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Taking Stock – Take Control of Your Health

It’s been 8 months and 16 days into the “new” year… How are you faring in terms of your health? :-0

If there is one thing that I won’t mind repeating and repeating, just to get your attention, it is this: Prevention is better than cure and I would like to urge you to start taking responsibility for your health. That’s why we have the tag line, “Take Control of Your Health”, for our website.

What does taking control of your health mean?

To me it means:

1. Being proactive and not reactive

Do not wait for an illness to strike before you do something. Be proactive to plan and take control of your health… be watchful of the food you eat… exercise to reduce your waistline…

2. Having an annual health check

3. Starting and continuing with a series of exercise programs – this could be stretching, pilates, brisk walking,swimming, playing tennis etc. Join a health club and its health programs.

4. Setting your annual health goals, breaking down into monthly, weekly and daily byte chunks. We must have a target that we want to work towards for e.g.

5. Educating yourself on all aspects of health

If you are a parent, the benefits of this is tremendous… you will be able to pass on your knowledge to your children, your grandchildren…

If you are still single or just starting out a family, you can pass on your knowledge to your parents, your immediate and extended families, your friends…

So, are you ready to Take Control of Your Health?

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The Only Power That You Will Ever Need

The following was extracted from Adam-Khoo.com, a successful entrepreneur and Life Coach  in Singapore:

I often hear people complain that they lack the ability, resources, talent or power to make their life the way they want. “I don’t have the money, I don’t have the time, I don’t have the support or I don’t have the opportunity etc. ”

It is true that all of us are born under different circumstances. i.e. some of us are born rich, while others are born poor. Some of us are born with loving and encouraging parents while others are abandoned at birth. Some of us are born physically strong, while others are physically weak.

However, I believe that God gave us all ONE POWER. No matter your race, family background, nationality, we all have this POWER given to us. This POWER can be used to transform our life into anything we want it to be. This POWER can be used to achieve any dream we want or it can be used to destroy our life.

This POWER I am referring to is the power to CHOOSE. From the time you wake up in the morning till the time you go to bed, you have the opportunity to make thousands of choices every second.

It is the CHOICES you make every hour of every day that constantly shape the direction of you life. Think of all the choices you made (consciously and subconsciously) since you woke up this morning. You had the choice to wake up early and do a workout or choose to oversleep and get up at the last minute.

You chose the kind of food you put into your mouth. You chose what to read when you looked at the newspapers, Internet or TV (did you read the finance section, lifestyle section?).

If you are financially wealthy today, it is the result of the culmination of ALL the choices you have made everyday for the last so many years. You probably chose to learn how to invest, chose to invest prudently, chose the right career for yourself, chose to research investments, chose to read the financial news,chose to save money, chose not to spend money on what was not necessary etc. At the same time, if you are broke today, it is because of all the different choices you have made.

You have a Choice in Life. So, Choose to Win!

So you see, You can choose to be a winner or choose to be a loser. You can choose to be rich and successful in your future or choose to be poor and unhappy. You can choose to be lazy or choose to be motivated.

Success and happiness is not something that just happens to you by accident. It is a choice that you make.

Now, you may be thinking to yourself, “Wait a minute. There are many things in my life that I had no choice over. I did not choose my parents. I could not choose to be born rich instead of poor nor could I choose to be smart instead of slow, good looking instead of average.”

Yes, while you may have no choice over what happens to you in life (I call it the outer world), but you have 100% choice over your own THOUGHTS and ACTIONS (I call this your inner world). Your thoughts and actions are what really matter because they are the ones that determine your success, wealth, health and happiness.

By choosing the right thoughts and actions, you have the POWER to change what happens in the outer world. You have the POWER to achieve any result that you want!

When You Change Your Inner World, The Outer World Will Follow

One of my friends, Kate, shared her story with me. Ever since she was young, her mum had this habit of putting her down. She would say, “you are always so lazy, you are so forgetful and how can you succeed?

At first, Kate let herself be discouraged by her mum’s words; she felt inadequate and didn’t dare to reach for her goals. She kept wishing that she had a more encouraging mum.

Then one day, after talking to me, Kate learnt that she had the power to change her life. Although she could not change her mother, she could choose to change her thoughts and actions. She decided to think positively, “I can do it! I will prove it to my mum!” and she started taking positive action by believing in herself and working harder.

When she started to change her inner world, her outer world began to change. Sure enough, with a lot more motivation & self-confidence, she started to achieve more success in her grades and her tennis. When her mum saw her success, she changed too. Instead of putting her daughter down, her mum now praises her in front of their relatives. The funny thing about life is that when we change, the people around us all begin to change.

Your Past Does Not Determine Your Future

If you are getting lousy results in your life right now because of wrong choices you have made in the past, don’t worry! It is never too late to change. The past does not equal the future.

Just because you have gotten lousy results in the past does not mean that you will always get lousy results in the future. Just because you have not been getting along with your spouse/parents/boss in the past does not mean that things will be the same in the future. The future depends on the choices you make right NOW, in the present.

The good news is that if you start making positive choices TODAY, you can create the success that you want TOMORROW. Today, is a brand new opportunity for you to make things right!

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Intense Exercise May Cut Risk of Cancer Death

Do you exercise regularly and intensely? The following article may just provide the impetus for you to exercise more…

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PARIS : Men who regularly do heart-pounding exercise are less likely to develop cancer, according to a study released Tuesday.

The study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found that the key factor in the reduced risk of cancer was a higher rate of oxygen consumption.

A team of researchers from the universities of Kuopio and Oulu in Finland studied the leisure-time physical activity over a 12-month period of 2,560 men between 42 and 61 years old with no history of cancer.

Over an average follow-up period of 16 years, 181 of the subjects died from cancer, mostly of the stomach or intestines, lungs, prostate and brain.

Using an intensity scale for physical exercise that measured “metabolic units” of oxygen consumption, the scientists found that the men who exercised for at least 30 minutes a day were half as likely to get cancer as those who did not.

The sharpest reductions occurred in gastrointenstinal and lung cancers, and held true even when other factors – age, alcohol consumption, smoking, weight – were taken into account.

“The intensity of leisure-time physical activity should be at least moderate so that beneficial effect … for reducing overall cancer mortality can be achieved,” the researchers conclude.

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In the olden days, men and women used to walk for miles just to look for food. But in this day and age of internet, 3G phones, television etc, many of us either are too busy with work or lead too much a sedentary lifestyle.

This study is a timely reminder to us to Take Control of Our Health! TNJ will certainly help in recovering from an intense exercise program. For more info on TNJ and Sports Performance, check out this audio teleseminar by Dr Williams.

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“Out of Difficulties Make Miracles!”

Are you facing some challenges in your life right now?

I am reminded of a poem titled, “Don’t You Quit”. Here’s the poem…

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
Whe he might have captured the victor’s cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit -
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.

So face each challenge head-on, and Make Miracles Out of Each Difficulty!

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