“Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you’re going to perform, you’ve already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.”
~ Usain Bolt
Month: April 2021
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Want Your Dream to Come True
Dreams come true with determination, dedicated effort, and refusal to give up.
💡 Something to Think About
For every piece of bad news there are hundreds of pieces of good news. Don’t get discouraged by headlines or commentators. People are good. Life is good. It’s all going to turn out well.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “My girlfriend is so manipulative.”
Pete: “Why are you living with her?”
Joe: “Because she is so manipulative.”
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ A Trinity
A Trinity
Hilaire Belloc
Of three in One and One in three
My narrow mind would doubting be
Till Beauty, Grace and Kindness met
And all at once were Juliet.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing a Crime Novel?
“The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.” ~ Michael Connelly
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Difference Between Telling and Describing
“There are a couple of writers I admired who were very good at giving the character’s emotion without stating what that emotion was. Not saying “He was feeling tense,” instead saying, “His hand squeezed harder on the chair arm,” as if staying outside the guy. I wanted to try doing that. I wanted to have a really emotional story in which the characters’ emotions are never straight – out told to you, but you get it.” ~ Donald Westlake
💡 Something to Think About
I flew this past weekend for the first time since the pandemic began. It was a breath of freedom. I felt safe. Everyone wore masks. People were considerate and practiced safety health protocols. The airlines made an extra effort to make us all feel save from COVID. It is amazing what we can do when we do it together.
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Does Dieting Help?
Reframing the Mindset to Lose Weight
So the first step towards permanent healthy weight loss is, somewhat ironically, to lose the diet and the diet mindset. Instead think about a Healthy Eating Plan (a HEP) that you could live with and enjoy for life. The best answer to dieting, then, is a lifelong program of everyday healthy, pleasurable eating coupled with regular exercise. To lose weight, eat less and exercise more. How boring! How prosaic! Yet how true.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ It’s All Connected
“Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.”
~ Leonardo da Vinci
