Passion is not frosting!

A fantastic post on Sally Hoghead's site. A very fun site I might add.

"Passion isn’t the frosting on top of your career. It’s the whole damn cupcake!!!"

Enjoy this post: http://sallyhogshead.com/passion-is-not-frosting/3600/

Weight Watchers...I am tempted!

Hi all,
A friend sent me this inspiring story from Weight Watchers. I do believe WW is awesome, having tried it before. It truly teaches you how to live a healthier and better life. It is so much more than a diet. It's a life style.
Of course, I dropped out after consistently missing meetings...can some one say "COMMITMENT!!!"

Well, every now and then, I hear stories like this that totally tempt me to make that commitment again...and um...this time STICK TO IT!!!

Best part of this story is what she says at the end. She did not "join" WW. She "became" WW.
I love that!!! That is COMMITMENT!!!

Gee I still have SO FAR to go in that area....Sigh!!!

enjoy the article...

http://community.weightwatchers.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?threadID=1417824

Impatience and High Blood Pressure - Blue Heron Health News

I think I may have mentioned before that last year I was diagnosed with borderline high blood pressure.

I was placed on medication and given dietary and life-style advice.

My blood pressure has been well maintained since then....mainly due to the medication, because, as you know, I am still very much working on the diet and life style.

But here's a thing....I believe that my corporate job environment is at least 80% responsible for my high blood pressure. The stress and pressure of work is extremely unhealthy. Even in an Administrative Assistant position, which HR and the powers-that-be think is the easiest most light weight job in the company....NOT!!!

There is always someone needing something YESTERDAY and expecting to get it then, you are always required to perform magic and make miracles happen, and if you are any less than your stellar self...it is a real problem.

Not to mention lay offs and outsourcing such that, like everywhere else in corporate America these days, you are left doing the work of 3 people. 

Yup...sounds like a precursor to high blood pressure to me.

Anyway, there is much evidence I am sure linking stress to high blood pressure. But it is interesting to note that impatience can lead to this. Our world has become one of instant gratification in just about every area (i.e. wanting things yesterday)...and there is no doubt that this is making us extremely impatient(now! now!! I want it NOW!!!)....and extremely stressed (Aaaaaargh!!!).....and hello...blood pressure spike!!!

I was very amused by this article from a blog I subscribe to and I thought you might not just enjoy it, but really think about it, check yourself and see if maybe you don't need to slow things down a bit too.

Enjoy the read...

http://blueheronhealthnews.com/blog/2011/07/08/impatience-and-high-blood-pressure/

Hey, tomorrow is Monday. Have a great week! :-)

Peace and Love

Great Quote from a Lululemon Athletica bag

"The world is changing at such a rapid pace, if you wait to implement changes, you will always be 2 steps behind. Do it now. Do it now. Do it now."


enough said!

love and peace

http://www.lululemon.com/

Last Week of School!!! Teachers, go home and relax!!!

Think you have it hard with your corporate job and it’s grown up problems? Try keeping a bunch of toddlers and tykes in check ALL DAY!!!

You have got to give it up for Teachers!!!

Even the best behaved child is a handful; now imagine 12 to 24 more of that, every single day!!!

It takes a real gift to be a teacher.

Every time I find myself in my son’s school environment I am reminded of this fact.

Coming from a medical background, I know many people who just got into the medical field for the prestige of the title or for the bank account that may come with it.

But teaching…that is something you need to WANT to do. You need to have a passion for these kids no matter how many tantrums they throw. You need to not only be willing to teach, but be able to make them understand you…that is to say…speak their language. You need to remain creative and open minded to be able to see through the eyes of a curious 5 year old and make complex uninteresting learning, fun! You need to be up always, no down days for you…You can’t come into the office with an attitude or make excuses about PMS, a headache or a lack of sleep. You need to care…sincerely and truly, about the welfare of children you did not bring into the world.

Teachers are amazing!!!

And if you feel you have the gift for it....I encourage you to listen ot your inner voice and go teach! We need you! Our children need you! The future needs you!

Special thanks to my partner, C.C. for finding and formatting this 80's public service announcement for me

 

And now it’s the end of another school year.

Please make an effort to thank the teachers who are helping you raise your kids.

A school donation is always nice, but you could make it more personal with a gift, a card, a bouquet of flowers, chocolates, a gift card maybe.

If you are strapped for cash, get busy with your kids, have them make something nice and pop in a note from you. Teachers may be moved to tears when their students present them with pretty homemade gifts, but I can guarantee that they welcome the appreciation from us, the parents who dump our kids on them for 8 hours and run off to work with grown-ups all day. In fact, I can confirm it: today, I gave my son’s teacher a gift basket and a thank you card. She hugged me and said “it feels so good to know that parents know” “Oh, I KNOW!!!” I said, “cos I would surely be in jail by now if I were watching kids.” We laughed.

Teachers deserve our thanks!

 Let’s give honor where honor is due! 

Teachers, here’s to you!!!

                                                         Applause Applause

Good teachers...and parents...give our kids the Greatest Love of All

...and to the Earth

Yesterday I dedicated a Michael Jackson song to humanity, today I dedicate the song to the Earth....the glorious planet on which we live, and which we sorely disrespect everyday...

but we can make a difference if only we choose to do so....

Today, the second anniversary of Michael Jackson's passing, here's another powerful one...

The Earth Song

Finding Sarah

I was just watching "Finding Sarah"on OWN.
I should be doing a show like that called Finding Susan, cos God knows I haven't found her yet!
Anyway, I think I like that show.

So today is day one of week 4 or is it already week 5 of our fitness challenge.
I did NOT do good this week, I worked out only twice and only one of those times was an 'official' workout.
I did NOT drink enough water. I did NOT blog every day.

Boohoo!!! Shame!!!

Okay...it's a new week of Challenge. Let's get up and go and make it happen this week.
Will call 4everFab for this week's challenge.

In the meantime,just another sign that time waits for no one and never stands still.....it is already TWO whole years since one of the greatest entertainers of all time passed on.
The genius and extremely talented Michael Jackson died two years ago tomorrow.
It's one of those events where everyone remembers exactly where they were that day and how they heard the news.
I remember that I was...where else?...at work, when I got, first a text/email from a friend, then I checked the internet, then I got a phone call and all of a sudden it was everywhere, everyone was talking about it, every radio station was playing his music. It was not a prank. This time it was real. The King of Pop, that he undeniably was, was gone.

And life goes on. But it is interesting, that every time you do hear a song of his, it hits you again - He is really gone. There will never be another song. Another video.

I admit I was a fan. I got to see him live on September 10th, 2001, that was the night before the terror attacks of 9/11.

It was the Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary Celebration at Madison Square Garden.

I was as intrigued by the audience as I was by the King himself, because looking at the audience showed what an impact this man had on music and on the world.
There was every age in the house, every gender, every color, every language, every culture.
We all looked at each other in excitement, knowing we all felt the same no matter who we were or where we came from. Then, when he came on stage and sang we all screamed the same, waved and clapped our hands to the beat the same, danced like crazy the same and sang along to every single word  the same.
For those brief moments we were - the same!!

I marveled at how music could cross bridges in a way that other means could not. In my idealistic self, I felt sure that somewhere in the future there really was the hope of a world with no discrimination, no hate, no wars.....
...and then the next morning....the unthinkable.

Today I heard this song on the radio played in tribute to him, and I'd like to play it here as a reminder to us all that a world free of hate, suffering and war IS possible, but it starts with each of us....
remember to listen to the lyrics...