By Lisa Newton

What Is a Healthy Lifestyle?

According to a study by Michigan State University, a healthy lifestyle is defined by four basic criteria:

Not smoking
Holding weight down
Eating right
Exercising

Of the 153,000 respondents, only 3% participated in all four of what are termed healthy lifestyle characteristics.

“We have millions of people now going through adult life leading unhealthy lifestyles and a medical system that can treat illnesses and keep you alive longer than ever before,” said Mathew Reeves, a Michigan State University epidemiologist. “If we don’t turn this around, the costs to society are going to be crippling.”

What can be done to help people change?

Everyone talks about achieving it, but most people have plenty of excuses as to why they can’t, won’t, or don’t want to change their current status. The most common excuse people make for not trying to have a healthy lifestyle is “a lack of time.” Have you ever said to yourself, “Oh, I’m tired, I don’t have time to exercise?” or “I don’t feel like cooking dinner tonight; let’s just get some fast food.”

Yes Dorothy, excuses are real and they are contagious.

Time and health always seem to be at odds with each other. We have time to work, time to commute, time for our business associates, but very little time to spend on ourselves, people we love, or even random people who deserve our attention.

What can you do in 10 minutes or less?

More than you think. In a brief 10 minute window you can release tension, prevent future frustrations, get your blood flowing, etc. In fact, here are 50 things you can do. With time out as an excuse, what are you going to begin doing differently tomorrow? I don’t care what it is, the point is, just do something!

Here are some ideas. If you have other thoughts, leave them in the comments!

1. Brush your teeth

2. Do 15 sit-ups

3. Read the health news headlines of the day

4. Straighten your posture

5. Eat an apple

6. Stand up and stretch

7. Send a friendly email to a friend

8. Resist the impulse purchase of a candy bar

9. Post an inspirational quote on Twitter

10. Do 10 lunges

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50 Ideas for a Healthy Lifestyle that take 10 Minutes or Less

By Remez Sasson

Are your children able to wake up early in the morning to go to school on time?

Often, during the summer holidays, children go to sleep quite late. Nowadays, children watch TV and play on their computers until the late hours of the night, and sometimes even later. Parents of teenagers often feel helpless, when their children turn the night into their day, and their day into their night. They go to sleep late and wake up late.

Now that the summer holidays are ending and the school year is beginning, children will need to wake up earlier. How are you going to deal with this? Some planning is required, as well as some degree of discipline and firmness.

Now is the time to start limiting the time for watching TV and playing on the computer. You, as a parent, have to draw limits and tell your children to switch off the TV and the computer at hours that you decide about.

It would be a good idea if the hours of going to sleep and waking up were changed gradually and not abruptly. Each day your child should go to sleep a little earlier and wake up a little earlier. If you send your child to sleep several hours earlier than he or she became used to, they will fight you and not accept this. They will also find it difficult to fall asleep. This is more so with teenagers.

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High Vibration Is The Key To Riches

By Daniel Hinds

Often when most people speak of vibration when applying the law of attraction they think of positive thinking. The understanding of Positive thinking to most people is that ‘if you think positive thoughts, then you will attract positive things’. Although this is true, this understanding is still limited and does not explain an even more phenomenal effect of positive thoughts and vibration.

We are energy beings and everything in the universe is energy. How high or low the energy is within something determines it vibration. Each thought has a frequency. Negative, self denigrating thoughts and thoughts of fear have a low vibratory frequency; and you feel it because you become weakened by those lower thoughts. However positive thoughts have a higher vibratory frequency and you feel expanded when you think higher more self affirming thoughts.

Every time we engage in positive thoughts we raise our own vibration to higher more effective levels.

For the sake of explanation let’s imagine a clear plastic bag filled with water. That plastic bag will symbolise all of us as human beings. Every single time that bag encounters an attack or bump a small whole is created in the bag and water is released. Let’s imagine that bump is an emotional wound to a person or something tragic which has created doubt, frustration or fear. Every time something happens another whole is created in that plastic bag and more water leaks out.

That water which leaks out symbolises the energy leak which happens every time someone engages in negative self defeating thoughts. They empty themselves out of vital energy and become deflated like the plastic bag.

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Are You Still Worried About Money?

By Gary Simpson

Money. Earn $100 and spend $101 and you are in trouble. Earn $100 and spend $99 and you are not in trouble.

Let me tell you something. Most of the population of the world is worried about one thing – money. More correctly, they are worried about LACK of money.

Here is a simple formula:

Earn $100 and spend $101 and you are in trouble.

Earn $100 and spend $99 and you are not in trouble.

That $2 makes a world of difference.

The problem with most people is that they do not earn enough money to fund their lifestyle. That is a lifestyle fuelled by slick marketing campaigns that implore you to have now and pay later. The trouble comes when the credit period runs out and the mounting debt must be paid.

So many people waste money on take-away food, alcohol, cigarettes, snazzy-looking motor vehicles, the latest cell phones, (dare I say it? yes I will) drugs and sex. These are all the things that will make you poor and keep you poor. Indulging in any of these will almost certainly confine you to a life of lack. This is the miserable life of the poor money manager.

The wise money managers invest. They invest in property, property trusts, blue chip shares, quality assets, businesses and desirable collectable items. They always have money because their assets create money for them.

In summary, if you are forever exchanging your time for money you will never be wealthy. If you leverage your time and allow assets to create money you will become wealthy. Change your mindset and you will change your outcomes.

About the author
Gary Simpson is a 7th Dan karate master who teaches self defense, motivation, self help and wealth building to students around the world through home study courses.
Website www.motivationselfesteem.com

Wealth Secret: 3 Ways to a Wealth Mentality that Works
By Dr. Rafael Cornelio

The law of attraction sounds simple. Think positive thoughts and good things will happen. This particular wealth secret almost sounds too simple, doesn’t it? But in the real world, rainbow dreams and sunny quotations just aren’t enough to manifest wealth beyond reason.

Here are 3 ways to create the wealth mentality you need for the abundance you deserve.

Hone Your Mind

The occasional “I want to be a money magnet” is not enough to build the wealth beyond reason you’re looking for. Don’t get sucked into thinking that haphazard positive thoughts, conjured up only when you remember to do it, are going to foster a wealth mentality. If you want to create wealth behind reason, you’ll need to focus your mind consistently.

Whether you use wealth affirmations, visualizations, or meditation, mark your schedule and do it every single day. If your day is super-packed with jobs, kids, and other responsibilities, you may need to get creative with your focus time. Try this wealth secret: Take a few extra minutes in the bathroom. Adding just 3 or 4 minutes to a bathroom break can give you extra time to focus in a place where the kids aren’t as likely to bother you.

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