Can’t or won’t
On your way home from work, you can stop for a few beer with the guys or your can surprise everyone at home with flowers, pizza and a half gallon of ice cream. You make your family more important than your friends.
Your “EX” [...]
Continue Reading →You learn from observation. You see people who make good choices. You see people who make poor choices. Are you learning?
You see Melika spending tens of thousands of dollars opening a restaurant specializing in Moroccan soups. You think, “Who the hell wants Moroccan soups?” You are correct. You think, “What is this idiot thinking?” You [...]
Continue Reading →ou were born into poverty. There is nothing you can do about this.
Your parents were dysfunctional alcoholics. There is nothing you can do about this.
You were the high school cheerleader. Does anyone remember your glory days?
Your second cousin on your mother’s side is the govenor. And, that does what for you?
Your [...]
Continue Reading →You get cut off in traffic. It happens.
Your best client buys somewhere else. It happens.
You go jogging and pull a muscle. It happens.
You go to a great movie that turns out to be a dud. It happens.
You study and still get a C. It happens.
You negotiate a [...]
Continue Reading →You were warned.
You sat in fourth grade. You saw what happened to Melissa Sullivan. There were always food stains on her clothes. She waddled more than walked. Her well meaning mother pampered her with Twinkies. The teasing and bullying only made her eat more. By high school, Mellias was a lonely social outcast. [...]
Continue Reading →According the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, students NEED at least one hour of physical activity per day to stay healthy.
How do Americans teens measure up?
How about eighty-two percent, that is 82%, do NOT get an hour of exercise each day?
Does this make them fat? Maybe. Sit outside [...]
Continue Reading →Can you push out one more rep?
Can you forego the second helpings?
Can you turn off the TV and call Mom?
Can you work a weekend day when you were planning on relaxing?
Can you calmly react to your teenager who gets in your face?
Can you get your windshield fixed [...]
Continue Reading →You do your best.
You don’t do the minimum. You don’t look for short cuts or the easy way. You aren’t a slacker or complainer.
You do your best. You know this about yourself. You are an “all-in” kind of person. If you are going to do something, you do it. You [...]
Continue Reading →Can’t or won’t
Over 63% of Americans are overweight or obese. Waddle along side them or run past them.
Can’t or won’t
Over 70% of American eat only one portion of fruits and vegetables a day. Eventually, unhealthy eating may lead to high blood pressure, heat attacks, strokes, osteoporosis, diabetes … Throw the dice, belch, and have [...]
Continue Reading →Other than amputation, you lose twenty pounds in increments.
It is pound by pound and ounce by ounce.
It is that moment when you choose a salad and a bowl of spaghetti with meatballs rather than forgetting the salad and eating two bowls of spaghetti with meatballs.
It is that moment when you stop at two cookies.
It is that [...]
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