Patricia Jean Smithyman-Zito’s first book, “Living in the NOW™: The Secret to Making Each Day Your Best,” was born from nearly 50 years of personal journal work. Throughout her life, PJ had an incredibly full schedule of serving, teaching, being involved in church ministry and leadership, interpreting for deaf friends, and raising four children with her husband, John.
However, everything changed when she retired. PJ began revisiting her journals, seeking to rediscover her true self and real purpose. As she read through her experiences, PJ conducted a personal inventory of her strengths and weaknesses, recognizing that growth comes from embracing both. With a lifetime of wisdom and grace gained from her journey, she sought guidance from her true self to define her new NOW vision of putting self-care first.
“Living in the NOW™” emerged from that period of self-care and self-discovery, revealing that her life’s work was just beginning. This book became a manual for a new NOW. This new NOW became a guide and her signature system, designed to help readers fully live in each moment by putting self-care first.
It’s a hands-on book that encourages readers to actively engage in self-care first, understanding the power available when “Living in the NOW™” on purpose.
The book took seven years to write and offers 40 days of self-work, allowing readers to write directly in its pages as they work through how the Mental Plane™ mind influences the Physical Plane™ body and how the Physical Plane™ body influences the Mental Plane™ mind. PJ’s goal was that by the end of those 40 days, readers would understand how to balance these two Planes and tap into the Spiritual Plane™ abundance available when “Living in the NOW™” through created healthy habits.
Putting self-care first is the secret to making each day your best, and this has become PJ’s new NOW mission. All 20+ of her publications, her 3 courses, and her ZitoProHealth.com website support the creation of a self-care first plan that endures beyond the typical one-month New Year’s resolutions.
PJ believes self-care is about retreating within to build a relationship with oneself, to hear the whispers that one’s true self has been trying to share for a lifetime. The world constantly dictates how people “should” be to find happiness and success, but PJ’s books, journals, planners, diaries, and even her Amazon #1 Bestselling healthy how-to cookbook are designed to help create habits of self-care. They are all about “Living in the NOW™” on purpose. The NOW is all anyone truly has, and by learning how to put self-care first, one can stop the old NOW chaos and frustration.
PJ’s example and her honest teachings guide individuals in creating a new reality, an expansive vision, and healthy NOW that is grounded in inner abundance and self-awareness. Tapping the world within is the new NOW journey and it is expansive! This is what PJ means when she says “Happy NOW” to everyone she meets because your new NOW will be your guide to living as your best self, ensuring you never miss another moment of your extraordinary life. PJ Zito’s signature book is the foundation and system for “Living in the NOW™: The Secret to Making Each Day Your Best.”
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