ready yourself for what becomes a turbo-charged imagination to keep you up at night with more genius schemes than there is time to humanly handle. Your brain will feel like a non-stop idea factory that refuses to rest, so you'll need extra time in nature or at the gym to remain relatively grounded.

Unexpected social encounters and fabulous new friendships flourish throughout the year with special highlights occurring in March and April when Mars powers up your friendship sector. May and June are stellar months for dating and mating with all around good times to be had in general compliments of Venus in Taurus. You've got your mind on your money and your money on your mind all summer with Venus and Mars emphasizing your financial sector. Make your money in June and July while the getting is good and save the leisure rewards for August when you can kick back guilt-free.
Any lingering clouds obscuring your professional vision will pass as Neptune leaves your career sector in 2011 in April. This is a momentous shift considering Neptune has worked to glamorize, spiritualize and at other times blur your professional aims since 1998. Neptune will retrograde back to unleash one last floodgate in August but the clarity gained over the spring and summer will support you through the imminent changes over the course of the year in preparation for more and more of your bigger dreams coming true between now and 2012. Your confidence in your talents and ability to make money is tip-top. Saturn remains in your work sector for another year continuing to deliver the teachings on what it means to value yourself and take yourself and your talents more seriously. No more settling for short shrift, Taurus.

A little bravado goes a long way in January and February with Mars firing up your career sector. Don't be afraid to push for what you really want. The squeaky Bull gets the promotion, so declare your intentions loudly and clearly while the opportunities are peaking. You have no problem working yourself to the bone to help others realize their vision, but now it's time to put that same effort into making your own dreams come true. Saying no to others is the first step towards finally saying yes to yourself. Your best moneymaking opportunities arrive just in time for your birthday. Working hard in June and July garners major pay-offs for a decadent vacation in August.

As 2011 kicks off, you continue to benefit from the long-term effects of Venus in Scorpio in your relationship sector (since September 2009). But by early January, Venus (your planetary ruler) moves on to your sector of transformation, bringing deep relationship issues home to roost. You'll have a chance to incorporate each and every powerful lesson from 2009 into the core of your being prepared for the next level of intimacy. Enough is enough, Taurus -- you're ready for the real McCoy when it comes to love. Haven't you settled enough, taking care of everyone else's needs without getting in touch with what it is to love and be loved in return?

By the time your birthday rolls around, Venus will have blissfully entered her home turf in Taurus, assuring that you'll feel at your beautiful best. This also bodes wonderfully for attracting love and connection in the best of all possible ways. Make the most of late April and early May (your strongest Venus period) to get your beauty rituals on. When you look good, you feel irresistible so it's no wonder you are suddenly a date magnet this spring. When Venus enters your romance and pleasure sector in August, you'll have no problem putting work on the back burner in favor of a little romantic raucous. In October, Venus enters your partnership sector to seal the deal on your summer flirtations. Commitment and compromise are absolutely necessary if true love is what you seek.

Today's Wisdom:

"Some people are like a popular songs, that you only sing for a short time"
Love Always Anna Anka

Losing Personality

2010-12-29T18:53:00.000-08:00

Losing weight has never been an easy endeavor, as anyone who has ever tried knows.
Among the challenges: changing ingrained habits that led to the weight gain.
Everyone attributes his or hers success to different strategies and programs,
but all tend to agree that eating less and moving more are at heart of any successful effort.
Try to becoming more self-aware as you go about your day. Meditate :), write in a journal, or simply reflect on what is most important and satisfying to you.
Adopting a calm and thoughtful mind-set enables you to make more considered decisions and helps buffer you from external temptations such as commercials for food. Making this kind of psychological change might, in fact, be one of the most successful strategies not just for achieving short-term weight loss but also for staying slim and fit over the long haul.

Today's Wisdom:

"Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat"

Love Always Anna Anka

DON'T EAT THIS

2010-12-28T18:27:00.000-08:00

How did we all get so darn fat?

Well, the simple answer is that we eat more calories. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that American men eat 7 percent more calories than they did in 1971; American women eat a whopping 18 percent more—an additional 335 calories a day! But the harder question is this: Why do we eat so many more calories? Are we suddenly more gluttonous? Do we have some kind of collective death wish?

There’s an even crazier reason: It’s the food!

We’ve added extra calories to traditional foods, often in cheap, mass-produced vehicles like high fructose corn syrup. These new freak foods are designed not by chefs, but by lab technicians packing every morsel with maximum calories at minimum cost—with little or no regard to dietary impact.

HAMBURGERS:
The great American staple. Don’t worry, burgers really do come from cows—but have you ever wondered how those giant chains process and distribute so much meat so cheaply? And . . . are you sure you want to know?

PREMADE GUACAMOLE:
When you buy bean dip, you expect it to be made from beans. And when you buy guacamole, it seems reasonable to expect it to be made from avocados. But is it?

Most guacamoles with the word “dip” attached to the label suffer from a lack of real avocado. Take Dean’s Guacamole, for example. This guacamole dip is composed of less than 2 percent avocado; the rest of the green goo is a cluster of fillers and chemicals, including modified food starch, soybean oils, locust bean gum, and food coloring. Dean’s is not alone in this offense. In fact, this avocado caper was brought to light when a California woman filed a lawsuit against Kraft after she noticed “it just didn’t taste avocadoey

FRUIT ON THE BOTTOM YOGURT:
It seems like the ideal breakfast or snack for a man or woman on the go—a perfect combination of yogurt and antioxidant-packed fruits, pulled together in one convenient little cup. But are these low-calorie dairy aisle staples really so good for you?

While the yogurt itself offers stomach-soothing live cultures and a decent serving of protein, the sugar content of these seemingly healthy products is sky-high. The fruit itself is swimming in thick syrup—so much of it, in fact, that high-fructose corn syrup (and other such sweeteners) often shows up on the ingredients list well before the fruit itself. And these low-quality refined carbohydrates are the last thing you want for breakfast

To learn more on what NOT to EAT, buy the following BOOKS
It is CRARY!!!! :( :( :(

Today's Wisdom:

If your food can go bad, it's good for you. If it can't go bad, it's bad for you"

Love Always Anna Anka

Fight Cancer

2010-12-27T20:18:00.000-08:00

Broccoli
All cruciferous veggies (think cauliflower, cabbage, kale) contain cancer-fighting properties, but broccoli is the only one with a sizable amount of sulforaphane, a particularly potent compound that boosts the body's protective enzymes and flushes out cancer-causing chemicalsBerries

Berries:
All berries are packed with cancer-fighting phytonutrients. But black raspberries, in particular, contain very high concentrations of phytochemicals called anthocyanins, which slow down the growth of premalignant cells and keep new blood vessels from forming (and potentially feeding a cancerous tumor

Tomatoes;
This juicy fruit is the best dietary source of lycopene, a carotenoid that gives tomatoes their red hue, lycopene was found to stop endometrial cancer cell growth .

Garlic;
Phytochemicals in garlic have been found to halt the formation of nitrosamines, carcinogens formed in the stomach (and in the intestines, in certain conditions) when you consume nitrates, a common food preservative,

Beans:
black and navy beans significantly reduced colon cancer incidence in rats, in part because a diet rich in the legumes increased levels of the fatty acid butyrate, which in high concentrations has protective effects against cancer growth.

Today's Wisdom:

"We need to eat to live, not live to eat"

Love Always Anna Anka

The Fighter

2010-12-26T21:22:00.000-08:00

Before Mark Wahlberg modeled underwear, before he became a rapper (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch), an actor (“Boogie Nights,” “The Departed”) and a producer (“Entourage,” “Boardwalk Empire”), he grew up a boxing fan in Massachusetts. And one of his favorite fighters was Micky Ward. In his new movie, “The Fighter,” Wahlberg portrays Ward, a junior welterweight champion. The film opens Friday in New York, Boston and Los Angeles, and Dec. 17 nationwide. Wahlberg, 39, trained on and off for more than four years, and all the punches in his fight scenes are real.

A must see ;) great movie.

Today's Wisdom:

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that "talent" to the dark place where it leads"

Love Always Anna Anka

Loving 2011

2010-12-25T19:41:00.000-08:00

Admit that you don't know what you're doing when it comes to making an intimate relationship work in the cultural and economic volatility of the 21 st century.

Making such an honest admission will free you from the burden of defending your ego when your tacit assumptions about how relationships should work inevitably lead you astray in the rapidly changing cultural context of intimate unions. More important, it allows you to embrace the natural feelings of inadequacy that motivate learning.

In intimate relationships, they seem to tell us that we're unlovable or that the way we love isn't good enough. Rather than stimuli to learn, they become definitions of the self-if you feel inadequate, you are inadequate. We develop desperate ways to circumvent feelings of inadequacy-mostly by blaming them on our partners.

To make them work, we must tolerate feeling deficient long enough for the discomfort to stimulate behavior to improve, appreciate, connect, or protect.
Everyone has to learn how to sustain love for his or her specific partner, not an ideal or a book version of how people should react.
The most loving thing you can say to your partner is " Show me how to love you"

Prepare a strategy for conflict to let your partner know when you feel inadequate. Acknowledging feelings of inadequacy mitigates the unproductive urge to be defensive, while giving your partner a chance to do the same.

If you let feelings of inadequacy do their job, they will remind you that your caring for each other is more significant than your momentary disagreement.
More important, they will open you to learning how to love each other.

Today's Wisdom:

"Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different-as the saying goes, if two people agree about everything, one of them is superfluous. Conflict is the mechanism by which we set boundaries around these differences, so that each party feels safe with the other"

Love Always Anna Anka

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Sensible eating

2010-12-24T20:58:00.000-08:00

You eat more than you intended. You think, "well I've already blown it so I may as well eat some more" You will get back on your diet tomorrow. You promise yourself that the New Year will be different, and it is for a few weeks. And so it continues year after year after year.

So how can this season be different?

Recognize that the holidays are time when most people overeat. If you overeat just wait until you are physically hungry before you eat again. You will be surprised how stable your weight will remain just by eating intuitively.

There is scientific evidence that sugar affects some of us differently. You may have dessert, and then you crave more food and eat uncontrollably. It is important to know how different foods react with your own body, mind and emotions.

During the holidays many of us compare our insides to other people's outsides. They have the perfect life, with the perfect family, celebrating their perfect holiday. If you focus on what you are lacking, negative thinking can lead to using food to feel better.

Keep a positive attitude and invest time making authentic connections with loved ones. This is much more important than obsessing about food, weight, diet or how you look on the outside. The results will be that you will enjoy the holiday season and not gain weight ;)

Today's Wisdom:

"To know that people care about how you're doing when the doings aren't so good-that's what love is"

Love Always Anna Anka

Sexual Fireworks

2010-12-23T21:47:00.000-08:00

For many of us, the desire to recapture that early-stage passion in a long-term
relationship can lead to disappointment and stalemate. It's all too easy to start believing that there is only one kind of good sex. And if that's no longer happening then the relationship, or the choice of partner, must be wrong for us. And even if we do manage to reach sexual nirvana some of the time, this can soon be followed by the sense of feeling weirdly depleted afterwards. The solution then, might be to opt for "warm sex" softer, nurturing physical intimacy leading to slow, gentle intercourse where orgasm happens only occasionally.
One reason we might shy away from this type of sex is that human sexuality is battling with two conflicting drives- on the one hand there are sexual fireworks and the reproductive urge, and at odds with this is what's known as the bonding programme. It's this softer type of bonding that can soothe our "mating" hunger without causing us to exhaust our sexual attraction for each other.

Today's Wisdom:

"Love is an element which though physically unseen is real as air or water. It is an acting living moving force..... it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean"

Love Always Anna Anka

Happy Holidays

2010-12-22T20:37:00.000-08:00

The end of the year is a great time to let go of any mistakes, regrets or disappointments of the past. Write down whatever you would like to release on a small piece of paper. Fold it up and toss it into a fire, saying goodbye as you watch it turn to ash and disappear.

I have many people asking me for suggestions for dinners:
So here is my Christmas gift to all of you :)

Dinner:
4 oz Lean steak
1 Baked sweet potato
1 Cup steamed greens
3 Tsp olive oil

Dinner:
4 oz Broiled chicken breast
1 cup Ccooked wild rice
1 cup Ccooked beets
3 tsp Oolive oil

Dinner:
4 oz Shrimp
1 cup Stir-fry vegetables
1 cup Brown rice
3 tsp Olive oil

Dinner:
4 oz Halibut
1 cup Green peas
1 cup Steamed broccoli
2 cups Green salad with 2 tbsp light dressing

Dinner:
4 oz Turkey made into 2 meatballs
1/2 Cup Marinara sauce
1 Cup Spagetti
2 Cups Green salad with 2 tbsp light dressing

Smaklig Maltid :)

Today's Wisdom:

"Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control"

Love Always Anna Anka

THE END

2010-12-21T22:30:00.000-08:00

Today was my last episode of my show Iform med Anna Anka, thank you all for giving me the opportunity to show what my skills are. I love what I can do, and hope that I can help more people :) Also I had a great time on my live Chatt today :)
Great questions, sorry for all the one I could not answer, we ran out of time :(

Maria;

Travel the road that you have chosen and don't look back with regret.
You have to take chances to make your dreams happen.
Remember that there is plenty of time to travel another road- and still another-
in your journey through life.
Take the time to find the route that is right for you. Remember being alone doesn't
always mean being lonely; it can be a beautiful experience of finding your creativity, your heartfelt feelings and the calm and quiet peace deep inside you.
Your goals may take a bit longer and be harder to achieve than you had hoped, but concentrate on the positives and combine faith with generous portions of patience and determination.

Today's Wisdom:

"Live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going
to kill you anyway"

Mindfulness

2010-12-20T20:57:00.000-08:00

In reality, study after study has shown that practicing mindful thinking rather than habit and routine has a proven positive effect on brain function, ultimately lowering stress responses and increasing feelings of relaxation and well-being.

Mindfulness is defined as a mental state characterized by focused awareness of your activities, routines, beliefs, thoughts, emotions and motivations. In other words,
Think about what you are doing when you are doing it.

What is called right mindfulness involves bringing your awareness into the present moment. Living in the present moment can allow one to see both the inner and outer aspects of reality.

As you incorporate mindfulness more fully into your life, you discover that happiness is not achieved or brought about by changing your external circumstances, but by releasing your attachment to fixed ideas, thoughts, predispositions and something we like to refer to as a script.

Even when we want to "change" our lives or aspects of our life, it is hard.
We have to deal with fear of change or, sometimes even worse, fear of success.
We frequently practice self-sabotage. Here are five steps to help you break through these barriers and incorporate mindful thinking into your life:

* Think about what is right and good about you.
* Love yourself.
* Live in the moment.
* When things get rough don't take it personal.
* Lastly, put the "being" back in human.

Remember, mindfully observing your inner reality and outer circumstances will help you find the happiness that sometimes seems just out of reach.

Today's Wisdom:

"Mind use it or lose it"

Love Always Anna Anka

Squashes

2010-12-19T22:04:00.000-08:00

With their tough exteriors and strange shapes, they may not be the most appealing-looking vegetable at the supermarket. But their colors tell the true story: with varied hues of oranges, each one packs in an impressive load of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, making squash a powerful food in a healthy fat burning diet.
Providing 6 grams of fiber and with a 90% "volumetric" food ( it gets you full on fewer calories) which is an important factor in promoting fat loss.
Here is a very good soup!
Ready in 45 min, Makes 4 servings :)
2 tsp canola oil
3 leeks, rinsed chopped and trimmed
2 small red bell peppers, chopped
3 cloves garlic minced
1 1/2 tsp cumin
2 tsp dried rosemary
1 medium butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cut into 1'cubes
1lb Turkey breast cutlets cut into bite-sized strips
Juice from 1 lime
1/2 tsp crushed red pepper

Enjoy :)

Today's Wisdom:

"You become what you think. You are what you eat"

Love Always Anna Anka

So this is Christmas!

2010-12-18T22:24:00.000-08:00

This is one of my favorite songs for Christmas by Celine Dion:

So this is Christmas and what have we done?
Another year over, a new one just begun.
And so this is Christmas. I hope you have fun. The near and dear ones,
the old and the young.
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Let's hope it's a good one, without any fear.
And so this is Christmas for weak and for the strong.
The rich and the poor ones, the war is so long.
And so happy Christmas for black and for the white,
for the yellow and the red ones, let's stop all the fights.
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for all of you.
I know this is a very sad time for all the lonely people,
but I send all of you hope and love.
Always remember that you all are very special in your own way.
And there is always somebody that loves you very much!!!!

Today's Wisdom:

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other"

Love Always Anna Anka

Pretty Ugly

2010-12-17T22:03:00.000-08:00

The Cover up behind the beauty business!

As consumers tighten their pocketbooks, the beauty industry must invent ever more clever ways to market their goods while keeping an eye on their bottom line. One way they accomplish this is by using cheaper ingredients wrapped in posh packaging.
Let's face it, for many consumers, if it looks pretty and smells good, they buy it.

2007 when media sources shocked the public with headlines of lead-laden lipstick.
Food and drug administration neither tests nor determines the safety level of cosmetics and still does not consider the toxic metal to be a safety concern.

Some 884 chemical that are known toxins are commonly used in hair care products, deodorants, lotions, perfumes and makeup. The cosmetic industry says only minute amounts of harmful chemicals are found in beauty products, making them safe for consumer use; meanwhile, we are only beginning to gather research about the ill effects of using these products multiple times per day!

Today's Wisdom:

"Ugliness is superior to beauty, because ugliness lasts"

Love Always Anna Anka

Corebar

2010-12-16T20:26:00.000-08:00

Det norska konseptet corebar lanseras i USA!
Har ar lite info:

What is a Corebar?
A Corebar is a weighted fitness bar with a bend at both ends in order to alleviate any possible pain in your neck and shoulders while you exercise.

It comes in three different sizes:
Light weight, 2.2lbs, is best suited for beginners.
Medium weight, 4.4lbs, can be used by those already in training, or for beginners who are ready to progress
Heavy weight, 6.6lbs, is best suited for intermediate or advanced exercisers.

Why is this method so effective?
This method is a combination of aerobic, strength and balance training. Your core is activated at all times. Your core is made up of the muscles in your back, abdominal and pelvis.

Why is it important to work your core?
Your core is your midsection or your center. A strong core keeps your body upright and gives you good posture and balance. Good posture can alleviate pain in your neck and shoulders.

A strong abdominal section can minimize or totally get rid of back pain. So Corebar training will not only give you flatter and more attractive abs, it will increase your quality of life.

Today's Wisdom:

"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion"

Love Always Anna Anka

American Dream

2010-12-15T20:42:00.000-08:00

In this season of giving, I would like to offer something to all of you!
Along my life's journey, I have met a few very special people who have inspired me to search for my own paths, push my own limits and discover the ways I need to go.

During my Tv show IForm med Anna Anka, I have received so many letters, from people asking me to help them to get a healthy lifestyle. After putting alot of thoughts into it, I came up with an idea.
I would like to give everybody the opportunity to come and live the American Dream.
Would you like to be the one?
Would you like to come to Hollywood? and get a new healthy lifestyle?
Look at the pictures and imagine it CAN be you!
Keep your eyes open. Coming soon. I will post all the details on my blog.

Today's Wisdom:

"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of chock"

Love Always Anna Anka

God Bless You

2010-12-14T20:45:00.000-08:00

Edward,

There are so many things to do each day. There is so much going on in the world of great concern that often we do not stop and think about what is really
important to us. You are such a wonder. You're the only one in the universe exactly like you! Take care of that rare and remarkable soul. Know that there is someone who will thank you for doing the things you do now with foresight and wisdom and respect.
I hope that you always keep your wonderful attitude that whatever happens in your life happens for the best. Once in a while everyone needs to know that they are wanted and that they are important and most important that they are loved.
I would like to be the one to reassure you that!

Today's Wisdom:

"Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change.... Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation"

Love Always Anna Anka

Significance

2010-12-13T20:58:00.000-08:00

I want to be very significant in the eyes of other people. In the truest sense of the word I want to be recognized. I want to be heard. I want to stand out. I want to be known. In particular, I want to be known and appreciated for the unique strengths I bring. I feel a need to be admired as credible, professional, and successful. I want to associate with others who are credible, professional, and successful. And if they aren't I will push them to achieve until they are. Or I will move on!
I am an independent spirit, I want my work to be a way of life rather than a job, and in that work I want to be given free rein, the leeway to do things my way.
My life is filled with goals, achievements, or qualification that I crave.
Whatever my focus- and each person is distinct- my significance theme will keep pulling me upward, away from the mediocre toward the exceptional.
It is the theme that keeps me reaching!

Today's Wisdom:

"We have so little tolerance for uncomfortable feelings. I'm not even talking about unpleasant outer circumstances, but that feeling in your stomach of I don't want this to be happening. You try to escape it in some way, but if somehow you could stay present and touch the rawness of the experience, you can really learn something"

Love Always Anna Anka

Tangled

2010-12-12T21:14:00.000-08:00

Today we went to see this movie TANGLED ;)
It was so good, must see, my kids loved it!
After a long day of riding the horses, it was a nice way of ending the day :)

When the kingdom's most wanted -- and most charming -- bandit Flynn Rider hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel, a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair. Flynn's curious captor, who's looking for her ticket out of the tower where she's been locked away for years, strikes a deal with the handsome thief and the unlikely duo sets off on an action-packed escapade, complete with a super-cop horse, an over-protective chameleon and a gruff gang of pub thugs.

Today's Wisdom:

"Know how to do good a little at a time, and often"

Love Alawys Anna Anka

Assets

2010-12-11T22:02:00.000-08:00

Kronofogden tar Skippers tillgångar
Publicerad 2010-12-10
Som Resume.se tidigare har berättat förlorade Anna Skipper i Stockholms tingsrätt mot Life och tvingades hålla matlagningskurser i Turkiet för sin överlevnad. Idag blev det ännu värre efter att Kronofogden tagit över Skippers konton.

FörstoraAnna Skipper.
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Anna Skipper var en av Sveriges tyngre hälsocoacher i många år och hade ett eget program i TV3 – Du är vad du äter. Efter att ha förlorat i Stockholms tingsrätt mot Life och dessutom dömts att betala rättegångskostnader på 750 000 kronor har hon haft stora ekonomiska problem. Och Kronofogden lade idag, fredag, beslag på samtliga av paret Skippers konton.

– Vi ligger 3-5 miljoner kronor back med inlånade pengar. Idag har Kronofogden renrakat det som finns på våra konton. Och allt har att göra med att Life vill mörda mig, säger Anna Skipper.

Resumé har tidigare rapporterat om ett förslag på en förlikning från Life på sammanlagt 1,5 miljoner kronor:

– Då vi bedömde förslaget ansåg vi att skadan var ofantligt mycket större och det var därför vi förkastade det hela. Sedan dömer tingsrätten att vi inte ska få en enda krona och åker på rättegångskostnader. Det är helt obegripligt att jag till och med ska behöva betala för att driva ett folkhälsoarbete, säger Anna Skipper.

Hennes jurist har ansökt om prövningstillstånd hos hovrätten, men frågan har inte behandlats ännu:
– Får vi inget prövningstillstånd är det kört. Och med tanke på hur tingsrätten kunde döma känns det som att spela på Bingo-Lotto, säger Anna Skipper.

Anna Skipper har skrivit ett vädjande brev till Lifes vd, Gunnel Åkerman om att företaget ska ta sitt förnuft till fånga. Men hon har fått en styvmoderlig behandling:

– Life svarar inte på våra brev, säger Anna Skipper.

Hon menar att hon jobbar uppemot 10-14 timmar per dag för att reda upp situationen. Men eftersom hon har skulder upp över öronen ligger hon riktigt pyrt till:

– Vi tycker att vi har fått en dåligt behandling av Sverige och det svenska rättssystemet. Men vi kan inte ens lämna landet. Vi måste ha pengar för det, säger Anna Skipper.

Om Anna Skipper inte får ett prövningstillstånd tänker man släppa alla eventuella bevis man har för allmän beskådan:

– Vi kan inte acceptera maffiapolitik. Om de försöker mörda oss ska jag jobba dygnet runt och på socialbidrag om så krävs för att vinna mot Life, säger Anna Skipper.

I am so sorry to read what have happened to you :(
The next chapter of your life.... what's it going to be like?
It isn't always easy to experience changes, but there's no better advice than this:
Just do your best, take things day by day, and have faith that things are going to be all right. Over the course of time, answers will come, decisions will prove to be the right ones, and the path will be easier to see. So have hope. Be optimistic!
Remember that beyond any clouds, the sun is still shining. Meet each challenge and give it all you've got. Count your blessings.
Believe in happy endings...... because you are the author of the story of your life!

Today's Wisdom:
"He is rich who owes nothing"

Love Always Anna Anka

Moods of Norway

2010-12-10T17:03:00.000-08:00

Here is my new car :) ;) just kidding :)

This is a clothing store in Los Angeles, go to their web side, I think some of you would like the stuff. It's fashion alright ;)

Had a great workout today, back, shoulders, legs and core plus interval training 40min. My least favorite :(

Made Swedish meatballs for lunch, my kids love them with LINGONSYLT from IKEA :)

Gave my puppy a bath, after running in the mud and get real dirty.

Now the kids wants to bake, sockerkaka one of their favorites.

Have a wonderful weekend all of my great fans ;)

Today's Wisdom:

"Fair or unfair, sometimes we have to give ourselves what we wish we could get from someone else"

Love Always Anna Anka

SUND.NU

2010-12-09T20:52:00.000-08:00

Tack alla ni som tankte pa mig idag pa min dag ANNA :) det varmde sa mycket kan ni tro. Har ar ett reoprtage som gjordes pa mig:

Anna Anka: ”Jag har lyckats med någonting som ingen annan har gjort”
Den oblyge Anna Anka blev snabbt ett namn på hela svenska folkets läppar när hon medverkade i första säsongen av Svenska Hollywoodfruar. Nu är hon aktuell med sitt nya träningsprogram ”I form med Anna Anka” som hon själv är mycket stolt över.

Fotograf:
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- De resultat jag har fått på deltagarna under åtta veckor kan ingen annan göra. Mitt självförtroende kommer inifrån, jag tror på mig själv. Man kan inte begära att någon annan ska tro på en om man inte gör det själv, säger Anna Anka bestämt.

Hela Sverige fick mersmak av Anna Anka efter hennes deltagande i serien Svenska Hollywoodfruar hösten 2009. Hon både fascinerade och upprörde och nu är hon aktuell igen med träningsprogrammet ”I form med Anna Anka” där hon coachar tio deltagare i rätt riktning mot en hälsosam livsstil.

Inför programmet sökte hela 8000 svenskar och endast tio blev utvalda att få ta planet över Atlanten till Los Angeles. Tidigare har Anna arbetat som personlig tränare med klienter från Hollywood till Vita huset.

- Anledningen till varför så många ansökt är att folk ser mig som en förebild, de vet genom att titta på min kropp att jag vet vad jag gör. Kolla på de flesta av alla personliga tränare i Sverige, de har ingen bra kropp.

Träning - en passion och livsstil
Annas egna hälsosamma livsstil började när hon var 22 år och blev tillsagd av sin modellagentur att gå ner i vikt för att få fler jobb. Sedan dess har hon hållit igång. Idag tränar hon med vikter en timme om dagen, fem gånger i veckan - utan undantag.

- Jag har inga lata dagar i mitt liv, jag associerar inte mat med att unna sig något. Om jag unnar mig något är det i form av att köpa något fint till mig själv som att gå på spa, träffa mina kompisar, gå på bio, umgås eller göra något kul med mina barn.

Träningen är både en passion och en livsstil för henne. Själv tränar hon för att förebygga åldrandet, både på in- och utsidan och för att orka hålla samma tempo som sina barn.

- Jag är tvåbarnsmamma och har ett enormt ansvar att vara hälsosam, mina barn behöver mig, förklarar hon.

En vanlig dag vaknar hon upp med sina barn och har en lugn start på morgonen tills de går upp och lagar frukost tillsammans. Därefter kör hon barnen till skolan, åker och tränar och jobbar några timmar tills barnen ska hämtas. Då lagar de lunch ihop och hittar sedan på något, oftast gör de något fysiskt som att rida, spela tennis eller att leka och bada i poolen.

Anna berättar att hon tycker att det är viktigt med balans i livet och den hittar hon genom att tillbringa mycket tid i hemmet. Där kryper hon ofta upp i soffan med en bok eller får massage och ansiktsbehandlingar. Ett annat stort intresse är att gå på bio, vilket hon försöker göra så ofta hon kan.

I kylskåpet hemma hos Annas finns det vissa matvaror man alltid hittar, som grönsaker, frukt, ost, keso, mjölk, skinka, salami, kalkonbröst, ägg och potatis. Och i skafferiet finns alltid svenskt mjöl, varma koppen, popcorn, tacochips och svenskt godis till barnen som bilar, chokladkakor, pepparkakor och ballerinakakor.

Alla har rätt till en hälsosam livsstil
Anna Anka tycker själv att hon har en väldigt bred kunskap inom kost och hälsa och har därmed verktygen att kunna hjälpa deltagarna med olika typer av hälsoproblem. Och hon hoppas att hennes program ska fungera som en spark i baken för att få hela svenska folket att tänka till och masa sig upp från soffan.

- Jag hoppas på att ge svenskarna ett ”wake up call” med min nya show. Fetma är ett enormt problem i hela världen. Jag ser hur svenskarna ökar i vikt varje år, säger Anna.

Men hon tycker inte att hon är hård mot sina klienter, snarare bestämd.

- Man kommer ingen vart med att jämka med, klaga eller tycka synd om någon. Folk har själva satt sig en ohälsosam situation, träning och hälsa är inte lätt eftersom det är mycket jobb och det är därför folk ger upp. Folk är lata och vill inte jobba extra hårt for att få resultat, istället hittar de på olika ursäkter, det finns inte i mitt liv.

Programmet har börjat sändas och responsen har varit enorm. Anna berättar att hon har fått tusentals mejl från svenskar som vill ha hennes hjälp och själv är hon väldigt nöjd över sin insats.

- Jag har lyckats med någonting som ingen annan har gjort! De resultat jag har fått på deltagarna under åtta veckor kan ingen annan göra. Jag är bäst och ingen kan ta det ifrån mig!

Annas dröm är att alla ska ha möjlighet att få ta del av hennes kunskap när det gäller kost och träning.

- Alla förtjänar en hälsosam livsstil utan sjukdomar och skador. Man har bara ett liv och man måste värdera det och inte ta det för givet, säger hon.

Fakta:
I form med Anna Anka sänds på tisdagar kl 20.00 på Tv 3.
Här kan du se programmet via Tv3 play

Today's Wisdom:

"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

Love Always Anna Anka

Schadenfreude

2010-12-08T19:49:00.000-08:00

You have heard that MISERY loves company. Enjoying others misery does, too.
There is no English translation for the German word SCHADENFREUDE- that small, private rush of glee in response to someone else's misfortune. But everyone recognizes the emotion, even if he or she might not have a word for it (or admit to feeling it). Tabloids have long relied on people's fascination with public failures: moralizing politicians or entitled actresses disgraced for their peccadilloes. And in recent years schadenfreude has become a prime-time staple, with models, boyfriends, parents, overweight people and recovering addicts, among others, routinely humiliated on cable television.
Scientists who study schadenfreude are learning that this secret happiness at another person's loss has biological underpinnings. The felling registers in the brain as a distinct form of pleasure, a satisfaction comparable to that of eating a good meal.

Today's Wisdom:

"Television has proven that people will look at anything rather than each other"

Love Always Anna Anka

Meny

2010-12-07T20:07:00.000-08:00

I have so many people asking me what to eat for dinner, here is one that I like:
It's simple and easy anyone can do it!

Steak with Mushrooms

Salad with Tomatoes, Cucumber, Red Onions

Ranch dressing

Fia this is for you!

I don't think it would be possible for me to be more thankful or more appreciative of all that you are. You are such a nice part of my life. I see how others look at you. I wonder if you even know how truly wonderful you are and how much you are admired by those who are lucky enough to be a part of your life.
Believe in yourself. You are destined for great things!

Today's Wisdom:

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work"

Love Always Anna Anka

KIEHL"S

2010-12-06T18:56:00.000-08:00

Today I would like to recommend the following; for people with Acne
It works wonders :)

Blue Astringent Herbal Lotion
Formulated in 1964, this unique formulation has been created for use after shaving or on oily-prone areas.

Blue Herbal Spot Treatment
Inspired by Kiehl's venerable and most enduring preparation, Blue Astringent Herbal Lotion, this gentle, yet effective gel dries and clears blackheads, whiteheads and acne blemishes and allows skin to heal. Quickly penetrates pores to eliminate most acne blemishes and help prevent new ones. May be applied on clean skin, per directions, as necessary. Dermatologist-tested to help minimize allergy risk.

Today's Wisdom:

"When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn your back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward"

Love Always Anna Anka

SVEA Christmas Fair

2010-12-05T21:11:00.000-08:00

Today was a great day :) I had my SEMLA and LUSSEKATTER. They are so good ;)
Met alot of people from my past. Wondering why all of them are coming back into my life???? Also I want to say sorry to all of you people, who wanted take pictures today, and didn't get to. I was just to overwhelmed, and I hope you have understanding for it. Thank you for all your support :).
Drove home in Rain, Thunder and Lightening :(. Came home decorated my Christmas Three, it's so cozy :)The kids favorite thing to do :)
All the houses have lights, decorations in all the stores. Christmas is so much fun.

SWEA Los Angeles Annual Swedish Christmas Fair with fine artisans and stands presenting the best of Sweden: fine art, jewelry, toys, Christmas collectibles and much more. They invite you to have authentic Swedish lunch or “fika” coffee and home baked sweets, or maybe to enjoy an invigorating glass of hot Glögg. The radiant Lucia pageant and her choir performs.

Today's Wisdom:

"Joy is not in things; it is in us"

Love Always Anna Anka

Unstoppable

2010-12-04T23:32:00.000-08:00

With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.
Director: Tony Scott
Writer: Mark Bomback
Stars:Denzel Washington, Chris Pine

This movie is so FANTASTIC, it's a must see ;)
Chris Pine, oh he is so GOOD LOOKING!!!!!! What I guy, wouldn't say NO to him :)
Really Really Good. I loved it!!
Today's Wisdom:

"All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!"

Love Always Anna Anka

Commitment phobics

2010-12-03T18:30:00.000-08:00

The average age of marriage for men in the late fifties was twenty-three, and according to popular wisdom, By the 1950-60 psychiatry had developed a massive weight of theory establishing that marriage- and within that, the breadwinner role-was the only normal state for the adult male. Outside lay only a range of diagnoses, all unflattering. Our prehistoric man allowed himself to be drawn, and doused the fire burning in his soul. Society said he had to get married. Once married, the commitment phobic was genuinely stuck, since divorce was neither accessible nor acceptable. If the urge to flee became too strong, which it often did, he was left with little choice but to do so within the confines of his marriage. Some men find alcohol, others immersed themselves in their work. Those who could get away with it would have affairs.

I want to know, when men enter a relationship, do they have a hidden agenda?
Do the purposely manipulate? Do they know they are frightened of permanent commitment? Does the fear make them anticipate and provoke the dissolution of relationship by finding excuses as to why it couldn't continue?
Why would a man go so far as to propose if he wasn't sincere?

If a mans fear is strong enough, this man will ultimately sabotage, destroy, or run away from a solid, good relationship.

Commitment phobics:

These men try to negotiate an ending, but they are rarely sure how to do it.
Whenever possible, they will find a way to blame the women or make them responsible. The men may also vacillate. Why? Because their decision to leave relieves some of their anxiety. The men provokes you into ending it by staring a huge argument or engaging in particularly outrageous behavior. As long as the relationship is troubled, he knows he has an excuse for leaving, and there is no threat of entrapment. The commitment phobic response also explains why so many of these men can be so warm and loving one moment and so abusive the next.

When a relationship fails, well-intentioned women find it all too easy to accept the blame and responsibility. However, when the man is a commitment phobic you must remember that his problem is not your problem. His relationship fails because of his internal turmoil-not because you are a bad partner. Some of these men are so good at destroying relationships that they are like hardened professionals.
Don't take the rap and send yourself to jail for his crime!

Today's Wisdom:

"I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be. But most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see"

Love Always Anna Anka

Younger Next Year

2010-12-02T19:46:00.000-08:00

Hi, I have a great book I would like to share with all the women:
Please read it, you will love it :)

My day was wonderful, had a great session working out,
I got 2 nightstands delivered for my bedroom, oh so pretty, Thank you Mr Secret :)
Catching up on all my e-mail, sorry all of you that are withing for my answers, I am getting there slowly :(

From Publishers Weekly

Crowley and Lodge rework their bestselling Younger Next Year (which targeted men) to address health and aging concerns for women. Former attorney Crowley's chatty voice alternates with internist-gerontologist Lodge's straightforward medical perspective. The authors promise that major lifestyle changes, including a six-days-a-week exercise regime, and a positive view of aging will make the "next third" of life—the stage after menopause—the most fulfilling. Because women live longer, are highly motivated for change and fear aging less than men do, the authors contend, they will reap great benefits from the program. Crowley and Lodge put their own spin on commonsense health essentials, with Lodge adding information on the latest anti aging breakthroughs. A variety of activities (biking, skiing, sailing, yoga) will likely make the intensive exercise plan more enjoyable. Although there is little new material, women may find the 71-year-old Crowley's cheer leading appealing—the old buddy tone of the previous edition is exchanged for that of a male "girlfriend"—and a great motivator not only for making lifestyle changes but for equating health with how one feels, not how one looks. (Jan.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
“A must-read for women...Dr. Lodge and Mr. Crowley offer a very clear choice: Do you want the thirty years after menopause to be good years or not? And then they explain exactly how to achieve the better option.This is an excellent book, motivating, good-natured and honest.”
— Laura L. Forese, M.D., M.P.H., Chief Medical Officer, New York–Presbyterian Hospital

Today's Wisdom:

"Resolutions are like teenage hearts; they get broken an awful lot"

Love Always Anna Anka

FACEBOOK

2010-12-01T16:13:00.000-08:00

If you don't spend your days glued to tech blogs, you might not know about the latest trend among hipster techies: quiting Facebook. These folks, including a bunch of Google engineers, are bailing out because Facebook just changed its rules so that much of your personal profile information including where you work, what music you like, and where you went to school, now gets made public by default. Some info is even shared with companies that are special partners of Facebook, like Yelp, Pandora and Microsoft.
The fear is that people are being lured into Facebook with the promise of a fun, free service, and don't realize that they're paying for it by giving up loads of personal information. Facebook then attempts to "monetize" one's data by selling it to advertisers that want to send targeted messages. Most folks using Facebook have no idea this is happening. Even if you're very tech-savvy and do know what the company is up to, you still have no idea what you're paying for Facebook, because people don't really know what their personal data is worth.
Early on, you could keep everything private. That was the great thing about Facebook-you could create your own little private network. Last year the company changed its privacy rules so that a lot of things- your city, your profile photo, the names of your friends- were set, by default to be shared with everyone on the Internet.
Facebook is a handy site, but I'm freaked by the idea that my information is in the hands of people I don't trust. That is too high a price to pay!

Today's Wisdom:

"Privacy exists only when others let you have it- privacy is an accorded right"

Love Always Anna Anka

Slick Vic

2010-11-30T21:58:00.000-08:00

Every road is sometimes filled with obstacles and defeat, but those are just steppingstones to enable you to go little further. Stay patient.
It's not having everything go right; it's facing whatever goes wrong. It's not being without fear: it's having the determination to go on in spite of it.
Do what is best for you. The future will work itself out: you're the kind of person who can make it happen. Don't let anyone else's negativity influence your dreams, values or hopes. Focus on what you can change and let go of what you can't.
You know your own worth, what you've accomplished and what you are capable of!

Today's Wisdom:

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do"

Love Always Anna Anka

Dec 2010

2010-11-29T22:21:00.000-08:00

Since your birth sign is ruled by Venus, it's positions is an important indicator of what's going on for you. And because Venus will be in your relationship angle this December, you're going to have particularly significant encounters with various people-especially business and romantic partners. The sun buoyantly aspected in Sagittarius also indicates that any negotiations currently in the works will play out very much to your advantage. It's travel plans and legal affairs that are going to be sources of anxiety, with Mercury switching directions on the 10Th, but remember, you won't get anywhere if you try to force the pace.

Sa spannande min manad ser ut :)sa snabbt detta aret har gatt, funderade idag att detta aret 2010 ar snart slut . Vilket fantastiskt ar ;) sa manga bra skaer som hant. Efter daliga saker kommer alltid bra saker.
Glom inte att se min show ikvall 8pm pa TV3, alot of drama in my show today!

Today's Wisdom:

"Anyone with a shattered heart can win the prize-a happier life, a happier relationship next time around-but only by making use of the mess right there in front of you. You have to think about it. Feel it. Mourn it. Miss him.....
And if you do all that, really breathe the sorrow, and let the sadness frame each beat of your heart, you'll not only be able to let go, you'll find yourself arriving in a new place"

Love Always Anna Anka

My New Show

2010-11-28T23:38:00.001-08:00

Hej, kan inte fatta att det redan ar forsta advent :)
Idag har jag borjat med juldekorationerna :) vi borjar tidigt i USA.
Storstadning i barnflickans rum, for att gora plats for den nya :)
Stina tack for din tid har i USA, hoppas du inte fryser i kalla Sverige, nu nar jag skamt bort dig med California Sun. Elisabeth tack snalla for mjolet du skickade, nu ska det bakas lussebullar kan du tro :)
Fick en present fran NY, fran min favorit affar MALO, oh sa glad jag blev.
Thank you! no name droppings ;)

Pa lanken nedan kan ni se min nya show:
"Jakten pa en julestjerne"
Den ska visas den 12 Dec i Norge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJ70p0m1VA

Today's Wisdom:

"I'm always happy with whatever I have. If I can get something else, great. If I lose half of everything tomorrow, fine. Tha's why I don't buy anything on credit. If everything is over with now, I still have what I have. If everything ended tomorrow, I'd say, "Well, I did okay. That was a good run"

Love Always Anna Anka

BLOGGERS

2010-11-27T18:44:00.000-08:00

The key to the person behind the keyboard. Is the Internet,that bastion of
anonymity, just a cesspool of typists on new personas and putting on airs?

Self-conscious bloggers, for example, tend to be negative, focus on achievement,
and use the word "size" the latter often related to clothes.
The capacity for evils is, for most people, the easiest to hide.
In our culture, rage is so stigmatic and demonized that we conceal it fairly successfully. We try to be too nice or too nice or too good. Normal anger
can fester and turn into toxic resentment, embitterment, hostility, or
explosive violence.

Neurotic bloggers tend to use tons of first-person pronouns, fixate on their feelings, employ modifiers such as "awful" and "terribly" and sprinkle the word "stress" throughout their prose.
"HELP"!!! I have horrible, awful, no good, very bad PMS -Typical Julia Allison.

Gregarious people commonly employ terms indicative of a vibrant social life "friends", "girls", "tickets" and "drinks" among them.
"I have been friends with Brenner for 30 years- I can't swear that she danced at my wedding, but she definitely attended it" -Typical Arianna Huffington.

Self- disciplined bloggers are also less likely to take angry or tentative tones.
They have a task-oriented mentality and use words such as "practical", "ready" and "completed"
"So you have a practical, targeted measure that seems to have helped abate a deeper recession in the auto industry" Typical Andrew Sullivan.

Liberal bloggers use longer words such as "complicated", "particularly" and "literature"
"One of the things I find puzzling about the whole oil market discussion is how complicated people seem to make it" Typical Paul Krugman

Today's Wisdom:

"The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success"

Love Always Anna Anka

FROG Style

2010-11-26T21:31:00.000-08:00

This is one of my exercises that I love, ladies it works your abs, legs and of course the BUTT! Takes some practise, difficult to do :( once you get hold of it, you will love it ;)

Today I went to Malibu, to met someone special :) we had the beach to ourselves,
it was magic ;)
Went on the jet ski and had a great time. It felt like it was yesterday, but we haven't seen each other for 10 years ;( Life is strange????
My brain worked overtime. They say everything happens for a reason,
What is the reason???

Today's Wisdom:

"You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy"

Love Always Anna Anka

Hold Me Tight

2010-11-25T17:40:00.000-08:00

Love may be the most used and the most potent word in the English language. We write tomes about it, pen poems about it. We sing about it and pray for it. We fight wars for it and build monuments to it. We soar on its declaration "I LOVE YOU" and plummet at it's dissolution " I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE" We think about it and talk about it endlessly. But what is it really?????

For better or worse, in the twenty-first century, a love relationship has become the central emotional relationship in most peoples lives. One reason is that we are increasingly living in social isolation. Most of us no longer live in supportive communities with our birth families or childhood friends close at hand. We work longer and longer hours, commute farther and farther distances, and thus have fewer and fewer opportunities to develop close relationship. We now know that love is, in actuality, the pinnacle of evolution, the most compelling survival mechanism of the human species. But because love drives us to bond emotionally with a precious few others who offer us safe haven from the storms of life. Love is our bulwark, designed to provide emotional protection so we can cope with the ups and downs of existence. This drive to emotionally attach- to find someone to whom we can turn and say " HOLD ME TIGHT" is wired into our genes and our bodies. It is as basic to life, health, and happiness as the drives for food, shelter, or sex. We need emotional attachments with a few irreplaceable others to be physically and mentally healthy
to survive.

I have always been fascinated by relationships. I spend a lot of time watching people meeting, talking, drinking, brawling, dancing and flirting. But the focal point of my young life was my adoptive parents marriage. I watched helplessly as they destroyed their marriage and themselves. My response to my adoptive parents pain was to vow never to get married. Romantic love was, I decided, an illusion and a trap. I was better of on my own, free and unfettered. But then, of course I fell in love and married. Love pulled me in even as I pushed it away.

Love it seemed, was all about nonnegotiable. You can't bargain for compassion,
for connection. These are not intellectual reactions; they are emotional responses.
I began to understand that there were key negative and positive emotional moments that defined a relationship. I also saw my own marriage much more clearly.
I understood that in these dramas we are caught up in emotions that are part of a survival program set out by millions of years of evolution. I understood that what couple therapy and education had been lacking was a clear scientific view of love.
But when I tried to get my views across, most of the people around me did not agree at all. First they said that emotions was something adults should control. Indeed, that too much emotion was the basic problem in most marriages.
It should be overcome, not listened to or indulged. But most important, they argued, healthy adults are self-sufficient. Only dysfunctional people need or depend on others. We often slip into disconnection and lose our love, in spite of the best intentions and the greatest insights. Love has an immense ability to help heal the devastating wounds that life sometimes deals us. Love also enhances our sense of connection to the larger world. Loving responsiveness is the foundation of a truly
compassionate, civilized society.

Today's Wisdom:

"A change of feeling is a change of destiny"

Love Always Anna Anka

Emotional Styles

2010-11-24T19:20:00.000-08:00

Do you ever think of? who you are of these?

ABANDONMENT: Ongoing fear that people will leave is at the root of this emotional style. People fear the once they love will leave or they may adapt by running away from a relationship before they can get hurt.

ENTITLEMENT:People with this style feel that rules don't apply to them. They have been spoiled as a child or the love they received was based on a certain quality like looks, academics, athletic skills. These people often exaggerate, usually to hide a feeling of inadequacy or feel they are entitled to more than their fair share of compensation. They also lack self discipline. You are drawn to people who makes decisions for you. You feel guilty about having needs or wants of your own. You feel resentful when your needs or wishes aren't considered.

MISTRUST: Suspiciousness are quick temper are typical of this emotional style. the mistrust stems from having been physically, sexually or emotional abused. People of this style tend to gravitate to relationships in which their worst fears are confirmed, getting involved with people who treats them badly. People fear they won't succeed at anything no matter how hard they try. As children they were put down or made feel inept.

UNLOVABLE: Shame and humiliation along with a feeling of being flawed. Some give in to their deep feelings of unworthiness while others hide behind arrogance, seeking public recognition and adulation. People with this emotional style find it hard to be genuine in a relationship. People hold themselves to the highest standards but feel it's never good enough. As children they were made to feel they could always do better no matter what they have accomplished. Peoples relationship suffer because they push them self to hard.

PERFECTIONISM: People with this style unrelentingly hold them selves to the highest standards. No Matter how well they do it's never good enough. They drive themselves until the rest of their life suffers. This emotional style drives people to push themselves in sports, at school in physical appearance or for social status. People find themselves in a caretaker role with others. Are drawn to relationships with people who are cold or self-absorbed.

Today's Wisdom:

"Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reasons we don't
like to open a letter that has bad news"

Love Always Anna Anka

Selfmatter

2010-11-23T21:04:00.000-08:00

Thank you all for the Live Chat today, it was over 3500 people writing to me, so I am so sorry i could not answer you all :(

Statistics indicate that most people are tremendously confined by life circumstance that they inherit, totally ignoring whether this is a life they would have chosen.
this major set of factors shapes what you are:

External Factors: You can trace who you have become in this life by 10 defining moments, 7 critical choices and 5 pivotal people. You can not change these moments, choices, people. But once acknowledge you can begin to work on changing your future!

Internal Factors:
The external factors we have no control over our internal factors are made up of our reactions to the event in our life. Since this reaction happens within us, we have the power to change them.

Defining Moments:
Every person's life there has been moments both positive and negative that have defined and redefined who you are. Those events entered your consciousness with such power that they changed the very core of whom and what you thought you were.

Critical Choices:
These have changed your life positively or negatively and are major factors in determining who and what you will become. They are the choices that have affected your life today and have set you on a path.

Pivotal People:
These are people who have left indelible impression on your concept of self and therefore the life you live. They may be family members, friends or co-workers. Their influences can be either positive or negative. They are people who can determine whether you live with your authentic self or instead live a counterfeit life controlled by a fictional self that has crowded out who you really are.

Internal Dialogue:
Continuous conversation you have with yourself about everything that happens to you.

Labeling:
People tend to organize things into categories. We even categorize other people by labeling them into groups, classes or functions. But we also label ourselves for better or worse these labels have a powerful impact on our perceptions of self because we tend to live the categories we have attached to ourselves.

Tapes:
These are beliefs that have become so deeply ingrained that they play automatically in our heads and influence our behavior without our awareness. Unlike labels
(I never win) Tapes have context Ex: I won't get the promotion because I never win.
Tapes are dangerous and potentially self-defeating because they have the power to set you up for a specific outcome.

Fixed Beliefs/Limited Beliefs:
Fixed beliefs are the beliefs we hold about ourselves, others and life circumstances that have been repeated for so long they have become ingrained and are difficult to change. Limited beliefs are the beliefs we have about ourselves that limit what we reach for and achieve.

Today's Wisdom:

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give"

Love Always Anna Anka

Home Sweet Home

2010-11-22T22:37:00.000-08:00

What a day, I am back in LA :)
My private plane had problems with the engines, they were frozen, after an Hour fixing the problem, we had to deice my plane, what a nightmare ;(
I thought for a moment, I had to stay in Norway one more day.

Kids were so happy to see me, and their presents from Norway :) My little pumpkins I missed them so much.
I just want to take a moment to say thank you, to all the people I was involved with during my stay in Norway. The people are so kind, I was taken care of so well.
I will always remember :)

Don't forget my show Tuesday 8pm, you will see a great story this week ;)
I have to get some sleep, been up for 24 hours now :(

Today's Wisdom:

"Never be afraid, or too lazy, to stay on the pace. Let your skills constantly grow.
Challange them. Buils them. Share them. And draw from other's skills. Use your
experiance. But keep it current"

Love Always Anna Anka

Coop Prix

2010-11-21T14:26:00.000-08:00

Idag har jag filmat min reklamfilm for Coop Prix, det var jattekul, alla var fantastiska, sa snalla och tog verkligen bra hand om mig.
Sa ni far halla utkik pa den ;) ge mig garna feedback vad ni tycker.

Skynda mig till Artesia, for min traning, oh det var sa skont. Killarna som trana tog smygbilder pa mig :)

Stressa tillbaka till hotelet sa jag hann ata och dusch, innan det var dags att aka ner till TV2, for att spela in Journalist TRUDE.

Dom gjorde mig sa vacker med mitt har & make-up, jag kande mig som en miljon dollar woman :) intervjuen var jattebra, kandes rattvist. Ni kan se showen pa Onsdag den 24 November pa TV2. Alla tog sa bra hand om mig, tack snalla :)

Jag avsluta min dag med en fin middag med min fantastisk van/buisness partner. Sa sorligt att saga hej da :( jag kommer att grata pa planet hem ;( Onskar att jag kunde packa ner henne i min vaska. Men det hade blivit overvikt, men hon lova att skarpa sig! Specielt nu nar hon ser min nya show IForm med Anna Anka ;)
Cecilia I love you, just the way you are!!!!!!

Today's Wisdom:

"I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience"

Love Always Anna Anka

Jakten pa en Julestjerne

2010-11-20T12:13:00.000-08:00

Fick lite sovmorgon idag, men nar telefonen ringde kunde jag inte fatta att vi redan skulle upp :(
At vara proteinbarer och gick ner for att trana :)

11.30am kom Hair & Make-up, for att fixa mig for TV showen "Jakten pa en Julestjerne" som filmades i Murenvein 5 in Baerums Verk. Blev hamtad av en limo
1pm :)
Tobias Karlsson var med i showen ;) sa roligt att traffa honom :)
Showen kommer att visas den 12 Dec :) Hade jatteroligt att testa kandisarna, vem som var starkast. Sorligt att skicka hem 3 st :(

Dildon var FANTASTISK!!!!!! Den fungerade utmark i min traning ;)

Avsluta dagen med middag pa Theather Grillen i Oslo. At mig sjalv idag mums ANKA :)
Sedan var jag tvungen att springa pa stan for att leta Norskt godis till mina barn.
Fy vad kallt det var, men skont :)

Nu sitter vi och ater chips och popcorn, riktig PIG day idag

Today's Wisdom:

"Whenever you can't think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath.
With each breath you take, you can say, I am still here!

Love Always Anna Anka

Pure Gold Excitement

2010-11-19T08:43:00.000-08:00

Idag borja jag dagen med att ga ner till en harsalong for att fa en skalpmassage och inpackning for haret, sa skont. Gick vidare for att fa make-up gjord for min fotografering med KK Magazine. Pa ett helt fantastiskt stalle Artesia, med bade gym spa etc. Medlemskapet kostar 50.00 Norska om aret plus 2000 Norska i manaden.
Men det ar det vart ;) gjorde ocksa ett Web-inslag.

Hade lunch pa en Kinesisk stalle DINNER. Min nya Favorit :)

Skynda oss vidare for min andra intervjue for Kamille Magazine, dom fick en hel dag med Anna Anka, vad jag alskar att shoppa var temat :)
Avsluta med att ga in pa Kondomeriet, jag dog, vilket samhalle vad har hant???
Vad folk anvander for att fa njutningar ar "beyond my imagination"!
I am so old fashion. I got bombarded with people wanting taking pics with me ;)
Pa vag ut fick jag en overraskning av min reporter, hon kopte en Pure Gold Excitement till mig, och hon forvantar sig en feedback. I cant believe it, now I am forced to try it;) :) :)

Today's Wisdom:

" When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we do no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others"

Love Always Anna Anka

Tv2

2010-11-18T10:07:00.000-08:00

Vakna 4am kunde inte sova pga jag hade sa ont i min hals :(
Fick aka till en lakare, dom tog blodprover osv, men dom sa att dom inte kunde gora nagot pga jag fatt nagot virus i halsen???

Went to Redcord, for my treatments with Gitle Kirkesola, what a wonderful person!
I want to put him in my suitecase and bring him home. I feel so much better, thank you. Also thank you Knut, for spending the day with me today, it was a pleasure.
The lunch was fantastisk, best Chinese Food in Oslo ;)

Went to TV2 for meeting ;) it went great, nice people.
Did an interview with Dorthe, gave her a workout.
I really enjoy my stay in Norway ;) I am coming back :)

Today's Wisdom"

" When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out. I ask myself, How does this feel? What do I want my life to be like? I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expecations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answears are ultimately within us"

Love Always Anna Anka

Nov 17 2010

2010-11-17T13:50:00.000-08:00

Idag borja jag dagen med intervjuer: VG.nett, Her & No, Dagbladet, Side 2
Hade en Facial med Darphin Produkterna, pa Beone Spa, oh det var sa skont, alskar mina Darphin :)

Akte ut till Flygplatsen, traffa Mikas ang buisness. Hon flog in fran Stockholm. Sa himla gulligt av henne. Mika tack snalla du, att du tog dig tiden att komma till Oslo!

Akte till Daikai Spa for att ha min massage, oh det behovdes, sa skont, sa mysigt var det :)

Traffa Trobbel Film ,gick igenom allt infor reklamfilmen. Hade Middag ihopa pa Theatercafee'n. Fantstisk god mat :)

Avsluta kvallen med mote med Tv2 och Trude Show.

Har nastan tappat halsen, efter allt pratande.
Maste lagga mig helt slut efter en lang, men valdigt rolig dag.
Forlat alla ni som jag inte han ringa, eller svara pa era mail :(

Today's Wisdom:

"Your life is speaking to you every day, all the time- and your job is to listen up and find the clues. Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated"

Love Always Anna Anka

Hotel Continental

2010-11-16T17:49:00.000-08:00

Today I arrived to Oslo, the fog was so bad, the visability is minimum 600 on a private plane to land, we had 200, My captain said, this was his most difficult landing ever as a pilot. He said he has never been so scared in his life :( I did not think we were going to make it. So scary ;( Was picked up, oh it's so cold here, but it's good for my skin ;) I was taken to the hotel. The location is perfect!

When I walked into my room, the hotel had some welcome gifts for me, Louis Vuitton :)
Molton Brown, Champagne etc.
I was so chocked, that that is so kind! Thank you so much all of you.
I will always remember, and it's my color also ;)

Roomservice came in with the best seafood soup, and smoked salmon with a tomato salad with cucumber, onions and Feta Cheese and of course my fesh mint tea.
Eveybody is taken such a good care of me.

Now it so late, have to get up in few hours for my first interview.
Good night everybody. Ps dont forget to give me your comments on my blog of my show last night, Iform med Anna Anka, if you missed it you can watch it @ TV3.se

Today's Wisdom:

"What happens in the first four minutes of togetherness sets the tone for the rest of your day or evening. So use that time to connect, acknowledge each other, and have fun"

Love Always Anna Anka