Welcome to EVERHART AND SOUL!

Thank you for your interest, and a big “Thank You” to Rob and Sandy for giving me the privilege of having some input to their powerful web page. I consider it an honor to be a small part of their team.

I’ve known Rob for a long time now, long enough to know that if I had to pick someone to be in a foxhole with, while being shot at, it would be him! (And who wouldn’t want to be in a foxhole with Sandy?)

Before I get too many months along with this newsletter, I’d like to briefly address the goal I strive for in my little corner:

Ultimately, I hope, in some small way, to give you what you need to either create or adjust a feeling of well-being in your life, one that will last deep within your soul. Your well-being comes from healthy choices about self, along with removing yourself from others choices. Your feeling of well-being does impact your energy level!

“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.” - Anthony Robbins, Author, Speaker, Consultant

And …

“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.” - Brian Tracy, Trainer, Speaker, Author

To summarize: By continuing to grow in your awareness, you become more comfortable, more … enlightened (for lack of a better word). Then you will be able, in turn, give more attention to the task at hand, whatever that task is, as the other areas of your life will become less demanding.

What is enlightenment?

“You cannot grasp it; nor can you get rid of it. In not being able to get it, you get it. When you speak, it is silent; when you are silent, it speaks.” - Zen master Yung-chia’s Song of Enlightenment

“Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.” - Zen Proverb

Motivation has a short shelf-life, to benefit from it, you must act on it quickly, and recharge it periodically.

Well-being, enlightenment, and motivation are all like a circle; it all comes back to you one way or another. I know helping you in any of these areas is a tall order, but I’m willing to give it a shot. Thank you and be safe out there!

CDE

“Time Management for Healthy Living” by Unknown

By taking control of your time rather than letting it control you, your productivity and health can increase and your everyday stress can decrease.

Here are 12 tips that can work for you!

Plan out your day. Write “To Do” list each morning, and prioritize your tasks. Then do the most important first.

Break big tasks into several small ones. Focus on one task at a time. Concentrated energy gets each task done faster.

Share responsibilities. You don’t have to do it all. Ask others to help you.

Take breaks as needed and schedule in some time each day for enjoyment.

Get enough sleep, exercise, and healthy foods so that you’re up for each task.

Make the most of every moment. Use down time to read or listen to audio tapes.

Learn to say “No” to unnecessary work or social engagements.

Set time limits for tasks that might otherwise go on forever.

Keep files that are organized so it is easy to find things when you need them.

Keep plenty of reminders. Have a calendar handy whether on your wall or on your computer, to help you keep track of what you have to do.

Balance work and play.

Simplify your life to gain time for what you really want to do, and nurture yourself by relaxing.

Remember: Time can’t change, but how you approach what you do with your time can change ... for the better.

  "The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that’s when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it." - John C. Maxwell

"The more balanced our lives, the more serene we feel." - Ann Smith

... so when someone motivates you to do something, be it in exercise, or in love, or in work ...remember this:

 "When you are inspired....dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." - Patanjali

 "Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck." - Unknown

"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end." - Julius Erving, American Basketball Player
 

"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” - Plato

“Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great.” - Mark Twain

"Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them." - Johannes Brahms

One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply? - Diane Ackerman

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. - Cicero

 

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan, 1860 – 1925

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. -P. J. O'Rourke

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. -Dean Martin

Drunkenness is temporary suicide. - Bertrand Russell

"Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and cloth, or the Gout will seize you and plague you both," Franklin wrote. Franklin relished his food, basked in the company of women, and at times used items of apparel to influence the way people perceived him. And, indeed, gout plagued Franklin for much of his life.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until after their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire. - Plato

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. – Ovid

Wine is bottled poetry. -Robert Louis Stevenson

 

What a man says drunk he has thought sober. - Flemish Proverb

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. - Mignon McLaughlin

 

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety. - Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856

This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought. -Samuel Johnson

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall in to this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity. - Abraham Lincoln, address to the Washington Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois, 22 February 1842

Wine is sunlight, held together by water. -Galileo

A hangover is the wrath of grapes. - Unknown

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine. -Unknown

We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed. -St. Augustine

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same. – Blaise Pascal

You might be a redneck if you've been too drunk to fish. - Jeff Foxworthy

Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. - Pope John XXIII

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine. –Polish Proverb

Bad times are like a big bottle of bad wine, it only feels better after you've finished it. – The Dealmaker

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. - Animal House

 

... and my personal favorite "high:"

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine: Or leave a kiss but in the cup, and I'll not look for wine. - Ben Jonson, To Celia

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. - Jim Rohn, Author, Speaker, Philosopher

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet, Novelist

Youth will never live to age unless they keep themselves in health with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 86) English soldier & poet

A great deal of bad health in this country may be attributed to heavy meals and light work. - Unknown

“Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.” - Socrates

"Be a trustee. Everything comes to us in trust, for us to use and then to set it free. The consciousness of trustee sets us free of the tension of grasping and guarding. To see ourselves as trustees of everything that we receive, including our bodies, encourages our innate capacity to 'care for with dignity'. It is a much more relaxing way of relating to the things which we are privileged to receive in life." – Unknown

"There's no secret to getting started. You simply decide and then take your first step. With each subsequent step, the next one becomes easier..." - Tom Venuto, fitness expert

Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working. - Shakti Gawain

"The best six doctors anywhere, and no one can deny it, are sunshine, water, rest, and air, exercise and diet. These six will gladly, you attend, if only you are willing. Your mind they'll ease, your will they'll mend, and charge you not a shilling." - Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows


 

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference. -Jenny Craig

I Love This Doctor!

Q:I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true?
A:Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it... don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap

Q:Should I cut down on meat and eat morefruits and vegetables?
A:You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable).. And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable products.

Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake?
A: No, not at all. Wine is made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, that means they take the water out of the fruity bit so you get even more of the goodness that way. Beer is also made out of grain. Bottoms up!

Q:Is chocolate bad for me?
A:Are you crazy?HELLO?Cocoa beans! Another vegetable!!! It's the best feel-good food around!

Q:Is swimming good for your figure?
A:If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.

Q:Is getting in-shape important for my lifestyle?
A:Hey! 'Round'is a shape!

Q How can I calculate my body/fat ratio
A:Well, if you have a body and you have fat, your ratio is one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio is two to one, etc.

Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had aboutfood and diets.

And remember:
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body,but rather to skid in sideways -Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming"WOO HOO, What a Ride" AND......

For those of you who watch what you eat, here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting nutritional studies.....

1. The Japanese eat very little fat andsuffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat andsuffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

CONCLUSION

Eat and drink what you like.
Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

The Art of Being Well by Dr. Dráuzio Varella

If you don’t want to be ill … SPEAK YOUR FEELINGS.

Emotions and feelings that are hidden, repressed, end in illnesses as: gastritis, ulcer, lumbar pains, spinal. With time, the repression of the feelings degenerates to the cancer. Then, we go to a confidante, to share our intimacy, our “secrets,” our errors! The dialogue, the speech, the word, is a powerful remedy and an excellent therapy!

If you don’t want to be ill … MAKE DECISIONS.

The undecided person remains in doubt, in anxiety, in anguish. Indecision accumulates problems, worries and aggressions. Human history is made of decisions. To decide is precisely to know how to renounce, to know to lose advantages and values, to win others. The undecided people are victims of gastric ailments, nervous pains and problems of the skin.

If you don’t want to be ill … FIND SOLUTIONS.

Negative people do not find solutions, and they enlarge problems. They prefer lamentation, gossip, pessimism. It is better to light a match than to regret the darkness. A bee is small, but produces one of the sweetest things that exist. We are what we think. The negative thought generates negative energy that is transformed into illness.

If you don’t want to be ill … DON’T LIVE BY APPEARANCES.

One who hides reality, pretends, poses, and always wants to give the impression of being well. He wants to be seen as perfect, easy–going, etc. but is accumulating tons of weight. A bronze statue with feet of clay. There is nothing worse for the health than to live on appearances and façades. These are people with a lot of varnish and little root. Their destiny is the pharmacy, the hospital and pain.

If you don’t want to be ill … ACCEPT.

The refusal of acceptance and the absence of self–esteem, make us alienate ourselves. Being at one with ourselves is the core of a healthy life. They who do not accept this, become envious, jealous, imitators, ultra–competitive, destructive. Be accepted, accept that you are accepted, accept the criticisms. It is wisdom, good sense and good therapy.

If you don’t want to be ill … TRUST.

He who does not trust, does not communicate, is not opened, is not related, does not create deep and stable relations, does not know how to create true friendships. Without confidence, there is no relationship. Distrust is a lack of faith in you and in faith itself.

If you don’t want to be ill … DO NOT LIVE LIFE SAD.

Good humor. Laughter. Rest. Happiness. These replenish health and bring long life. The happy person has the gift to improve the environment wherever they live. "Good humor saves us from the hands of the doctor!" Happiness is health and therapy.



 

"Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time." - Denis Waitley

It is only the first step that is difficult. – Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, 1763

We are what we repeatedly do - Airstotle

Habit is either the best of servant or the worst of masters. – Nathaniel Emmons

Humans must eat, but corporations must make money. – Alice Embree, 1970

"The body is a sacred garment.  It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor." – Martha Graham

What good is a healthy, strong body without a healthy, strong mind?

There's one thing a quote does that nothing and no one else can do...it can become a part of you. You may never meet the person who said it, but that person is now a companion. Quotes help you get over pain, feel love, make you smile and laugh, and help you through those tough days when you think that no one else knows what you're going through. – Unknown


 

Why pay any attention to quotes? --- Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. - Tyron Edwards

EXERCISE YOUR MIND - DO DAILY MENTAL

B O O T C A M P S:

B = Body fat (measure, understand and reduce it)

"In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired." – Unknown

"People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem." - Chris Adams

"The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor." – Martha Graham

"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body." - Henry David Thoreau

"There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!" - Oprah Winfrey

"To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle." – Unknown

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." - Buddha 563 - 483 B.C.

"The mind controls the body, the body does not control the mind." - Navy SEALS

"Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing, and body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?" - Christiane Northrup, M.D.

"The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends." – Unknown

"The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs." - J. O. De La Mettrie

"If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult." - P. J. O'Rourke

"It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is." - Deborah Bull

"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man." -- True Grit

"Balance is the dynamic state of being, a place where our mind and body and spirit can converse in concert, move with subtle grace and behold its perfect intention." - Dr. James Rouse

"Christ has no body now on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ looks out upon the world, yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good...." - St. Theresa

"Your will is the gardener that tends the garden called your body. Listen to your body and it will tell you what you need to know." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"It is interesting, and at times astounding, to consider how people, the most intelligent of all animals, are more prone than any other creature to indulge in excesses and practices they well know to be detrimental to their health." - Lamont Pugh, M. D.

O = Obedience (self discipline and adherence to goals)

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." - Robert William "Bobby" Unser, Retired

American automobile racer (b.1934 in Colorado Springs, Colorado), undisputed king of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with 13 wins.

"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." - Leonardo da Vinci

"The pain of regret is greater than the pain of self-discipline." - Chris Walker

"Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness." - Earl of Derby

"The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." - Saint Augustine of Hippo

"Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment." - H. Ross Perot

"If a child sees his parents day in and day out behaving with self-discipline, restraint, dignity and a capacity to order their own lives, then the child will come to feel in the deepest fibers of his being that this is the way to live." - M. Scott Peck

"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it." – Plato

"There is no passion to be found in playing small – in settling for a life that is less than what you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela

"There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted." - Thomas de Quincey

"I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing." - Marsha Doble

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner

O= Optimism (know you're able to create future success)

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." - General Colin Powell

"An obstacle is only an obstacle if you allow it to be an obstacle." – Unknown

"Be as upbeat as you can be. The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude." - John DePasquale

"Leadership ... the ability to see what no one else sees, to listen when others talk and the ability to be optimistic when others are pessimistic." - George W. Cummings

"The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race." - Dio Lewis

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -

"Simplifying your life gives you more time for what you really do want time and energy for (like exercising, or reading, or taking a class)." - Kathy Gates

"For myself I am an optimist --- it does not seem to be much use being anything else." - Sir Winston Churchill

"In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." - Daniel L. Reardon

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." - Reginald Mansell

"An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him." - Zig Ziglar

"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other." - Brian Tracy

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

"A pessimist has no starter; an optimist has no brakes." – Unknown

"An optimist is one who takes cold water thrown upon his idea, heats it with enthusiasm, and uses the steam to push ahead." – Unknown

"Optimism comes from God, and pessimism is born from the heart of man." - Hazrat Inayat Khan

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. - Arthur Rubinstein

Others have done it before me. I can, too. - William Faulkner

T = Toughness (mental and physical)

"Tough times never last, but tough people do!" - Robert Schuller

"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you." - Ovid, (43 B.C. - 18 AD)

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying: 'I will try again tomorrow.'" - Mary Ann Radmacher

"The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom." – Unknown

"If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." - Rosalyn Carter

"Smooth roads never make good drivers. Smooth seas never make good sailors. Clear skies never make good pilots. A problem free life never makes a strong and good person. Have a tough but winning day ahead! Be strong enough to accept the challenges of life. Do not ask life, 'Why me?' instead say, 'Try me'." – Unknown

"We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'" - W. Clement Stone

"I know things are tough right now, but just remember--every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there!" – Unknown

"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health." - Lydia H. Sigourney (1791 - 1865) American author

"Seldom shall we see in cities, courts, and rich families, where men live plentifully, and eat and drink freely, that perfect health and athletic soundness and vigor of constitution which are commonly seen in the country, where nature is the cook, and necessity the caterer, and where they have no other doctor but the sun and fresh air." - Robert South

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish." - Cecile M. Springer

"If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want." - Elbert Hubbard

"Youth will never live to age unless they keep themselves in health with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness." - Sir Philip Sidney

"Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness." - Joseph Addison

"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of a blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it and be thankful for it." - Izaak Walton

"The best part of health is a fine disposition." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who ignore health in the pursuit of wealth usually wind up losing both." – Unknown

"I know men and women can banish worry, fear and various kinds of illnesses, and can transform their lives by changing their thoughts. I know! I know! I know! I have seen such incredible transformations performed hundreds of times. I have seen them so often that I no longer wonder at them." - Dale Carnegie

"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united." - Alexander von Humboldt

"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible." – Cicero

"So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health." - A. J. Reb Materi

"Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body." – Cicero

"We, who have no time for our health today, may have no health for our time tomorrow." – Unknown

"Never hurry; take plenty of exercise; always be cheerful, and take all the sleep you need, and you may expect to be well." - James Freeman Clarke

"Negative thinking is depriving people of their natural birthright of health. It is the prime cause in shortening the lives of so many of us. And yet it is so simple to live a healthier, longer and so much happier life. We have only to recognize how God works His wonders through laws governing nature and 'human nature.'" - Walter M. Germain

"Money, achievement, fame, and success are important, but they are bought too dearly when acquired at the cost of health." – Unknown

"Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it." – Unknown

"When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease." - V. L. Allineare

"I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital." - Astrid Alauda

"Your body cannot heal without play. Your mind cannot heal without laughter. Your soul cannot heal without joy." - Catherine Rippenger Fenwick

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." – Buddha

Underpromise; overdeliver. - Tom Peters; quoted in The Chicago Tribune

"Why does one want to walk on wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly at all? People often ask these questions. But what civilization was not founded on adventure, and how long could one exist without it? Some answer the attainment of knowledge. Some say wealth, or power, is sufficient cause. I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead." - Charles Lindbergh

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Beverly Sills

C = Confidence (cuz you just did more than you usta could)

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this... I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Elenor Roosevelt

"Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part." - Aimee Mullins

"When an emotional injury takes place, the body begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical wound. Let the process happen. Trust that nature will do the healing. Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware." - Mel Colgrove

"The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen." - John Redman Coxe

"If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease." - Robert Ingersoll

"There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, it all depends on me." - Andre Gide

"A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live." – Unknown

"Success doesn't come to you… you go to it." - Marva Collins, American educator

"Without a plan, chances are you will have no success..."- cde

A = Attitude (focus on what’s fun rather than what’s fair)

"The body achieves what the mind believes." – Unknown

"Good is the enemy of great. Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life." - Jim Collins

M = Meal Planning (learn what to eat, and when to eat it)

"Let your food be your medicine. Let your medicine be your food." - Hippocrates (460? - 370? B.C.) Father of Medicine

"He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors." - Chinese Proverb

"A great deal of bad health in this country may be attributed to heavy meals and light work." – Unknown

"Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful." - Denis Diderot

"To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals." - Benjamin Franklin

"Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside." – Unknown

"Regimen is better than physic. Every one should be his own physician. - We should assist, not force nature. - Eat with moderation what you know by experience agrees with your constitution. - Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What can procure digestion? - Exercise. - What will recruit strength? - Sleep. What will alleviate incurable evils?" - Patience. - Frangois Marie de Voltaire

"Many people suffer poor health, not because of what they eat, but from what is eating them." – Unknown

"The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry." - Robert Hutchison

"To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less." - Chu Hui Weng

"In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else." - Alison Rose Levy

"Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well; and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man." - James H. West

P = Physical Energy (perform better, and longer)

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity." – President John F. Kennedy

"Physical activity is an excellent stress-buster and provides other health benefits as well. It also can improve your mood and self image." - Jon Wickham

"We acquire the strength we have overcome." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance." - Mao Tse-Tung

"Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it." - Oprah Winfrey

"A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs." - Joan Welsh

"The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives." - Denis Waitley

"Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!" - Thomas Carlyle

"I get my extra exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who don't exercise." - Unknown

"The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul." - Rona Barrett

"Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly." - James Rippe, M.D.

S = Self Defense (skills in your hip pocket could save your butt)

"A strong body makes the mind strong." - President Thomas Jefferson

"Don't let your mouth write a check your body can't cash." - Flip Wilson as Geraldine

"I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more." - Henry Ward Beecher

"After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health." - James Howell

"The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing." - Larry Dossey

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." - Irish Proverb

"Gold that buys health can never be ill spent." - Thomas Dekker

"The best six doctors anywhere, and no one can deny it, are sunshine, water, rest, and air, exercise and diet. These six will gladly, you attend, if only you are willing. Your mind they'll ease, your will they'll mend, and charge you not a shilling." - Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields,

What the River Knows

"Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility." - Larry Burkett

"One hundred years ago, when life expectancy was a great deal shorter, the major cause of illness and death were infectious diseases. Now we are made ill by stress, which we attempt to minimize in a variety of unhealthy ways, alcohol, drugs, tobacco, gambling, spending sprees, and overeating." - Alfred Armand Montapert

"Live in rooms full of light
Avoid heavy food
Be moderate in the drinking of wine
Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics
Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water
Change surroundings and take long journeys
Strictly avoid frightening ideas
Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements
Listen to music." - Aulus Cornelius Celsus (25 BC - 50)

Techniques To Live Longer
Avoid smoking, heavy drinking and overeating.
Keep physically active, exercise.
Eat simple nutritious foods, moderation in all things.
Avoid stress, or learn how to cope with it.
Have a belief in God and observe the Golden Rule.
Have a good sense of humor, laugh a lot.
Have a strong will to live and remain personally independent. - Alfred Armand Montapert

Give it rest and give it healthy food.
Give your body its due.
Give it air and give it exercise.
Give your body its due.
Give it what it wants and needs to have,
So that it can see you through
For, if you take care of your body,
Your body will take care of you.
Keep it trim and keep it in the pink.
Keep your body in shape.
Keep it trim and keep it always fit.
Keep your body in shape.
Keep it moving, keep it clean and neat.
Keep it in a healthy state.
For, if your take care of your body,
Your body will just turn out great.
Over eat, over drink and smoke,
And your body will show.
Over act and over work or play
And your body will know.
Over doing good or bad
Is just not the proper thing to do.
But, if you take care of your body,
Your body will take care of you. – Unknown

"Smooth roads never make good drivers. Smooth seas never make good sailors. Clear skies never make good pilots. A problem free life never makes a strong and good person. Have a tough but winning day ahead! Be strong enough to accept the challenges of life. Do not ask life, 'Why me?' instead say, 'Try me'." – Unknown


 

"The best part of health is a fine disposition." - Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor." – Martha Graham

It is only the first step that is difficult. – Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, 1763

We are what we repeatedly do - Airstotle

Habit is either the best of servant or the worst of masters. – Nathaniel Emmons

Humans must eat, but corporations must make money. – Alice Embree, 1970

"Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time." - Denis Waitley

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Rick Warren

In our Devotionals series, Pastor Rick Warren discusses the Bible passages that inspire him the most. Today's Devotional is based on this passage:

"You made me; you created me. Now give me the sense to follow your commands" (Psalm 119:73 NLT).

Many of us are just too tired to love. We want to build deep relationships with those we care about, like family and friends. We want to love people in our community who are hurting. But we're just too tired. You can't love when you're tired.

What happens to your relationships when you're out of energy? Little issues become big problems and love withers. It takes physical energy to listen to people and put their needs first. I'm convinced that many married couples could avoid spending time with a divorce lawyer if they spent a little more time with a mattress salesman or a personal trainer.

The Bible mentions three habits that will refresh you physically and give you the strength to love others.

1. Get regular rest. "It is senseless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, fearing you will starve to death; for God wants his loved ones to get their proper rest" (Psalm 127:2 LB). Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is take a nap. Too tired to love your spouse and kids? Your problem isn't spiritual, it's physical. Get some sleep!

2. Eat a balanced diet. "You made my body, Lord; now give me sense to heed your laws" (Psalm 119:73 LB). God made your body to use a certain combination of foods as its energy source. Eating right will help give you the energy you need to love more faithfully.

3. Exercise regularly. "...Honor the Lord with your body" (1 Corinthians 6:20 NIV). Our bodies were made for activity. In biblical times they didn't have to exercise. People walked everywhere. They did physical work. But we have a sedentary life and drive everywhere we go. We need to exercise regularly.

"The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends." – Unknown


"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you."
- Ovid, (43 B.C. - 18 AD)
Helen A. Keller