There are countless quick-fix solutions out there, none of these are particularly healthy and almost all of these options entail deprivation! That is exactly the reason so many of us who are trying to slim down struggle with fluctuating weight levels, often for the better part of our lives. Doing what we've always done, gives us what we've always gotten. So why do we all keep making the same mistakes over and over again? The answer is simple, the changes imposed upon our eating and lifestyle habits are simply not sustainable. Therein lays the golden rule to success to build a healthy family, because any steps we take to improve our eating and lifestyle habits must be attainable in order to make them sustainable.
1. You can start by considering your attitude towards food. Can you remember when you first began to struggle with your weight? Identify what factors have contributed to your poor eating habits, and what steps you have taken to address your weight issues. These are very important matters to consider, and these should be addressed at the start of any weight loss program. The reason for this is that it helps you to develop a better understanding of your eating habits, and you can identify your weaknesses, your potential pitfalls and the type of relationship you have with food. It is hard to cope with these temptations without the enlightened knowledge of where your problems originate.
2. Step two is to step up your exercise routine, especially during the high risk periods. No one really feels like exercising during the holidays or festive seasons, but there are ways to keep some kind of exercise routine going during these times. And if you are just bored with exercising, you are less likely to keep it up at all, so make it interesting for you and your family. Start by introducing new activities, like brisk fun walks or jogs along the beach, take an early morning swim or have a few tennis games with friends or family. This way every one can participate and enjoy the fun, and you get a healthy family.
3. Get yourself organized by having a plan of action. You would not tackle an important work project without a plan of action would you? So why treat your weight and your families health any differently? If snack tables are your weakness, then eat a healthy meal before hand and avoid the snack area completely. Too much alcohol is also very bad for you for several reasons, it ups your calories and carries the additional risk of reducing your will power when you need it most. And what's more, binge drinkers are twice as likely to develop STD's, so I assume food is sure to lose the battle too. Manage you problem foods by banishing them from your pantry, and only limit them to special occasions, but even better yet, rather try and find low fat alternatives instead.
4. A very important point that we should all remember, no matter what is to not skip meals. You run the risk of over-indulging later on. We have heard this countless times, and we all agree by now that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but do you know that skipping breakfast causes you to consume more during the day? This holds true for young and old, so the whole family should start the day with a healthy breakfast, then we are well on our way to build a healthy happy family. Start your day the right way with a healthy breakfast, and follow it through with your regular meals and snacks.
5. Identify your food personality, and that of your family as well. Comfort eating is a case in point. Mindless eating is another trait that steadily leads to weight gain, as does impulse eating. For example seeing a snack in the store, and then purchasing it for immediate consumption without even thinking about it, especially for the children in the family. Identify your personality and put definite steps in place to help you make smart choices to action weaknesses before they get the upper hand.
6. Keep a food journal. By writing down everything you eat and drink, you will be amazed at how much goes into your mouth. Putting this in black and white somehow makes it more real. People who keep a food journal are more likely to control the amount of food and what they eat. Then make water your drink of choice, after all it is free and also helps with weight loss.
Food is a gift. Meals celebrate occasions. By allowing food to dominate our existence leads to unhealthy weight gain and unhappiness and an unhealthy family.
Then with every small success, whether it be you or a family member, celebrate your success. Weight loss is a journey that takes time, structure and commitment. By celebrating your milestones along the way, you acknowledge your hard work and this motivates you to keep going and build a healthy happy family.
Selasa, 14 November 2017
Senin, 16 Oktober 2017
Defined Inspiration - 'Tis the Year to Get Real and Build a Healthy Happy Family
Let's just start firstly by getting real with yourself. After all the year's past new year's days that have come and gone, every year making the same resolutions. How many of these past resolutions have you made that you have actually stuck with... until today? Have you ever kept up with that diet or healthy eating program or rigorous gym routine for long? Before you follow the same old pattern this year again, ask yourself why all your previous attempts failed?
So let's take an example, like if you cheat yourself after a few days of eating healthy, do not tell yourself that you failed and that you will never make it and then just throw in the towel. No, just forgive yourself, tell yourself that it was merely a small moment of weakness, and that you will probably have some more of these moments in the future. You have been disciplined up to this point, so just continue to do what you have been doing before the weak moment struck. Look back at your mistakes that you have made, and see it as an opportunity to improve on yourself and your goal, rather than letting them define you and make you lose sight of your goal.
Be honest with yourself, but that does not mean that you have to think small. I believe that anything is attainable, and so should you. When you have a bigger goal to achieve, it might take more time, patience and sacrifice on your part, then the best way is to approach it with an open mind and take it slowly. One day at a time.
I believe the above makes sense. This year I challenge you to look inside yourself, go back and cig up all those old dreams you have buried away for so long. Take a close look at all of these, but also face up to your past mistakes and all your self-defeating behaviors. Take a look at what you come up with, and I promise you your results will be astonishing, but also real and lasting. Take each of your past dreams and achieve them all this year, and build a healthy happy family.
So let's take an example, like if you cheat yourself after a few days of eating healthy, do not tell yourself that you failed and that you will never make it and then just throw in the towel. No, just forgive yourself, tell yourself that it was merely a small moment of weakness, and that you will probably have some more of these moments in the future. You have been disciplined up to this point, so just continue to do what you have been doing before the weak moment struck. Look back at your mistakes that you have made, and see it as an opportunity to improve on yourself and your goal, rather than letting them define you and make you lose sight of your goal.
Be honest with yourself, but that does not mean that you have to think small. I believe that anything is attainable, and so should you. When you have a bigger goal to achieve, it might take more time, patience and sacrifice on your part, then the best way is to approach it with an open mind and take it slowly. One day at a time.
I believe the above makes sense. This year I challenge you to look inside yourself, go back and cig up all those old dreams you have buried away for so long. Take a close look at all of these, but also face up to your past mistakes and all your self-defeating behaviors. Take a look at what you come up with, and I promise you your results will be astonishing, but also real and lasting. Take each of your past dreams and achieve them all this year, and build a healthy happy family.
Sabtu, 07 Oktober 2017
Weight Loss - How to Build a Healthy Happy Family
I got some great answers and great advice from them. Let me tell you all about it. The fear of putting it all back that I have lost is a great fear that many of us know too well. There is one important factor to losing weight, and that is the way you have lost or are losing your weight, making better food choices within your normal day to day is the key to success as every good choice over rides bad moments, and we all do have those bad moments! And note that I say "bad moments" and not "bad days."
If getting to you goal weight takes you one month longer than planned due to circumstances like visitors, a wedding and your compliance to your weight loss moves from being very good to just in control, it is still ok, at least you are thinking about it and taking it into consideration. It is the challenges like these, while we are getting to our goal weight, that should help us to prepare ourselves for a lifetime of being healthier. This is where the real challenge lies on how to build a healthy family. This is not just for you and me, this is to get a healthy family in the end, the healthy we can get the entire family, the better for all of us.
So welcome these challenges in your life, and try to be the best you can be each time, try and stick to your goal as much as possible, and never lay down and give up. Use all the knowledge you have, and what you have been give to steer you through these challenging times and out on the other side a weight winner. Getting to your ideal healthy weight, and staying there is exactly the same challenge, you have to live your life with the new you and your new found knowledge, and some moments you win and some you may lose, but it is important that you keep focused. This should be you now, for the rest of your life. Make this your purpose, to achieve your goal each and every day.
If getting to you goal weight takes you one month longer than planned due to circumstances like visitors, a wedding and your compliance to your weight loss moves from being very good to just in control, it is still ok, at least you are thinking about it and taking it into consideration. It is the challenges like these, while we are getting to our goal weight, that should help us to prepare ourselves for a lifetime of being healthier. This is where the real challenge lies on how to build a healthy family. This is not just for you and me, this is to get a healthy family in the end, the healthy we can get the entire family, the better for all of us.
So welcome these challenges in your life, and try to be the best you can be each time, try and stick to your goal as much as possible, and never lay down and give up. Use all the knowledge you have, and what you have been give to steer you through these challenging times and out on the other side a weight winner. Getting to your ideal healthy weight, and staying there is exactly the same challenge, you have to live your life with the new you and your new found knowledge, and some moments you win and some you may lose, but it is important that you keep focused. This should be you now, for the rest of your life. Make this your purpose, to achieve your goal each and every day.
Senin, 18 September 2017
Build Your Business Around Your Lifestyle And Increase Your Gross Business Happiness
Does your business bring you happiness? Is your business built around your lifestyle? Or is your life forced to conform to your business?
Bhutan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck gained some fame for putting forward the "radical" idea that a country's success should not be measured in terms of its GNP. Instead, he suggested measuring the success of a nation by its GNH -- its Gross National Happiness. He pointed out that if the people are not leading happy, fulfilling lives, it doesn't matter how healthy a country's economy is.
This same notion can easily be applied to your business. If it's not making you happy, it may be time to re-assess the reasons you went into business in the first place.
Why Did You Start Your Business?
Did you start your own business for money or freedom? Did you want to be in full control of your time and your life? What are your priorities?
Maybe you wanted to get away from the rat race of the corporate world. Maybe you pictured yourself free from five days a week in a cramped cubicle, pictured yourself spending more time with your family. You saw yourself choosing your own hours and having time to enjoy your hobbies, travel, sports.
Running a business can either give you that freedom or it can rob you of it. It all depends on how you build your business in the first place. If you set some rules from the beginning, define what you want to do, then build your business around your lifestyle, you will reap a high level of GBH -- Gross Business Happiness.
How To Get Happiness From Your Business
First, decide what you want in your life. Picture your ideal lifestyle. Do you want to spend long vacations in other lands? Do you want to work evenings and have your days free for golf? Do you want to stay at your ski chalet for a month every Spring? Write down exactly what your business will allow you to do ... what kind of lifestyle it will let you lead.
Next, write down what you will or will not do in your business. Do you like meeting customers? Or would you rather keep them on the other side of a computer screen? Do you want to go on business trips? Or are you a happy homebody? Do you want to sell physical products? Or do you want to sell downloadable information products or software ... and avoid the hassles of inventory?
Using a list of rules for your business will also ensure that your business is successful. When your goals for your business reflect the priorities in your life, it is much easier to be disciplined and follow your business plan.
When Your Business Fits Your Lifestyle It Will Flourish
Because your business activities allow for your lifestyle, there is less temptation to sidetrack you from the jobs you need to accomplish. You'll find it much easier to stick to your goals. Since your business doesn't intrude on your life, your life doesn't interfere with your business.
Spend some time building your business around your lifestyle. Build it around your needs and wants, and your business will bring you not only money ... but also happiness.
Bhutan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck gained some fame for putting forward the "radical" idea that a country's success should not be measured in terms of its GNP. Instead, he suggested measuring the success of a nation by its GNH -- its Gross National Happiness. He pointed out that if the people are not leading happy, fulfilling lives, it doesn't matter how healthy a country's economy is.
This same notion can easily be applied to your business. If it's not making you happy, it may be time to re-assess the reasons you went into business in the first place.
Why Did You Start Your Business?
Did you start your own business for money or freedom? Did you want to be in full control of your time and your life? What are your priorities?
Maybe you wanted to get away from the rat race of the corporate world. Maybe you pictured yourself free from five days a week in a cramped cubicle, pictured yourself spending more time with your family. You saw yourself choosing your own hours and having time to enjoy your hobbies, travel, sports.
Running a business can either give you that freedom or it can rob you of it. It all depends on how you build your business in the first place. If you set some rules from the beginning, define what you want to do, then build your business around your lifestyle, you will reap a high level of GBH -- Gross Business Happiness.
How To Get Happiness From Your Business
First, decide what you want in your life. Picture your ideal lifestyle. Do you want to spend long vacations in other lands? Do you want to work evenings and have your days free for golf? Do you want to stay at your ski chalet for a month every Spring? Write down exactly what your business will allow you to do ... what kind of lifestyle it will let you lead.
Next, write down what you will or will not do in your business. Do you like meeting customers? Or would you rather keep them on the other side of a computer screen? Do you want to go on business trips? Or are you a happy homebody? Do you want to sell physical products? Or do you want to sell downloadable information products or software ... and avoid the hassles of inventory?
Using a list of rules for your business will also ensure that your business is successful. When your goals for your business reflect the priorities in your life, it is much easier to be disciplined and follow your business plan.
When Your Business Fits Your Lifestyle It Will Flourish
Because your business activities allow for your lifestyle, there is less temptation to sidetrack you from the jobs you need to accomplish. You'll find it much easier to stick to your goals. Since your business doesn't intrude on your life, your life doesn't interfere with your business.
Spend some time building your business around your lifestyle. Build it around your needs and wants, and your business will bring you not only money ... but also happiness.
Selasa, 15 Agustus 2017
How Corporate Team Building Activities Can Revamp Your Company
Working for a corporation can be very tiring on both a boss and the workers. Sometimes the stress and monotony can bring the entire team down, and this can affect business. When you notice that your team is going into a slump, it's time to look at some corporate team building activities or a company-day-out. Activities like these can help refresh your people and motivate them. Here are a few reasons why:
Brings the Company Closer
Team building will help the members of your family get to know each other better. This means they will get to foster deeper friendships with both their co-workers and you. Usually, if you enjoy the people you work with and work for, working harder and better will come naturally. This is what you want for your company!
Helps Everyone See A Different Side of Workers
The various activities will help show you what your workers are good at apart from what they do for you. You never know when you have a secret spaghetti eating champion in your midst! Applaud people for their many different talents and make them feel special. Showing your workers you appreciate the many facets of them is a good thing!
Relaxes the Workers
Getting a day to do non-company things will help relax your workers and help them reboot their batteries. It's a different kind of relaxation than the kind they'll get when going in vacation, and though it isn't vital, it's good.
Makes Workers Happy
No one can complain or be upset about a free day with free food that they get paid for because it counts as a work day. Even if they're terrible at the activities, and they're only talent really is just adding numbers and balancing accounts, they will still enjoy themselves! A day like this will always make workers happy, and as you know happy workers means a better company!
Try to have corporate team building activities or some sort of company-day-out at least once a year. It can really help revamp your company and recharge your workers' engines. There are some resorts that specialize in this type of project or day-out and they have packages with various activities you, your workers, and your families can all do together. Apart from these team building days, remember to have parties during the holidays as well, and a company family day where everyone and their families will get to know each other better.
Brings the Company Closer
Team building will help the members of your family get to know each other better. This means they will get to foster deeper friendships with both their co-workers and you. Usually, if you enjoy the people you work with and work for, working harder and better will come naturally. This is what you want for your company!
Helps Everyone See A Different Side of Workers
The various activities will help show you what your workers are good at apart from what they do for you. You never know when you have a secret spaghetti eating champion in your midst! Applaud people for their many different talents and make them feel special. Showing your workers you appreciate the many facets of them is a good thing!
Relaxes the Workers
Getting a day to do non-company things will help relax your workers and help them reboot their batteries. It's a different kind of relaxation than the kind they'll get when going in vacation, and though it isn't vital, it's good.
Makes Workers Happy
No one can complain or be upset about a free day with free food that they get paid for because it counts as a work day. Even if they're terrible at the activities, and they're only talent really is just adding numbers and balancing accounts, they will still enjoy themselves! A day like this will always make workers happy, and as you know happy workers means a better company!
Try to have corporate team building activities or some sort of company-day-out at least once a year. It can really help revamp your company and recharge your workers' engines. There are some resorts that specialize in this type of project or day-out and they have packages with various activities you, your workers, and your families can all do together. Apart from these team building days, remember to have parties during the holidays as well, and a company family day where everyone and their families will get to know each other better.
Selasa, 08 Agustus 2017
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Jika Anda adalah penggemar permainan judi online, maka saat ini semakin
banyak pilihan permainan judi online yang bisa Anda temukan dengan mudah tak
terkecuali permainan BandarQ yang ditawarkan oleh beberapa situsbandarq online. Permainan jenis ini sendiri adalah permainan
yang sudah dimodifikasi oleh para pemain Indonesia yang diadaptasi dari
permainan poker. Jenis permainan judi online ini dipilih sebagai salah satu
jenis permainan yang cukup diminati di antara beberapa pilihan permainan judi
online yang ada di Indonesia saat ini. Selain itu masih banyak lagi keuntungan
yang ditawarkan oleh permainan BandarQ yang juga bisa ditemukan di antara
beberapa situs di Indonesia seperti situs bandarasia.coyang menawarkan beberapa pilihan permainan serupa seperti
DominoQQ, Bandarkiu dan Domino99.
Sabtu, 08 Juli 2017
The Best Way to Pursue Your Marriage and Family Dream
I had a powerful experience this week. I led a focus group to get input on building newlywed coaching groups. 4 couples who have been married for less than a month to nearly 2 years participated. The energy built as each couple realized they were not alone in dealing with some real challenges at the "newlywed" stage of life when things are supposed to be crazy-in-love, time-of-your-life, full-of-happiness times.
As each couple talked, they found great encouragement in knowing it is "normal" to have a less-than-perfect relationship. The pressure to be head-over-heels in love and experiencing the perfect season of marriage lifted, life entered the conversation, and hope for building strong marriages grew. Wow, does it get any better than that??!
The truth is, everyone has their struggles. Even the people in the most dynamic relationship you know work through tough times. The greatest accomplishment of my life is the marriage and family life my husband, Jon, and I have built together, but we've had to be very intentional to do that. When I teach conflict management at the university, I consistently share with my students that my marriage is the most rewarding piece of my life, but it has also been one of the hardest things I've done. Every hour we invest, every dollar we spend, every date night we plan are completely worth it. Jon is truly my best friend, and I am so grateful!
The problem is that people rarely talk about the hard part. So we compare the worst of our life to the picture perfect posts on Facebook or Instagram. Who hasn't felt empty when the beautiful pictures of Fourth of July festivities show smiling happy marriages and families, and we know firsthand the tough times our family faced this past week? But we tell ourselves that something must be wrong with us, we feel bad about what's happening, and we bury the reality under plastic smiles. Bottom line: the quickest way to destroy the dream you have for your home is to hide.
Author John Ortberg wrote a favorite book of mine, called "Everyone's Normal Until You Get to Know Them". In it he states, "Hiding is a curse... Hiding is motivated by shame. It involves pretending and deceiving. Hiding is the place of fear and anxiety." None of those things come close to moving your relationships forward, would you agree? So let me ask you some questions:
On a scale of 1-10 (1 being completely hidden and 10 being completely open), how truthful are you with yourself, your partner, and others about what is happening with your home?
What are you hiding that is keeping your home from being all you dream?
Take Steps to Build Your Dream
The exciting part is that powerful growth can happen when you take action! Relationships that thrive make a habit of the following actions:
1. Get Real.
Having worked with thousands of relationships over the past 20 years, I am convinced the most important step to see the progress you want is to be honest about where you are. Honest with yourself. Honest with your partner. Honest with someone who will unconditionally support you and not shut you down with judgement.
When you get real, a powerful flood of energy will begin to flow. Truth slays the denial monster that saps your power and opens the way for life-giving growth to begin!
2. Find support.
People with relationships that grow are humble enough to know they don't want to do it alone. The self-sufficiency of our culture severely damages the greatest tool to build the marriage and family you desire: unbiased, safe, trustworthy, and life-giving people who are fully committed to your desires. A good listener that asks powerful questions can create clarity and provide fresh perspectives that get you past "stuck".
One Thing I Know For Sure
This I know for sure... it is possible to pursue the dream you have for your home. Change absolutely can happen, and your relationships can thrive! You are not the only one who wants more. Those who experience it take action.
Some items for your "to do" list for today? Stop hiding, get real, find some support, and make true progress. Join the spirit of my newlywed couples and decide to build a great home!
As each couple talked, they found great encouragement in knowing it is "normal" to have a less-than-perfect relationship. The pressure to be head-over-heels in love and experiencing the perfect season of marriage lifted, life entered the conversation, and hope for building strong marriages grew. Wow, does it get any better than that??!
The truth is, everyone has their struggles. Even the people in the most dynamic relationship you know work through tough times. The greatest accomplishment of my life is the marriage and family life my husband, Jon, and I have built together, but we've had to be very intentional to do that. When I teach conflict management at the university, I consistently share with my students that my marriage is the most rewarding piece of my life, but it has also been one of the hardest things I've done. Every hour we invest, every dollar we spend, every date night we plan are completely worth it. Jon is truly my best friend, and I am so grateful!
The problem is that people rarely talk about the hard part. So we compare the worst of our life to the picture perfect posts on Facebook or Instagram. Who hasn't felt empty when the beautiful pictures of Fourth of July festivities show smiling happy marriages and families, and we know firsthand the tough times our family faced this past week? But we tell ourselves that something must be wrong with us, we feel bad about what's happening, and we bury the reality under plastic smiles. Bottom line: the quickest way to destroy the dream you have for your home is to hide.
Author John Ortberg wrote a favorite book of mine, called "Everyone's Normal Until You Get to Know Them". In it he states, "Hiding is a curse... Hiding is motivated by shame. It involves pretending and deceiving. Hiding is the place of fear and anxiety." None of those things come close to moving your relationships forward, would you agree? So let me ask you some questions:
On a scale of 1-10 (1 being completely hidden and 10 being completely open), how truthful are you with yourself, your partner, and others about what is happening with your home?
What are you hiding that is keeping your home from being all you dream?
Take Steps to Build Your Dream
The exciting part is that powerful growth can happen when you take action! Relationships that thrive make a habit of the following actions:
1. Get Real.
Having worked with thousands of relationships over the past 20 years, I am convinced the most important step to see the progress you want is to be honest about where you are. Honest with yourself. Honest with your partner. Honest with someone who will unconditionally support you and not shut you down with judgement.
When you get real, a powerful flood of energy will begin to flow. Truth slays the denial monster that saps your power and opens the way for life-giving growth to begin!
2. Find support.
People with relationships that grow are humble enough to know they don't want to do it alone. The self-sufficiency of our culture severely damages the greatest tool to build the marriage and family you desire: unbiased, safe, trustworthy, and life-giving people who are fully committed to your desires. A good listener that asks powerful questions can create clarity and provide fresh perspectives that get you past "stuck".
One Thing I Know For Sure
This I know for sure... it is possible to pursue the dream you have for your home. Change absolutely can happen, and your relationships can thrive! You are not the only one who wants more. Those who experience it take action.
Some items for your "to do" list for today? Stop hiding, get real, find some support, and make true progress. Join the spirit of my newlywed couples and decide to build a great home!
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