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Good Habits for A Healthy Body

October 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Christopher R. Edwards -

Have you considered why our ancestors led such healthy lives, while we face health problems since our formative years? It is all a matter of adopting good habits.

A few generations ago, life was simpler and tougher. There were no household gadgets, no malls where you could just go and pick up food, and no takeaways when you didn’t feel like cooking. All food was homegrown and home cooked, and people ate well and worked hard. This is still the case in some ethnic populations that have managed to steer clear of rampant modernization.

Now, we have made our lifestyle so much more convenient. When we pick up vegetables from the mall, we have no clue how they have been grown and what pesticides have been used. We buy butter and oils off the shelf without realizing how they have been processed and buy cakes and cookies without thinking twice about what ingredients are used. As a result, we pile on the calories and go on crash diets, only to end up harming ourselves.

One cardinal rule of eating healthy is that the more something is cooked, the more nutrients it loses. The processed food we get in the market all go through a process of pasteurization and homogenization. They are passed through high heat, and such foods lose their natural goodness. At times, they lose all their nutrients and need to be supplemented with the same after the processing is done.

Study the food pyramid closely and decide what a balanced diet plan should be like. Our body requires more than 40 kinds of nutrients, so our diet should consist of a balanced ratio of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins.

When we put on weight, we tend to shun all kinds of fat. What we must realize is that our body requires fat to convert it into energy. Fats are a valuable energy source that is full of fat soluble vitamins for growth.

Of course, too much fat is bad, and saturated and trans fats are bad for health. Avoid poly unsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) which can be found in most refined and overly heated oils except coconut oil, palm oil, olive oil, and flaxseed oil. Commercially baked goodies are also rich in PUFA, so make sure you choose carefully before you bite into these lovely cupcakes or cookies from your favorite bakery.

When consumed excessively, Omega 6 acids, which are found in most oils, is bad for health. This habit leads to cancer, heart, and inflammatory diseases. Omega 3 fatty acids, on the other hand, are good for regulating our cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Unfortunately, most people consume more Omega 6 than Omega 3, which is rarely consumed.

If you want to start eating healthy food, you should shift to natural, whole, or minimally processed foods. Try to incorporate raw veggies and fruits in your diet.

Fermented or cultured food products are very good for the body. These contain live cultures that detoxify the system, and can be found in probiotic yogurt and homemade cheese.

Once you make certain changes in your selection of foods, you will understand what you have been missing.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 – Habits

July 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old – old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don’t. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh

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Six Steps For Changing Old Behaviors

February 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Donald Child, Ph.D. -

If you are embarking on a course of self-improvement, it may help to understand a little about the “Stages of Change” model used by many health and wellness coaches. This widely recognized model of change was originally developed by James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente. The stages of change they identified hold true whether you want to change an addictive behavior such as smoking or excessive drinking, or if you want to lose weight, be less moody, be more loving … virtually any behavior pattern that you want to change.

The stages of change are:

Stage 1 – Pre-contemplation

During this stage, you may not even be aware that something needs to change. If you are aware of it, you know that you probably will eventually have to come to grips with changing your behavior, but right now it’s just not important. You have learned to cope with the way you are, and you are perfectly happy with that.

Stage 2 – Contemplation

During this stage, you are thinking about trying to change your behavior, but you haven’t yet found the will to do anything about it. You may recognize some of the hurdles and difficulties of changing your behavior, and you may be thinking about making some changes at some point in the future, but you are just not ready to act in the immediate future. Think of it as building up your courage to start making changes. To get out of the contemplation stage, think about what the new you would be like, the you without the behavior that you want to change. That will give you something to aspire to.

Stage 3 – Preparation

During this stage, you are getting ready for action. You plan on initiating changes sometime during the next month, and are starting to prepare yourself. Preparing for change can mean that you are starting to identify members of your social network who can support you in your change, and you are starting to research where you can obtain some of the tools that you need to make changes. You are getting yourself organized in a way that will make it possible to change successfully.

Stage 4 – Action

This is the stage most people think about when they start making changes. This is the actual process of change. Stop doing the old behavior and start doing the new behavior. Use all the props that are necessary, including your social network and your tools for removing obstacles to change. Practice the new behavior, and continue to reinforce the reasons for doing so. Keep that picture of the new you in mind. Overcome any feelings of loss that you have since you have abandoned your old behavior, and replace those feelings of loss with the joy of gaining freedom from your old behavior patterns. This stage can last for three to six months before the new behavior becomes a habit. It takes persistence.

Stage 5 – Maintenance

You now own your new behavior, and you are responsible for its care and feeding. Support your new behavior and use it as a foundation for making other behavioral changes. Check back occasionally to make sure that you are still on track. Guard against Stage 6, which is ….

Stage 6 – Relapse

Yes relapse does happen. Try not to let it, but if it does, don’t beat yourself up over it. Use the experience of your earlier change to make the change again with renewed commitment and stronger coping mechanisms. Remember that you changed for a reason. If you need another form of motivation to make the change, look for it. Recognize that you are already beyond the first stage of change … you are beyond pre-contemplation. One step down, four to go.

When you make a resolution to change and then fail to keep it, it just means that you were not yet ready to make the change. Look at the steps. Have you contemplated change? Have you prepared for change? Or did you just leap in on a dare, and tried to make a change without going through the earlier stages?

Use these stages as a self-assessment tool, and you will be more successful at effecting change in your life.

Donald Child, Ph.D., is a freelance writer and health coach in addition to being a Senior Technical Writer at Honolulu technology firm DataHouse Consulting. His coaching blog can be read at http://www.healthisyourdestiny.com

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4 Healthy Habits We Love to Hate

March 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Living a healthy lifestyle is often not as hard as we make it out to be. We all know what to do, but just can’t seem to bring ourselves to do it consistently. Instead of engaging in the activities that will ensure our health, which ensures our quality of life, we prefer to medicate or ignore. Bad habits and healthy habits have one thing in common…they are both habits, and habits can be changed, eliminated, or created. Here are the 4 Healthy Habits We Love to Hate.

Habit #1: Drink! Water That Is

Many of the sodas and juices we drink several times a day can give us more calories than the food we eat. As an experiment, a young man eliminated the 5 – 6 sodas he drank daily from his diet, and within a month, he lost 15 pounds with no additional changes to this diet. While sodas and juices do contain some water, it contains far more sugar, syrup and chemical sweetners than what can be considered healthy. In fact, sometimes after drinking soda or juice, you are left even thirstier than before!

Water is necessary for healthy living. Our bodies are mostly water. Without enough water, we can become dehydrated which causes all sorts of problems, including headaches, loss of energy, and lack of full body function. Water doesn’t have the sweet taste of our manufactured drinks. However, it does have the distinction of being necessary for life, and for healthy living. Sugary drinks always taste good in the short term. Water is always the best choice for your health in the long term. When short term and long term goals conflict, always choose the long term. Water is your friend. Get rid of the imposters.

Habit #2: Sleep Until You Are Done

We are perpetually tired. Between stress and lack of sleep, we are falling asleep at red lights or while actively driving, we walk into walls, spill our drinks, make simple mistakes that often have big consequences, and we have close to no mental clarity. Sleep is our body’s method of rejuvenation, and allowing our minds the time it needs to organize our thoughts and memories for clarity and recall. We often think that sleeping less means we’ll get more done, but the opposite is actually true.

If you find yourself waking up tired and remaining tired all day, go to bed earlier. Record your favorite late night shows and watch them during your waking hours. Cut out some of your social networking time, internet surfing and game playing time, and your late night channel hopping. Instead, get to bed. Slow down your thinking by realizing that while in bed, you can’t do anything about the work you left at the job, the people that wronged you, or the thing you forgot to do today. Rest your mind and body. That is the only way to be fully prepared for what tomorrow will bring, and to accomplish your to do list completely. Don’t just sleep enough to function. Sleep enough to function well.

Habit #3: Move Your Body

Our ancestors had to exercise in order to eat, whether they had to hunt or grow their food. With the advent of the take out menu, many jobs that leave us sitting all day long, and mind sucking television shows, we just can’t seem to find time to exercise. If we aren’t burning more calories than we eat, we gain weight, which can lead to one of many health issues later down the line.

If you are a “go to the gym” type of person, find a way to fit it into your schedule and then stick with it. Identify a work out buddy that can help keep you motivated and have fun. If you are more of a game person, pick a sport that you love and play it several times a week. If you are a studio person, aerobics, yoga, and martial arts are all great ways to get moving. Movement is the energy of living. Lack of motion is the energy of life ending.

Habit #4: Eat to Live, Don’t Live to Eat

We all know we need to eat fresh, vibrant, nutritious foods. Yet, we settle for fake foods, or foods with so much sugar or preservatives that it no longer resembles what it was intended to be. The problem is speed, a sweet tooth, and the need to pacify.

We have become so busy in our lives that we rush, even when we don’t need to. Rather than taking the time to prepare a healthy meal and share it with our families, we buy something on the way home. If we do prepare foods at home, we microwave it, pull it out of a can, or fry it up. Instead, let’s slow down when it comes to our food. Meals with family should be about health…healthy foods, healthy family time together, and healthy conversation.

In addition to rushing, we love our sweets. Some of us are so conditioned to eat sweets that even when we know we no longer like them, we still have to have them. When you have a sweet tooth, choose yogurt or a citrus fruit. When you need a pick-me-up, choose nuts, carrot sticks, or another fruit or vegetable you enjoy. Let’s put down the candy and cakes and pick up something we’ll be proud to eat!

Comfort foods are all around us. When we feel stressed or have a challenging day, there are those foods that we often have to have to help us unwind. Let’s make that choice a healthy one going forward. The problem is that many of our unhealthy choices make things worse. Sugar gives us the fast up and the fast crash. Fried foods and foods with a lot of preservatives can increase our blood pressure and leave us with the general feeling physically bad. Fast foods can do all of the above. From this point on, eat foods that will add quality to your life and leave the rest behind.

James LeGrand is an Author, Life Strategist, and the publisher of http://www.SpiritualIndividual.com, a free weekly newsletter that presents solutions to life’s issues through the lens of self-help, wisdom, philosophy and spirituality. He is the author of an Amazon.com best seller in Religion and Spirituality titled Evolve!, and an Expert Author with Ezine Articles.com & SelfGrowth.com. James LeGrand is also a former Radio Personality, and a Sifu in Shaolin Kungfu, which has been known for centuries as a pathway to spiritual enlightenment.

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Empowered Parenting: A three part series on how to empower parenting by strengthening the family unit

March 11, 2010 By 1 Comment

ComfortingBy Eric Putnam -

Empowered parenting takes advantage of the power of habits, routines and rituals, strengthens family relationships and the family as a whole.

Part 1: Take advantage of the power of habits, routines and rituals

What are habits, routines and rituals and how can they help me parent my child?

Habits are involuntary behaviors that occur because of prior repetition.

At first glance, habits may seem small but can strengthen over time and have profound effects on people’s lives.  Habits can help and habits can hurt.  They can maximize memory, decrease stress, and allow us to multi-task.  They can also lead to uncontrolled tantrums, backtalking and defiance, and aggression toward others.

Let’s face it we are all creatures of habit.  Habit comes easy to us.  Since we naturally form habits, we might as well take advantage of it.

The Power of Repetition

Our brain learns through repetition and then becomes comfortable with its predictability.

If you were to roll a ball down a hill, it would fall down a particular path.  As you increase the number of times that you roll the ball down the hill, it would start to fall into one of a few paths.  Over time, the ball would follow the more used paths over the lesser used ones.  The brain follows the most used paths of action.

It takes about 27 days of repetition for a habit to take hold in the brain; the more daily repetitions the better.

Empower Yourself with Routine and Ritual

Routine is when you repeat a sequence of behaviors together.  Routine is a habitualized activity.  Routine is the sequence of events that helps you get through your day.  It helps our children get ready for school in the morning and to sleep at night.

Rituals are more powerful than routines.  Rituals are routines that have some sort of symbolic meaning attached to them.  Rituals are the family dinner and the hug goodbye.  The symbol is family and love.

Families create lots of rituals including:

-       Baby showers

-       Birthdays

-       Graduations

-       Weddings

-       Funerals

Rituals draw on the power of the symbol within the routine to strengthen and support the behavior.

Choosing Positive Routines and Rituals

Our lives are filled with knee-jerk reactions and poor choices.  Parents have the opportunity to choose new positive paths for family growth.  Parents can choose to create new positive parenting routines and rituals that support the family as a whole as well as address specific child misbehaviors.

Parents can choose:

-       Family fun time

-       Family dinner time

Parents can also choose for their children:

-       One-on-one time

-       Skill building time

Think of a new routine or ritual that you want to introduce to your family or specific child and get ready to:

-       Commit

-       Engage

-       And have fun

Commit

Commitment is the driving force getting your new routine or ritual going.  Don’t commit to something you can’t do.  If able, commit to a specific day and time.  Post it on a calendar and talk about it the rest of the family or any other significant people in your day-to-day lives.  If something comes up that prevents you from doing your new routine or ritual, immediately reschedule and follow through.

Engage

Activate all of your senses.  Try to incorporate as many of your five sense as you can.  Encourage discussion, storytelling, song, physical activity and contact, etc.

Have fun.

Habits are much easier to learn when you are having fun.  Ask for feedback from the rest of the family and be true to yourself as to what would make it more fun for you as the parent.

Remember that repetition is the key, you may get some resistance at first but don’t fight it.  Ride it out until the habit takes hold and the empowerment begins.  Next month we will look at specific routines and rituals that parents can use to strengthen family relationships.

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Sorting things out

February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

lidsandcontainersBy Irene Conlan -

Yesterday I took on the long avoided task of sorting lids and containers. It seemed like I never had the right lid to fit the container I had already filled with leftovers destined for the refrigerator. It was  time to fix it – actually it was time to fix it several months ago but it is one of those jobs that can be postponed indefinitely.

Jack came over and asked if there was anything he could do to help me. As much as I didn’t want to I said, “Yes.” Let’s get all those  little plastic containers and lids out of the cabinet and sort them out. They are stored in a lower cabinet in the kitchen and,  since he’s six,  he can crawl in and get stuff from the back. He brought them all out, wiped out the cabinet for me and now it’s in my hands.

I have a lot of round containers and a lot of round lids but none fit each other. I have containers that are exactly the same size and look exactly the same but some need red lids and some need blue lids. I have square containers but no square lids that size. Conversely I  have square lids and no containers to put them on. What I have is a mess. Today I will sort, match and throw away anything that doesn’t have a mate.

Don’t we sometimes need to sort out other things in our life like we sort lids and containers? We pick things up along the years and never put them down. Things like habits, obligations, ideas, perhaps even friends. and lots of stuff.

Stuff is the easiest place to start. Once you finish with the lids and containers move on to your pantry, closets, drawers, desk, file cabinets if you have them – any place you stash “stuff.” Get rid of anything you don’t use. If you haven’t used it in a year or two, you probably aren’t going to use it at all and perhaps it’s just what someone else needs right now. Give it to Good Will or the Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, or any one of the many charities that have resale stores. You can do that with your clothes as well.  In the pantry you might find some cans of food that you can donate for those who don’t have food.

That was easy (unless you’re a pack rat) but now things begin to get harder. Let’s look at habits you’ve picked up over the years. You may have a couple of doozies – smoking, for example, or drinking too much too often. – things that impair your health and safety as well as the health and safety of others. What do you want to do about them? Be honest with yourself and look at them straight on. Do you want to continue with these habits? It’s your choice.

What about other habits, some of which may have been around for a very long time. Consider some of these and sort them out (and this takes brutal honesty sometimes):

  • showing up to everything late – work, appointments, social engagements
  • gossip
  • belittling others
  • lying, cheating, etc.- in little things, of course
  • nagging
  • over eating
  • nail biting
  • procrastinating
  • fill in some you have that aren’t listed here.

Make a list of what you noticed about yourself and chose one that you want to get rid of. Start with an easy one and let go of it for three weeks. Most of us can do anything for three weeks. Impose a penalty on yourself, e.g., put a quarter in a jar every time you hear yourself nagging your husband and kids (or wife and kids). At the end of the three weeks do something special with the money (some of you may have a lot and some won’t).  Awareness and time will help reduce most small bad habits to zero. We’ll talk about the big ones at another time.

Another area of sorting is that of beliefs. I bring this up every now and then because I believe it is critically important. An old friend used to say “If you don’t know what you stand for, you’ll fall for anything.” Your beliefs are the foundation for living. So sort through them. What do you believe that you choose to believe – not what you have always been told you had to believe? I’m not saying dump everything you’ve been taught, but I am saying, examine it carefully and make a conscious decision to accept or reject it.

Tale a look at your life and begin to be aware of what you have,  do, say and think and begin to sort out those things that no longer serve you while choosing to keep and work on those things that need to be strengthened. Oh, and enjoy those things that are great just the way they are. This will allow you to live with greater awareness, freedom and, hopefully, joy. Self awareness, after all, is the first giant step toward self improvement.

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Conquering Life’s Challenges

January 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

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Life is so very full of challenges. They’ll meet you in various situations and some are harder to overcome than others. The most difficult ones tend to be internal – those that test a part of who you are.

This type of challenge is the toughest because it pushes you to break out of your deepest mentally ingrained habits. It’s never going to be easy to escape something that you’ve trained yourself into repeatedly doing. Once the mind picks up a routine of something, be it positive or negative, it gains momentum in forming that activity as a personal habit.

Most people tend to neglect their deepest personal challenges. They find the negative aspects of themselves so overwhelming that they instead opt to live around them, rather than head straight through them. They do this for two simple reasons…

1. It seems to be easier living with personal challenges pushed into a dark corner.
It is way out of most people’s comfort zones to be exposing their weaknesses. Because of this, their instinct is to hide away what they see as a problem in order to stay firmly in the easy-living comfort zone.

Long term, it’s actually more difficult living with personal challenges kept at bay. They surface themselves regardless of what you do to contain them! If you think about your past week, did anything bring you down at all? If it did, then there was a challenge for you in there somewhere. The only way to overcome it would be to tackle it head on, instead of pushing it into the background, only for it to come back later.

2. People don’t realize the endless possibilities that could become reality if they did overcome their hardest personal challenges. They don’t see how great they’re capable of becoming if they do put themselves through what they fear most. When you can’t see the positive gains that would be in it for you, then it’s natural that you won’t act.

I can sympathize with this. Before you become enlightened on what is achievable by breaking personal challenges, you might find it very difficult to visualize the ways that the process will make life better. The initial solution here is to have some faith that something good will happen if you challenge yourself in what you see as an uncomfortable, personal weakness.

This is where the possibilities ‘snowball’ starts rolling. You might start out initially by consciously changing one very small habitual problem. When you realize the tiny benefits to the action you’ve taken, you begin to see the bigger picture. The greater the challenge you face, the greater the rewards are when you are done with that problem!

This is where self improvement exposes itself as being fair. The more you invest in it, the greater the life experiences it will provide you with. Ultimately, living a life of abundance in anything that you desire is impossible without continuous growth, and that means facing things you’d rather ignore!

The best way to look at a personal challenge is to think of it as a huge test. Imagine it as a test of your congruence to see just how much you really want to conquer the challenge that you are trying to break. Those that are unworthy of the benefits brought about by beating their inner-most challenges will fall by the wayside. They’ll be beaten by the consistency that it takes. Their “Is it all worth it?” thoughts will get the better of them.

In order to avoid the above common reality, you’ll need to embrace the fact that these moments will happen to you whilst facing your personal challenges. Such thoughts are almost unavoidable to the imperfect human being, which describes us all. You’ll have two conscious choices in these moments of ‘relief searching’. You can:

A.. Realize that moments where you nearly give up are the essence of the challenge itself. They are the moments that, if shown mental strength during, determine you as worthy of what it is you are trying to achieve. Or…

B. You could give up. Go back to old ways, left wondering what might’ve been!

To choose A. in these tough moments is to demonstrate to whatever you believe controls the world that you merit the new lease of life that you are chasing. You’ll have provided solid experience related proof that you thoroughly deserve to achieve your goal. You can enjoy things so much more when you know that you’ve shown strength and courage to gain them.

It’s an important moment when you realize that the best things in life only go to those that strive to deem themselves worthy. Like I said, opportunities to show that you are deserving of a fantastic life occur every day in the form of personal challenges.
Make the push to face that which you fear or dislike most about yourself, and the possibilities in life become endless.

Much Love

Sam Davis
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Bio

Sam Davis is a self improvement writer who wants to dedicate his working career to helping others have happier, more fulfilling lives. He has his own website called World of Self Improvement where he writes about anything related to building happiness in people.

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5 Simple Tips to Avoid Obesity

January 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Plus Size Female Getting Ready to ExerciseBy Ian M Bell -

There is a great deal of nonsense spoken on the subject of obesity. There are numerous facts, figures and statistics in general as to the reasons why people are becoming more and more obese. Many of these facts are complicated – to many they are over-complicated. However, it is true that a 2006/07-health survey found that:

  • one in three adults were overweight (36.3%) and one in four obese (26.5%).
  • one in five children aged 2 to 14 years were overweight (20.9%) and one in twelve was obese (8.3%).

The World Health Organization now describes the prevalence of obesity as an epidemic. There has been a rise in obesity even in healthy and ‘Green’ New Zealand in recent decades – from 9% (males) and 11% (females) in 1977 to 20% and 22% respectively in 2003.

The fact that obesity is an expanding problem globally should make us sit up straight and take notice. But of what do we take notice? Some agencies claim that obesity is down to eating too much fast food. Others say that it is largely genetic, and that, if your parents and their parents were ‘fat’ then you will be too! To a limited extent some of this is accurate. What these ‘schools of thought’ forget, though, is that YOU are an individual, and if YOU follow a few simple and common sense rules YOU will be precisely the weight you want to be.

WATCH

1. Examine your eating habits and analyse what you are eating. This is number one on the list of tips because, if you are eating haphazardly (the wrong food), the chances are you DON NOT STAND A CHANCE of getting slim. Eat the right things for health. Salads, fruit, vegetables, fresh fruit and vegetable drinks – not fizzy, sugar-filled pop drinks. Eat honey if you must have sweet things. Reduce creamy, rich and deep-fried foods unless you know that they are cooked with healthy oils and not fat.

HABIT

2. If you are eating merely as a matter of habit you are probably not thinking at all about the things you are consuming. This will cause you to put on weight due simply to the fact that you are more than likely stuffing things into your mouth that have little or no nutrient value for your body’s health and well-being.

EXERCISE

3. Monitor also your daily exercise habit. If you don not have one already, get one! You will find it easier to lose weight and keep it off if you have at least a walking or jogging routine three or more times each week. The body’s metabolism needs exercise in order to utilise the nutrients and minerals you put into it. Good food is absolutely no use to you if your metabolism is hindered in this way.

WHAT IS OBESITY?

4. Obesity is defined as an excessively high amount of body fat (adipose tissue) in relation to lean body mass. Overweight is excess weight for height so, if you are a man six feet (1.8m) tall and you weigh 150 lbs (68kg) that is fine. By contrast, if you are a woman five feet tall and weigh the same, that is overweight. This is all pretty obvious, but what we need to be able to do as individuals is to objectively look at ourselves in the mirror and ask the question “am I overweight for my height and how can I remedy that”? The answer is in tips one, two and three.

5. Finally, once you can see that your excess flab is beginning to be shed, you will then realise just how simple it is to GET YOURSELF to a comfortable size and weight that you (and everyone else) can handle.

It is interesting to note that we generally eat as our parents eat. This is simply because it was our parents who first cooked for us and they were in the ‘habit’ of preparing the type of food their parents made for them. You can see that any hereditary connection to the weight we put on is almost certainly down to the food we are in the ‘habit’ of eating – because our parents put it on our plates, and their parents before them and….so on!

Remember, you will not show signs of weight loss until you make those all important decisions on what you can eat that will help you lose that unwanted weight. The day that someone says to you “Goodness you have lost weight” is the day you will skip with delight – literally!

I’m Ian and I write many articles on the subject of golf. Come and visit my latest website over at: http://www.1080ptelevision.org that helps people find the best   1080p television available on the market.

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3 Simple Habits That Will Make You More Successful in Your Life

April 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

By Shawn Lim -

Your habits determine the decision and action that you will make in your life. Therefore, it is your habit that will determine how successful you are. The only difference between a successful person and a person who is struggling in his life lies in their habit. If you are a hard working person, you will definitely take more action and hence, create more results in your life.

Fortunately, habits can be learned and they can be adopted by you if you wanted to. The best way to learn a habit is to act-as-if you already owned the habit. If you want to be more courageous, then act courageous long enough and you will adopt this habit very soon.

Here are the 3 simple habits that will make you more successful in your life…

1. You must learn the habit of putting 100% commitment in what you do. Most people fail to make their dreams and their goals come true because they are not committed in them. They are just blowing hot balloon, talking about what they want to achieve but they never really put in commitment to make them come true. Therefore, if you want to be more successful in your life, you must first learn to be committed in achieving success in your life.

2. You must learn to be responsible in your life. Successful people will never blame on the situation or give excuses in their life. This is because they know that whatever happened to them, it is because they choose to. If you win a lottery today, it is because of your decision and your action of buying that lottery. If you put in responsibility in your life, you will have the power to control over the situation because you are the one who is responsible for the situation.

3. You must adopt the habit of courage and venture out of your comfort zone. Don’t be afraid of change. It is the moment you decide to achieve your dreams and your goals that determine your life will never be the same again. If you are doing things the same old way, you will get back the same old results. You will never change and you will never achieve your goals. If you want to be more successful today, dare to change and venture out of your comfort zone.

These are the 3 simple habits that will make you more successful in your life. Your habits are learnable. As long as you are determined to adopt these habits, you will definitely live a more successful life.

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Self Improvement and Limiting Habits

January 2, 2008 By Leave a Comment

It seems like Monday but it’s Wednesday. Isn’t it interesting to start the work week on Wednesday? Day after tomorrow we’ll be saying, “Thank God it’s Friday.” Most of us will be confused until next Monday when it starts on the right day and unfolds in the right order.

We are, indeed, creatures of habit.

Hmmm. Habits. Perhaps we need to look at some of our habits, their triggers and how they affect our daily life. Like Maxine who’s been in a bad mood habit for 40 years. [Read more...]

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