Month: February 2021

🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ What are the Best Food for Brain Health?

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Brain Health Boosters

What should we be eating for brain health? Anne Linge, registered dietitian and certified diabetes care and education specialist at the Nutrition Clinic at the University of Washington Medical Center-Roosevelt, recommends the MIND diet, a combination of the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet. The combination of the two, results in a diet high in folate, carotenoids, vitamin E, flavonoids and antioxidants as seen in the 10 categories below:

Leafy greens (6x per week)
Vegetables (1x per day)
Nuts (5x per week)
Berries (2x per week)
Beans (3x per week)
Whole grains (3x per day)
Fish (1x per week)
Poultry (2x per week)
Olive oil (regular use)
Red wine (1x per day)

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👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ You Have a Special Gift

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You have a special gift only you can bring to our world. It doesn’t matter if your gift is newsworthy or not. It is your gift, and it is needed. Bring it. Bring it in all its fullness. Shine on!

✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Frustrated with Your Writing? You’re on the Right Path

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“If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.”

~ Maxwell Perkins

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🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ It’s Never Over, Shake it Off, Start Again

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“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

💡 Something to Think About

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If you’re breathing it’s not over. You have a chance to do something. Don’t let false beliefs hold you back. Don’t listen to naysayers. If you follow the crowd, you’ll become like the crowd. Blaze your own trail. C’mom, you can do it. 

🤗 A Better Life ~ It’s the Simple Things

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I got gas for my car today. There are two pumps at each station. I pulled into the forward pump. A moment later, an SUV pulled in behind me. I motioned them forward with my hand until they came close to my bumper. The driver thanked me for making it easy for her to fill her SUV. Simple things make the world a lot friendly. Have a great day and pass on your wonderful smile.

Today’s Smile 😃

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Joe: “I’m worried about my relationship with my girlfriend.”

Pete: “What’s going on, Joe?”

Joe: “She took me off speed dial, changed her phone number, and got a restraining order.”

🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Lovers

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Lovers

Arthur Henry Adams

I thought, because we had been friends so long,
That I knew all your dear lips dared intend
Before they dawned to speech. Our thoughts would blend,
I dreamed, like memories that faintly throng.
Your voice dwelt in me like an olden song.
Petal, I thought, from petal I could rend
The blossom of your soul, and at the end
Find still the same sweet fragrance. I was wrong.
Last evening in our eyes love brimmed to birth;
Our friendship faded, lost in passion’s mist.
We had been strangers only! Here, close-caught
Against my heart the dim face I had sought
So long! And now the only thing on earth—
Your piteous mouth, a-tremble to be kissed!

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🤗 A Better Life ~ Choices Always Choices

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Choices Always Choices

A choice to get up and get going or to stay in bed.

A choice to answer a neighbors request for help or a friendly ear. Or, giving a busy signal.

A choice to face disappointment and decide to keep on trying. Or, to give up and drop into depression.

A choice to do the right thing. Or, to choose to turn a blind eye and ignore the wrong.

💡 Something to Think About

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Each morning, we have a new opportunity to construct our reality. If we act powerless, others construct our reality for us. If we act empowered we can construct our reality. It may not always turn out the way we want. In the end, however, we’ll be a player in the game of our life. 

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