“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.”
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Month: June 2020
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “My grandpa asked me how to print on his computer.”
Pete: “Were you able to help him?”
Joe: “When I told him it’s Ctrl-P, he said he hadn’t been able to do that for years.”
🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Can I Eat Everything I Want When I Exercise?
Can Eat What I Want and Not Gain Weight When I Exercise Regularly?
Sure, if your eating greens and veggies – LOL.
Working out isn’t license to abandon portion sizes and healthy eating guidelines. It’s easy to overestimate the amount of calories you burn while working out. Adjust your calorie intake if you’re engaging in serious training, such as for a triathlon, where you might be working out more than once a day. Recovery nutrition is necessary if you are an athlete participating in strenuous activity, especially if you are participating in multiple events in the same day. For the casual exerciser working out for an hour or less, a healthy balanced diet will work.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Permission to Write Badly
“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.”
~ Lawrence Block
🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ 5 Benefits of Stretching
Make Stretching One of Your Daily Routines
- Decreases muscle stiffness and increases range of motion. Stretching helps improve your range of motion, which may also slow the degeneration of your joints.
- May reduce your risk of injury. A flexible muscle is less likely to become injured if you have to make a sudden move. By increasing the range of motion in a particular joint through stretching, you can decrease the resistance on your body’s muscles during various activities.
- Helps relieve post-exercise aches and pains. After a hard workout, stretching your muscles helps keep them loose and lessens the shortening and tightening effect that can lead to post-workout aches and pains.
- Improves posture. Stretching the muscles of the lower back, shoulders and chest helps keep your back in better alignment and improves your posture.
- Helps reduce or manage stress. Well-stretched muscles hold less tension and, therefore, can help you feel less stressed.
Peace & Beauty Surround Us
A friend shared this beautiful photo. Is it a sunrise or sunset? It really doesn’t matter. For me, it symbolized peace and beauty still exists even when chaos seems evident everywhere.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ The Trick to Being Happier
Want to be Happier?
Notice what’s right Experts agree that optimistic people are happier people. Those who look on the bright side experience more happiness than those who try to “see things as they really are,” according to Lyubomirsky. It’s a process scientists call reframing: If you try to cast negative events in a positive light, and you see the silver lining, you can turn a bad situation into a joyful one.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ The Heart Knows
Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “I bought a toilet brush yesterday.”
Pete: “That’s interesting.”
Joe: “I tell yah, Pete, I still prefer toilet paper.”
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ The Glad Song
The Glad Song
Joseph Morris
Sing a song, sing a song,
Ring the glad-bells all along;
Smile at him who frowns at you,
He will smile and then they’re two.
Laugh a bit, laugh a bit,
Folks will soon be catching it,
Can’t resist a happy face;
World will be a merry place.
Laugh a Bit and Sing a Song,
Where they are there’s nothing wrong;
Joy will dance the whole world through,
But it must begin with you.
