Internal Pageant Preparation - The Real Secret to Winning the Crown

How you feel internally is what will set the tone for your entire pageant experience and weekend. Because of this, you want to do everything you can to ensure you are relaxed and stress free when heading into check-in. Think about the activities you do when you are stressed. What helps you relax? Remind yourself that you are as prepared as can be, there is nothing to stress over. Below are some ideas you could incorporate into your daily routine for the week(s) leading up to the pageant and during the pageant weekend to help you relax: - Take a bath - Drink tea - Practice yoga/Breathing exercises - Run/Strength train/Exercise - Visualize - Meditate Ensuring you are stress free beforehand will enable you to better handle the stress that will come up during the pageant. It is so important to have yourself trained and conditioned to handle the pressures of competing. If you need help with working through stress and to learn how to use the high pressure environment to your a

All of us know that when preparing for a pageant, the pageantry world consumes everything we do, think or even say. We watch videos, train, go shopping, train some more, check out the gossip online, watch previous pageants, attend appearances and so much more. And then if you win, it becomes even more a part of your world as you have appearances once or more a week, and are preparing yourself to compete for the national or International title on top of that. What happens after the pageant or after you pass on your title? Some women run into trouble after all the excitement of the pageant because they have started to attach and identify themselves with the pageant and/or title. You are NOT your title. WHO you are is not Miss Whoever. Life after pageants It is so important that from the start of training and there on, you do not mix your personal identity with your title because something bad will happen once that title is taken away or you're done competing and don’t w

There are two things every pageant winner has in common – I will reveal the first to you as it pertains to this post: There are two major points I want to make within that statement. Destiny The first is that every winner is destined to win. Like I’ve stated before , winning a pageant can only ever be a desire, not a goal. This is because the outcome is completely out of your hands. There is nothing you can do to alter the destiny of someone. This is where the importance of your spirituality is so vital with pageant preparation and in life. Your faith will provide you with the peace in knowing there is a higher power working and guiding you toward the purpose you were made to lead here on Earth. I believe everyone has a divine purpose. There is a reason why you are competing in pageants. Maybe that reason has revealed itself to you or, like myself, it will reveal itself in the future, after you are done competing or have won a title. Part of your ultimate pu