★ Make & Freeze Breadcrumbs: It’s the simple things in life that matter so here’s how to do this.
★ The Daily Motivator: Ralph Marston certainly knows how to put things into perspective.
★ World Gym Ashmore (Qld): This has just opened up and if you haven’t been there already I suggest you go. When I move up there I know I’ll be going.
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Everybody’s afraid of something. So what are you afraid of?
We seldom want to think about it because of the way it makes us feel, usually scared, sometimes venerable. But we all have our fears and insecurities. Some are big, some are small, whatever they are they’re our biggest nightmares and not facing them only gives them more power. But it doesn’t have to be that way, we always have a choice.
The first thing about facing our fears is knowing what the worst case scenario is so we know what we’re dealing with. For example, for me it’s trusting and loving. Having been hurt both physically and psychologically from a past relationship and then the loss of both my parents, it made me not want to trust or love again in humankind. By doing this I could therefore protect myself from all that pain and suffering. So for me my worst case scenario was suffering a broken heart. Once I acknowledged that and accepted that it made the fear of a broken heart that little less scarier to contend with.
The next step was figuring out how to get back to that happy, loving, trusting place again in my life. Nothing in life ever worth having came easy, so facing our fears certainly won’t come easy. It’ll be hard, probably damn hard. But it’s a choice we make and it’ll be worth it in the long run. Work out the steps, write them down like a goal and slowly work through them at your own pace. Step by step we’ll all get there in the end.
Life is for living and I chose to not live mine in fear. By setting myself free, I’m one step closer to living the life I want and deserve for myself.
Comfort food doesn’t have to mean unhealthy food. No, quite the contrary. There are a plethora of recipes out there for home cooked meals that are also healthy for you and for your family to enjoy.
It’s winter, and if you’re anything like me in the cooler months of the year you desire warmer meals and heartier meals. Three staples that are commonly craved would have to be:
✭ Chunky Soups
✭ Slow Cooker Casseroles
✭ Roasts & Seasonal Vegetables
It’s not difficult to eat healthy and it can be done relatively quickly if you have one of the tools of the trade, like a slow cooker. Here are some recipes that could help to inspire you. Lean meat and some seasonal vegetables are a great start to whipping up a quick meal for a sit down family dinner at home. And by choosing the seasonal vegetables on offer you are more than likely to try new varieties you’ve never tried before. I know that I used to be stuck in a food rut and eat the same things year in year out, not now. By selecting seasonal vegetables it forced me to try new varieties and broaden my taste options. Some were pleasant surprise, some weren’t. But if you’re bored with food this is a great place to start.
Also if you’re time poor like many are these days, a slow cooker will definitely help you out. When you get home from work, place your chosen ingredients into the slow cooker, set the timer and forget about it until it’s time to serve and enjoy. This then frees up your time of an evening to do other important things like domestics, or exercising or spending quality time with your family members. Eating healthy doesn’t have to be complicated
Lamb shanks with mashed sweet potato and beans is a comfort food of mine, what’s yours?
★ My Polar Personal Trainer: Whatever your sport, whatever your goal and whatever your level. This is for you who want to train right, follow your progress and have fun with friends.
★ Puncturing Popular Broscience Myths: A T-Nation training article hubby bought to my attention and now I’m brining it to yours.
★ Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution: This food revolution is about saving America’s health by changing the way you eat.
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Love is all you need to get you through the best and worst of times in life. Love from your family, your friends and those you surround yourself with.
“Anyone who’s lost a parent or will lose one will understand that this is a unique loss. Parents were the first to hold us when we were born, the first to love us, and the first people we loved.”
Loving someone, anyone, means trusting them implicitly, and when we get hurt by that love in whatever form that may be we never forget that feeling, never. When your heart is broken it leaves a gaping hole in your chest and the open wound can take a lifetime to heal, if at all.
Often to protect ourselves, we retreat and withdraw further into our depths of darkness. It’s a survival instinct, to stop the pain and suffering that comes hand in hand with a broken heart. This also comes at a cost, to those that are closest to us because by protecting ourselves we in turn risk hurting those that surround us. Of course it’s never intentional, but it’s a risk all the same. It ends up being a viscous cycle that’s often difficult to dismount. Kind of like a merry-go round, you can only stay on for so long before you draw tired of it and need to ground yourself once again.
But on the same token, love is the one thing we have to open ourselves up to in order to properly heal, to breathe, to start living again. To live a life of love, and to be loved. No wound ever heals to the point that it completely disappears, it’s always going to be there beneath the surface like all battle scars are. But it does get less and less significant with the increased amount of love you welcome back into your life.
Trusting, loving, are risks. But it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Don’t you think?
