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How to Stimulate Your Brain and Strengthen Your Mind

December 31, 2005 by Joi Leave a Comment

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Great Looking Turtle Checking Out Some Corn I Left Out for Squirrels

Mysteriously, Alzheimer’s disease is affecting 4.5 million Americans today.  Researchers are hard at work finding ways to help those who are suffering as well as find ways to prevent more from joining them.

A new batch of research sheds light on some simple ways that we can begin protecting our minds today to avoid problems tomorrow.

  1. Drink more fruit and vegetable juice. Those who drink juice at least three times a week had a 75% lower risk of dementia.  75%!
  2. Sing as you workout. It sounds kind of, forgive the pun, off-beat, but singing while working out boosted brain retention for 70% of the participants in a Japanese study.  Exercise sends blood to the brain, improving memory….and singing, perhaps, simply makes the exercise more enjoyable.
  3. Floss daily. There’s a connection between gum disease and Alzheimer’s.  Bacteria from the mouth may cause chronic inflammation, which could impede blood flow to the brain.
  4. Challenge your mind each day. This one may seem obvious (especially compared to singing while you sweat and flossing), but this is one that the majority of people simply fail to do.  DON’T get comfortable with what you know and what you’re able to do.  To get comfortable is the beginning of the end.  Push yourself each and every day to learn more, do more, and grow more.  Take up new hobbies, read about fresh, new subjects, and brush up on facts you once knew by heart (state capitals, planets, Spanish, the elements, etc).
  5. Be Puzzled. Work crossword puzzles, jumbles, and word finds every day.  What seems like play or doodling is actually stimulating you mind.  Even basic word find puzzles are good for your brain.

Also, bear something else in mind: Don’t keep reading the same things or doing the same types of puzzles over and over again. What challenge is there in repetition?  STRETCH your mind in new ways and constantly throw new things into the mix.  For example, work all the crossword puzzles you want, but occasionally throw in new types of puzzles (Sudoku, Math-related puzzles, Word Jumbles, etc.).  Read about your favorite subject daily – that’s very commendable, but also throw new subjects into the mix as often as possible.  I love reading about animals, birds, and American history.  I try to learn new things about these favorite areas each day.  However, I also frequently throw new subjects into the mix and read about subjects I know very little about.  Turtles were actually a recent fascination – after seeing a particularly large one on a History Channel show.

I’ve read just about everything you could ever hope to find on turtles now and could, if the situation presented itself, carry on a pretty darn good conversation about them.

Did you know that the earliest turtles actually had teeth and they couldn’t retract their heads? Kind of defeated the purpose of being a turtle, didn’t it?

Sometimes I’ll also study something  that I’ve never been interested in – like astronomy or the weather.  After reading about completely new subjects, they often become pretty fascinating to me.  How mentally stimulating do you think that is?!  Try it, I know you’ll benefit from these Self Studies as much as I do.

When we make a list of our personal goals – ways we’d like to improve our lives and strengthen our health – we should most definitely list strengthening our “Mental Fitness” at the top.  Without that, what need would we have for the others on the list?

 

Filed Under: Health, Self Help Tagged With: prevent Alzheimer's, prevent memory loss, strengthen your mind

Beautiful Quote About Life by Dolly Parton

December 31, 2005 by Joi 1 Comment

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. - Dolly Parton

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” – Dolly Parton

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How to Attract What You Want in Your Life

December 30, 2005 by Joi Leave a Comment

"One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it."  ~ Sidney Howard
“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.”  ~ Sidney Howard
As a Self Help diva, I’ve been thinking about the quote above all day.  Literally, the quote has been echoing in my mind since coffee cup number 1. There’s a great deal of truth in the words – truth that I’d never really thought of before.  If we want something that we don’t currently have, the odds are pretty good that we’ll have to give something up to get it.  Self improvement and self help are all about balance, after all.

  • If we want to lose weight, certain foods are going to have to get the kiss off.
  • If we want fitness, we have to give up a little (or a lot) couch time and internet surfing.
  • If we want more hours in the day, there are probably specific time-wasters we’ll have to send packing.
  • If we want to be more organized, clutter has to go.  Yeah, I know, I felt that one, too.
  • If we want better, deeper relationships, we have to abandon the concept of being out for number one.

Whatever it is we DON’T HAVE is missing for a reason.  And if we keep motoring along, as is, we’ll never have it.  After all, if we we’re drawing it to us with our present actions, wouldn’t we have it?

Around coffee cup #4, I sat myself down and had a little self help Q & A.  I brought up certain things in my life that I wish were a little different.  Let’s not get into the fact that my arms don’t remotely resemble Halle Berry’s (seriously, what does the woman do?).

I’ll get depressed if I think about my arms, so we’ll use time management as an example. It’s a pretty universal dilemma.  I, like most people, always find myself wishing I had more time.

I work at home, full time, as a web publisher. At any given time, I have between 14 and 20 websites/blogs that I write for, maintain, tweak, publicize, etc.  Now do you understand the coffee addiction?  

The number of times I draw up a daily schedule – only to have to draw up a new one is staggering. And depressing.  I recently sat down with pen and paper (along with the “regulars,” a cat nearby and a bottomless cup of coffee) and took myself to task. I realized that, like most people, I’d fallen into the trap of thinking that MORE was synonymous with BETTER.

If 5 websites are good, then 10 are better. Right?

Not so much.

I’ve realized after quite a few years (and even more crumpled up schedules scratched out on printer paper) that more isn’t always better. Sometimes LESS is actually better because then you have more of yourself to go around.  No one… and I mean no one… is at their absolute best when they’re spread out as thin as a layer of mayo on a ham sandwich.

Sometimes something has to give – no matter what area of life we’re talking about.  Truth is, sometimes its exit is what sets the stage for something better’s grand entrance.

If anything is in your way, the sooner you get rid of it – the sooner something better can come along.  Spend a little time thinking about the quote above and see what your subconscious comes up with.

It just may be the thing to open up a whole new world!

 

 

 

Filed Under: Must Reads, Positive Thought, Problem Solving, Self Growth, Self Help, Self Improvement, Time Management, Vintage Self Help Daily Tagged With: getting what you want in life, motivation, motivational quote, Self Help, self improvement

Quote About Having a Direction in Your Life

December 30, 2005 by Joi 2 Comments

Quote About Life

“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” ~Lawrence J. Peter

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Beautiful Quote About Life From Marcus Aurelius

December 29, 2005 by Joi 2 Comments

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“It is not death that man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” – Marcus Aurelius

More Favorite Quotes About Life:

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day…and it is passing. What are we waiting for? – Richard L. Evans

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. – More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. – Albert Schweitzer

Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine. – More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. – Danny Kaye

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away. – George Carlin

When I hear somebody say that life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” – Sydney J. Harris

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – More Abraham Lincoln Quotes

 

—- More Quotes About Life!

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