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Top Tips for Fitness Success

The road to fitness success holds many rewards, and as many roadblocks. So when we begin a fitness program, we are full of energy, drive, motivation and dreams of our “fitter self”. We have a vision of how much more toned/muscular and slim we will look. We go out and buy the proper gear and accessories, to look the part but more important BE the part. We are full of enthusiasm as we write the cheque and sign up for a year memebership to our local gym.
We steam ahead day after day, week after week, and suddenly after a certain time, realise we don’t really look any better; don’t really feel any fitter. We are plagued with self-doubt. We question our motives and reprimand ourselves for even thinking it was possible.

Now STOP!

This is the beginning of the road to failure. (more…)

Well – the time has come and gone, that one day, June 21st 2009 that marks a special day for Dads all over has passed and all dads go back to normal life today. Father’s Day does not get as near the amount of coverage and exposure as Mother’s Day, which begs the question: Are dads not as important as the mums???

The mother has the privileged and at times, arduous, task of carrying a child for the best part of 10 months, and then giving birth. So she may naturally have a stronger bond with the child before it’s born. However, it is a known fact that an unborn child is sensitive to noises and sounds happening around him/her, and does become familiar with the voice and tones and accents of those close by (including co-workers, shop assistants or anywhere else the mother may frequent).

So by the time the child is born, they are very familiar with both mother and father’s voices and presence, as well as the relationship between the two adults. Most fathers are present at the birth and often can be the first (more…)

Imagine never having an argument. Imagine never having to defend yourself. Imagine never hearing gossip about another person. Imagine a world where everyone speaks the truth. Imagine everyone did the best they could. Do we live in that kind of world? Have you ever wondered why? So let’s play a game to find out where you come in on all this. Answer the following questions (more…)