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Something I learned About Long Term Health and Well Being

I recently had the pleasure to be an attendee at a workshop hosted by my friend Linda Easton, owner of Linda Easton Coaching and Extraordinary Organizing. During this "Women Mean Business" workshop, many profound ideas and information were shared. As I listened and participated, my mind began to link some of the ideas she was teaching us. I began to connect some of what she was sharing with lasting health and well being strategies. 

I often encourage our clients to plan and track. You only have to read some of my blogs to get the idea that I consider planning and tracking great strategies. Planning and tracking are important for business and for health and well being as well. Linda shared a short tip about making the day count, rather than counting the days and I immediately thought, "Now that is a great point to make for health and well being."

Each and every single day we have available to us is an extraordinary opportunity to rock our health and well being actions. For instance, rather than focusing on how many months it would take to lose 20 lbs of the excess weight you're lugging around, focus on what you can do each day to get you closer to your ideal weight and then do those things. Several years ago, when I was 45 lbs over weight, I worried about the length of time it would take to get all that weight off my body. Then I decided to apply visioning techniques to my health desires and thus shifted my thoughts about losing weight to how I would look, feel, be, at my desired weight. In a short while, I was not trying to lose weight, I becoming my desired weight and person. I shed the excess weight and didn't sweat how long it took because my focus was on my health and well being and the actions I needed to take to get and stay healthy. 

Several years later, my focus has not changed. It is still about staying well and healthy and each day is focused on the actions supporting my health and well being goals. By focusing on what I can do each day, I make each day count and over 5000 days later, every day's actions has culminated in tremendous life giving benefits I may not have had if I were only thinking about how long it would take to reach my health goals. By making each day count, I have netted years of true health and well being. 

If you are new to the journey, take my friend Linda Easton's advice and begin to make each day count and start today. Wake up tomorrow and start today again.       

FANNIE HURST DID IT!

Ever heard of Fannie Hurst?

If you’ve seen the movies, “Imitation of Life” (1934 and 1959) and Humoresque (1946), you’ve met Fannie Hurst through her stories.

Fannie Hurst, in her days, was a prolific writer and activist who refused to give up on her dreams. She moved to New York in 1915 to pursue her writing career. For four years, Ms. Fannie labored during the days and hoped at night. She repeatedly sent stories in to publishers even after being rejected. The Saturday Evening Post sent her thirty six-rejection slips before Ms. Fannie’s story broke the “ice” with them. For Fannie, when her efforts of being a successful writer didn’t immediately yield the desired result, she didn’t let the light of her hope dim. She didn’t say, “You win” to the despair of receiving another rejection letter from another publisher. She dug in her heels and probably said, “You may think you are winning but I am going to have the last laugh. I will persist until I force you to give in to my desires.”

Fannie Hurst kept on and pounded the proverbial doors of several publishers until they gave in and started to publish her stories. She became a successful writer whose stories earned a lot of money through motion picture rights in addition to publishing royalties.

Do you have the Fannie Hurst Persistence trait in you? When it comes to your health goals, how persistent are you in getting your results. Have you given up after two weeks at the gym didn’t give you the guns you wanted? Did you eat healthy for 3 days and decided it was a lost cause after you ate a pint of ice cream? Or are you thinking, “it’s going to be a very long time to get back my health so why bother.” Whatever your excuse may be today, I implore you to model Fannie Hurst’s persistence for your health goals. You can crawl, walk, trot, jog, run your way to your desired health goals; just do not give up on your health. Whenever you find your hope growing dim, charge back with, “I will persist until I succeed!” and keep going.

Very soon, like Fannie Hurst, your efforts will pay you richly!