Last week at this time I was anything but happy so I wrote a post about being positive to see if that would help!!! (It didn’t help much since I was also prepping for a colonoscopy.)
Over the weekend I decided that just because last week wasn’t a great one there was no reason it had to carry over into my attitude this week.
One of my goals for this week was simply to smile more!!!
I made sure that every day included at least one fun thing in addition to the stuff that had to be done.
* a jazz concert
* a trip to Target (it doesn’t take much!!)
* finally getting my nails done
* lunch with a friend
* a couple of phone calls to some of my favorite people
And the main thing I focused on this week was my attitude and trying to keep smiling no matter what!
Guess what?! This week was so much better!!!
What do you do when you’ve had a bad day or week? Was this week better than the previous one for you? I hope so!
I know I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I have been taking Tara’s (FamilySportLife) workshop – From Stuck to Unstoppable. One of the things she has us do at the beginning of each week is state 3 intentions.
One of my first intentions was to end each day with a positive thought. The following week I added on to that so that I started and ended each day with a positive thought.
So, this intention was going along really well until this week. Since Monday I have struggled to come up with a single positive thought.
I’m hoping that I can get back on track with my positive thoughts.
Hopefully smiling will help!! Plus, it’s Fun Friday so there’s a positive!
Happy Friday – hope your’s is full of positive things!!!
For as long as I can remember (at least 20 years) I have loved to read magazines and pull articles from them. I have recipes, workouts, decorating ideas, parenting tips and much more.
I try to keep the articles organized
and over the past few years I have gotten to the point that I mostly just pull fitness stuff and recipes with a few random things in the mix.
The other day I was going through some of my files and I came across a clipping that I thought was very much worth sharing! The sad thing is I cut out just the little piece that I wanted to save and I don’t have any idea where or when I saw this. (Based on the looks of it, I think it has been many years since I cut it out!!)
10 Ways to a Better Life (thanks to Amy @ Long Drive Journey for the source – Mother Teresa)
1. People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, People will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.
10. Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
The thing I like about this list is that each negative statement is turned into a positive!!!
What negative statements have you heard lately that you could turn into a positive?
For today’s 43 I got my inspiration from a post I read yesterday over at Cranky Fitness. The post was all about glute activation. A couple different trainers weighed in with video or pictures and I realized that I had never done the move the exact way they were showing – until today!!!
The move is a hip lift, or bridge (which I have done before) but instead of leaving your feet flat on the floor, you raise your toes.
start
(Also, your feet are supposed to be as close to your butt as possible – putting them out further allows the hamstrings to do the work and it is supposed to be a butt move!!!)
From the starting position, you lift your hips and try to form a straight line from your knees to your head (I always squeeze my butt as I lift and hold for a little extra bonus):
Lift
I held this for a 3-count. Then lowered just enough for my butt to barely touch the ground.
barely touch
After I finished all 43 I tried a couple of bridges with my feet flat on the ground to see if I could tell a difference – umm, NO because my butt my hips/butt already hurt from the 43!! One thing I did notice by doing this move with my toes up – my shins hurt while I was holding the position. (Maybe I put to much weight in my heels??!!)
Yesterday was an unplanned day off so today I decided to push through. (whine – I still have a residual headache but “suck it up, buttercup!!”)
I did an oldie from The Firm – Aerobic Body Shaping (part of the TransFirmer series) which means I used my cool step.
14″ double step (the Transfirmer)
The double step is used for a lot of the leg/butt work. The angled version (below) is used for a couple of the aerobic sections and a lunge series plus some of the upper body work.
This is a pretty good whole body workout – it includes toning and aerobics in just under an hour. I also did the bonus 10 minute glute work.
First the negative: Tuesday night someone hacked my email account!! Why?? I just don’t understand people. They set it up to send all of my email to a new account and they got into my eBay account (probably from an old email) – 36 people now think I’m going to shell out a total of $25,000 for crap I don’t want! Fortunately after 45 minutes on the phone last night with someone who spoke minimal English, the eBay situation is being investigated. (Plus I spent almost an hour, most of it on hold, on the phone with PayPal to make sure all was good there.) Chris spent about and hour and a half on the phone fixing my email account. Lots of new passwords and all is well!
Now for the Positive!!! I just started using Bloglovin (sorry I can’t get a link on here cause I’m stupid technologically challenged, but I have the button at the top of my page that links) and I love it!!! Because I’m really behind the times (and slow!), I never used Google Reader. I wasted so much time clicking around to blogs only to find that I had already read the most current post. No more!!! (I know, this is old hat to most of y’all but exciting for me!!!)
Here’s to a positive day for all – plus the NCAA basketball tournament is going on again this weekend (starting today!) – WooHoo!!
Last week at this time I was anything but happy so I wrote a post about being positive to see if that would help!!! (It didn’t help much since I was also prepping for a colonoscopy.)
