Take the stairs
Making small, daily changes such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator may seem minor, but they can make a big difference for your heart in the long run. “Individuals who are physically active are much less likely to develop cardiovascular disease,” explains Johns Hopkins cardiologist Chiadi E. Ndumele, M.D., M.H.S.
Month: December 2019
🌞 Inspiring Quote ~ Practicing kindness
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.” ~Jack Kerouac
🍎 Health Hack ~ A New Year’s Resolution: Good Health
Make Health Your Resolution
Find ways to boost your health, fitness, and well-being, and be an inspiration to others!
- Make healthy food choices. Grab a healthy snack on the go. Eat more fruits and vegetables.
- Be active. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Park farther away and walk.
- Protect yourself from injury and disease. Put on a helmet, sunscreen, or insect repellent. Wash your hands for 20 seconds.
- Manage stress. Don’t overschedule or overcommit. Take short breaks throughout the day.
- Make an appointment for a check-up, vaccination, or screening.
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ Let Your Characters Lead
Let your characters lead when you’re dancing together.” ―
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Open Your Eyes
Let a good fact become a good experience. Often we go through life and some good thing happens—a little thing, like we checked off an item on our To Do list, we survived another day at work, the flowers are blooming, and so forth. Hey, this is an opportunity to feel good. Don’t leave money lying on the table: Recognize that this is an opportunity to let yourself truly feel good.
Today’s Smile 😃
“Why do scuba divers fall backwards out of the boat?”
“Because if they fell forwards they’d still be in the boat.”
Today’s Poem ~ A Walk
A Walk
Rainer Maria Rilke
My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-
and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave…
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
🌞 Inspiring Quote ~ Love Works!
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. ~ Karl Menninger
Today’s Poem ~ Song of the Open Road 4
Song of the Open Road
Walt Whitman
4
The earth expanding right hand and left hand,
The picture alive, every part in its best light,
The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted,
The cheerful voice of the public road, the gay fresh sentiment of the road.
O highway I travel, do you say to me Do not leave me?
Do you say Venture not—if you leave me you are lost?
Do you say I am already prepared, I am well-beaten and undenied, adhere to me?
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you,
You express me better than I can express myself,
You shall be more to me than my poem.
I think heroic deeds were all conceiv’d in the open air, and all free poems also,
I think I could stop here myself and do miracles,
I think whatever I shall meet on the road I shall like, and whoever beholds me shall like me,
I think whoever I see must be happy.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Create a Supportive Team
Gravitate to Positivity
Surround yourself with positive people. Doing so provides you an encouraging, emotionally healthy environment in which to invest in yourself. “Don’t be afraid to ask for help or support,” says Chicago-based Nike NTC master trainer and run coach Emily Hutchins.
