Elizabeth struggles with procrastination. She just puts things off until the deadline looms so near that she has no choice but to take action. This causes stress but, she admits, it is habit and it’s her normal way of operating. Lydia struggles with completing her homework. She thinks it’s dumb. She hates doing it. It [...]
“Do the right thing.” It’s the definition of ‘integrity’. This phrase is posted in my kitchen. I doubt the kids pay much attention to it anymore but I say it often enough that I hope they take it to heart. There is no better advice to live by but to always ‘do the right thing’. [...]
Making any change is HARD because your identity is attached to how things are NOW. Like it or not, you are accustomed to things remaining the same. For you to change, for you to lose weight, requires not only a great method to get the weight off but that your identity changes as well. You [...]
How often do you continue to eat when you are no longer hungry? You know, you keep eating and eating and before you know it, you are stuffed? Or it just tastes so good you don’t want to stop even though you are already full. Sometimes, you don’t pay attention while eating. You are so [...]
I used to have a piece of chocolate every day. I was, like many of you, a chocoholic. I was prudent about it; I kept Hershey’s Kisses in the house and would eat 3-4 of those every afternoon to handle the little slump in energy or boredom or other emotional upset. Well, the other day [...]
