Feb 1, 2010
Author: jennincat | Filed under: Motivation

Don’t worry I’m aware it’s February 1, 2010. Yep, we are already into our second month of 2010. How are you doing with those New Year’s resolutions? I got off to a slow start. It helped that I finally put some thought into the changes I want to see this year. I finally got around [...]
Jan 1, 2010
Author: jennincat | Filed under: Motivation

Yay. An “opportunity” to grow in character already this year. This evening, I got a message that the kitchen in our rental had flooded and we are still 2000 miles away on vacation. Thanks 2010 for the great start.
I haven’t been on the computer much because I’ve been spending as much time as [...]
Sep 24, 2009
Author: jennincat | Filed under: Motivation, Musings

We returned home from the Sequoia National Forest Monday evening. Our trip was lovely. I’m missing the simplicity of our days spent under the majestic trees. A full grown Sequoia is quite a sight to behold. And since I’m prone to seeing the world through analogy, their massive thousands-of-years old trunks spoke to [...]
Sep 15, 2009
Author: jennincat | Filed under: Motivation

Like many girls my age Dirty Dancing is a nostalgic peg of my youth on which some fond memories of adolescence hang. I was too naive to even pick up on the questionable choices of some of it’s characters. Instead, I resonated with Baby’s careless sense of adventure and her feelings of being a misunderstood [...]
Sep 11, 2009
Author: jennincat | Filed under: Motivation

I try not to compare myself to others because…well…I just don’t think it’s a good habit. At best I tell myself I’m not doing that bad, at worst, I get depressed or cocky. Neither is lovely. Not at all. Most of the time if I compare myself to others I start to feel like I’m [...]
Sep 1, 2009
Author: jennincat | Filed under: Motivation

Last week, we discovered a leak in the gas line at our rental property. To save money, my husband helped dig the trench for the plumbers and after it was fixed I was commissioned to go fill the trench back up with dirt.
As I was shoveling the dirt I started to think about how [...]
Aug 17, 2009
Author: jennincat | Filed under: Motivation

I lost two pounds last week without “working out” or “dieting” (a word I very much dislike but that’s another post). Yep, two pounds. I even went out for Chinese, Baja Fresh, Subway, and El Pollo Loco throughout the week. I don’t have an abnormally high metabolism or find some “secret”. I have to work [...]
Aug 11, 2009
Author: jennincat | Filed under: Motivation

A friend posted this article on Facebook yesterday from Time Magazine Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin. I commented on FB but thought I’d expand more on my little slice of cyber space. It’s a long article but the gist of it is that exercise alone won’t make you thin because exercising increases hunger causing [...]
Jul 1, 2009
Author: jennincat | Filed under: Motivation

It’s July 1st. That means six months of this year have come and gone. That leaves 6 more months to accomplish what you set out to do this year. I re-visted my list of goals from January.
1. Compete in another competition. – Done.
2. Hold a 5 minute plank. - Over halfway there.
3. Do 10 consecutive [...]
Jun 23, 2009
Author: jennincat | Filed under: Motivation

A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn’t will find an excuse. - Stephen Dolley Jr
I love making lists and unfortunately my list of excuses is probably one of my longest lists. For years, I made up all sorts of excuses of why I couldn’t lose weight, get in [...]