Sunday, January 23, 2005

How to change.

Like millions of you, I am trying to lose weight and get fit. I am succeeding . . .to a point. This site has a couple of habits to remind me to eat veggies everyday and drink at least six glasses of water a day. With these reminders in front of my face it’s pretty hard to ignore. And that is what I love about this tool; it gives me a nudge in the right direction. Like having a personal trainer without all the expense. As for getting fit, I am still taking care of my osteoarthritis, so I’ll wait another week before hitting the gym. But I do feel 100% better over all. More energy, more alertness and my creativity is flowing.

We don’t change overnight. And in some cases we don’t change period. We may be assertive, impatient, shy or over protective. We can’t just turn off our personality and become someone else. First we should become curious as to why we are this way. Once we understand why, than we are ready to move on. Just becoming curious about ourselves is a fantastic first step.

Have a great day.

Saturday, January 15, 2005

Changing can be fun. Really.

Sorry for the delay of putting up the application portion of this site. The application consists of the database containing the choices/changes tracker, journal, timeline, E-mail reminder and various other tools. Still looking forward to a January launch.

I’ve been using a prototype of this site, and have to say that it works wonderfully. It is a simple approach, using colours in the tracker, hence providing a colour coded history of all your changes, including values, and “Who am I” statements. An E-mail reminder informs me to update once a week.

So by using this tool and old-fashioned will power, I’ve lost a few pounds, stopped buying junk, performed yoga in the morning and appreciated my life more and more. With my (our) hectic lifestyle I constantly need to remind my self that there is more to life than work, bills, junk food and annoying advertising. There is peace, love, simplicity, joy and beauty.

So far so good, we can’t wait to have the site complete so that you can take a look and give it a test run.

I should be blogging a couple of times a week.

Thanks for dropping by. Have a great day!