I found something useful - keys to live life now

I receive a lot of emails about health and fitness, because one of my goals is that once I conquer my demons, I would like to help others do the same. One of my favorites is a guy called Matt Furey. He is funny, irreverent and sends some pearls of wisdom.

I do not always keep up with my emails and so once a month I take one of my files and read two or three months worth of emails (one of my goals for this year is to actually empty all my folders so that I can read things when they arrive, but that is another subject). I found this message from Matt about the 6 Keys to Living Now. I reprint it here with his permission and include his link, for your enjoyment.

6 Keys to Living NOW

Hi Rox,
Here are 6 health secrets that will put you in
the present moment - giving you peace of mind.

1. When you go to sleep at night - sleep as if this is
the last time you will ever have the opportunity.

2. When you arise in the morning - push away from
the bed and immediately begin to move your body.
Leave your bed behind the same way you would
discard a pair of worn socks.

3. When speaking to someone - give him or her the
feeling there is no one more important to whom you
will ever speak.

4. When eating, take time to taste each and every
bite.

5. While at work, focus on your breathing, observe
how you do what you do, and think of it as practice.

6. When you exercise, smile into every movement.
If you find a painful expression on your face, lighten
it.

Do these things today and for the rest of your life
and you won't go wrong.

Combat Conditioning - http://mattfurey.com/conditioning_book.html
will make it easy for you to push away from your bed each day.

I recommend Dao Zou - http://mattfurey.com/dao_zou.html - it'll
help you unwind you mind, reduce stress and increase memory and
brain power.

Kick butt - take names,

Matt Furey

P.S. What about making your bed in the morning. Tis best to get to
a position where someone does it for you :). Until then, do it
yourself. With a smile, of course.

Just so you know, I did not profit from this post. I truly believe this is great advice, and I was more than willing to pass it on for free. You are welcome to visit Matt's website, and if you do, let him know that you heard it from me. This is my way of thanking him for letting me use his speech. Keep trying.

Monday is the begining of the week?

The reason why I ask the question is because I base my week on my workweek, and on the average week, this would be my Friday. It confuses me sometimes and I know it annoys my friends, because most of them hate Mondays and I absolutely love them.

Today was a day of discoveries. I found out that not all your friends have you in the same place that you have them. For example, the love of your life might not even remember you ten years later. And that is just a fact of life. But, by the same token, a lot of people that you might think don't even know who you were back in high school, might surprise you in many ways. Not only do they remember you sometimes, but some of them have you pegged to a T, even twenty years after they last saw you.

We sometimes give ourselves too much importance, and at other times, not enough. That is why you need to give YOU the importance you deserve. That way, it will not hurt as much if someone remembers you fondly, or not at all. You can still build a new friendship, as long as both of you are interested in a friendship. If one of you is not interested, that is called stalking, and it is not a good idea. (LOL)

Just be yourself, be happy with the way you are right now, and if you want to improve something, do it for yourself, not to impress ANYONE else. Keep trying.

WHAT DO YOU WANT?

I am in the process of cleaning my desk. Next Wednesday, at midnight, I have to go back to work. I have a great incentive to clear my desk, I work from home and I like to work in a comfortable setting. The way my desk unit is set up right now, NOT comfortable. I have clippings, newspapers, magazines and books EVERYWHERE. But the most interesting thing of all, I have found that question in several places today.

What do I want? In the beginning of the year I said I wanted this year to be different. One of the things I wanted to accomplish was to make a new friend, every week for the next 52 weeks, guaranteeing at least 52 new people in my life. Oddly enough, the first few weeks nothing happened. But thanks to FACEBOOK, I reconnected with some of my old friends from school, high school and elementary. And thanks to them I have done a couple of things that I have never done before, tried a couple of new restaurants, reconnected with old friends, expanded on my experience. This year already started better than any other since I got back to PR.

What else do I want? I want to finish that book I've had in my head for several years. I want to start my own little web empire. I want to save a ton of money to take Anna to Europe in the summer of 2009 and then off to college. But most important of all, for my health and my mental peace of mind, I want to loose 50 pounds this year. I have lost and gained thirteen pounds in the last couple of months. I want them to be gone for good.

Now that I know the what, tomorrow I will expand on the how. Keep trying.