I spent the weekend with my family to celebrate my mother’s 68th birthday. Visiting my mother is always just a little bit stressful because, though I love my mother dearly, she is very, very negative. I tell myself that this is not her fault. She has had a rough life. In fact, if you ask [...]
For those of you who follow helpyourselfblog.com, you know that we recently completed our first challenge here. The premise was simple: there are seven pillars to effective health, the first of which is water. If you’re struggling to get your water intake everyday, here are five simple ways to do it.
Start Small.
This may seem [...]
The other day, I was cleaning out an old wallet when I found a check—for $12 big ones! One problem: it was expired. Now, I am not a wealthy woman; my family is firmly entrenched in the middle class. That $12 would have come in handy back in July 2007, when it expired. I sat [...]
As you know, we conducted a little contest for our first challenge, which was to incorporate 16oz of water into your daily diet. It took a little getting used to, but I must say that now, there is nothing more satisfying than a glass of ice cold water! Delicious! I will write a post with [...]
There’s something that you’ve been meaning to do. You know that it will help you with your [insert your goal, dream, plan, idea here]. But you just haven’t done it yet. Maybe you had a great idea in the shower to earn some extra income—you just have to remember to call Suzy’s friend Ryan to [...]
This morning, I was out walking my monster, Max. As soon as we got outside, Max started to pull. I decided right then and there that I would have to keep Mr. Max on a very short leash during our walk. The sidewalks were still slippery and there was “black ice” all over the ground. [...]
In an earlier post, I wrote about the Seven Pillars of Health, a book by Don Colbert, MD. The premise is simple: there are seven fundamentals to living a healthy lifestyle, the first of which is drinking plenty of water. The goal of the book, though, is to show that you can accomplish huge changes [...]
For the last seven years, I have had the same problems and the same goals. This is precisely why I started this blog – to help myself and in doing so, to help others to meet their goals. I set out to make changes in an effort to maximize my life, work and habits so [...]
I’m standing outside at the edge of the road staring at the few inches of snow that cover the cars, the trees and the roadway. This is extremely unusual. It’s so unusual, in fact, that the Governor has declared a state of emergency. But I haven’t come out into these wintry conditions to enjoy this [...]
Health Care.
You can sum up my disappointment with the Obama Administration in two words. Health. Care.
I was a Hillary supporter early on, but like many African-Americans, I was absolutely energized after Obama won the New Hampshire primary. I read every piece of literature that I could find, immersed myself in pages and pages of web [...]