live your life with purpose
The prompt: Write about a dream you remember. The dream: Over and over again. I thought it would be gone for good, only to have it reappear a few weeks or sometimes a month later. It always came back . It was always around. Hiding in …
I have a bunch of notebooks lying around. Half filled up. All filled up. Something important…at the time. Sometimes fleeting memories, written down to memorialize a day or an event. I found one today. A notebook. One entry. That’s it. March 13, 2021 Almond milk …
What is your favorite quote and why?
That is a writing prompt from the WordPress Bloganuary prompt. It is today’s prompt, January 22, 2022. I just found out about the bloganuary thing yesterday. A little late to the party, but hey, I’m here now.
I thought, why not? I have not been writing as much as usual and thought this would be a good way to get back into it.
So, what is my favorite quote? It’s so interesting this is today’s prompt because I have really been into Henry Ford quotes.
I just finished up and became certified in a Health Coach Mindset Course. It was one of the best courses I have ever taken. It really opened my eyes up to how important mindset is in every single day life, not just sometimes life.
Henry Ford was an American industrialist who revolutionized factory production with his assembly-line methods. I did some quick research and it sounds like he was also kind of a dick.
But, I’m here for the quotes. His quotes very much promote a growth mindset. What is a growth mindset? Growth mindset if all about your beliefs. Belief that you can achieve something. Belief that you can learn new things. Believe that you can change.
These quotes speak right to that. In fact, I just used this one today for a podcast I recorded that will be released in a few weeks.
“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
Putting in the work and the effort to learn. That is what I see in this quote. I love it because it shows a person that in order to accomplish something, they must put in the work, they must learn the thing, and then they reap the benefit of it.
I just love that. Nobody is doing the work for them. Nobody is coming to save them. They are taking action and figuring out how to succeed and believing they can.
I talk health and fitness all the time, but this can also spill over into your every day life. The paths definitely cross. It’s not just health or fitness. It’s not just life. Everything is connected and everything intersects.
Keep learning new things. Keep challenging yourself. Keep going.
Can alcohol fit into your fitness lifestyle? For some people it can. For some people it can’t. For me, it didn’t. What do I mean by that? If you are on a fat loss plan and you are drinking every weekend, you might not be …
the sound
tap, tap, tap, leaves falling on the tin
the season
fall
the sound
wind blowing and whistling, trees swaying and talking
the smell
fresh, crisp and clean
season changing
the sound
the leaves falling everywhere
surrounded by them
they all fall down
Everyone deserves flowers. Death does not discriminate. Death does not care about popularity. One of my high school classmates died this past week. We weren’t close. I knew her. I remember her being very shy. She was very nice. I keep thinking about her. Rest In …
Fat Loss Expectations Is this what your expectations are for fat loss? You think you will lose at least 3 pounds a week. You think you need to hamster wheel your cardio. You think you need to give up your favorite foods. You think you …
When we complicate things it does nothing but stress us out, turn us into jerks and make us feel less than.
Agree?
When it comes to our overall health, there are a handful of things you can be doing that are going to be big dial movers in your life. But, because we want to complicate things, these are going to seem so ridiculously simple, that they can’t possibly work for a person to lose fat, or to push towards better overall health. I know. That’s just the way people work.
How many times have you looked at a workout on paper and thought, that seems way too easy, so you go searching for one that looks hard as hell. We think if something is harder that it has to be better. That’s just not true.
This post will be short and sweet and, well, simple.
Try these things for 30 days and come back and tell me what you noticed. I’m serious. I want to know. Just start. Now.
Most people won’t do them because they think it won’t be hard enough. They think they won’t get results at all.
When we simplify things beautiful things start to happen. You have to crawl before you can run. Simple works. Once you do simple and start at the beginning instead of page 365, you might be surprised at how much progress you make. I implore you to try it. Please, I promise you will make progress.
Here are the things I want you to try. Remember, stick to it consistently for 30 days and then come back and tell me all about it.
When I was a kid, my grandma used to bring us long johns from the Viborg bakery when she would come to visit. She also brought the equalizer – colored peppers. Yellow, red and orange. She was a chronic dieter. I wonder if she thought …