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Once again, SparkPeople.com’s daily e-mail of Healthy Reflections…

Don’t put off living the life you want

There is no lesson for today. You have permission to stop thinking for a moment and just enjoy yourself. Stop looking at your computer right now and go look at the world. Rediscover the natural wonders that you walk past every day. How can there possibly be that many shades of green? Let your mind be grateful for a break. Don’t think, don’t strain. Let the memories of loved ones remind you of your favorite times. Close your eyes and try to smell the sunshine. Listen to your heart beat in your ears. If it’s raining, smile at the thought of the flowers that will soon follow. If you’re surrounded by buildings, celebrate the creative genius of human beings. See the hope, the alarm, the love, the grief in faces that stream by. Thank whomever you’d like to thank for the chance to even be here. For a moment today, don’t worry about being better. Just be.

We’re always getting ready to live, but never living. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer

I think I’m going to go for a late night stroll…

Thursday, April 16
Your personal energy is transforming as a result of some special people in your life. You are not only changing emotionally and mentally, but physically as well. There could be health benefits to boot. These people will broaden your horizons in sometimes challenging ways.

I would take “These people..” & change it to “This person…” & then it would be right. This particular person is absolutely wonderful! I have changed SO much and for the better since I’ve known him. He is truly inspiring.

Let’s hope I don’t screw it up…

Ahahahaha

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I couldn’t resist. I tried to snap a photo of myself and this is what came out of it. I look pissed! I swear… I’m not! But this cracks me up!! HAHAHA

I get e-mails daily from SparkPeople.com (the BEST fitness/nutrition tracking- and info- site I’ve ever used) and one of them is Healthy Reflections.

Living Within Today

Sometimes it seems like we’re always putting off our goals until some vague time in the future called “Once”. “Once the New Year rolls around…”, “Once I have my new job…”, “Once I retire…”, “Once the kids are in school…”, “Once the kids are OUT of school…” Sound familiar? By waiting for Once to get here, we waste time and frustrate our desire to do what we really want. It’s a fact of life that every time one potential distraction disappears, it’s quickly replaced with a new one. There will always be something that can stand in your way – if you let it. Ask yourself: are these distractions real reasons, or just good excuses for putting something off? Goals cannot be started in the future. The laws of time and nature dictate that you can only act in the present. You are here, today. So are your goals. The only good time to start is right now.

Today’s Healthy Reflection reminded me of a conversation I just had the other day and I completely believe it. If you keep saying you will be happy or will succeed WHEN something happens, you never will be happy or succeed. You have to roll with the punches, be happy with what you have, and get back up every time you fall.

Here is a good quote that was included in the e-mail.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin.

- Ivan Turgenev, novelist, poet, playwright

This rings very true in my life right now. Things are not moving fast enough! I am not reaching my goals or moving ahead in a timely manner and I am working hard to change that.

It is nice to have a journal to be able to reflect in and I hope that posts like this help others to reflect and be inspired as well.

Dear Alesha,
Here is your horoscope for
Monday, April 13:

Someone brings an olive branch — it’s a great time to make peace and move on with your lives together. That doesn’t mean you’re off the hook if you owe someone an apology, however!

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I do owe someone an apology. It would be so much easier to do that face to face… To do EVERYTHING face to face. I am so terrified of being rejected and although I know this blog is cryptic to anyone reading it, that is how it should be.

I have always been a pretty private person aside from a few online activities and now I am going to start becoming even more private. It is necessary to protect myself and others that I care about. I have slowly but surely been removing friends from social network sites and majorly cutting back on my net presence. I’ve had my fun and it is time to grow up and worry about the more important things in my life.

I need to remember that I am dealing with a situation that is nothing like anything I’ve ever dealt with before. I need to realize that I can’t make stupid mistakes, even small ones… This is too important to me. My future is too important to me, and he is too important to me. I will try my hardest to give him some time… I hope and pray that in the end, he will be able to forgive me and realize that I have his best interests at heart. I am smart, I am strong, and I refuse to let myself do something I’ll seriously regret later.

I am truly sorry for my careless lack of judgment.