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How to make and keep New Year’s (Life) Resolutions.

February 1, 2010 in 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 […]

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Bring it 2010.

January 1, 2010 in Motivation

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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 possible […]

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Sequoia

September 24, 2009 in Motivation, Musings

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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 […]

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The Lift

September 15, 2009 in Motivation

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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 […]

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Fluffy Friday : Vanity and Visualization

September 11, 2009 in Motivation

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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 […]

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Shoveling with a Spoon

September 1, 2009 in Motivation

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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 […]

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“Take the Stairs”

August 17, 2009 in Motivation

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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 […]

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Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin

August 11, 2009 in Motivation

(source) 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 […]

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Six months down. Six to go.

July 1, 2009 in 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. […]

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I don’t have time because I’m tired from watching TV.

June 23, 2009 in 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 […]

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