Small Changes to Improve Heart Health
If you have a serious medical condition involving your heart, it may take a great deal of effort to improve your heart health. If you don’t already have a serious condition, however, a few small steps can go a long way towards improving your overall heart health and help prevent a number of more serious conditions. Heart health has also been proven to have a strong link to cognitive function as well, so many of the same things that protect your heart also protect your brain. Here are 3 small lifestyle changes you can make to help improve your heart health – and maybe help protect your brain in the…
Five Healthy Valentine’s Day Dates
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Are you looking for a slightly different but healthy way to celebrate the day with your significant other? Here are some healthy Valentine’s Day date options that will be fun and show your sweetie that you care! A Figure Skating Date Ice skating is an excellent way to stay active with your Valentine’s Day date. It’s also pretty effective when it comes to burning calories. A moderate session burns around 350 calories per hour whilst an intense session burns a massive 600 calories per hour. So if you fancy hitting the ice this Valentine’s Day get down to a nearby rink with your…
Take Control of Your Goals With Your Journal
Among the different ways to use a journal, creating and sticking to your goals is one of the best options. When you don’t write your goals down and only keep them in your mind, it’s hard to see progress and keep up your motivation. But when you use your journal to write them out, you have more clarity of the tasks you need to get done, and the deadlines will keep you motivated. It lets you take control of your goals. Choose Your Biggest Goals A common mistake people make is that they have too many goals on their mind, which takes the focus away to the most important tasks.…
Taking Care of You
Each of us was given a single physical vessel to use for our entire lifetime. Apart from general health and wellness, such as eating a healthy diet, routine exercise, and getting enough quality sleep, we should also establish and maintain a self-care regimen. There has been so much information floating around about self-care. But even with this wealth of information, many haven’t quite grasped the concept of self-care. They get stuck in the mindset that it’s self-indulgent and that there simply isn’t enough time in the day. Self-care is basically you taking care of you. We spend a great deal of time catering to the needs of others, yet who…
Buying a New Journal? What to Look For…
When it comes time to buy a new journal, don’t rush the process. You might be using it for months before getting another one, so it should be something that checks off all your required boxes, from the size to how it looks. Here are some features to consider when looking for a new journal. Size Size matters when it comes to your journal. It can change the weight, determine whether or not you can bring it with you in your purse, and it changes how long your pages are. If you journal at home and always have it sitting on your desk, then a larger journal might be good…
More Journal Topics to Start the Year
There are a few times of the year when people tend to start journaling for the first time or to get back into the process after a break – when they are dealing with something difficult, near the beginning of a quarter, and at the beginning of the year. If you are planning to start journaling as part of your new start this January, I have provided a few additional things you can write about. Your New Years’ Annual Goals Naturally, the first step to journaling at the beginning of the year is to write about your goals for the year. They don’t all have to be huge goals —…
How to Find Joy in Your Business and Your Life in 2020
Tasha was a web designer who worked from home. She loved that her business allowed her to be with her two young boys. But after a few years, Tasha started feeling “blah” about her business. Her projects no longer excited her. She found herself feeling like each job was a repeat of the one before it. She no longer had the “spark” that got her out of bed each morning, looking forward to building her business. A friend suggested she needed to find ways to add more joy to her work. “But how do I do that?” Tasha asked. “I wouldn’t know where to start.” Tasha’s friend recommended that she…
Day 25: Thankful for Life’s Precious Gifts
Hi there… if you’re still following along with the 30 Days Thankful Challenge, that’s wonderful! We’re so happy to have you here for our final week of gratitude exercises. This is Day 25 and we are looking at gratitude and mindfulness. As the University of California Robert Emmons is known for saying, viewing life as a gift opens the door to better relationships, stronger communities, and greater success and happiness. What does this mean exactly? It means that when we cultivate a spirit of gratitude, we attract others who embody this same sentiment. Have a Positive Attitude People who view the world negatively tend to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If…
