Posted in exercise, getting fit, goals, health, losing weight, tagged " sitting too much, "Chair Today, body's needs, Gone Tomorrow, just do it, just move, Nutrition Action, obesity on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
1. Eat only what your body actually needs. Would you stuff sugar in your car’s gasoline tank? Give a bowl of it to your cat or dog? No? Then why put it inside your mouth? Sure it tastes good. Kind of. But it isn’t doing you a bit of good. We need to forget about [...]
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Posted in goals, health on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Do you ever have a feeling that things are closing in on you? That you just can’t keep up? That you really need the world to just stop for a day or two so you can catch up?
I’ve been getting that feeling way too often lately. There seems to be too much technology I don’t [...]
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Posted in goals on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m still thinking about planning and goals: specifically, how can I differentiate between God’s promises to me and my day-to-day goal-setting?
When I read stories, especially from the Old Testament, it’s pretty clear that much of the time, it wasn’t the person picking a plan but God giving them a promise or a vision which either [...]
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Posted in goals, spiritual growth on January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Because I love coming up with ideas and starting things, and I’m not nearly as good at managing or finishing things (no one can do everything well! :), I tend not to really think through everything that’s involved in a project before I dive in.
Plus, when I believe God is telling me to do something, [...]
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At the start of each new year, many of us find ourselves thinking about goals. Okay, you might call them resolutions, but I try to have goals, which I think are a step up.
A resolution is an “I should.” As in “I should” lose weight, stop smoking, save some money, etc. A goal [...]
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For the past six and a half years, I’ve been busy 24/7 starting an association for writers and editors and then trying to keep ahead of the landslide I created. It’s all been great. Well, maybe not “all.” But most of it. And I’m very glad I did what I did. But there has been [...]
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Posted in goals, procrastinating on January 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
About two years, I realized that my favorite nightgown was too big. I started looking for a new one, but didn’t see anything similar. (By the way, why do clothes designers seem to only make clothes for very thin young women or very large older women? But that’s another post.)
I considered making my nightgown smaller. [...]
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I’m in the checkout line buying groceries. As usual, I glance at the magazine headlines for a casual check of what’s going on. But all I see are headlines screaming at me:
Get Thin in Three Weeks!
Firm up-fast with Hollywood’s Top Personal Trainer!
Organize Everything Better!
Now I have nothing against improving myself. [...]
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A year ago, I bought a small silver locket and asked God to give me a verse for the year, which I would then write out on a slip of paper and keep in the locket around my neck.
After praying for God to give me a verse, I more or less opened up my Bible [...]
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Posted in family life, goals on December 8, 2005 | 2 Comments »
While entertaining guests in our living room one day, I happened to glance under the piano bench, and there in all its splendour sat - a basketball.
Was I embarrassed? Well, yes. But I remembered, not for the first time, a column by Erma Bombeck I read years ago. It was about her embarrassment at having [...]
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