Approach
By mirroring the practice and mindset of successful athletes and businesspeople, I show you how the principles of achievement can be applied to everyday life. By following my Four Stepping Stones to Success you will reach your goals.

THE FOUR STEPPING STONES TO SUCCESS – DREAM, DEFINE, DESIGN and DRIVE

DREAM: If you can imagine it, you can make it happen. Your dreams become your vision and your vision becomes your reality.

Through coaching, I'll show you the powerful connection between written goals and success. I will then help you clarify your vision to make it real. Together, we focus on four major areas of your life for true fulfillment and balance;

•  Spiritual and emotional
•  Physical – Health and Weight Loss
•  Financial and Business
•  Relationships, family and community

DEFINE: Define your optimal 'healthy mindset' and create the right skills of thinking to lead you to your goals. Together, we identify all the positive thoughts and actions needed for happiness and success. We explore potential obstacles that are currently preventing you from achieving your goals. Through mental visualization and hypnosis we reveal such obstacles and ingrain positive thoughts into your long-term memory.

DESIGN: Design a written strategy uniquely suited to you that becomes your new personal road map.

Using your goals and your new positive and healthy mindset we create a plan of action that enables you to take small but decisive and positive steps towards your dreams. I continue to coach you on how to use your road map and guide you towards long-term success.

DRIVE: Drive means action: After working closely with me defining and designing your dream, it’s time to drive your life forward. Once you have reinvented yourself, you have all the emotional, physical and spiritual tools to take control of your life with confidence, ease and success.

Biography
Founder of Drive Your Life, a visionary center for Health and Well-Being, Michelle Baumgartner has created a revolutionary and highly effective approach to long-term health, weight loss, and life enhancement by focusing on mindset and incorporating strategies tailored to each individual.

Michelle was a high profile, international Track and Field athlete in the
mid-1980's and early 1990's, setting records, which remain to this day. 
Hailed as the Golden Girl of Australian running, she became a frequent guest on national television and a regular in print media. Michelle represented Australia in numerous international events, winning a gold medal in the 1980 Pacific Conference Games, placing fifth in the Commonwealth Games and qualifying for the 1992 Olympic Games. Her career ended abruptly shortly before the Games when she suffered a ruptured Achilles. Michelle knows only too well the kind of persistence, passion and psychological conditioning it takes to set records, as well as the emotional and mental tools needed to overcome adversity and disappointment.

Michelle completed her degree in Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Deakin University and became Head coach and Director of Girl's Sport at one of Melbourne's most exclusive private schools. She later co-founded Leader Sport's Marketing and Management firm in 1991. She is a certified Hypnotherapist and an accomplished competitive road cyclist and mother of three young children.

Michelle's energy is boundless! Her enthusiasm for success and long-term health is contagious and her passion and eagerness to help others find the same fulfillment in their lives has inspired her to compile a lifetime of ideas and experiences into a program that really works.