If you work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, you spend just a little more than a quarter of each week at work. Even more when you add in the time it takes you getting ready for work and getting to and from your job. If you take work home you may be […]
Get Sparked
If getting fit is one of your goals for 2009, SparkPeople is a website that might help you accomplish that goal. From SparkPeople’s About Us page: At SparkPeople, our mission is to SPARK millions of PEOPLE to reach their goals and lead healthier lives. We offer nutrition, health, and fitness tools, support, and resources that […]
Happy New Year
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always Expect Happiness
My wife and I were out driving through the countryside yesterday afternoon and I spotted a sign near a railroad track that said “Always Expect a Train” which is very good advice. It’s a public service campaign from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Then I thought that if we changed “a train” to “happiness” that […]
Shred Your Bad Memories
Well, here we are at the end of 2008. It’s been a tough year for a lot of folks. People losing their jobs. Millions of dollars lost in the stock market. A struggling economy. Illness. Death. War. Lot’s of things we don’t like and lots of things we’d like to forget. Want to get rid […]
Open The New Book Tomorrow
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. –Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Can’t Stick To A Goal?
I mentioned the other day that setting goals is better than making resolutions. But sticking to a goal is difficult. Tony Robbins says you need to get leverage on yourself — you need to have a powerful reason to reach your goal. Sometimes you can get that by telling someone else about your goal. Other […]
On Creating Happiness
I was looking around for some articles on the web about happiness and found one written during the Great Depression. It was written by Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi. Given our current economic problems there is some good advice in this article. It’ll only take a couple of minutes for […]
Give Your Best
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. –Steve Prefontaine
No News Is Good News
I’ll admit it — I’m a news junkie. I spend way too much time watching MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. Plus I check a number of news sites on the Web. The problem with paying attention to the news is that most of the time it’s all bad news. The kind of stuff that makes […]
