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Do Not Wait Until You Fall Ill to Embrace Exercise

Being important & non-urgent activity, people exercise inconsistently until they fall sick & suddenly awaken. Why wait until you fall ill & not embrace exercise sooner.

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Psychological Benefits of Doing Morning Exercise

One of the main challenges that most people have is time constraint for exercise. There is a genuine want to do exercise. Somewhere along the day, this want gets lost in the sea of other priorities. One of the easiest ways to overcome this is by exercising first thing in the morning.

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Transformational Education Key to Correct Weight Loss

Do you know why the success rate for sustained weight loss is less than 10%. Many minor reasons  come to mind such as wrong diet, lack of exercise, hormonal imbalances, aging amongst others. But one of the major reasons which can probably overcome most of the minor reasons, is the wrong mindset.
The purpose of the [...]

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What's Love Got To Do With Keeping in Shape and Staying Healthy?

Why do some people go the extra mile to look after their health. Why do some people have that determination and discipline to do so? It could very much depend on which level of love one is operating at. A wise old man, Bernard of Clairvaux came up with a very fascinating essay on the [...]

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Is it really selfish to put your wellbeing ahead of everything else?

We often hear complaints about people not having time to exercise. This is more so with parents who feel that they are depriving their children of quality time when they exercise. Is this type of thinking justified?

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Hungry for Balance – Oprahs Confession

This is a confession that Oprah made on why her weight loss efforts went wrong.
I always believe that its relatively easy to lose weight. With a little persistence and starvation dieting, you could lose a considerable amount of weight.
Its keeping your weight off that is the difficult part. You see, to keep the weight off, [...]

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What Motivates Some People to Exercise and Not Others

The Stephen R.Covey classic book “First Things First” introduced the four quadrants concept of how our life’s activities can be categorized and prioritized. These quadrants could shed a lot of light as to why some people are able to find motivation to exercise where others cannot.
Lets first review the 4 quadrants as described by Steven [...]

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