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Getting Past Hurdles
May 9th
Getting Past Hurdles
Are you too tired or stressed to become a better and fitter person? As much as you love to take care of yourself, there are still days when simply tying your shoes requires a marathon effort. You may groan when the alarm buzzes in the morning, and throughout the day, you battle with all your other issues. After you hit the road, you are sometimes faced with the urge to turn back and crawl under the covers where your world is comfortable and safe. Shifts do occur in your body, which can impact how you feel about what you’re doing while you’re in the middle of it. Luckily, you can outsmart these internal power struggles and reduce the temptation of hitting the snooze button.
The predawn hours are challenging because the body temperature and heart rate dip to their lowest point at this time. In the presence of light, these all pretty much increase, which makes it easier to be active and feel lively. The carbohydrates in your last meal play a role too. If you skipped dinner or ate a lot of rice and sweets, your glycogen levels will be depleted, making it even harder to muster the energy to rise and shine. Prep the night before by eating slow-digesting carbs such as broccoli, beans, and lentils. Caffeine also helps stimulate your system and get you ready for the day ahead. Shut-eye is just as crucial. Turn off any activity at least 30 minutes before you hit the sack. Pull in the shades and feel the boost of melatonin that gets you sleepy.
Schedule your workout like all your other responsibilities. Rest when you’re tired and know that midday activities are actually much better for you. Moreover, don’t confuse mental fatigue with physical fatigue. This doesn’t have an impact on your physical functions. Resist the urge to laze around by packing your gear and doing what you have to do. Even better, start a group that shares similar goals. Keep your energy up and realize that there are actually more things you are capable of doing. If no one’s watching, you think that the cheating won’t count. Don’t ever fool yourself into thinking this way. Keep a log on all your shortcuts because this way, you’ll see just how much you’ve deprived yourself.
When you stop any activity, your blood pressure drops and blood pools in your legs, which make you feel weary and lightheaded. Slow down instead and then walk it off. Because muscles are most pliable and inflammation is at its peak right after anything active, try to stretch and ice yourself. Then, fill your system up with healthy meals after everything. Pretty soon, you’ll have more energy to spare in the days that follow.
Try your hardest to get yourself ready for the active day ahead, both for work and exercise. Put on your clothes in a well lit room. When light hits your eyes, you’ll feel the drowsiness leave your body. Go slow and go through transitions with care. You’ll be a more active person if you’re vigilant about what you do to yourself during the day.
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Letting Go
Apr 19th
Letting Go
When something ends unexpectedly, be it a relationship or a job, it’s natural to seek an explanation and crave for a coherence of thought. With it comes the most important step of all: closure. A lot of people know this from experience. Sometimes, people could cut you off completely from their lives, and this experience could leave you devastated. Years later, you may still be wondering if you should have mended these broken relationships. You may want to tie up loose ends because you have this irrational fear that letting something go means losing control. Free your thoughts about these people you’ve lost. Just seek out great Advice when you need to come to terms with uncertainty.
It helps to steal a pearl of wisdom. Often, you can’t move on because you haven’t learned yet what you’re supposed to from a difficult situation. After you contemplate on whether you’ve gained some insight from your suffering, you may actually have a clearer sense of what you need and what you don’t from your circle of friends. Right now, you could do less with capriciousness and more with support from people who truly care about you.
Talk yourself out of the gloom and depression. Jot down all the reasons you should stop brooding, then circle the most convincing one for you. The best argument would be: you need to invest your energy in people who are truly there for you. Fleeting relationships don’t amount to much, and as passionate and fun as they are, these are only temporary and are therefore not worth your energy. Repeat the statement to yourself if you start to stew. It might be difficult at first, but when you constantly tell yourself what ought to be done, you’ll actually start to believe in it.
Do a slow fade when it comes to getting over a lost relationship. Look at it as kicking a smoking habit. Quitting cold turkey may just be too much for some and may, in fact, be futile. When painful feelings inevitably arise, think of the emotions as a song on the radio and turn the volume down low. It’s not about forcing the feelings away but acknowledging them, then shifting your focus to something more productive. Cry it out if you must, but give yourself a time limit. As soon as you’ve let it all go, pick yourself up and force yourself to move on. If you don’t pick up the pieces of your life, you’re never going to get anywhere.
If you must, write it all down. Express yourself on paper, then destroy the evidence. You will send yourself the message that you’ve accepted the situation. You may realize that you actually have the capacity to forgive, and that feeling can be more liberating than you can ever expect. It’s time to make your life better simply because you owe it to yourself to do something worthwhile. It’s not about pride when it comes to moving on, but more on the fact that you should love yourself before anything or anyone else.
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Karin Le Blanc Internet entrepreneur, publisher and writer