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If Death Will Not Motivate Me, What Will

This lens is part of my 12-week journey into health. It is my way of trying to be accountable by putting myself out there. The bottom line is that if I don't start exercising I will have a heart attack. I have been given the gift of good health and I have abused it shamelessly.

I have set up a website about changing my life. where I hope to keep on track. It is not a diet thing where I watch my calories. This is a holistic change where I dig into whatever it is that does not change in me even when I know the alternative is death.

I love the outdoors. Yet I spend my entire life on this computer. It is my library, my movie house, my social life, and my job.

I know from my experience in changing my coffee habit (I mention this on my website) and in doing the dishes that slow changes work for me. And yet I always feel like I need to hurry up and make up for lost time.

Beauty Does not Motivate Me

I'm not a nylons and lipstick kind of girl

My ideal hair cut is one that uses the natural lines and swoops in my hair to maximum effect. I don’t wear makeup and barely use moisturizer.

After a hot Arizona winter, I am rethinking that. I may not worry about wrinkles but I sure would like to have skin that did not pucker up and blow away because it is so dry.

Also my darling dentist, affectionately known as Uncle Moe, blasted me last year about not flossing my teeth enough. I tried to argue with him but he pointed out that a dentist could tell how well a person looked after his or her teeth. And, he said, I did not look after them properly. I was lazy and left the hard work to him to make my teeth presentable and functional.

Money Does Not Motivate Me

But maybe music does

It might be a love child thing from the 60′s but I could never get motivated by money. Or possessions. This can be a source of angst when you are self-employed. But just the same, I have known for a long time that money is overrated.

I like doing what I do and that is sufficient for me.

The photo here is a screenshot from my Sweatin’ to the Oldies video. I got this on eBay and I love it. So far I have watched it and listened to it. My next step is to — DANCE to it.

This is where I found Richard Simmons stuff

One Day at a Time

Sometimes one hour at a time

The concept of instant satisfaction is a deadly approach to take when you decide to change your life in any way. I see a lot of these online business plans where you are promised push button wealth overnight or at least in a week.

I also see these offers to lose weight in 7 days (or sometimes even shorter periods of time).

These are heartbreakingly deceptive promises. The focus instead needs to be on the moment that you are in. It is this moment that changes your life.

If I don’t have time for a two-minute morning meditation now when will I have time.

I am working on finding a way to change those moments.

100 happy days

Being in the moment

I joined the 100 happy days momentum. These tweets are from that momemtum. I have not managed to get a photo every day because often my phone/camera battery is empty.

I have to come up with a routine of plugging it in to charge every day.

However, I do not beat my self up for missing a day. I just find something that pleases me that day anyway and if I don't capture it, the next time I will.