Happy Christmas
Thank you for reading A Self-motivated Life over the last few months. Remember 2016 will be our year. We will achieve everything we want and become slimmer, healthier, fitter and more successful than...
View ArticleSleep – how to get it and what happens if you don’t
Along with water and good nutrition, sleep is essential. In 1965 a teenager in America, Randy Gardner, stayed awake for around eleven days. However towards the end of his experiment he had begun...
View ArticleTop 5 ways to Guaranteed New Years Resolution Success in 2016
2016 has arrived and with it a flurry of resolutions that traditionally will be abandoned with in days or weeks. Gym membership cards will lie abandoned on the bedside cabinet....
View ArticleStarting the exercise journey? Try NHS Couch to 5k
When I started looking at weight loss and exercise I was hideously unfit. Half a lifetime of slothful over indulgence sat heavily on my waistline and left me with the fitness level of a seventy year...
View ArticleWhat’s your ‘Why’ and why does it matter
What’s your ‘why’? Seems like an odd question on the face of it, but actually answering that simple question is the key to becoming who you want to be. Your ‘why’ is your driver or motivator that...
View ArticleNewsletter 004: 4 January 2016
2016 has arrived and with it a flurry of resolutions that traditionally will be abandoned with in days or weeks. Gym membership cards will lie abandoned on the bedside cabinet. Ingredients for bizarre...
View ArticleVegetables – Why do we struggle to love them?
Vegetables, What can we do to love them? Vegetables suffer from a really bad press. It starts when we are children and we are repeatedly told that we have to eat our vegetables at every meal. Our...
View ArticleWeek 2 – Maintain your focus, achieve everything and be successful
Now that the flurry of New Years resolutions is behind us, the weather is, in the northern hemisphere, miserable and cold and the […]...
View ArticleNewsletter 05: 18 January 2016 The Importance of portion control when losing...
Being overweight or obese is generally caused by a combination of three things: Eating the wrong types of food – refined carbohydrates, sugary foods, high...
View ArticleWhy dehydration can make you ill and fatter!
From Visually. See larger image Additional Images: Your Body’s Many Cries for Water: You’re Not Sick; You’re Thirsty: Don’t Treat Thirst with Medications By (author): F Batmanghelidj Title: Your Body’s...
View ArticleBe happy and be you
Be happy and be you. These are the parts of your life that you control. Be content. If you want to become a better version of you, then do it, but use your own resources and self-determination and...
View ArticleBe passionate
This blog is about self-motivation and achieving our dreams. To achieve dreams we have to be passionate. If you think you could stand to lose a few pounds and it seems like it might be a good idea to...
View ArticleI am Procrastination
The problem… Procrastination I procrastinate. I am a procrastinator. Procrastination is my middle name. If procrastination was an Olympic sport, I would be competing for my country and be in with a...
View ArticleI am Procrastination, continued.
How can I recognise my own procrastinating behaviour? For me procrastination is insidious. It creeps up and before you realise where the time has gone, another day is over. Another failure. Another day...
View ArticleIs procrastination all about fear?
I have been asking myself this question almost constantly recently: why do I procrastinate? And this question almost as often: why do we (humans) procrastinate? The simple answer seems to be; it’s...
View ArticleAre procrastinators lazy?
Are procrastinators lazy or are they procrastinating? I always believed that I was lazy, indolent, work shy, disgracefully feckless and irresponsible. I’m not, I’m a procrastinator. Not a great...
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