Category: Staying Motivated
A simple step in overcoming daily procastination
December 31st, 2009, Comments Off
Thought I will write on this since it’s the time of the year when everyone’s busy setting New Year resolutions.
Do you often find yourself procastinating- having so many tasks in mind to be completed but not moving your butt to do any of them? Wanting to do great things but can’t seems to take the [...]
Formerly Obese 220lbs woman now runs in marathons
November 4th, 2009, Comments Off
Here’s another story that I hope will motivate you to want to exercise. Nothing is impossible- if you are overweight or obese, you can lose your weight- one pound at a time.
This story is originally in a video from NBC and appeared a few months ago. I’ve saved this video in my favourites link for [...]
A Night Owl’s Guide to Exercising in the Morning
November 2nd, 2009, 1 Comment
There are many people who are night owls by nature- or I would say by habit or preference. It is only at night time or the few hours past midnight that the night owl finds it most inspiring to work on ideas. Or they stay up for the sheer love of it. Unfortunately, the world [...]
An previous heart by-pass patient now cycles round the world
September 28th, 2009, 3 Comments
When you think that life would need to slow down after a heart bypass surgery, here’s an inspiration story from a fellow Malaysian.
Grandpa, David Munusamy Reddie who hails from Nibong Tebal, Penang Malaysia is cycling around the world to see the many places and faces of the world. Not only he had a heart bypass [...]
What You Stand to Lose when You Give Up Exercising
June 15th, 2009, 1 Comment
When we are very busy, it is often easy to neglect our workouts. It takes a lot of motivation for one to start and remain in a fitness program- either by exercising on your own or going to the gym.
I will not talk about the obvious here- that is weight gain. Let’s deal with the [...]
When Treating an Illness, Treat the Mind as Well
May 25th, 2009, Comments Off
Believe it or not, most illness first arise in the mind. It could be due to stress or repressed feelings like anger, sorrow and grief and other negative emotions and experiences. When these feelings and emotions goes unacknowledged and not dealt with, it eventually manifest into an illness or disease.
When opting for treatment, most people [...]
Why did a Health Freak almost got Heart Attack
April 2nd, 2009, Comments Off
It is said that if one is to be able to adopt a healthy lifestyle, then lifestyle chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, partially blocked arteries will exclude these group of people.
I remembered about a year or two ago, a friend’s father was admitted to hospital and had to undergo immediate bypass [...]
Sweetening the Chinese New Year
January 30th, 2009, Comments Off
During Chinese New Year, many people will opt away from whatever diets there are following and spending time devouring cookies, cakes, carbonated drinks, mandarin oranges, etc. Basically, it’s the only thing that seemed to be available in all households during that time. As most people had gone back to their hometowns, you will not be [...]
