Don't Waste your Life Believing You Can't

In 1977, in Tallahassee, Florida, Laura Shultz, who was 63 then, picked up the back end of a Buick to get it off her grandson's arm. Before that time, she had never lifted anything heavier than a 50-pound bag..

Dr. Charles Garfield, author of Peak Performance, interviewed her and got her to talk about "the event." She said she didn't like to think about it because it challenged her beliefs about what she could and couldn't do. She said, "If I was able to do this when I didn't think I could, what does that say about the rest of my life? How have I wasted it?"

Charlie convinced her that her life was not yet over and that she could still do whatever she wanted to do. He asked her what she wanted to do, what her passion was. She said she had always loved rocks. She had wanted to study geology, but her parents hadn't had enough money to send both her and her brother to college, so her brother had won out.

At 63, with a little coaching from Charlie, she decided to go back to school to study geology. She eventually got her degree and went on to teach at a local community college.

Don't wait until you are 63 to decide that you can do anything you want. Don't waste years of your life. Decide that you are capable of doing anything you want and start working toward it now.

From "The Success Principles" by Jack Canfield:
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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity not to know what can't be done.

– Henry Ford

Quick Beer on a Full Belly

The class was amazed to see on the Lecturer's desk a bag of sand, a bag of pebbles, some big rocks and a bucket. It was time for a pre-exam lecture on time management. He beacons an undergraduate to come on the platform and fill up the bucket.

A thoughtless novice starts with the sand, then the pebbles, then wastes lot of time pushing in the rocks, which not all fit in the bucket and makes a mess.

"Isn't that poor time and thought management" shrills the lecturer, "If you'd have put the rocks first, then the pebbles, then the sand, all three would have fit to the full. This is much like time management, in that by completing your biggest tasks first, you leave room to complete your medium tasks, then your smaller ones in given time. By getting lost into your smallest tasks first, you spend so much time on them, you leave yourself unable to complete either medium or large tasks satisfactorily.

And the lecturer re-fills the bucket, big rocks first, then pebbles, then sand, shaking the bucket between each so that everything fits. And heaves a sigh of anticipation of thunderous clapping.

"But Sir," Walks in one student, slouched at the back of the class, "you've forgotten one thing…..."

At which the student approaches the bucket, produces a can of lager, opens it, pours into the bucket and quips with a smile, "No matter, Sir, how much full, your bucket or belly is, there's always time, space and thought for a quick beer."

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A Health Officer drives into a village to check what precautions the villagers are taking for pure drinking water.

The Village Head assures the Bureaucrat that they chlorinate the village Pond, discourage activities like swimming, washing in the pond, collect water from the pond in clean utensils and boil water. Even then for the sake of safety, they drink beer only!

SUGAR FREE ??? We are being Cheated..

Most crash diet programs are high in proteins and low in carbohydrates. Water in the body attaches itself to a substance called glycogen, and the level of glycogen in the body is controlled by carbohydrate intake. Thus when a crash diet reduces drastically intake of carbohydrates, body's level of carbohydrates drops and so also level of body's water/fluid level. Once the normal diet of carbohydrates is resumed, body regains.

we are cheated into believing that weight loss was fat? As a matter of fact, loss in weight was due to loss of water in body and/or muscle tissue and not because of loss of fat. Once the crash program is over, water replaces itself automatically with body getting back its weight.

If crash diet is continued for long, may be some fat too is lost. But along with that is lost also lean tissue of some vital body muscles and organs. And that is dangerous. After the crash diet program is over, fat tissue will be regained but not lean tissue. Hence it is paradoxical that a person will gain more weight once the crash diet program is over.

Better to follow our instinctive basicS > balanced staple meals-program with balanced intake of protein, carbohydrates and fiber augmented by Daily Walks, Free Arms/Aerobic Exercise, Deep Breathing and Yoga which should account for loss of fat. And strengthen immune system. Why lose organ / muscle tissue through crash dieting? Diet programs do not highlight these facts as they would want to play on our sentiments of embarrassment, sense of helplessness and lack of strength of will and thus win us over to their crash calculations.

1) Anything labeled at the grocery store as "low fat", "sugar free", "low-carb", or "whole grain" are no good for you as you're being regularly deceived by the clever marketing of huge multi-million food corporations...

2) Most foods labeled as "sugar free" or "low-carb" actually contain artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohols, and other additives that create a hormonal mess inside your body, actually stimulating your body to STORE more belly fat and stimulate cravings!

3) In fact, doing excessive exercises also actually works against your results because you are stimulating excessive cortisol production in your body and breaking down lean muscle tissue... all of which leads to the slowing down of your metabolic rate over time and deposition of even more belly fat on top of what you already have.

Did you say, “you feel sick today”

Did you say, "you feel sick today"!

Do you know Why?

You get a cut and all sorts of bacteria and viruses enter your body through the break in the skin. Often the skin heals itself and seals the puncture. Each day you inhale thousands of germs (bacteria and viruses) that are floating in the air. And you do not keep falling sick every day. Why?

Coz, your immune system responds and eliminates the invaders.

But in rare cases, the immune system misses something. So you will get inflammation and pus as side-effects as the cut gets infected. The mosquito bite will get you a red, itchy bump. Occasionally a germ gets past the immune system and you catch a cold, get the flu or still worse.

Deficiency of vitamin or mineral – like lack of Vitamin D and you have rickety bones: Lack of Vitamin C and you have swollen and bleeding gums? Iron deficiency and you are declared anemic? So you know to what extent the vitamins and minerals strengthen your immune system! Or weaken it!

What is this marvel Inside your body that gives you amazing protection mechanism? This phenomenon - called the immune system. It is designed to defend you against millions of bacteria, microbes, viruses, toxins and parasites that would love to invade your body.

Get knowledgeable about your body's immune system. It is complex, intricate and interesting. Your immune system works round the clock in thousands of different ways, but it does its work largely unnoticed. One thing that causes us to really notice our immune system is when it fails for some reason. We also notice it when it does something that has a side effect we can see or feel.

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Does Humour enhance your Immune System?

The funny thing about humor is that it does a lot more than make people laugh.

Humour and Laughter strengthen immune system.

In Patch Adam's words, "Choose humour in the public place, with a smile on the face, or a twinkle in the eyes, and a willingness to greet each person!"

In the process, you would have strengthened the immune system – not only yours but also the other person's.