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It is never easy to make positive changes in your life. At times, it can be difficult and even discouraging to break old, unhealthy habits and form new, healthy ones—but it’s not impossible.
A healthy, happy lifestyle is one of the cornerstones of self-improvement. The question is, “How can you change your lifestyle to become healthier?”
In this blog, we’ll look at some valuable tips for living a healthier and happier lifestyle.
Where Should You Begin?
It’s great that you want to make healthier choices in life, but where should you actually start? Keep the following suggestions in mind:
First and foremost, identify the unhealthy habits in your life that you wish to change. Then, for each habit, think about why you want to change it. Perhaps it is for your own mental health, or maybe your goal is spending quality time with your grandchildren.
Don’t point fingers or blame your inability to break bad habits on time constraints. Make a promise to yourself and hold yourself accountable to that promise—just as you would hold a loved one accountable if they did the same.
Avoid anything that triggers your bad habits. If scrolling through your social media feeds makes you feel bad about yourself, delete your account. If alcohol makes you want to smoke a cigarette, take a break from drinking. You’re probably already aware of the negative triggers in your life—all you need to do now is figure out how to distance yourself from them.
Believe in your ability to change. If you can convince yourself that it’s possible, half the battle is already won.
Changing is hard, and there may be days when you struggle. Realize that it will take some time to reach your destination and that you may experience a few failures along the way. Instead of allowing any setbacks to get the better of you, just keep working hard.
Set your goals, but remember to start off small.
What Is the Importance of Goal Setting?
Setting a few goals is one of the most effective ways of building a framework for creating your new healthier and happier lifestyle. The goals give you something to focus on and keep you motivated to work very hard; they also allow you to track your performance, revealing just how far you’ve come.
Be honest with yourself when setting goals. Whether you want to drop five pounds or learn a new language, it won’t happen overnight—maybe not even for a few months. Failure to hit unrealistic targets could be demoralizing and cause you to give up big time.
To avoid overloading yourself, take baby steps, focusing on one goal at a time. For example, if you want to get your weight down, set small objectives for yourself. Work out at least 3-4 times a week, for example, and add more greens to your plate.
Now, let’s get to the meat of the matter…
1. Take Care of Your Mental Health
Many people associate a healthy life with diet and exercise while completely ignoring mental health—one of the most crucial components of a healthy, happy life.
So, how do you keep your mental health in check?
You might find it a bit tricky to manage your emotions while having to deal with the stresses of everyday life. Keeping your mental health in check necessitates the prioritization of your personal needs. We can’t care for others if we do not care for our own minds and bodies, right?
Start with your mental health if you want to lead a healthy lifestyle. Take some time out of your day to unwind and do things that make you happy, treat yourself for something you did right, and spend more time with good people who value your company.
There are a number of things you can do to improve your mental wellbeing, including any of the following exercises.
Sit down and write something for which you are thankful every day.
Head outside for a walk, either by yourself or with someone you care about.
Try out a new healthy, delicious recipe and share it with a friend.
Limit your screen time.
Do something out of the ordinary to shake up your daily routine.
Try mindfulness meditation.
Participate in a local charity’s volunteer program.
2. Exercise More
Starting a workout routine can be daunting, especially if you’ve never done it before. Be that as it may, it might be one of the best things you can do for yourself. Daily workouts are beneficial not only to your physical health, but also to your mental wellbeing.
You should set goals and create a fitness schedule to which you can realistically stick. Start with something as simple as walking 30-45 minutes every day, progressively adding different workouts to your routine over time.
Keep the following things in mind before you get started:
Check your health. Consult a doctor before beginning a workout routine if you’re not used to being physically active or are over 45.
Set realistic goals. Start with simple and attainable goals, such as walking 10-15 miles each week, gradually adding more goals to your workout plan.
Make it a habit. A workout routine is only a “routine” if you can stick to it over time. Try to set aside time each week to break some sweat, focusing on holding yourself accountable.
3. Eat Healthy
Eating right is one of the most challenging parts of adopting a healthy lifestyle. After all, what is life without your favorite apple pie or pizza bursting with cheese?
Being mindful of what you put into your body is about more than just dropping some weight; eating healthy also makes you more positive, energetic, and productive.
Here are a few tips you should know for healthy eating:
Be realistic. Changing your eating habits is hard, so take it slowly. Set goals that are both realistic and attainable. If you usually eat out once a day, consider only doing so every other day for a few weeks before you stop eating out altogether.
Know that you can still enjoy food. Healthy eating entails cleaning up your diet while still allowing yourself to savor the food you eat.
Follow a healthy eating plan. Those who map out a plan are more likely to succeed in switching their diet with a healthier one.
Reward yourself. After reaching micro-milestones, treat yourself to something you’ve been craving, such as that pie or pizza.
If you fail, don’t punish yourself. There will be setbacks, but just brush them off and get back on the rails. Never let a failure of the past dictate your future.
Plan your meals. Planning meals ahead of time, creating a grocery list, and sticking to a healthy eating plan results in reduced waste.
Cook at home and pack your lunch. Home cooking is always less expensive than eating out. Meal prep everything for the week in one day or make one meal at a time, eating all the leftovers before making another meal—either way, you’ll save $$$.
Eat produce that is in season. Buy in-season local produce and freeze what you don’t use.
Keep a food diary. Keeping a food diary might help you stay on track by logging what you eat and the amount of fat or calories in each meal. MyFitnessPal is the most popular diet and nutrition tracking app, and it is completely free to use.
Foods to avoid or reduce in your diet:
Processed foods
Foods that contain trans fat (donuts, cakes, fried salty snacks etc.)
Fast food
Soda and carbonated drinks
Packaged ready-to-eat food items
Sugary drinks
Foods to add instead:
Whole foods (foods that are unprocessed, unrefined and free from additives)
Lots of vegetables and fruits
Healthy fats
Lean protein
4. Get Enough Sleep
It’s widely accepted that sleep is critical to physical and mental wellbeing. Despite this importance, however, a disturbing percentage of people are consistently deprived of decent sleep and are, as a result, noticeably drowsy during the day.
If you have trouble falling asleep easily or at all, here are a few suggestions for developing habits that will help you sleep better.
Go to bed and get up at the same hours each day.
Never go to bed hungry or stuffed.
Create a sleeping-friendly bedroom—cool, quiet, and dark.
Limit daytime naps to a 30-minute maximum and avoid taking them late in the day.
Stress management may be effective. Start with the fundamentals, such as getting organized, establishing priorities, and delegating tasks.
We hope this blog has provided you with the information you need to adopt a healthy lifestyle in the pursuit of becoming your best self.
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Selects of Make Music Pasadena 2016 feat.
Pr0files
The Dead Ships
The Mowgli's
Atlas Genius
Givers & Takers
PAPA
The School of Rock
Thee Commons
Pasadena, CA
06/11/16
More Highlights:
After a furious afternoon of soldering here it is, my completed Daisy mp3 player from the Make magazine store.
Some people have griped about the price, myself included, but I will say in it's defense that the kit itself was absolutely top notch, and I have never in the twenty or so years I have been soldering things together seen a finer PCB. You would really have to go out of your way to make a bad joint on this one. Now I just have to get a memory card and hack up an enclosure of some sort so I can try it out.
Stars including the No. 1 player in the world Novak Djokovic were out on the practice courts honing their craft at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Make It Interesting • Challenge No 1 (Water Lilies)
Source image with thanks to Peggy2012CREATIVELENZ
The tutorial for this effect is Here
Try to make your bed everyday. It's ok to have a few dolls on the bed that your children sleep with, put the rest of the dolls away and rotate them.
I really am enjoying hand coloring and bringing some of these old black and white images to life.
I am so amazed lately with how many older image collections are unintentionally oppressive. A couple in love collection would be better titled heterosexual white couples in love. So many of the fairy tales I adore - all about little white girls. I had to make this little girl red riding hood from the moment I found her. So I don't know, for me spring is a time to move forward one image at a time . . .
For more zee blog www.tartx.com/blog
Jeremy Dubow is a California-born artist who's formal training includes studies at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence Italy. He currently has a solo exhibit of his 11 x 14 oil on mylar paintings titled, Jeremy Dubow: Portraits at Hiromi Ogawa Architects Portland, OR location which will be open through July by appointment. The exhibit consists of 27 portraits each numbered according to the chronological order in which they were painted. Three of these paintings were selected and produced into Scout Books by Beadle Design. Kristin Beadle was so kind as to send us some great photos from the exhibit opening night reception and some great closeups of the Scout Books as well.
This just makes me want to walk through the drifts and make tracks! Or ride on a horse and feel how their legs work to go through it. Or hop on a snowsled and drive through!!
This is the final result. For full instructions, see the set "let's make towelrabbits"
Traditionally, you hold it up, like you're the butcher trying to sell it. You can sort of make it look like a chicken, too, by adjusting the roll.
Take a picture, and tag
it with towelrabbit, please!
This is another shot I pulled from the discard pile of the the past two years or so. I like this one very much now, maybe partially because I rarely make photos like this these days. In the last year or so my artistic preferences seem to have changed along with my lifestyle. When I shot this I was living in the (relative) isolation of a small town in interior BC near the tail end of winter. There wasn't much else to do but get out and walk around town with my camera. Mind you I had lived in Vancouver the year previous and didn't do much aside from that either. I've made a great many photos in the same vein as this one in the seven years or so that I've owned a camera, but they seem to be coming to me less and less these days.
This is the kind of shot that got me into photography in the first place. Night, long exposures, solitude in the middle of an (temporarily) abandoned town, colours and forms laid bare by and (paradoxically) exposed by the lack of light, patience to wait for the shutter, the challenge of finding a flat place for the camera, the question of what lurks in the shadows, and so on and on.
What I've been compelled to portray has changed greatly since I last left Vernon and returned to Vancouver. Rather than being a time filler, my work is now more a byproduct of things I am otherwise doing. I shoot with less purpose now, but I am somehow more satisfied with what I'm creating. Maybe I've become more comfortable with my work becoming more personal.
And, like it or not, I've been using Instagram extensively. I believe this has enabled me to rediscover spontanaiety and joy in photography, to loosen up about technical proficiency and to just shoot. That said, using my phone for personal snaps and as a chronicle of life has freed up my camera for slower, more purposeful work, allowing me to explore deeper the possibilities that that more spontaneous attitude opens up.
I do really like this photo. And I still enjoy getting out at night and shooting long exposures of my environs. But I am not so driven to do it anymore. The loss though, is commensurate with the gain, and so long as I am happy with what I'm doing (as long as I follow my instincts (my muse?)) I'm not too bothered.
(If you've read all the way to this point, thanks. I didn't plan on this becoming a retrospective diatribe, but I figured I'd see where it went. It's probably not very cohesive, and may even seem contradictory, but hopefully it's a bit interesting or insightful)
Some of the gifts I made for out budget Christmas in 2011. Crossstitched heart decorations, felt baby shoes for my 9 month old niece, a festive cross stitch tree, a snowman decoration and a felt decorative Holga.
The snowman and Holga are my own patterns but the rest came from patterns from various web sites and blogs.
Small hearts
www.lesgrillesdeliselotte.com/article-grille-gratuite-poi...
Baby shoes
www.marthastewart.com/good-things/felt-baby-shoes
Blue work heart
gazette94.blogspot.com/2011/04/coeur-rouge.html
2011 tree
chezelisa.over-blog.com/article-sapin-2011-88265395.html
Winter heart with stags
gazette94.blogspot.com/2011/08/coeur-hiver.html
Holga decoration from my own pattern
Come with me
And you'll be
In a world of
Pure imagination
Take a look
And you'll see
Into your imagination
We'll begin
With a spin
Traveling in
The world of my creation
What we'll see
Will defy
Explanation
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it
There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly wish to be
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it
Photos taken at my eldest daughter's 8th birthday party in the local shake shop. Seets, games, food, ice cream - what more do you need for a party?