If you are grateful for someone or something someone has done for you, TELL them, show them! Take 5 or 10 minutes everyday to think about all that you are grateful for, I mean get really grateful to where you get emotional about, go some where that you can express it out loud, say it feel it. You will be amazed the difference it makes when you say things out loud instead of just thinking them and then to say them with motion and emotion, you will get a warm fuzzy feeling inside and then the bad stuff doesn’t look so bad anymore. Now go share a smile and let your gratitude for. If you don’t think that you have anything to be grateful for then just think about what you would be grateful for if you had something to be grateful and that will draw it to you.
Author: Ron Wilbanks
Ron's Choice is to be happy, love and inspire others by my choices, actions and results
Your BMI and a scale
I was watching the biggest loser last night and one lady said that she didn’t know how she let her self get that way and that when she looked in the mirror she didn’t see a problem. WE FOOL OURSELVES! I did it, even people around me didn’t recognize it because of the way I carried myself and this is why I am such a huge advocate of the BMI chart and the scale. find your ideal weight according to scientific studies not your standard. I had a guy tell me once that he was going to switch doctors because he was offended that his doctor told him that he was obese according to the BMI chart. His own standard was that as long as he could stand straight up and still see his feet he was ok and yes he has some health issues. I am not saying that you SHOULD be at your BMI weight but that should be your goal and the scale, well, the scale does not lie. This is not about how you look or what society thinks, this about what is healthy for you and maintaining it so that you can have a better quality of living. If you can’t trust what you see in the mirror and friends and family are usually going to be nice and not be honest with you about your weight, unless it is WAY out of control, then what other options do you have? Find your ideal BMI, make that your goal and use the scale to measure your progress. Some people make the scale out to be a bad thing, IT”S NOT, it’s awesome to have an accurate unbiased way to measure your progress. I still weigh myself almost every day and I STILL avoid it when I know that I am going in the wrong direction. There is no secret or magic to it, set your goal (ideal BMI), proper nutrition, exercise, take in fewer calories then you burn each day and measure your progress with regular weigh ins. I am writing this to myself as well because I have managed to put 15 pounds back on and I refuse to go back to where I was. Once you lose the weight it is easy to allow yourself to eating unhealthy again, just remember what it took to get you there and let your friendly honest scale keep you in check.
Failure
Failure, road blocks, obstacles, difficulties, temporary defeat, do and always will happen in life but our job is to learn from it and when we no longer experience that same failure, it is at that point that we achieve success. Take for example any problem that is reoccurring in your life, figure out a solution, learn from it and move on. YES, there is a solution and YES you can figure it out but also remember that you don’t have to and shouldn’t do it alone. There is always a way
Sure this is easier said then done but it is a daily practice. On the days or occasions that I am unhappy, angry or not at peace I remind myself of the Serenity Prayer – “God grant me the serenity to accept the things that I can not change; courage to change the things that I can; and the wisdom to know the difference”. You will hear me mention this prayer a lot, I carry a copy of it around with me as it is on the back of my business card. Just remember that ultimately you are in control of how you feel or react to any given situation.
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Energy flows where thought goes
One of the most difficult things for us to and one of the most important is to stay focused on what will be not what it is right now. Keep a steadfast vision of where you are going and what it will look and feel like when you get there. One of my favorite quotes is “I am who I am but I am not who I will be”, of course meaning that you are not who you plan to be because we are growth seeking individuals and that is why you are going through what you are so that you can create a better and brighter future for you and your children instead of sitting around and complaining about “what is” and for that I commend you.
What can I do?
As I read all the comments about all the tragedies and what is wrong in the world, I just wanted to share my thought. Look in the mirror and be the change that you want to see in the world for you are the only person that you can truly change. We need to STOP blaming God, the Devil, looking for signs and twisting scriptures. The simple fact is that evil has been around since the beginning of time. Evil is the absence of good, darkness is the absence of light and hate is the absence of love. Don’t get this post wrong, I am not perfect by any means this is just me trying to practice what I preach. If you see this post in a negative way then that is part of the problem, we need to be the light in the darkness, bring love where there is hate. This does not me that you become a pacifist just simply try to be a little less angry and a little more understanding each day. It is a quantifiable scientific fact that things change when you change how you look at them. 2 people can look at the same picture and can interpret it completely different; it is all in how YOU look at things. Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change. I didn’t make it up I am just sharing; the power on intention by Dr. Wayne Dyer.
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